Pan Xiu Qiong's - Poon Sow Keng song, "Lover's Tears," is another Chinese melody known among the English educated. The first is also a tear jerker called, "Love Without End." Both are theme songs and "Lover's Tears" (there is love in every teardrop) is no different, coming from the Shaw Brothers' film, "The Lark" (1965). She had been singing since twelve and was mostly in Malaysia. When she was 17 she recorded for the first time and within weeks the Asian populace fell in love with her.
But for all her popularity, Xiu Qiong never had singing lessons and what "talent she has is God given (Dave Dexter Jr, US record producer)." She was particularly successful in Singapore and Malaysia and up till today her songs are still sold in CD shops all over S.E. Asia.
Her songs have English titles, "The Foggy Night," (a dense, thick, unmoving fog in the harbour provides natual cover for two lovers), "Little Darling," (the girl pleads with her lover not to give her the cold shoulders but to tell her he loves her) and "Book Of Life," (a philosophical statement about family life).
"A Caged Bird," "A White Handkerchief," and "On The Elephant's Back," are but a few translated titles from her Capitol Hi Fi Recording on T10326 with explanation in English for the uninitiated.
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