Dreams of the Fragrant River

The plane landed at Guangzhou/zhou airport. After Kang Jianfei negotiated with CCTV about investing in "Journey to the West", he took Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin to Guangzhou/zhou. 【First Release】

Why did Zhang Mingmin go all the way with Kang Jianfei?

The answer is very simple. Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Popular Records. The former will produce Mandarin songs, while the latter will release Cantonese songs for Zhang Mingmin.

In the year Kang Jianfei traveled to Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who worked in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition and was favored by Hong Kong Eternal Records.

Deng Bingheng, the boss of Eternal Records, is also a whimsical person. At that time, Hong Kong was already the world of Cantonese songs. He saw that Taiwanese campus folk songs were very popular, and he thought that singing Mandarin songs in Hong Kong should be more promising.

As a result, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a piece of the folk ballad "Country Road", and the result is self-evident.

Later, at the time of Sino-British negotiation, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity that could be used, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to write a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.

Needless to say who Huang Zhan is, everyone knows that Wang Fuling is also a first-class composer in Hong Kong, and also Chen Xunqi's mentor. Chen Xunqi's music knowledge is all learned from Wang Fuling.

The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart", which was released in 1982 and was still a terrible hit. It was not until Huang Yihe overheard this song that he invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 1983 Spring Festival Gala. "My Chinese Heart" was known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.

As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not well-known in Hong Kong, and even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself does not know that "My Chinese Heart" has become popular in the mainland.

Although "My Chinese Heart" sold more than one million records in the mainland, Zhang Mingmin really didn't get a lot of money, and the songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling didn't get any royalties.

What makes Zhang Mingmin even more desperate is that since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, he has been taking good care of his Eternal Records and refrigerated them directly, because Eternal Records needs the Taiwan record market. Don't dare to release a record for Zhang Mingmin, a leftist singer.

Therefore, Zhang Mingmin has had a miserable two years. He is very popular in the mainland but can't make any money. He can't make records when he returns to Hong Kong. He can only run and sing, and sometimes he needs to work part-time to earn money to support himself.

Now that Kang Jianfei has issued an invitation letter, Zhang Mingmin seems to have caught a life-saving straw, and agrees to join Xiongfei Records and Popular Records without thinking.

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There are very few planes in the mainland, and there are not many in the beginning of the first month. Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin, and Li Ningyu are simply chartered planes.

Going all the way to the airport lobby, it gradually gained some popularity. Kang Jianfei was recognized in three moments.

"Zhang Mingmin!"

"Li Ningyu!"

"Michael!"

More than half of the people in the hall gathered around. Because of the popularity of "Royal Sister" in the mainland. In the film, Kang Jianfei, the second male lead, is well known, but only the role played by Kang Jianfei is known as Michael.

The mainland has not yet formed a trend of chasing stars, but when they meet famous big stars in the country, ordinary people will still rush to them excitedly. It has nothing to do with chasing stars or not. It is the Chinese people's own natural talent that occurs - onlookers.

Now Kang Jianfei, Li Ningyu, and Zhang Mingmin are surrounded by onlookers, and there are not many people who want to sign their autographs.

Fortunately, there were not many people in the airport lobby, and there were only about 20 people watching them. Kang Jianfei quickly led the two out of the siege.

"Lingyu, how does it feel to be a big star?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile after getting in the car.

"That's it, I don't feel anything." Li Ning Yuyan said insincerely, she still has various news reports about herself in her bag. It is specially collected and cut down and pasted on the notebook.

Zhang Ming said sensitively: "It's too easy to be famous in the mainland. After I attended the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I would be recognized wherever I went in the mainland."

From a certain point of view, what Zhang Mingmin said is the truth. The mainland in the 1980s and 1990s was indeed very famous and very profitable. But the premise is that you have a vision, a brain, and a relationship. At this time, many civil servants or factory workers could earn several times their wages as long as they went to sea, but few were willing to throw away their iron jobs and go it alone.

If you want to be more famous, it depends on relationships. For example, the first sister of the music industry, Mao Aming, there was a singer who sang better and more qualified than her. As a result, an old lady admired Mao Aming and squeezed another singer to let Mao Aming. Go to perform in international competitions and become famous after winning awards. Twenty years later, the female singer who sang better than Mao Aming became a housewife who had difficulty supporting her daughter to go to school.

The most important reason for Zhang Mingmin to be famous is that he has come across a good song, otherwise, with his appearance and singing skills, he will never be famous in his life.

Xiongfei Record Company is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company, and the company's address is also next to each other, and it rents the house of the former Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company. Today, the company has no equipment, and "Water Village in Dreams" was still recorded in the recording studio of Guangzhou/Zhou Records.

The one who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Ye Zipei's former driver Liang Yong. Now this man has also come to work at Xiongfei Records, and his salary has doubled.

The car drove past a bustling street, and the singing of "Water Village in Dreams" came from the side of the street. Liang Yong turned on the car radio, which also played "Water Village in Dreams".

There's a song that doesn't even need much publicity to be so memorable that it's played all over the street.

For example, Lin Huixian's "A Thousand Thousand Que Song", such as Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Dream of Water Village" is also such a song. In another time and space, when "Water Village in Dreams" first came out in the 1990s, for a long time TV, radio, streets, karaoke, even schools and factories, you could hear it wherever you went. song.

Now there are platforms for the Spring Festival Gala to promote, and channels of the China Record Corporation for sales, "Water Village in Dreams" can definitely be said to have blossomed across the country overnight.

When China Record Company released "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was still called China Record Company at that time, and did not carry out corporate system reform. The local record clubs and record factories at the provincial and municipal levels, although nominally belonging to the China Record Club, are very chaotic in their management of each other.

So "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released. The sales on paper only exceeded 1 million copies. Counting the number of records concealed by the local record companies, the sales of that album were at least 2 million copies, and it may even sell. more than 3 million copies.

Now, after the reform of the record company system, the distribution and promotion are much smoother. The phenomenon of underreporting sales has also been curbed. "Water Village in Dreams" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the new year.

You heard it right, the sales of 50,000 copies in Hong Kong are platinum records, and many singers are unable to obtain them in their entire lives. The sales of "Water Village in Dreams" on the first day in the mainland were 140,000.

Due to the lag in publicity, many people did not know that "Water Village in Dreams" had been released on tape on the first day. On the second day of the first lunar month, the single-day album sales soared to 160,000 copies, and it fell to 110,000 copies on the third day of the first lunar month. daily sales.

In just three days, more than half of the first batch of 400,000 copies of "Water Village in Dreams" were sold, and supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country were in a hurry. Now the factory is expedited filling.

And the price of genuine tapes in the mainland is scary. A radio is only over 100. A movie ticket costs 5 cents, but a box of genuine tapes costs 5 cents.

You heard that right. At this time, the average monthly salary of workers was only a few dozen yuan, and a cassette of tapes cost 5 yuan to buy. Maybe you think the price is outrageous. But it's really a question of values.

Twenty years later, when I bought a box and didn't like it, I threw it aside after listening to it for a few days. But now tapes, like furniture and electrical appliances, are items worth keeping for a long time in people's eyes. Basically, if you buy a box, you can listen to them for several years.

Excluding the accounts of China National Record Corporation, Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company, as well as the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country, in just three days, Xiongfei Record Company had more than 500,000 RMB in the account. What Kang Jianfei promised at the time was to give Li Ningyu a 1% profit share.

It is profit sharing, not royalties from record sales. That is to say, Xiongfei Records has an account of 500,000 yuan, so Li Ningyu can get 5,000 yuan personally.

It's not that Kang Jianfei, a capitalist, is too black-hearted, but the form of Xiongfei Records is very deformed. It is a branch of Guangzhou/Zhou Record Company, which is nominally a subsidiary of China National Record Corporation. Several percent of its profits are directly taken away by the first two companies. It also needs various channels to open up relationships. I really don’t dare to give singers too much money.

And even a 1% profit share is a big number that can make people jealous for the general salary in the mainland.

Today is the age when households with 10,000 yuan can be published in newspapers. Li Ningyu has become half a household with 10,000 yuan in three days. I don't know how eye-catching the news is.

Since he has to visit the door these days, Ye Pei is not in the company. When Kang Jianfei brought the two singers to Xiongfei Records, there were only two liaisons working here, making and receiving calls from time to time, recording and counting information from all over the country.

Kang Jianfei asked for a contract for Zhang Mingmin to sign, and then counted one thousand yuan to Li Ningyu, and said, "It will take a month or two to split the record, so you can use this money as pocket money and buy something to go home. visit your parents."

Today, the third set of RMB is still used, and the maximum denomination is only 10 yuan. If you throw out 1,000 yuan, it will be a thick stack.

Li Ningyu took the envelope quite excitedly~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and took out a stack of dark bills, she had never seen so much money since she was a child, swallowed her saliva and said, "This... this is too much. Too much, why do I always feel uneasy, like stolen money."

It was the first time that Kang Jianfei saw that the singer thought he had received too much money. He smiled and said, "Just take it, but don't say it anywhere. If someone asks, they will say that you only get a few hundred yuan."

"I know, I won't talk nonsense." Li Ningyu nodded seriously.

The faster the money comes in these days, the easier it is to attract jealousy, and maybe one day it will be reported. Li Ningyu's father is an old worker in the factory, and his annual salary is just over 1,000 yuan. You can imagine how much weight this 1,000 yuan is in her hand.

Kang Jianfeiyue felt that the girl was cute, and smiled: "Okay, wait for Sister Pei to arrange a job for you, and you can go back to Shanghai/Shanghai to celebrate the New Year with your family tomorrow."

Li Ningyu had a bad impression of Kang Jianfei at first, but now it has completely changed, and there is even an inexplicable admiration. She carefully put away the money, raised her head and smiled sweetly at Kang Jianfei: "Thank you, Mr. Kang."