Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Mujhe baawri baawri log kahen
Posted on: October 10, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain these days. In this series, here is a rare song from an obscure movie called “Mere Bhagwaan” (1947).
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Ummeedon kaa taaraa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in this blog these days. One of the earlier movies where he composed music was in the movie called 1857.
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I have talked about my resolution to try and post all Sajjad Hussain songs that are available. I have come to realise by now that Sajjad Hussain composed songs in 17 movies (and not 14, as popularly believed).
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Dol rahi hai naiyya
Posted on: October 7, 2010
S D Burman made his debut as a music director in Hindi movies in 1946. That year, two of his movies were released. They were “Aath Din” and “Shikari”.
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Pahle na samjhaa pyaar thaa
Posted on: October 7, 2010
In this blog, I post songs mainly from the golden era of Hindi movie music spanning across three decades from 1950s to 1970s. The decades just prior to 1950s, viz 1940s and 1930s were where the decks were cleared for the golden era to commence Listening to songs from these two pioneering decades is an enriching experience as it helps us go down memory lane by more than six to seven decades back to an era when I was not born and even my parents were small kids at that time.
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I have been posting the songs of “Magroor” (1950) in this blog. There are eight songs in this movie and I have so far discussed six of them. Here is the seventh song from this movie.
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There are some music directors who have composed throusands of songs and discussing most of their songs will take ages. But there are some music directors who have composed much less number of songs and it should be possible for me to post most of their compositions if I put my mind to it.
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Sitamgar sitamgar
Posted on: October 5, 2010
“Magroor” (1950) had eight songs in it, and every one of these songs needs to be here. And I will make sure that I discuss all of them, provided links of all these songs are available.
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Sajjad Hussain was a music director who could create amazing music but his ability to make enemies meant that he got very few opportunities to showcase his abilities as a music director. He composed only about one hundred songs in 14 movies. He was described by Anil Biswas as the only original music director in Hindi movies. Coming from Anil Biswas, it is very high praise indeed !
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