Patricia Lam Fung: Canto Pop Star

The bidding for some Patricia Lam Fung albums auctioned on eBay recently went way beyond what I expected them to fetch. In five years of religiously scouring eBay for Hong Kong movie memorabilia, I've never once seen these up for sale, so they must be pretty hard to come by.

Patricia Lam Fung was the first youth idol and pop star of Hong Kong's post-war baby boom generation (setting the stage for Connie Chan Po Chu and Josephine Siao Fong Fong later in the sixties), and singing and dancing were a big part of the movies she made for Shaw Brothers' Cantonese division. Not only that, her film songs were instrumental in the development of what would eventually become known as Cantopop. What a shame then that her songs are currently unavailable on CD. Thankfully, one of her fans has put several of Lam's most beloved songs on YouTube. I've gathered them all in a convenient playlist for your listening pleasure.

And here are those albums...


Lam Fung Song Album No. 1 [sold for US $360]
Features songs from The Merdeka Bridge (1959) and When Durians Bloom (1959).


Lam Fung Song Album No. 2 [sold for US $283.08]
Features songs from Glass Slippers (1959) and Young Rock (1959).


Lam Fung Song Album No. 5 [sold for US $316]
Features songs from First Love (1960), The Chase (1960), Love and Chasity (1960), and Revolutionary Heroine (1960).