The Red Sun:
Singing the Praises of Chairman Mao:
China Record Company
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The following translations are of songs on Side A of the cassette/CD
The Red Sun
that became a MaoCraze hit in 1992. It is left to the reader's imagination to sense what these mindnumbingly simple but heartfelt Cultural Revolution paeans to Mao sound like when sung to a saccharine Canto Pop beat.
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From the early 1990s many similar collections, imitations and sequels to the original
The Red Sun
tape were produced
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as were karaoke versions of the songs with such titles as
Sweet Sweet Red Sun.
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Karaoke adaptations produced on video and laser disk utilized documentary footage of Mao as well as MTV-like montages of young people who, among other things, wander around wistfully thinking of the late Chairman.
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In 1993, as part of the Mao centenary, tapes of speeches by Mao were also released. They featured such utterances as Mao's announcement of the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, as well as longer speeches made on such occasions as the Preparatory Meeting of the Chinese National People's Political Consultative Congress on 15 June 1949.
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Odes to Mao Zedong Sung to a New Beat
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 | Singers: Li Lingyu, Sun Guoqing, Tu Honggang and Fan Linlin
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| With Li Li, Jing Gangshan, Zhu Hua, Wu Ming, Zhao Li and Li Xiaowen
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| Music Conducted by Jin Wei
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| Accompaniment: Beijing Choral Orchestra
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| China Record Corporation,
Shanghai, China, 1992
(Compact disc digital audio)
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