The background music at the end of the coronation of Stephen Chow's comedy film "Arhat and Ji Dian" (also known as Ji Gong) is a pure music work "Un Banc, Un Arbre" adapted from the famous light musician Paul Mauriat in the 20th century. , Une Rue".
The original song was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, lyrics by Yves Dessca, and was sung by Séverine, a singer who represented Monaco in the 1971 European Song Grand Prix.
Paul Mauriat adapted this pure music in the same year, which is slower and more relaxing than the original song. Later, it was used by Hong Kong Radio Television Station as the background music of the Miss Hong Kong contest in 1973, so some people also call it the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant march. However, the orchestration and arrangement of Stephen Chow's movie background music are still a bit different from the original.
Title: Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue
Performer: Paul Mauriat Orchestra
Composer: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre
Arranged : Paul Mauriat (Paul Moliere)
Album: Plays Eurovision Hits
Release time: 1979-09-08
Issuing company: Mercury
p>Music style: Easy Listening
"Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue", "A Bench, a Tree, a Street" is a 1971 European Song Grand Prix song champion song. The song, which represented Monaco, was sung by Séverine, a 23-year-old singer at the time. The song describes the end of a period of childhood innocence that everyone experiences. The song was composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre and lyrics by Yves Dessca. Once it became a hit, it was immediately adapted into English, German and Italian versions. The original French version also reached the 9th position on the British charts in April 1971. However, The English version of the song "Chance In Time" did not chart. Séverine continued to achieve good results in France and Germany, but never went outside Europe. Paul Moliere also published a light music version of the song in 1971.
Paul Mauriat Paul Moliere was a famous light musician in the 20th century. With his fresh and bright music style, romantic and gorgeous expression techniques, he has written and recorded a large number of works, and made a variety of audio-visual products for distribution around the world. Thus making "Paul Molière and his band" one of the world's famous light music groups. The Paul Mauriat Orchestra is known as the "messenger of emotional music" and has an all-encompassing repertoire: theme songs and theme music of famous movies, pop music from Europe and the United States, love songs from Latin America and Spain, French Songs, Russian famous songs, Hawaiian guitar music, classical music, Japanese-style music, Christmas songs and even Beatles songs, etc., are all included. Every note in Paul Mauriat's music is permeated with the unique romantic sentiment of the French nation, making you think of wine, roses, tulips, the sunshine of the Mediterranean, and the laughter and tears of lovers. His music is gorgeous but not vulgar, romantic but not frivolous, rough yet delicate, and passionate yet tinged with tranquility. His tone is blue, like the blue of the Mediterranean Sea, refreshing and full of poetry. Paul Moliere paid great attention to melody and harmony. His playing style was fresh, clear, unpretentious, and never overly exaggerated. Although he also mainly plays string instruments, he cleverly uses string instruments to change the rhythm of the music, and cooperates with the clear and comfortable percussion instruments to produce a clear and lively rhythm that has become his unique feature.