A Rainy Night at the Port () is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop song released in 1958, composed by with lyrics by Lü Chuanzi (呂傳梓). It was inspired by the city of Keelung. Originally, it was composed without lyrics.
Overview In the early 1960s, Yang San-lang took over as the conductor of the band at the Keelung Landmark Club for American forces in Taiwan, where he also played the trumpet. Keelung, known for its rainy weather, inspired Yang on one such day to compose a sad melody using natural minor and the harmonic minor to perform a sad song on the trumpet, which he called "Rain Blues" (雨的BLUES). He played it every day, to the acclaim of the American soldiers in the audience. The song, however, did not have lyrics until the band's pianist, Lü Chuanzi was inspired to write lyrics to the song, describing the grieved feelings of a traveling young man watching the rain one night in the port city of Keelung. After penning the lyrics, Lü handed them over to the composer of "", Wang Yunfeng (王雲峰) for editing. The resulting lyrics, paired with Yang's original tune, became a favorite song at the Landmark Club.
In 1958, Yang San-lang had perform the song in public, and release the recording.A Protestant group later adapted the tune to new lyrics, turning it into a hymn.
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