Mudcat Café message #977461

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Thread #60978 Message #977461
Posted By: Amos
05-Jul-03 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: Warning re Playing at Chinese Weddings
Subject: Warning re Playing at Chinese Weddings

If you accept a gig playing at a Chinese wedding, just make sure to check your playlist, okay? Consider the following tale:

Couple wins refund over sad songs played at wedding

July 4 2003
A pair of newlyweds in China have won a refund for their wedding banquet after sad songs were played throughout the festivities.
As the couple toasted their marriage with guests at a restaurant in Keqiao, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, morose Chinese songs including You Took Away My Woman and Why Do You Love Someone Else Secretly were played in the background.
The couple were given an 80 per cent discount on the banquet, which cost 1500 yuan ($270) per table, after they threatened to report the restaurant to the local consumer association, the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily newspaper reported.
DPA

Anyone know the lyrics by the way to "Why Do You Love Someone Else Secretly?" -- I think we could make a country hit out of it...
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