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RARE CHINESE LANGUAGE 78 BY "HUE LEE" 

ROSE ROSE I LOVE YOU

"Rose, Rose, I Love You" is the standard English title of the 1940 Chinese popular song "Méigui méigui wǒ ài nǐ" (玫瑰玫瑰我愛你), first recorded by Yao Lee (姚莉). An English-language version whose lyrics have little in common with the original Mandarin was first recorded by Frankie Laine in 1951. It remains the only major popular music chart hit in the United States or the UK  written by a Chinese composer.

The original Chinese lyrics were by Wu Cun (Ng Chuen; 吳村 Wú Cūn) and the music was credited to Lin Mei (林枚), a pen name for popular song composer Chen Gexin (陳歌辛). The song was first recorded in 1940 by Yao Lee (姚莉) as an interlude for the movie Singing Girl and released as a single on Pathé Records (EMI) catalog number B. 597. Yao Lee's Mandarin version was also released in the US and UK in the early 1950s by Columbia Records, where Yao Lee was credited as "Miss Hue Lee" in this release. Other early releases have also credited her as "Yiu Lei." 

DISC DETAILS:

UK COLUMBIA DB 2837     10" 78rpm SHELLAC

SIDE 1 :- ROSE, ROSE, I LOVE YOU

SIDE 2:-  AN AUTUMN MELODY

CONDITION - V+  

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