Lai has always been an admirer and collector of the Western pop songs that he loved as a high school student. He spent a year of his life translating many of these songs into Chinese, analyzing sentence structures, developing explanations of the grammar and printing the music for his readers, so they can learn English as they enjoy the songs.
除了在電台授課，賴世雄還把他自高中就喜愛的西洋老歌蒐集起來，然後花了一年的時間，為這些經典歌曲翻譯，分析句型，講解文法，同時附上歌譜，讓讀者在聽老歌時，也可以學習英文。