雖然當時適值是本地流行樂壇的低潮期,但基於她們極為洋化的外型及新潮的裝扮,加上出色的歌唱造詣,出道不久後仍廣受樂迷歡迎。她們早期駐唱於中區希爾頓酒店 Hilton Hotel的鷹巢(Eagle’s Nest)夜總會,並不時在無線電視(HK-TVB)翡翠台的〈歡樂今宵〉;及由方逸華主持的〈可樂晚唱〉節目中演出。1970年,獲娛樂唱片公司簽約灌錄唱片,其後更經常往海外登台;同年4月下旬,無線電視為她們製作了首次一系列的〈筷子之歌〉;每週專輯節目,播出獲好評如潮後,1972年11月至1973年3月期間,再推出另一新的系列。惜至1973年中時分,組合突然宣佈正式拆夥。
下列是筆者於多年來,可找到的筷子姊妹花唱片及其有關曲目、內容資料。
The Chopsticks Sandra Amina (1970/ESSP-1323)
Side One
- Medley:Can't Buy Me Love.Love Potion No. 9.Satisfaction (John Lennon.Paul McCartney/Jerry Leiber.Mike Stoller/Mick Jagger.Keith Richard)
The Chopsticks - Sooner Or Later (1970/ESEP-4004)
Side One
- Sooner Or Later (Noel Quinlan)
- Medley:To Sir With Love.San Francisco.Bala Bala (Don Black.Mark London/John Philips/Horst Lippok)
- For Your Love (Ed Townsend)
- Words Of Love (Noel Quinlan)
The Chopsticks Sandra And Amina (1970/CES-1022)
Side One
- You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis.Charles Mitchell)
- Yesterday (John Lennon.Paul McCartney)
- Stop!In The Name Of Love (Brian Holland.Lamont Dozier.Edward Holland)
- Medley:Can't Buy Me Love.Love Potion No. 9.Satisfaction (John Lennon.Paul McCartney/Jerry Leiber.Mike Stoller/Mick Jagger.Keith Richard)
- Wait Till Now# (Alfred Newman)
- La Malaguena (Elpidio Ramírez.Pedro Galindo)
- Summer Time (George Gershwin.DuBose Heyward)
- Tears Of Love (Yao Mien (姚敏).James Wong (黃霑)) ﹝原自國語歌曲"情人的眼淚"﹞
- Ko Ko Mo (Forest Gene Wilson.Jake Porter.Eunice Levy)
- Una Sera Di Tokyo (宮川泰Miyakawa Yasushi.岩谷時子Iwatani Tokiko)
- Land Of A Thousand Dances (Chris Kenner)
"You Are My Sunshine"
"Ko Ko Mo"
The Chopsticks Sandra & Amina - Some Day (1970/CES-1023)
Side One
- The Chopsticks (Joseph Koo 顧嘉煇.Desmond Mayne)
- Valley Of The Dolls (Andre Previn.Dory Previn)
- Medley:To Sir With Love.San Francisco.Bala Bala (Don Black.Mark London/John Philips/Horst Lippok)
- A Man Like You (Desmond Mayne)
- The Shadow Of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel.Paul Francis Webster)
- Love Is Blue (André Popp.Brian Blackburn)
- For Your Love (Ed Townsend)
- Some Day (Desmond Mayne)
- This Is My Song (Charlie Chaplin)
- Mas Que Nada (Jorge Ben)
- Cu Cu Ru Cu Cu Paloma (Tomás Méndez)
#Credit to Linda Pun
The Chopsticks Sandra & Amina - If You Go Away (1971/CES-1024)
Side One
- If You Go Away (Jacques Brel.Rod McKuen)
- Medley:Night And Day.A Man And A Woman.One Note Samba (Cole Porter/Pierre Elie Barough.Jerry Paul Keller.Francis Albert Lai/Antonio Carlos Jobim.Newton Mendonça.Jon Hendricks)
- Spinning Wheel (David Clayton-Thomas)
- The Joker (Leslie Bricusse.Anthony Newly)
- I Can’t Stop Loving You (Don Gibson)
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Nickolas Ashford.Valerie Simpson)
- You've Made Me So Very Happy (Brenda Holloway.Patrice Holloway.Frank Wilson.Berry Gordy)
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Bob Crewe.Bob Gaudio)
- Close To You (Burt Bacharach.Hal David)
- This Girl Is A Woman Now (Alan Bernstein.Victor Millrose)
- You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling (Barry Mann.Phil Spector.Cynthia Weil)
The Chopsticks Sandra & Amina - All Of A Sudden (1971/CES-1025)
Side One
- Medley:Exodus.Hava Nagila (Ernest Gold.Pat Boone/Abraham Zevi(Zvi) Idelsohn)
- Little Green Apples (Bobby Russell)
- All Of A Sudden (Nelson Ned.Don Black) ﹝原自葡語歌曲"Tudo Passará"﹞
- Fool On The Hill (John Lennon.Paul McCartney)
- Medley:Aquarius.Let The Sunshine In (Gerome Ragni.James Rado.Galt MacDermot)
- Historia Di Un Amor (Carlos Eleta Almaran)
- Scarborough Fair
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Medley:Chain Of Fools.Sunny.Gimme Little Sign.Uptight (Don Covay/Bobby Hebb/Joseph Hooven.Alfred Smith.Jerry Winn/Henry Cosby.Sylvia Moy.Stevie Wonder)
- Kiss Me Goodbye (Barry Mason.Les Reed)
"Fool On The Hill"
"Historia Di Un Amor"
"House Of The Rising Sun"
以下也是從一些昔日的《香港電視》週刊內頁掃描出來、筷子姊妹花於〈筷子之歌〉及歡樂今宵節目中演出之照片 :
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