Archive for October 2009
Hoon main ik nayaa taraana
Posted on: October 23, 2009
A female dancer singing and dancing in a club, paying particular attention to the table where the hero is seated was a standard fare in Bollywood movies of 1950s. Geeta Bali, Geeta Dutt and Dev Anand often figured in such songs.
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Ham panchhi ek daal ke
Posted on: October 22, 2009
- In: Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | National integration song | Rafi songs | Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1957 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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After India became an independent nation in 1947, nation building began in the right earnest. Movies too reflected it, and many movies of that era talked about nation building, and also about the values and aspirations of the newly independent nation.
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“Jaalsaaz” (1959) is a forgotten movie by now. But its songs were quite nice to listen to. If these songs are not known to many then it is the loss of the listeners.
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Tum hamse kyun darta hai
Posted on: October 22, 2009
“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1955) is a movie of historical significance because here one can see many would be legends in action during their earlier days. For instance, it was one of the first movies as a music director for O P Nayyar. It is in movies like this that he began to groom Asha Bhonsle and gave her voice an identity.
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Chandaniya nadiya beech nahaaye
Posted on: October 21, 2009
When I had started this blog with the aim of posting old classic songs, I had assessed that if I posted about 2500 songs, I would have covered them all. How wrong I was ! I have already posted over 2000 songs, and I still continue to stumble upon “new” songs almost every day. And I still feel like I am only scratching the surface. I have yet to go deeper.
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Sometime back, I was wondering about the playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand and I counted about half a dozen different names. Well known names like Rafi, Kishore, Manna Dey, Mukesh, Hemant Kumar, as well as unknown name like Dwijen Mukherji have given playback for Dev Anand. Some people would even like to include S D Burman though I am not sure.
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“Sailaab” (1956) is an obscure movie and so is the case with its music.
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Bhool gaye kyun deke sahaara
Posted on: October 21, 2009
- In: Duet | Jilted lover song | love spurned | Missing the loved ones | Mukesh songs | needing each other | Pathos | Poignant Song | Sentimental song | Separation song | Shamshad Begam songs | Shamshad Begam-Mukesh duet | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Anokhi Ada” to me was a movie of 1970s starring Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna, but I came to know that there was another movie of this name in 1948 too. Why did these oldtimers choose the same name as a new movie and then had some boring music in that- this is what I used to think in 1970s.
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“Pyaar ki raahein” (1959) is an obscure movie by now and its music is just as obscure. But as far as the music is concerned, it deserved much better fate.
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Dil ka fasaana koi na jaanaa
Posted on: October 20, 2009
1960 was a decade that saw some memorable qawwalis being created. It is not just Roshan and Ravi who created them, even some lesser known music directors came up with nice qawwalis.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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