Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Toote naa dil toote naa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
“Andaaz” (1949) has over a dozen songs. Mukesh is the male playback singer who sings for Dilip Kumar in this movie. Almost all these songs are apparently piano songs.
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O jaane waale
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted the famous song called “mere piya gaye rangoon” sometime back in this blog. This song is from “Patanga” (1949).
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Murli waale murli bajaa
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a sopng from “Dillagi” (1949) and described that song as one that was played quite frequently in Radio Ceylon’s “purani filmon ke geet” programme in 1960s and 1970s.
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Jhoom jhoom ke naacho aaj
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a piano song from “Andaaz” (1949) yesterday. Here is another piano song from the same movie.
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Tu mera chaand main teri chaandni
Posted on: April 23, 2009
When I listened to “Purani filmon ke geet” programme on Radio Ceylon in my younger days, this song “tu mera chand main teri chandni” used to get played so very often in that programme. If they had a popularity contest among all those old songs then this song would have won hands down in popularity, it seems to me.
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Tu kahe agar
Posted on: April 23, 2009
It has been pointed out to me that I have posted only one song from “Andaz”(1949) whereas this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time and a milestone in Bollywood history, musically as well as otherwise.
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Ghata ghanghor
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I had never heard this song before. And few people may have heard this song considering that this is from a very old movie called “Tansen” (1943). This movie, as the name suggests was the story of Tansen, the court singer of Akbar. The lead actors in this movie were K L Saigal and Khursheed.
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Bahaaren phir bhi aayengin
Posted on: April 20, 2009
It is not uncommon to have great songs coming out of movies whose names are not known to many people.
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Gore gore o baanke chhore
Posted on: April 8, 2009
C Ramchandra, who brought Western music to Bollywood before anyone else has created some wonderful songs which remain popular with modern remix generation as well. Many of his songs created in 1940s and 1950s have been found worthy of remixing/ cover versioning, etc. But none of such musical cut pasting has ever come anywhere close to the original.
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It is widely believed by people that western music was introduced in bollywood in 1960s by R D Burman and that Hinglish lyrics began to be used in 1980s. One is way off the mark if one believes so.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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