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DT & The Haygoods

Who or what are The Haygoods? And why am I blogging abt them here? Well, they are a performing family of 7 brothers and 1 sister who own and operate their own theatre in Branson, Missouri. They are currently on an extended tour to 14 chinese cities & you can read all abt it @ Global Times where this paragraph caught my attention:
During the show, which will last an hour and a half non-stop, they will present some songs from their soon-to-be released new album including Country Boy, Rocking in the Sun and Run Like Hell. They will also perform hits from Michael Jackson and The Beatles, a Chinese love song by David Tao and the Beijing Olympics theme song along with many others.
It's not I Love You which I am glad but Only want to be your friend which is the title they are using. Okay the Beijing Olympics theme song do have an english version but I am curious if they are singing David's song in chinese or putting their own english lyrics to the music. Also how or why did they chose this song? I can only imagine they kinda ask around to find out what chinese singer or song would appeal to an audience in the Middle Kingdom & randomly chose the song from a list. Or maybe they are acquaintances of DT & so decided to sing his song. It's getting curiousier & curiousier. Make me wish that he was still active on Twitter so I could ask him ^__^ Anyway you can go to their youtube channel to watch their performances. Hopefully they will upload their performance of DT's Regular Friend in China.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

my guess, They probably watch that black guy rendition on YT, I remember years ago.. it was a very catchy song & I thought it was one of his best work in term of lyric/melody.

now I wanna listen/watch it again!

zoe

Timothy Brittain Haygood said...

Hi there,
I googled ourselves and found this blog. Please email me at timhaygood@yahoo.com and I will explain why we chose the David Tao song!
Timothy Haygood

Zhao said...

Hi Mr Haygood, thanks for yr comment. I have emailed you already & anxiously await yr response. Hey hey Zoe, how are you doing? Yeah, I think it was one of his best works too.