Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
In 1950s, Shankar Jaikishan tended to use Lata’s voice for all female playback songs. It is alright if they had to use her voice for one actress, but there were occasions when more than one actress in the same movie lip synced to Lata’s voice. Fortunately, they did not do so in the same song.
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Wo din kahaan gaye bataa
Posted on: August 30, 2009
One of the earlier pioneers of Bollywood movie music was Anil Biswas. He was one of the earlier music directors to make the most of Lata’s voice.
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This is a song that I must have heard many a times. It is a timeless classic. And considering that this song is from “Aawaara”(1951) and it is sung by Lata, I took it for granted that this song was picturised on Nargis.
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Man moraa naache tan moraa naache
Posted on: August 29, 2009
The more songs I post in this blog, the more I realise how less I know about the songs of the past. There are so many gems lying forgotten that if we can rediscover them all, we will have hundreds, if not thousands of re discoverd wonderful songs that have been left behind for our enjoyment by some great masters of yesteryears.
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Sapne suhaane ladakpan ke
Posted on: August 28, 2009
“Bees Saal Baad” is a memorable movie on several counts. It was not only a landmark movie of its genre, it was a musical blockbuster too.
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Naa naa naa barso baadal
Posted on: August 28, 2009
Small time Bollywood movie producers tended to make movies of historical / mythologicals subjects in 1950s and 1960s. Most of these movies were C grade movies and the mainstream movie watchers kept away from them.
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O pawan veg se udne waale ghode
Posted on: August 27, 2009
I had last heard this song over three decades ago. I was looking for this song for quite some time. I was finally able to locate this elusive song yesterday.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time. The songs of this movie have in fact gone on to become timeless classics.
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Iss paar saajan uss paar dhaaren
Posted on: August 26, 2009
I may have heard this song in the past but only in passing. This time I heard it attentively, and found out about its details. I came to know that this song was from “Chori Chori” (1956). Now I wonder just how many great songs were there in “Chori Chori” (1956).
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Here is a lovely song from “Nausherwaan e Adil”(1957).
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