香港向來是傳統的粵劇重鎮，1949年之後，因為政治動盪，紅伶戲班更多以港為基地，粵劇粵曲人材，新老結合，陣容鼎盛。很快，香港轉型，粵曲粵樂跟著轉型，它走的路，跟新興的電聲媒體，息息相關。

首先，部份粵劇團隊藝人因為市場相對興旺，加上拍電影容易帶來收益，而表現因循，演藝停滯不前。

同樣條件，卻促使另一部份團隊藝人，借助電台和電影的技術和平台，鑽研粵劇演藝。他們刻意發掘新興電聲媒體的潛力，積極灌錄唱片和製作電影，並因應這些媒體的特性，創造新的表演美藝，延續自三十年代已經開始的粵劇現代化改革。

黃湛森自幼多聽粵曲、常看粵劇，在舞台、銀幕和大氣電波，透過紅線女、馬師曾、任白和唐滌生等人的傾情演出，親身體會粵劇現代化的細藝和感動。

Misty (1960)

Composer: Erroll Garner
Lyricist: Johnny Burke
Vocalist: Julie London

Look at me
I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I’m clinging to a cloud
I can’t understand
I get misty holding your hand

Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play
Or it might be the sound of your hello
That music I hear
I get misty the moment you’re near

You can say that you’re leading me on
But it’s just what I want you to do
Don’t you realize how hopelessly I’m lost
That’s why I’m following you

On my own
Would I wander through this wonderland alone
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove
I get misty and too much in love

On my own
Would I wander through this wonderland alone
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove
I am too misty and too much in love