Ge Lan (葛蘭), or Grace Chang, the Hong Kong actress, singer and a popular idol of the 50s may be in her eighties and have retired long ago in the 60s but in the latest Hollywood hit, Crazy Rich Asians, you could hear her belting out one of her catchy, fast paced evergreens, 我要你的爱 I Want Your Love. Caught some of her movies in the Net and like especially the 1961 epic two parter, Star, Moon and Sun 星星月亮太陽 and the 1957 Mambo Girl 曼波女郎. The latter has an all too simple plot but there is a strange feel good feeling when you listen to the catchy songs and watch especially the dance scene between Ge Lan and the male lead, the late Peter Chen Ho which reminds of Grease's John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Ge Lan's 我要你的爱, I heard, is a cover of Louis Jordan's I Want to be your baby but really, the two songs do really sound as different as night and day to me. I would think that it's a cover of Georgia Gibb's or Louis Prima's I want to be your baby though. What do you think? 2
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