Archive for the ‘Century songs for the blog’ Category
My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
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It has often been suggested that Hindi movies of the earlier days were far more permissive and liberal than the movies that followed later. Based on my own observations,I tend to agree with this view.
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Raahi tu mat ruk jaanaa
Posted on: February 18, 2011
There have been several songs sung by Kishore Kumar under the music direction of Hemant Kumar. But here is a song where the roles are reversed. Here it is Hemant Kumar singing under the music direction of Kishore Kumar !
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Kaanhaa boley naa
Posted on: February 7, 2011
Listening to well known popular songs is always a nice experience. Discovering songs unknown to us and listening to them is also a wonderful experience.
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When I had begun this blog, my grand vision was to discuss 2500 songs. I had thought that by that time I would have discussed all the Hindi movie songs that are worth discussing. When I finally reached that magic figure (on 29 may 2010), I found that I had just scratched the surface, as far as discussing the great Hindi movie songs was concerned and that many great songs were not yet discussed.
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Aaj ronaa padaa to samjhe
Posted on: January 24, 2011
“Girl friend” (1960), not to be confused with “Boyfriend” (1961) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Daisy Irani, Nazir Hussain, Bipin Gupta, Leela Mishra etc.
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Sajjad Hussain, regarded as the only original music director of Hindi movies, was a temperamental genius who would brook no interference in his creative work and leave movies in a huff if he felt that his producers were interfering in his work. As a result, there are several movies where he composed one or two songs before he would leave the movie.
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It is one occasion that comes at least once evey month for this blog. And that occasion is here again. Yes, this is the occasion when this blog completes a century of songs.
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Laage jisko wohi ye dukh jaane
Posted on: December 12, 2010
I have discussed over 3300 songs in this blog and more songs are being added every day. With so many songs in the blog, there is ample scope for interesting statistics about these songs.
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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