Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
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This post is upon request from Manju ji, the daughter of the famous film director, Shri K Amarnath. She is compiling a collection of the films produced and / or directed by her father, and also the songs contained in this films. Shri Amarnath’s career as a director started in 1936, and much of his earlier films are not traceable as of now. When we communicated via this blog, Manju ji indicated that she is continuing to search for such films and songs.
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Aa jaa re aa jaa
Posted on: August 13, 2014
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
In February 1958, an Italian song – Nel blu Dipirito di blu (English: In the sky painted blue), popularly known worldwide as ‘Volare Song’ become very popular. The song was written and sung by Domenico Modungno. This song was chosen as Italian entry to the European Song Contest, 1958 where it got 3rd place. The song received two awards at the First Grammy Award, 1959 – (i) Record of the Year and (ii) Song of the Year. Due to its popularity, the song was recorded in many languages such as English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Portuguese etc. The song was sung by more than 50 performers all over the world which included some of the greatest names like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Cliff Richard, Gypsy Kings etc. In 1958, Dean Martin included the half version of the song in English for his LP ‘This is Dean Martin’. The combined sales of all versions of the song exceeded 22 million copies worldwide making it one of the all time popular songs. (Source: Wikipedia). The Video link of the original Italian ‘Volare Song’ is here. I also like the English-Italian version of the song sung by Dean Martin which is here.
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“Bade Sarkaar” (1957) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Filmistan. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, Vijaylaxmi, Agha, durga Khote, Sajjan, K N Singh, Gope, Kanu Roy, Rajkumar, Indu Paul, Ramavtaar, Bhujbal Singh, Vijay Chaudhary, Harbans, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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Jawaani jhoomti hai dulhan ban ke
Posted on: August 12, 2014
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“Bade Sarkaar” (1957) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Filmistan. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, Vijaylaxmi, Agha, Durga Khote, Sajjan, K N Singh, Gope, Kanu Roy, Rajkumar, Indu Paul, Ramavtaar, Bhujbal Singh, Vijay Chaudhary, Harbans, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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“Tin Tin Tin” (1959) was directed by B J Patel for Kirit Films. This obscure B grade movie had Caeser (Dog), Neelofar, Samar Roy, Mirajkar, Habeeb, Rajan Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Devchand, Moolchand, Bhudo Advani, Abdul Sattar, Tuntun etc in it.
Seeing that a dog played an important role, I am keen to find out more about this movie. 🙂 Unfortunately the prints of this movie seem to have been lost with the passage of time.
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Sach keh den gar bura na maano
Posted on: August 11, 2014
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A common adage in our world is that wisdom comes with age.
A loose Hindi equivalent of this is the statement “ye baal dhoop mein safed nahin hue” (this hair didn’t just grey due to sunshine). The implication is that grey hair (a sign of ageing) equates to wisdom.
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“Bade Sarkaar” (1957) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Filmistan. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, K. N. Singh, Durga Khote, Sajjan, Agha, Gope, Vijayalaxmi etc in it.
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Saanch ko aanch nahin pyaare
Posted on: August 7, 2014
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“Guest House” (1959) was directed by Ravindra Dave for Golden Pictures. The movie had Ajit, Shakila, Pran, Maruti, Lalita Pawar, Tiwari etc in it.
As many as seven songs from this movie have been discussed in the past.
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