In the summer of 1972, when he and Yang Hsien put on a concert of ballads at the International House in Taipei, his aboriginal songs and Yang's "Nostalgia" found immediate acclaim among the audience.
民國六十一年夏天，胡德夫在台北市國際學舍舉辦了一場西洋民謠演唱會，他的兩首山地歌和楊弦的創作「鄉愁四韻」，是會中僅有的中國歌曲，但是這三首歌卻博得全場觀眾最熱烈的掌聲。