Frances Yip Lai-yee (born 1947) is a Hong Kong English pop and C… Read Full Bio ↴葉麗儀
Frances Yip Lai-yee (born 1947) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Born in 1947, Yip is of Hakka ancestry, and is the youngest of 5 siblings. She grew up in a rural area in Hong Kong, and studied in St. Clare's Girls' School, an English Catholic school.
Her first singing job was in 1969 when she won a talent contest called Sharp's Night Four Lights Competition on Hong Kong television where she met the composer, Joseph Koo. Koo used Yip to sing commercial jingles while she was working as a secretary in HSBC, one was the jingles was a song about savings account for HSBC. Her first record, Bu Liao Qing (Love Without End) was recorded in the same year. She recorded predominantly English covers of Mandarin songs and Mandarin songs then.
In 1972, Yip and Joseph Koo went to Japan's World Singing gathering in Nippon Budokan. In 1973, Yip was working for Cathay Pacific as an Ambassador of Hong Kong under Hong Kong Tourism Board for a year, and her album, Discovery, was based on her experiences travelling. Discovery was sung in nine different languages to represent the 9 major destinations for Cathay Pacific then, and the album inspired a London talent agent to find her. She signed onto EMI records and lived in London for two years.[3]It was a worldwide contract, meaning she can have one English album released in 6 different languages in different areas of the world. Since then, she had renewed her two-year contract until now.
Yip hit international fame with her signature tune, The Bund from the TVB drama of the same title.[4] After she recorded The Bund, she returned to Hong Kong.
In her 45-year career, Yip has released more than 80 albums, mostly of songs in American English, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Mexican Spanish, Japanese, Tagalog, Hong Kong Cantonese, and Taiwanese Mandarin. She has performed on television, and in films, concerts and cabarets in more than 30 countries on five continents. Her linguistic skills, with unique interpretations of lyrics in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, as well as several other Asian languages, have led to a fan base across a wide range of cultures and countries.
Yip has worked with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Macau Chinese Orchestra, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Thammasat University Philharmonic Orchestra in Bangkok as well as large orchestras in Kuala Lumpur.
Yip achieved worldwide recognition when she was selected by the Hong Kong government to be a co-presenter at the British Farewell Ceremony to mark the transfer of sovereignty in Hong Kong. The event on June 30, 1997, was watched by a television audience estimated at 120 million, in more than 80 countries worldwide.
In 2012, Yip recorded her first Christian album, Grace and Glory Psalm 84.
Yip is fluent in Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese and Taiwanese Mandarin) and English. She often spends time in Sydney where her son and grandchildren live.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, but was considered free of cancer in 2002. To celebrate eight years of being cancer-free, in 2010, she held a charity concert in Kuala Lumpur to benefit cancer research and treatment.
Since 2013, she and her husband have lived in the rural suburbs of Sydney, Australia with their son and grandson. They have Australian citizenship, and also own rental properties in England. She occasionally returns to Hong Kong to perform and make TV appearances.
Take My Love
Frances Yip Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
唱：葉麗儀
曲：Bob Crewe / Bob Gaudio / Teddy Randazzo / Bobby Weinstein
詞：Bob Crewe / Bob Gaudio / Teddy Randazzo / Bobby Weinstein
編：Chris Babida
Well I think I'm going out of my head
Yes I think I'm going out of my head
Well I think I'm going out of my head
Over you, over you
I want you to want me, I need you so badly
I can't think of anything but you
Well I think I'm going out of my head
Cause I can't explain the tears that I've shed
Over you, over you
I see you each morning, but you just walk past me
You don't even know that I exist
I love you baby and if it's quite all right
I need you baby to warm the lonely night
I love you baby trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby now that I found you, stay
And let me love you baby let me love you
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
You'll be like heaven to touch
I want to hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you
Going out of my head over you, out of my head over you
Out of my head, day and night, night and day and night
Wrong or right, night and day and night
Wrong or right, night and day and night
Wrong or right, night and day and night
I love you baby and if it's quite alright
I need you baby to warm a lonely night
I love you baby trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby don't bring me down I pray
Oh pretty baby now that I've found you stay
And let me love you baby
Let me love you
I'm going out of my head
(多謝大家 大家好
好開心 好開心
喺呢度見到你哋
我上一次有機會
同呢一隊
咁優秀嘅樂隊合作
係五年前嘅事
我重記得當時
我係心裡
好興奮 好雀躍
五年後嘅今晚
我心情仍然係一樣
緊張 但係好開心
因為有咁靚嘅音樂
令我唱得十分享受
最開心嘅就係
我呢個音樂之旅
有你伴我同行
Good evening Ladies and Gentleman
The last time I performed with these wonderful Orchestra was five years ago
and i can still recalled every enjoyable moment.
Well, tonight I really have look forward to this evening with an participation and excitement.
And I would like to take you all the memory lane on the musical journey
way back to 1969 to the very first time I performed on television in Hong Kong.
You see when I left school,
I enjoyed singing so much that I formed a group with some friends.
And we decided we would enter a talent contest on TV
On one day they told me to go for an audition
and when I turned up I was so surprised
I was the only one there
the others have decided not to show up without telling me
真係我好喜歡唱歌
離開學校之後同朋友夾左band
咁於是大家決定
去參加星寶之夜
點知初賽嗰晚去到
原來得我一個
佢哋個個唔出現喎
好醜啫
咁於是我自己好勇敢
咁企出嚟
I never back up from everything and I stood and sing
I am here to sing
我嚟唱歌㗎
When I said I needed you
叮
你返去啦
我哋會打電話畀你㗎啦
Don't call us, we will call you
嘩 好醜啫
一句都未唱完就叫你走
梗係無㗎啦係咪
I thought I failed
真係好估唔到
一個禮拜之後叫我參賽喎
咁我有機會參賽
重嬴左爆曬燈
星寶之夜 嬴左個頭獎
哈哈.....
跟住無幾耐就開始出唱片啦
咁呢隻歌就為我嘅事業
鋪左一條繽紛嘅路啦
I never expected them to really call me a week later
I took part in the talent contest,
I won and a couple of months later I started making English records.
But I would say definitely that I would not be here
if I had not sang this particular on TV.)
Frances Yip’s “Take My Love” is a medley of two classic songs from the 60s, “Can't Take My Eyes Off You” by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, and “Going Out Of My Head” by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein. The song is a love story of someone who’s head over heels in love with another person. The singer sings about how they can’t get this person "out of their head", and how they long for their love.
The first part of the medley, “Going Out Of My Head”, paints the picture of a lovestruck person who is deeply in love with someone who doesn’t seem to reciprocate their feelings. This person can’t explain the tears they’ve shed over their love interest, and they see them every day, but the love remains unrequited. The singer cries out for them to want them and need them because they cannot think of anything but them.
The second part of the medley, “Can't Take My Eyes Off You”, is about the singer falling even deeper in love with the person they’ve been longing for. They describe the person as "too good to be true" and "heaven to touch". The singer rejoices in the fact that love has finally arrived, and they thank God for it. The song ends with the singer pleading with the person to allow them to love them and expressing that they can't get them "out of their head".
Line by Line Meaning
Well I think I'm going out of my head
I am feeling crazy and overwhelmed
Over you, over you
Because of my feelings for you
I want you to want me, I need you so badly
I crave your affection and yearn for your presence
I can't think of anything but you
You are constantly on my mind
Cause I can't explain the tears that I've shed
I am so emotional because of my feelings for you
I see you each morning, but you just walk past me
I am invisible to you
You don't even know that I exist
I am not on your radar
I love you baby and if it's quite all right
I have strong feelings of affection for you and hope you feel the same
I need you baby to warm the lonely night
I am lonely without you
Oh pretty baby don't bring me down I pray
Please don't hurt me or reject me
Oh pretty baby now that I found you, stay
Now that I have found you, please don't leave me
And let me love you baby let me love you
Allow me to show you how much I love you
You're just too good to be true
You seem unreal because of how amazing you are
Can't take my eyes off of you
You are captivating and I can't help but focus on you
You'll be like heaven to touch
Being close to you would be heavenly
I want to hold you so much
I have a strong desire to be close to you
At long last love has arrived
I have finally found love
And I thank God I'm alive
My love for you makes me grateful for my life
Wrong or right, night and day and night
No matter what, my feelings for you remain constant
I'm going out of my head over you, out of my head over you
You are driving me crazy with my feelings for you
Out of my head, day and night, night and day and night
My thoughts of you are constant and unrelenting
I never back up from everything and I stood and sing
I never give up, even when faced with challenges
When I said I needed you
When I expressed my feelings for you
Don't call us, we will call you
You were rejected and told not to contact again
I never expected them to really call me a week later
I was surprised when they contacted me later
I took part in the talent contest, I won and a couple of months later I started making English records.
After the talent contest, I began my career as a singer
But I would say definitely that I would not be here if I had not sang this particular on TV.
My success was largely due to singing on TV
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Bobby Weinstein, Teddy Randazzo
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
NW
on Shang Hai Tan
I assume this "translation" was a joke. OP literally just made everything up. Not a single line is even REMOTELY right. I got a good laugh out of it though.
Kek Joo
on Shang Hai Tan
I just happened to see your translated lyrics. I am afraid they are absolutely incorrect. The song speaks of the rise and ebbing of the tides and likens the experiences of love and hate/revenge to the changing tides. There is no mention of buildings (long pang long lau means the tide/current rises and ebbs). Shi hei shi sau is not it’s black, it’s majestic but whether it is joy or whether it is sorrow. Etc etc. This is very in line with the themes of the drama and movie versions which has this song as its theme song. This is a melancholic song and not one prompting SH as a tourist attraction toon
Janet Lim Swee Kim
on Bengawan Solo (Indonesia)
Very beautiful , you , love to listen to your song, thank you Mdm. Yip.
Janet Lim Swee Kim
on Bengawan Solo (Indonesia)
Many thanks Yip Lai Yee mdm.