One game and one dream of you.

“A Game and a Dream“ is a song written by Wang Wenqing and composed by Chen Zhiyuan and produced by Li Shouquan. Included in Wang Jie’s debut album “A Game A Dream“ released by UFO Records on December 19, 1987, it is the theme song of the film “Yellow Story“ directed by Sylvia Chang, [1] [2] and is Wang Jie’s classic representative works and famous works. [3] [50] The song was arranged by musician Chen Zhiyuan completely using synthesizer and computer programming, and is one of the earliest all- MIDI arrangements in China. [63] The Cantonese version of the song, “Kind of Sad, Kind of Crazy“, is also performed by Wang Jie, and is also part of the Hong Kong television drama “Loveless Love“. [53] In 1988, the song won the 25th Golden Horse Award for “Best Film Interlude“. [4] [54] In 1989, the CCTV special program “Songs from Taiwan for the Tide and the Sweater“ aired the MV of the song. Wang Jie’s video was first introduced to the Mainland for broadcast. Wang Jie became popular in the Mainland. [5] [50] On August 17, 2000, the song was re-performed by Tim Heintz and was included on the album From Now on. On August 25, 2000, Warner Records released Wang Jie’s best collection of the best 2000 century, which included an unplugged version of the song. [7] In February 2003, after re-arrangement and interpretation, the song was included in Wang Jie’s album “Love My Love Wang Jie“. In April 2019, the song became the end song of Lou’s film “Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind“Creation background In 1987, in record store because of encounter D bad mood and germinated signing intention Li Shouquan, eventually will Wang Jie recruited into its. At that time, Li Shouquan gave Wang Jie a batch of songs, are “no one wants“ works. Those songs were all the ones left after they were selected by others. They were all written by Wang Wenqing. Huang Dawei did not sing them, nor did the doll sing them. Wang Chieh found the song “one game, one dream,“ in the middle. Li Shouquan found musician Chen Zhiyuan, asked him as Wang Jie’s first album arrangements. Since he had to go to the Hong Kong market to discuss the post-release cooperation, Lee wanted Chen to produce a demo for the title song “One Game, One Dream“ as soon as possible. Chen Zhiyuan in his own studio using synthesizer and computer programming to make a simple version of the accompaniment, on the one hand as a future band performance version of the prototype, on the other hand, Li Shouquan to show the client. Unexpectedly, Li Shouquan listened to the timbre simulation drums and strings version of praise, decided to use this demo version as a formal arrangement. The drums and strings in “One Game One Dream“ were actually computer-generated, and the song was the only non-band song on the album at the time. [50] “A Game and a Dream“ by the musician Chen Zhiyuan completely using synthesizer and computer programming to complete the arrangement, is China’s earliest all MIDI arrangement works. In addition to winning the Golden Horse, it was later hailed by Jonathan Lee as “one of only four or five songs of the century in a decade“. [63]
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