Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
It is a very old song, exactly 62 years old to be precise. The Bollywood movie music then was in the process of evolving and maturing, and was still in a state of transition.
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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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Here is a very old song from an obscure movie called “Actress” (1948). This is a stage song. It is sung by Rafi and it is picturised on Prem Adeeb.
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Lo ji sunlo tumse kahte hain
Posted on: June 30, 2009
Here is a very old song from a movie called “Sunahre Din” (1949). In this song, one can see how a gramophone player looked like those days.
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Ghoonghat ke pat khol re
Posted on: June 27, 2009
This bhajan is one of the most well known bhajans as well as one of the oldest. Though everyone had listened to it, few people can tell the movie to which it belongs. It is just yesterday that I found out this information.
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Hamse nain milaana BA paas karke
Posted on: June 25, 2009
What does one expect when Raja Mehdi Ali Khan is the lyricist , Madan Mohan is the music director and Mukesh is the singer ? One sad song par excellence ?
Not necessarily.
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maar kataari mar jaana
Posted on: June 24, 2009
“Shehnaayi” (1947) was a box office hit movie. One big attraction of this movie was its music. The movie had some path breaking songs in it.
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Tamtam se jhaanko naa raniji
Posted on: June 20, 2009
“Namoona” (1949) was one of the earlier movies of Dev Anand, though Kishore Sahu was credited as the main hero of this movie. Kalpana Kartik was the heroine of this movie.
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Jawaani ki rail chali jaaye re
Posted on: June 19, 2009
Stumbling upon songs that I never heard before is nothing new for me. But it looks like this stumbling is something different. I have really stumbled upon a rich vein of old classics this time.
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Aaja dil ko nahin hai karaar
Posted on: June 18, 2009
Yesterday I had posted a song sung by Ashok Kumar for himself in the movie “Najma” (1943). In fact, those days actors had to sing their own songs, so only those persons made it as actors who were good looking and could sing passably well at least.
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