Hues, Feldman and Costin stayed together and renamed themselves "Huang Chung." They would claim at the time that Huang Chung translated roughly as "perfect pitch." They would later claim on "American Bandstand" that it is the sound a guitar makes.
Not totally accuratebut.
The 1980s band Wang Chung took its name from the Chinese term for the first note of the Chinese musical scale, though the bassist said that “it means whatever you want it to mean.” When the band interjected the phrase into the lyrics of its 1987 hit “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” the lingo became Generation-X shorthand .
Hues, Feldman and Costin stayed together and renamed themselves "Huang Chung." They would claim at the time that Huang Chung translated roughly as "perfect pitch." They would later claim on "American Bandstand" that it is the sound a guitar makes.
Not totally accuratebut.
The band Wang Chung got their name from the Chinese term Huang Chung, which translates to "yellow bell" and is the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.
Therefore, I would say that to "Wang Chung tonight" means you either play Chinese music or ring a yellow bell at night..
Wang Chung went on hiatus in the 1990s, and the group has attempted a handful of reunions over the years, playing festivals and one-off gigs here and there.
In 2019, Hues and Feldman, together as Wang Chung, recorded a greatest hits album..
1983"Dance Hall Days" is a song by the English new wave band Wang Chung.
It was originally released as a single in 1982 when the band was called Huang Chung, then it was re-recorded and released a year later in 1983 for the studio album Points on the Curve..
It was the band's only single to make the Top 75 charts in the UK, narrowly missing the Top 20
In the US, it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went all the way to number one on the Dance Club Songs chart
Please be informed that the Chung Wah Hall and office will be closed over the Festive Season from Monday 26 December 2022, and will reopen on Tuesday 3 January 2023
The Chung Read More… The Perth Chinese New Year Fair 2023 will be held on Sunday 29 January 2023 from 12pm-9pm at James and Lake Streets and the Northbridge Piazza
Nick Feldman of Wang Chung told Songfacts: "Before 'Dance Hall Days' was definitively recorded by Wang Chung at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, we had just demoed the song at a small, cheap North London studio
Through our publishers, a copy of the song fell into the hands of Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, who loved it
1997 greatest hits album by Wang Chung
1982 studio album by Wang Chung
1984 single by Wang Chung
British new wave band
