Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Haay re wo din kyun
Posted on: April 18, 2009
Pt Ravishankar, the renowned sitarist had worked in Bollywood in 1950s and 1960s, before he went West and made his mark in his field. In Bollywood, Ravishankar not only worked as an instrumentalist, he in fact acted as music director in a few Bollywood movies as well.
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Roothaa hai to manaa lengen
Posted on: April 17, 2009
This song “roothaa hai to manaa lenge” was quite popular on its days. I loved listening to this song without knowing much about this song except the name of the singer.
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Tera mera saath rahe
Posted on: April 17, 2009
There were a few music directors who did well for themselves without using the leading playback singers of the day in their songs.
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Raina beeti jaaye Shyaam na aaye
Posted on: April 17, 2009
“Amar Prem” was full of memorable songs that are remembered to this date.
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Mera qaraar le jaa
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have posted two songs from “Aashiana”(1952) in ther past. One was a Lata song ( mere piya se koi jaake) and other was a Talat Mahmood song (main paagal mera manwaa paagal). Both these songs are superb memorable songs.
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I have posted a superb Kishore Kumar song from “Manmauji”(1962) in the past that went “Zaroorat hai zaroorat hai”. It was a playful light hearted song and showed that Madan Mohan could compose this kind of songs as well.
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“Pyaar Mohabbat” is not a movie too many people may have heard about. This was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Saira Bano.
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Mushkil hai jeena bedardon
Posted on: April 10, 2009
I had listened to the two “Sahab Bahadur” songs sung by Kishore Kumar in the past and I have already posted them in this blog.
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Kismat mein khushi ka naaam nahin
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Sajjad Hussain, arguably the most original and most creative music director of an era brimming with great music directors, was also a person who was not tactful enough to deal with musically illiterate producers and tended to call a spade a shovel. It was this outspokenness that ensured that he got much less number of assignments than his talent merited.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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