Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Ye parbaton ke daayare
Posted on: November 26, 2008
1968, the titanium year of Bollywood movie music had so many great songs that a sizeable number of such songs struggled to get into the popularity bandwagon. Many great songs found themselves forgotten without getting the chance to be heard by the audience.
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“Loafer” saw Mumtaz teaming up with Dharmendra. This movie was full of very popular songs. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics created songs which were quite a rage in those days.
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Tum to pyaar ho sajna
Posted on: November 24, 2008
“Sehra” was a musical blockbuster whose music was created by a less known music director viz. Ramlal. Lata had sung some very fine songs in this movie.
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Pankh hote to ud aati re
Posted on: November 23, 2008
Ring tones has become a big business after the advent of mobile phones. In India, ring tones of movie songs are very popular. Though many people have new songs as their ringtones, some people like old songs as their ring tones as well.
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O mere sanam
Posted on: November 23, 2008
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Here is a duet from “Sangam” picturised on Raj Kapoor and Vyjyanti Mala. The people involved in creating this song are the usual suspects, viz Shankar Jaikishan, Shailendra, Mukesh and Lata. This song is a party song, and this movie seemed to have quite a few party songs, I do not know why.
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Har dil jo pyaar karega
Posted on: November 22, 2008
I know that a song sung by two singers ( typically one male and one female singer) is called a duet or “dogaana”, but what about a song sung by three singers ? Anyone has any idea ? Is it called a “tigaana” or a “triet” ?
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Is mod se jaate hain
Posted on: November 22, 2008
When I began to listen to farmaishi programmes on Radio, I would pay close attention to the details about the song that were mentioned by the announcer.
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I as a kid grew up reading “Chandamama”, a children’s magazine that was published from Madras in many Indian languages. They had interesting stories from eclectic sources viz mythology, arabian tales, folk tales, etc. They also used to have stories preaching the values of peaceful co existence among joint family members. In other words, they preached just the opposite of what is preached in Ekta Kapoor’s serials now a days.
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It is a song that I informally call “mental massage” song. This kind of songs makes me forget the tensions of the world and make for a refreshing change. In brief, this does the same for the mind as a nice massage does for the body.
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This song was one of the earliest songs that left an indelible mark in my tender mind. I could identify the voice of Rafi even those days, but the concept of lyricists and music directors was not yet known to me at that time.
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