Old Taiwanese Pop Music Collection (Part 1)

I've enjoyed putting together compilations of various types since I first really got into listening to music back in college. My first compliations were done on cassette tape, so they were basically what were called "mix tapes", though I didn't know the term at the time. In one of the first entries on this blog I talked about one of the best ones I did in college, my compilation of music from the psychedelic rock era. After I came to Taiwan, I eventually started listening to the local pop music, and a friend (one who I later started dating and eventually married) gave me a mix tape of some of the pop music she liked, mostly by singer-songwriters as opposed to pop idols. Through her and my own listening, I eventually got to know enough Taiwanese pop music to start thinking about
making my own Taiwanese pop music compilations.  In fact it was in part my attempts to put together compilations in approximate chronological order and featuring the original recorded versions of the songs that impelled me to begin doing my own research and start collecting the original records with the recordings I wanted. My first Taiwanese pop music compilation I did on cassette tape, but not long after I switched to CD. I did two compilations on CD, with the second being by far the lengthier and more comprehensive, though now I can't help but feel it is missing a lot. After all it's been something like 20 years since I put together, so even for the period it covers (approximately 1973 to 1995) I have since acquired a lot of music which would be worthy of inclusion in an updated compilation (and in at least one case, the song "美麗島" ("Formosa") on the first CD, I would now put on the earlier but never formally released recording by Yang Zujun and Hu Defu, which is vastly superior to the one by Yang Zujun alone). There are also some minor chronological issues, such as the placement of the song "Pitiful Luckless Man", which was actually released in 1981. Nevertheless, I thought it might be interesting to post some of it here. To start with, I'm just posting the tracklists for the first four CDs out of the 18 that make up the complete set. I'll post the others at some point in the future. I should note that while I have including the romanizations of the vocalists' names, I haven't included translations of all the song titles, as I haven't had the time to translate all of them.

第一集 Volume 1 (1973-1979)
1愛之旅Love's Travels    洪小喬Hong Xiaoqiao    3:18
2不要告別Don't Say Farewell    李金鈴Li Jinling    3:13
3我的歌My Song    洪小喬Hong Xiaoqiao    2:19
4雲河River of Clouds    黃鶯鶯Huang Yingying    3:11
5民歌手Folk Singer   楊弦Yang Xian （女聲Female Voice：徐可欣Xu Kexin）   3:51
6迴旋曲Rondo   楊弦Yang Xian    4:21
7歌Song    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia （男聲Male Voice：劉文正Liu Wenzheng）    2:55
8小雨打在我身上The Rain Falls on Me    劉文正Liu Wenzheng    3:42
9我是一片雲I Am a Cloud    鳳飛飛Feng Feifei    3:40
10好了歌Won Done Song    吳楚楚Wu Chuchu    2:43
11美麗島Formosa    楊祖珺Yang Zujun    2:54
12如果If    邰肇玫Tai Zhaomei&施碧梧Shi Biwu    2:41
13惜別Reluctant Parting    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia    3:21
14牛背上的小孩Child on Ox Back    胡德夫Hu Defu    2:47
15再別康橋Farewell Cambridge    范廣慧Fan Guanghui    3:18
16小雨中的回憶Memories in the Rain    劉宗立Liu Zongli、曾佩媛Zeng Peiyuan、陳淑惠Chen Shuhui    3:38
17姑娘的酒窩The Girl's Dimples    高凌風Gao Lingfeng    3:03
18閃亮的日子Brilliant Days    劉文正Liu Wenzheng    3:44
19橄欖樹Olive Tree    齊豫Qi Yu    3:46
20鄉間的小路Little Road in the Country    葉佳修Ye Jiaxiu    3:19
21歡顏Joyful Countenance    齊豫Qi Yu    3:49
22走在雨中Walking in the Rain    齊豫Qi Yu    3:46

第二集 Volume 2 (1979-1981)
1風兒輕輕吹The Wind Blows Gently    劉文正Liu Wenzheng    3:12
2廟會Temple Festival     王夢麟Wang Menglin    3:03
3雨中即景Scenes in the Rain     王夢麟Wang Menglin    3:09
4情奔 Rush of Passion   劉文正Liu Wenzheng    3:42
5恰似你的溫柔Like Your Tenderness    蔡琴Cai Qin    4:01
6曠野寄情Wilderness Abandonment    李建復Li Jianfu    3:31
7歸去來兮    李建復Li Jianfu    3:58
8出塞曲    蔡琴Cai Qin    2:57
9抉擇Decision    蔡琴Cai Qin    3:30
10也許Maybe    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia    4:01
11我們曾經年輕We Were Once Young    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia    2:01
12今山古道    黃大城Huang Dacheng    2:56
13偈    王海玲Wang Hailing    3:29
14童年Childhood    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia    3:41
15光陰的故事The Story of Time    張艾嘉Zhang Aijia    3:01
16月琴Yueqin    鄭怡Zheng Yi    3:57
17秋蟬Autumn Cicada    楊芳儀Yang Fangyi、徐曉菁Xu Xiaoqing    3:44
18拜訪春天Paying a Visit to Springtime    施孝榮Shi Xiaorong    3:15
19柴拉可汗Chaila Khan    李建復Li Jianfu    4:11
20變色的長城    費玉清Fei Yuqing   4:16
21一千個春天A Thousand Springs    蔡琴Cai Qin、李建復Li Jianfu    4:13

第三集 Volume 3 (1982-1983)
1鹿港小鎮Little Town of Lugang    羅大佑Luo Dayou    4:45
2戀曲1980Love Song 1980    羅大佑Luo Dayou    3:22
3就在今夜Tonight's the Night    丘丘合唱團Qiuqiu Band    3:08
4為何夢見他Why Do I Dream of Him    丘丘合唱團Qiuqiu Band    3:40
5之乎者也Pedantry    羅大佑Luo Dayou    4:06
6將進酒    羅大佑Luo Dayou    4:23
7天天天藍Blue Skies Every Day    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    3:37
8守著陽光守著你    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    4:50
9心事誰人知Who Understands My Heart    沈文程Shen Wencheng    3:28
10可憐的落魄人 Pitiful Luckless Man   陳明仁Chen Mingren    3:21
11散場電影   木吉他合唱團Wooden Guitars    3:56
12但願人長久    鄧麗君Deng Lijun    4:06
13思君    鄧麗君Deng Lijun    3:46
14心情    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    3:26
15野白合也有春天Spring Comes to the Wild Lily    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    3:16
16你是我所有的回憶You Are All I Recall    齊豫Qi Yu    5:12
17三月的風March Wind    齊豫Qi Yu    4:25
18小雨來得正是時候When The Rain Comes Is the Time    鄭怡Zheng Yi    3:20
19結束Ending    鄭怡Zheng Yi & 李宗盛Li Zongsheng    3:53

 第四集 Volume 4 (1983-1984)
1一樣的月光The Same Moonlight    蘇芮Su Rui    5:46
2是否Is It True Or Not    蘇芮Su Rui    3:36
3告別Farewell  唐曉詩 & 李泰祥    5:31
4酒干倘賣無Any Old Bottles For Sale?    蘇芮Su Rui    4:39
5變Changes    蘇芮Su Rui    4:45
6亞細亞的孤兒The Orphan of Asia    羅大佑Luo Dayou    5:52
7現象七十二變72 Phenomena    羅大佑Luo Dayou    3:53
8愛的箴言Admonitions of Love    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    3:58
9未來的主人翁Masters of the Future    羅大佑Luo Dayou    7:32
10海洋之歌Song of the Ocean    陳淑樺Chen Shuhua    3:21
11無言的歌Song of No Words    潘越雲Pan Yueyun    4:45
12只有分離    黃鶯鶯Huang Yingying    5:12
13夢駝鈴    費玉清Fei Yuqing    3:39
14天使之戀Romance of the Angels    黃鶯鶯Huang Yingying    6:16
15搖滾舞台Rock Stage    薛岳Xue Yue    3:21