Shanghai Restoration Project, “The Wandering Song”

Shanghai Restoration Project, “The Wandering Song” Featuring Zhang Le

This song is a remix of one of the two theme songs form the 1937 Chinese film “Street Angel”. The song “The Wandering Songstress” was composed by He Luting based on an older urban Suzhou ballad named “One Who Knows Me Well”. The lyrics for the film’s song was written by Tian Han. The actress Shou Xuan, playing the role of Xiao Hong, sang this song in the film.

The original song is one of the most notable of the Chinese popular songs from the 1930s and 1940s. It has been described as a song that has a lingering fame in China like “As Time Goes By” from the 1942 film “Casablance” has in the United States.

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