Ye Lai Xiang 夜来香- Lenape HS Concert Choir

[wwttcc]

Overall very accurate pronunciations and excellent tune. An excellent performance!

[hanhiratio]

wow the enunciation is good!

[yliang1688]

Very Impressive. Thanks for the performance and efforts!

[yliang1688]

Very, Very Impressive! Indeed. Thanks for the Performance and efforts! [夜來香] popular Song in ShangHai in the 194x 那南風吹來清涼 那夜鶯齊聲啼唱 月下的花兒都入夢 只有那夜來香 吐露著芬芳 我愛這夜色茫茫 也愛這夜鶯歌唱 更愛那花一般的夢 擁抱著夜來香 吻著夜來香 夜來香 我為你歌唱 夜來香 我為你思量 啊...

[ccue123]

only found a couple of misses, amazing.

[yliang1688]

Excellent and very impressive!!!

[happliy]

真想看到她的歌譜是怎樣的音標? !

怎能發音這麼準 !

老外說中文特別準 。

[haryaat]

Oh, They are good, wonderful performance.

[joelongweichen]

This was really impressive. Spot-on pronunciation. and an excellent performance.

[avecverve]

I assume the performance took place in the spring of 2007. I hope the choral group got a chance to perform this song in front of a Chinese audience before most of them graduated from high school. I have no doubt that if they did, they would have received the ovation of a lifetime!! Bravo!

[mommyleila]

Amazing! WOW! They are big stars! The girl solo is a huge star. Their singing touched my heart.

[imtonylai]

it sounds great!  Very impressive singing i can see the efforts the students have put on this song.

[reina619]

Wonderful performance!

[Nanyanguo]

good job! Especially like the soprano solo as she sounds like my idol LiHsiangLan from my forefather's time who was the original singer. Always a pleasure to see this very beautiful old classic sexy number being performed proficiently by others since the original singer is no longer around to perform.

[northpine]

very good chorus. rated 5 stars. thanks for posting. much enjoyed.

[thechinadesk]

I would like to thank these young people from the bottom of my heart.

First, for being broadminded enough to consider learning a Chinese standard loved by millions of native Chinese speakers.

And secondly, for being respectful enough of an alien culture to take the time to learn it as well as they did.

I can only assume they learned it by sheer rote, the way I myself, who am bilingual in English and Chinese, learn opera arias and art songs in Italian, German, and French.

Bravo! Brava!

[Qqy33]

nice perform..

[hakkalow]

Oh my god ! this is a truly amazing performance! I would give you a 10/10 rating!Such a wonderful choir.

Bravo! To the lead singer, you deserve a gold medal!

I hope you will sing us more mandarin songs like the very famous Taiwanese song, "green island serenade" and the first mandarin song sung by John Denver " Far away land" and Dilber Yunus's " A night on the grassland" - chow yuan zi yue.

Thank you !! Bravo again!

[Sainter2008]

Absolutely wonderful performance. Mandarin pronounciation was faultless. If you close your eyes, you would think you're listening to a Chinese HS choir.

[chanschoir]

thats so cool...where can i find that music?

[Wartonite]

WOW!!!

I mean WOW!!!

It is just very WOW.

Thank you for the posting.

[Meestarbean]

First of all I'd like to say that for a Western choir to sing this is very courageous indeed. With your experience in Asian languages you should move on to explore others and further develop your potential!

The tenors and sopranos should work on the high notes some of which were very flat.

The last high A was excellent though, was the female solo the only one holding it? :P

One outstanding point is that in chinese "xiang" is pronounced with the "s" phonetic not the "sh" phonetic.

Well done!

[Leacanada1]

its a famous shanghainese song .

[darik60]

wow! impressive, and the diction sounds authentic!

[peterlim33]

Simply wonderful....keep up with

the excellent works ...!!!!

[ZephyrWong]

Very brave and cute performance as non-native speakers!

But can be sung with a bit more "jazz" feelings, I think~

[shawkobezhu]

Bravo!

very impressive for high school choir!

[liuxiaojianshang]

that's great!! this is one of my favorite song!!!

夜来香！！！！

[ToiletnBowl]

wow. not bad..i enjoyed it!

[funkeemonk3y]

2:05-2:12 <333! favorite part.

omg and the singing was suuuuper duuuuuper. :D

[sushix777]

You guys are great. Did you perform this song oversea? Any reason you sing this song?

[kouryuu19]

what are the lyrics, you guys did a great job!

[euliano38]

Awesome !! Awesome !! Great ! Great ! Great ! You guys should be invited to perform in China TV..

[hkyung88]

外國人唱中文歌，真棒！

[mggl22]

Very impressive performance!! Your Chinese is good too, I look forward to seeing more of your performances here.

[lannie2007]

Excellent!!!

[akwong96]

唱得不錯!!! good ..la

[fishysalmon]

this is excellent! good job!

[cplai]

I did some research. This song was from the 1940s. Originally sung by a Japanese singer in Shanghai. You can find the old performance (probably the original) on youtube, watch?v=WlxRMW19qJs

[Dannygirl]

no, the original was actually a Chinese Singer: Teresa Teng

[Dannygirl]

Actually, the original singer was Chinese: Teresa Teng (邓丽君）^.^

She did sing in Japanese though.

[cplai]

Teresa didn't start singing in 1940, did she? This song is much older than Teresa Teng. It was a song by Li Xiang Lan 李香蘭, a Japanese spy in China before WWII. In fact, Teresa Teng sang many of Li Xiang Lan's songs. Just Google 李香蘭 or search for 李香蘭 in youtube.

[WayneYLeigh]

Dannygirl, have you finally got it right? Never heard of Li Xiang Lan? She was famous during WW2. Other songs she sang include San-Nian, Mai Tang Ge, etc. Both my grandma and mum both listened to her songs / saw her movies. Li was born in Manchuria to Japanese parents. She helped propagandize Japanese occupation during WW2 in her movies. After WW2 she revealed her identity as Yoshiko Yamaguchi. However she continued to have a career in HongKong in the 50's.

[cplai]

Bravos! This song has been around for decades. It is a classic. Well done.

[amdgchinese]

Bravos!!! Bravos!!! Bravos!!! You are so wonderful!

[jlutwins]

Bravos!!! That is excellent. It is so professional and hope you do more of this!

[bhwong2007]

You guys are awesome! Well done!

[paneliny]

Oh my gosh !!!! You guys are absolutely amazing !!! I hope my school choir can meet you guys !!! Where are you from ?

[allisonrabbit]

It is a really good one.

[kohtianyi]

they are high school? unbelievable -,-"

i wish my high school was as good as them T,T

[lexingtonho]

Absolutely awesome!　I wish my students can do this!

[rosapak]

Fabulous! Good job guys! Very impressive!

[iceartic25]

where was this performed?

[slouchsock8]

This was performed for our High School's Spring Vocal Concert, at Lenape High School in Medford, NJ

[sue0325]

高中生居然能唱得這麼好聽的中文歌

[wheeforme]

not bad for non-native speakers! =]

[dulauya]

Gosh!  I am a Chinese, and I'll say this choir is so awesome in this song, and the pronunciation in Chinese are accuracy.

2 Thumbs up!

[Catnmouse08]

Great arrangement and wonderful rendition. The soprano solo has a beautiful voice. What a choir! Thanks!

[11nan92]

haha so cutee! although its a little bit blaring, and it needs to be more flowy and expressive, it was a really good attempt! haha (: and the pronounciation is wrong at times but its cute. my choir (cedar girls secondary school choir) sang that on numerous occasions, but it was a slighlty different version with piano. nonetheless good try (:

[valperf]

a while ago, i just youtubed a malay acapella group doing a rendition of this song and i thought they were marvellous. then i stumbled across this youtube video of young caucasians attempting to do the same and guess what? you guys blew me away too! as a chinese myself, i thought your rendition would sound really weird because of the accent and stuffs like that, but i was able to understand every word and found myself smiling. thats really impressive and i think you guys deserve a praise. :)

[vcariuslvn]

Very brave, they are. Not bad.

[Liza1977]

Thank you! It was wonderful to see how well you have all sung this favourite of mine. I am Chinese and I understood every word of it. Great performance!

[Strawbearies]

AWESOMEEE.... hen ke ai.. hahahaha... it means it's great.. well I am not originally from Chinese, anyway.. my mom is a great fan of Teresa Teng (the original singer), it's great.. good job

[dywang1]

woo, it's sooooo good , wonderful

[lattechai]

great job!

[pigcanfly007]

awesome

[lzva]

Not bad. Please keep up your good works!

[psychochick]

wow! High School? it was excellent!

[scheng56]

Marvelous jub!! As an Asian woman, I enjoyed the song very much. I can understand every word of the song. I am very impressed!!

[SongSwain]

A bravura performance. Very entertaining. Just great!

[baomihua22]

wow~ its sooo GOOD!! the conductor is so funny~ "ye lai jung" ~ rofl ~

[jj936936]

very good!!!!!!!!!!I like it soooooooo much

[12owlet04]

bravo!

[sarsattack]

good job

[yuquanchen]

Very intersting

[pinkymouse17]

It was PERFECT ! I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bravo

[iLuvCiconne16085868]

*Applause* Delightful. *Applause*

[duksoe]

Brovo! So beautiful!

[welsonchua13]

rocks totally ~!!!!

[singingchoir]

great!!

[singingchoir]

great singing!!

[initiald0829]

very nice

[0SXY]

Amazing

[valleyuno]

Bravo