The director is Wang Tianlin 王天林 and the script is by Cheng Dieyi 程蝶衣. It was produced by Yao Min 姚敏 , who also composed the music。 The cast included Chung Ching 鍾情,Kenneth Tsang Kong 曾江,Lee Fong-Fei 李芳菲,Chen Yu-Hsin 陳又新 with Dong Pei-Pei 董佩佩also excellent as a nightclub singer. Watch the camera switch to the bongo drummer to entertain us briefly between songs as Zhang Lu re-appears in a new costume to sing "Mambo". Neatly done. I had waited 30 years to actually see Zhang Lu perform, and what a thrill it was! As captivating as I expected her to be. She also appeared in Prisoner of Love (1951) and The Lark (1965) both made in HK.

Chang Loo was born in Suzhou, China in on January 21,1932. No singer more encapsulated the spirit of 1940s Shanghai, and into 1950s and 1960s Hong Kong than Chang Loo did. Her songs covered every style and genre imagineable, from comedy to pathos, from jazz and cha cha to ballads and lullabyes. Equally at ease in English as in her native Mandarin. It was her singing of "Shepherd's Tears" and "Two-Paddle Boat", that first drew me to Chinese Music, and her influence is etched in everything I do here.

Zhang Lu moved to Shanghai at the age of four, following the death of her father. One day in 1945, she sang a song for her brother to get him to sleep. A neighbour, who was a broadcaster, recommended, after hearing her sing, that she perform at a local radio station. She began singing covers of famous songs by her idol, Zhou Xuan. 'I had to sing her songs. She was such a big star. She was not just a singer - she was a movie star,' Chang said in an interview with the Post Magazine in 2003. So from her early teens she started entertaining audiences in clubs, and places such as the Cotton Tree Restaurant and the Luo Lan cafe, as well as on the radio to help support her family. Her sister Xiao Lu was also a fine singer, and can be heard on an album with Zhang Lu. 張露 曉露 - 異鄉猛步 1954.

In 1946, Chang, signed with EMI, and released a string of hits that cemented her position as a diva of the new generation. Music industry veteran Chan Fai-hung said "'Chang, together with other singers from the 1930s and '40s, were the pioneers of contemporary Chinese pop music. They not only performed in Mandarin but they also sang in English, bringing in jazz and swing music to this part of the world." She made her first film early in 1948. A vivacious performer, she was always pushing the boundaries of Chinese popular music with her interpretations of the latest sounds from around the world.

In an interview in The Age of Shanghainese Pops she said: "At 15 and 16 I was in Shanghai and had just left school. I liked music and in movies I happened to come across Carmen Miranda, a Brazilian singer - definitely the wild kind. In Shanghai we rarely had fruits, but she had fruits on her hat, a really big hat (with all those fruits). And the way she swung and wriggled, with very little clothes on. That kind of tropical allure, (as I watched) I just thought she was a goddess, and wanted to see more of it. She gave me a lot of inspiration, and it was then that I felt that foreign people were so open, so energetic. It made me feel that singing was a very enjoyable thing."

Zhang Lu moved to Hong Kong in 1952, captivating the people there. In 1959, she married musician Ollie Delfino from Singapore, and they had two sons, Orlando and Alex. She retired in 1975, and moved to Canada in 1980, but returned to Hong Kong in 1985 to be there for her son Alex's blossoming musical career. She occasionally appeared in public to perform with her sons. In November 2008, she made her last trip to Shanghai. She went with her son, Alex, singing "Gei Wed Yige Wen" to the public. Zhang Lu passed away in Ruttonjee Hospital on January 26, 2009, New Year's Day, at the age of 77. She had been admitted to the hospital on the Saturday and died on Monday afternoon of organ failure. She was cremated, and her ashes buried in a Shanghai cemetery alongside celebrities such as Theresa Teng, a cemetery she had selected a few years earlier.

Zhang Lu once said "My life can be simply divided into three phases, the first one is singers stage, the second phase is the mother, and now it is to be myself.

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