英國電子流行團體〔OMD〕--電影〔紅粉佳人〕插曲──流行傑作──〔If You Leave／卿若離去〕


If you leave, dont leave now
Please dont take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then well go our separate ways
With hours left time on our sides
Now its fading fast
Every second every moment
Weve got to--weve gotta make it last

I touch you once I touch you twice
I wont let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said wed still be friends someday

If you leave I wont cry
I wont waste one single day
But if you leave dont look back
Ill be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
Youve got to--youve gotta say you will

I touch you once I touch you twice
I wont let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said wed meet again

I touch you once I touch you twice
I wont let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said wed still be friends

I touch you once I touch you twice
I wont let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said wed meet again someday

If you leave
Oh if you leave
Oh if you leave
Dont look back
Dont look back

１９８６年２月　派拉蒙推出青少年電影〔Pretty In Pink／紅粉佳人〕

由偶像摩莉琳華（Molly Ringward）　安德魯麥卡錫（Andrew McCarthy）主演

敘述一個貧窮女孩與富家公子的戀愛過程
有點灰姑娘式的浪漫喜劇文藝片

創下４千多萬美元的票房佳績

我直到１９９９年才在電視第一次看到電影　感覺蠻普通的
原聲帶配合劇中女主角的喜好　邀來許多新浪潮　後龐克團體獻唱

其中英國電子流行團體OMD(Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark／黑夜管弦演習)演唱了插曲〔If You Leave／卿若離去〕
這是一首編曲華麗　有著強勁Pop-Funk節奏的流行佳作
主唱渾厚有力的嗓音以略為抑鬱煽情的唱腔詮釋這首情人即將離去的惆悵
由於電影的推波助瀾　讓此曲在美國流行榜得到＃４　成人抒情榜＃２４　舞曲銷售則是＃３１ 英國＃４８
也是他們在新大陸成績最好的單曲

現在對它的喜歡程度已退減不少

實在有點難以想像當時為何會這麼迷此曲

Anyway, 〔If You Leave〕代表我當時的喜好

推薦這首流行名作給各位

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmTGFg06zA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zboUuLHoE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFmRETqKTs

Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOkfF5toMDY

Extended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsC11XQfxA8