Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Madan Mohan had composed music for just over 700 movie songs in his career. So far I have posted as many as 127 of these songs in this blog which constitutes 18 % of all Madan Mohan songs. I am sure that with time, I will be able to post many more Madan Mohan songs.
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Teri yaad naa dil se jaa saki
Posted on: August 8, 2010
“‘Chaand Aur Suraj” (1965) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Tanuja, not to be confused with “Suraj Aur Chandaa” (1973) which had Sanjeev Kumar and Meeta in lead roles.
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Ye waadaa karen jahaan bhi rahen
Posted on: August 8, 2010
When one talks of “Dil Bhi Tera Ham bhi Tere” (1960), then only one song comes to the mind of most people and that song is Mujhko iss raat ki tanhaayi me aawaaz na do. But this movie had other songs in it too.
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Chal diya dil mera tod ke
Posted on: August 8, 2010
There was a movie called “Fifty Fifty” (1956) which had actors like M.Rajan,Nalini Jaiwant,David,Om Prakash, Manmohan Krishna,Gope,Helen, Tuntun etc.
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“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) is a treasure of wonderful songs. I have already posted 5 songs from it.
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Koi pyaar ki dekhe jaadugari
Posted on: August 7, 2010
I was recently informed by Lalitha that many “Kohinoor” (1960) songs are missing from the blog. In fact, many songs from many movies are missing, if you think about that. 😀
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Aaj huaa meraa dil matwaalaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Chhote Nawaab” (1961) was R D Burman’s debut movie. He was given this break by Mehmood, and the rest, as they say, was history.
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Sajnaa lagan teri sone naa de
Posted on: August 5, 2010
Recently, I posted two songs from “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1937). Two decades later, another movie of the same name was released in 1959. Here is a song from this movie, viz. “Duniyaa Naa Maane” (1959).
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O sanam tere ho gaye ham
Posted on: August 3, 2010
Here is another popular song of its day which I thought I had already posted, but it is easy to get one’s facts wrong when there are so many nice songs to be posted. I have posted several songs of this genre as well as from this movie but this song was so far left out.
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During the golden era of Hindi film music, movies, irrespective of their grading (A, B, C or whatever) tended to have A grade music. Not just the big name music directors, even lesser music directors were just as good as any. It is just that opportunities were few and far between and any many great talents were starved of opportunities.
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