''Hot Summer'' was a

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

album by

Leslie Cheung Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actor. Throughout a 26-year career from 1977 until his death, Cheung released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films. He was one of the most prominent ...

released in 1988 by

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record company

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and followed on the heels of the success of Cheung's ''

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'' the year before. Like ''Summer Romance'', the album also featured a collaboration with

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musicians. Its songs were considerably popular and these included "Hot Summer", 貼身 ("Close Proximity"), 無需要太多 ("Don't Need Too Much"), 沉默是金 ("Silence is Golden"), 繼續跳舞 ("Keep on Dancing"), and 内心爭鬥 ("Inner Struggle"). The song "Close Proximity" won the Jade Solid Gold Award in 1988 and was among the popular songs in Hong Kong for that year. Track 10 ("Love Again") is a

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cover of

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's 1982 song " The One You Love" from album ''

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''.

Track listing

# "Hot Summer" - 3:57 # 貼身 ("Close Proximity") - 3:13 # 無需要太多 ("Don't Need Too Much") - 4:27 # 可否多一吻 ("How About One More Kiss") - 5:07 # Hey！不要玩 ("Hey! Don't Play") - 3:34 # 沉默是金 ("Silence is Golden") - 4:09 # 繼續跳舞 ("Keep on Dancing!") - 4:26 # 濃情 ("Deep Affections") - 3:33 # 内心爭鬥 ("Inner Struggle") - 4:43 # 再戀 ("Love Again") - 4:42

Personnel

*Leslie Cheung -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Ricky Chu, Nick -

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*Lam Chi Wan, Eddie Sing -

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*Hidetoshi Yamada, Tony Arevalo Jr. Andrew Tuason, Paulino Babida -

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*Tsuyoshi Kon, Joey, Masaki Matsubaro -

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*Ric Halstead -

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Production

*Producer: Leslie Cheung, Patrick Yeung, Masa Sakuma *Recording/Mixing: Paterson Wong *Sound Engineer: Johnny Cheung, Yeung Tak Keung *Cover Design and Art: Alan Chan *Photography: Justin Chan *Co-ordinator: Hideo Takayama Leslie Cheung albums 1988 albums Cinepoly Records albums {{HongKong-album-stub