Archive for the ‘Talat Mehmood songs’ Category
It is only recently that I have discovered the music of “Ek Gaon Ki Kahaani” (1957). And what music this movie has !
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Jhoome re neela ambar jhoome
Posted on: September 19, 2009
Salil Chaudhary is one music director who believed in quality and not quantity. He worked in very few movies, but he left his stamp in the few songs that he composed.
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Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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Do din ki muhabbat mein ham ne
Posted on: September 4, 2009
Many Madan Mohan movies are not even known, because these movies were box office disasters. These movies are very difficult to find. “Chhote Babu” (1957) is one such movie.
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During early 1950s, the biggest name in male playback singing was Talat Mehmood, and like Suraiyya on the distaff side, he was foraying into acting too. In fact, many music directors at that time thought that he was not avaialble to sing for other actors ( like Suraiyya) and as a result he stopped getting offers for playback singing for other actors.
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Ye sansaar ye sansaar
Posted on: July 20, 2009
Here is a “new” song for me in the sense that I heard this song for the first time just recently. This song is from a movie called “Sansaar” (1951).
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Ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Aarzoo” (1950) was a movie starring Dilip Kumar. Those were the days when Talat Mahmood used to sing for him.
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