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Songs you can't play on Beijing radioPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 3, 2006 2:34 AM
Here's a list of songs that are apparently banned from Beijing radio. A blogger going by the name of aside2006 snapped a camera-phone picture of the notice, which was posted at a company where he had an interview. The notice was not dated, but aside2006 said that it did not look new.
Thanks to William for recognizing Guan Guimin, a tenor popular in the late 70s who now practices FLG. The Beijing radio station is understandably not very familiar with these songs, since the original text (see link below) has several typos - both Huang Shujun and Hou Dejian have their names miswritten, and the title of "Beijing Night" had an extra character. Politics accounts for the inclusion of many of these songs - some are elegies for 1989, others are related to Taiwan and Hong Kong relations. Teresa Teng gave famous renditions of many of the "Other" songs, which probably accounts for their presence. Others are head-scratchers - Pearl of the Orient is not only familiar to practically everyone, but it has even been listed in collections of "patriotic songs." Update: ESWN sends in the following explanation of the Other category:
Most of the songs are downloadable through Baidu's MP3 search. Links and Sources
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