Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
Posted on: August 26, 2014
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Yesterday (25 august 2014), Zohrabai Ambalewaali reached her 100th song in the blog. It was the 70th instance of an artist completing one hundred of his/her songs in the blog. The list now included 27 music directors, 25 lyricists and 18 singers. Here is a summary of these artists and their number of songs in the blog:
| Music Directors | ||
|---|---|---|
| SN | Music Director | Number of songs in the blog |
| 1 | Shankar Jaikishan | 770 |
| 2 | Laxmikant Pyarelal | 563 |
| 3 | S D Burman | 489 |
| 4 | R D Burman | 447 |
| 5 | Naushad | 421 |
| 6 | Madan Mohan | 405 |
| 7 | Ravi | 388 |
| 8 | Kalyanji Anandji | 387 |
| 9 | O P Nayyar | 368 |
| 10 | C Ramchandra | 330 |
| 11 | Chitragupta | 276 |
| 12 | Roshan | 247 |
| 13 | Anil Biswas | 231 |
| 14 | Husnlal Bhagatram | 212 |
| 15 | Hemant Kumar | 207 |
| 16 | Salil Chaudhary | 180 |
| 17 | Hansraj Bahl | 159 |
| 18 | Ghulam Mohammad | 157 |
| 19 | N Datta | 153 |
| 20 | Usha Khanna | 152 |
| 21 | Bulo C Rani | 138 |
| 22 | Vasant Desai | 130 |
| 23 | Khaiyyam | 127 |
| 24 | S N Tripathi | 126 |
| 25 | Khemchand Prakash | 121 |
| 26 | Vinod | 102 |
| 27 | Jaidev | 101 |
| Lyricists | ||
|---|---|---|
| SN | Lyricist | Number of songs in the blog |
| 1 | Majrooh Sultanpuri | 812 |
| 2 | Rajinder Krishan | 791 |
| 3 | Anand Bakshi | 682 |
| 4 | Shailendra | 564 |
| 5 | Hasrat Jaipuri | 532 |
| 6 | Sahir Ludhianvi | 514 |
| 7 | Shakeel Badayuni | 514 |
| 8 | Qamar Jalalabadi | 285 |
| 9 | Prem Dhawan | 282 |
| 10 | Bharat Vyas | 238 |
| 11 | D N Madhok | 215 |
| 12 | Raja Mehdi Ali Khan | 201 |
| 13 | Indeewar | 169 |
| 15 | Asad Bhopali | 156 |
| 15 | Gulzar | 149 |
| 16 | Kaifi Azmi | 149 |
| 17 | S H Bihari | 135 |
| 18 | Pradeep | 125 |
| 19 | Jaan Nisaar Akhtar | 121 |
| 20 | Kidar Sharma | 121 |
| 21 | Pt Indra Chandra | 120 |
| 22 | P L Santoshi | 119 |
| 23 | Aziz Kashmiri | 108 |
| 24 | Anjaan | 108 |
| 25 | Gulshan Baawra | 102 |
| Singers | ||
|---|---|---|
| SN | Singer | Number of songs in the blog |
| 1 | Lata | 2690 |
| 2 | Rafi | 2264 |
| 3 | Asha Bhonsle | 1688 |
| 4 | Kishore Kumar | 809 |
| 5 | Mukesh | 679 |
| 6 | Geeta Dutt | 542 |
| 7 | Shamshad Begam | 378 |
| 8 | Manna Dey | 345 |
| 9 | Talat Mehmood | 313 |
| 10 | Suraiyya | 294 |
| 11 | Suman Kalyanpur | 226 |
| 12 | Mahendra Kapoor | 225 |
| 13 | Hemant Kumar | 163 |
| 14 | K L Saigal | 141 |
| 15 | Usha Mangeshkar | 109 |
| 16 | Amirbai Karnataki | 109 |
| 17 | Rajkumari | 106 |
| 18 | Zohrabai Ambalewaali | 101 |
The above tables make very satisfactory readings. Collection of so many songs of so many artists at one place, and that too with accurate and full lyrics and often hard to find details, and quite a few of these songs being rare to find songs-all these are achievements that we can be quite proud of.
I am not sure about the total number of songs created by all these artists, otherwise I could as well include another column showing the total number of songs created by these artists. That would tell us how far we are from posting the remaining songs opf the artists.
Off hand, I can tell that all available songs of K L Saigal are discussed in the blog. In case of Suraiyya, just a few more (rare) songs remain to be discussed. About one hundred plus songs each remain to be discussed in case of Mukesh and Hemant Kumar. Same is the case for S D Burman, Naushad, O P Nayyar and Roshan among music directors and Shailendra among lyricists.
And let us not forget the artists who have not yet reached their centuries. Some well known names who are waiting for their centuries in the blog are Rajesh Roshan (78), R C Boral (73), Pankaj Mullick (72), S Mohinder (70), Shyam Sundar (65), Snehal Bhatkar ( 57), Bappi Lahiri (61), Gyan Dutt (58), Iqbal Qureshy (56), Dattaram (53), Sonik Omi (50) among music directors, Verma Malik (69), Yogesh (68), Shewan Rizvi (65), Aarzoo Lucknowi (60), Pt Narendra Sharma (58), Gopal Singh Nepali (58), Tanveer Naqvi (56), Farooque Kaiser (56), Naqsh Llayalpuri (55), Neeraj (52), Nakshab (51) among lyricists and G M Durrani (75), C Ramchandra (72), Sudha Malhotra (64), Mubarak Begam (53) and Meena Kapoor (50) among singers. So a day will come when we will have one hundred artists with their own centuries of songs in the blog. 🙂
Contributions by our regulars have gone a long way in making all these centuries possible. and seeing that I have a large number of contributions still lying with me, I am sure that we will keep adding to this already impressive collection of songs.
Here is a lovely song from a forgotten movie called “Gaaon” (1947). This song was directed by Dwarka Khosla for Jamuna Productions, Bombay. The movie had Karan Dewan, Indu Mishra, Tiwari, Amir Bano, Khaleel, Ram Singh, Leela, Shanti, Anand, Shekhar, Mahendra Watal, Lalit etc in it.
This delightful song is sung by Zohrabai Ambalewaali. D N Madhok is the lyricist. Music is composed by Khemchand Prakash.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Avinash Scrapwala.
Audio
Song-Lo phir raat chaandni aayi (Gaaon)(1947) Singer-Zohrabai Ambalewaali, Lyrics-D N Madhok, MD-Khemchand Prakash,
Lyrics(Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
dil mera dewe
dil mera dewe teri duhaayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
dil mera dewe teri duhaayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
mast hawaa se keh do
balmaa gaye pardes re
mast hawaa se keh do
balmaa gaye pardes re ae
thhumak thhumak nahin aawe
mere ji pe laage thhes re
mere ji pe laage thhes re
nainon mein more laali chhaayi
Lo phir yaad tumhaari aayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
dil mera dewe teri duhaayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
Ik mera dil hai
dard basaa ke ae
Ik mera dil hai
dard basaa ke
koyi balam ji ko laaye bulaa ke
koyi balam ji ko laaye bulaa ke ae
Laaye bulaa ke
unse kehdo
wo rut aayi
jis rut mein thhi aankh milaayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
Lo phir raat chaandni aayi
dil mera dewe teri duhaayi
O harjaayee
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
ye rangeeli duniya do din ki
4 Responses to "Lo phir raat chaandni aayi"
August 26, 2014 at 9:57 am
It was an impressive list and shows the hard work that you are capable of. I have seen lot of teams in various fields working for money or for fame or even for love, but your team of lyric-providers, information-providers, searchers and researchers is really unique. Hats off to each and every one of them starting, of course, with our in-house BELOVED encyclopedia whom I was fortunate to have met in one of my sojourn to Mumbai and the electrifying memories of that trip comes back to liven me up again and again. We are very fortunate indeed to have him with us. A great and very humble personality! Long live Arun ji!
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August 26, 2014 at 9:11 pm
Lovely post Atul ji ! I also like posts giving statistical details on regular intervals.
Thanks !!
Also thanks for the correct words wherever I could not get them correctly.
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August 26, 2014 at 8:03 am
Atul, it’s great to see the stats. Keep up the good work, mate. We are all with you.
Regards
Satyajit Rajurkar
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