譚伯葉

繁體中文

譚伯葉（1908–1983），廣東省開平縣人，係香港電影製片商會理事長、香港音樂曲藝協會常務理事。佢在廣州培正中學讀書，一生大部分時間在組織灌錄唱片，尤其經手大量粵劇、曲藝和廣東音樂。譚伯葉曾參加省港大罷工；九一八事變後，佢主持灌錄流亡三部曲《松花江上》、《保家鄉》、《歸不得家鄉》等數十張愛國唱片，以唱片發行支援抗日宣傳。1983年佢由香港返回廣州，因病進入廣州中山醫學院附屬第一醫院，搶救無效在1983年5月10日凌晨2時逝世，享年75歲；同月16日上午在廣州殯儀館舉行追悼會，有250多人參加。佢多年來在唱片與電影製片兩個界別之間穿梭，亦曾參與電影演出及粵曲演唱，為戰前後省港唱片工業留下大量粵劇與曲藝錄音。

English

Tam Pak Yip (1908–1983) was a native of Kaiping in Guangdong province, chairman of the Hong Kong film producers' association and a standing council member of a Hong Kong music and Cantonese operatic arts association. Educated at Pui Ching Middle School in Guangzhou, he spent most of his life organising record recordings, handling in particular a great quantity of Cantonese opera, operatic song and Guangdong instrumental music. He took part in the Canton–Hong Kong general strike of the mid-1920s, and after the Mukden Incident he oversaw the recording of dozens of patriotic records, including the celebrated exile trilogy that opened with a song of the Songhua River, produced to support resistance propaganda. In 1983 he returned to Guangzhou from Hong Kong and, falling ill, was admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Medical College, where he died in the early hours of 10 May 1983, aged 75; more than 250 people attended a memorial service at the Guangzhou funeral parlour on 16 May. Moving between the record and film production worlds, he also appeared in films and sang Cantonese operatic numbers, leaving a large legacy of Cantonese opera and operatic song recordings from the pre- and post-war decades.