Sunday, March 16, 2025

Ambassador Hotel Singapore: 60's Music With Ray Peterson's 'Tell Laura...'

Ambassador Hotel at Meyer Road and Katong Park.
(Image: Wadah Seni Entertainment Post.)

Hi Andy,

Glad to have stumbled onto your post and reading yours and others’ wonderful stories reminiscing of the old times!

I love songs from the sixties. When traveling in North America cities, I would still look for old diners with booth tables and some wall jukeboxes.

In the late sixties of Singapore, I occasionally hang out with a group of Mandarin and Hainanese speaking friends in the Ambassador Hotel roof top nightclub. They called the club manager ‘Boon’. I was told that the nightclub owner was a lady, probably one of those experienced entertainers from Shanghai.

Frequently we encountered a ‘guest-singer’. He usually sang popular English songs with Mandarin lyrics. He did Ray Peterson’s ‘Tell Laura I love Her’. I don’t remember the whole lyrics, only this part:

“… 日日我在想念, 夜夜我在想念…Tell Laura not to cry…”

Anonymous

27.08.2023.

黃清元 - 告诉罗娜我爱她 [Original Music Audio] 
YouTube Video from: 黃清元 Huang Qing Yuan Official.

[*Note: Such vinyl Chinese records are priceless today because
many nationals from other countries have bought them when
they cost $2 to $5 a piece in SG.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrVGIl6exkM&t=50s

Hello my blog reader friend,

Thank you for the visit and the above letter. I hope you are still enjoying your travel days and 60s music. Trying to figure out who the singer at the Ambassador was. Write in again when you feel like. Love that you write in Mandarin too. The song's for you. 

Andy.




*Disclaimer: This post is not an advertisement to sell records.

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2 comments:

  1. MERLIN LIM (PROFESSIONAL GUITARIST)16.3.25

    Hi Andy. I Remember Ambassador Hotel.
    Admired the Bldg For the External Facade.
    That Was Whn I Was A Kid Going To Tanjong Rhu Primary School.
    The Normal Bus Route Does'nt Pass Ambassador Hotel but Whn I Lost My Bus Fare or Used It For Something Kids Love At That Time, ( Pleasure of the Sense Objects.)
    That's Whn I've To Walk Home Passing That Majestic Bldg, Heading To Amber Road n Into Katong.
    I Can't Remember Ever Going Into That Hotel, but Her External Facade Stayed Inprinted In My Young Mind.
    As For That Song ....
    "Tell Laura I Love Her."
    I Used It To Learn, To Practice the Chords n Changing the Placement of the Fingers For Other Chords.
    That Was My Innocent Years n It Sure Was The Good Old Days !!
    Thks Andy, My Dear Bro In Music. PEACE !!

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