Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
“Footpath” (1953) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie has some nice songs in it and as many as four songs from this movie have been discussed here in the past.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusist of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Asha Bhonsle – the name that conjures up the racy and spicy sounds of ‘udlayee udlayee udlayee o’, a voice that has a chirp, and an impish and naughty flavor to it, and the versatility that adorns thousands of music creations that have become a hallmark in the annals of Hindi film music. The second of the famous siblings of the Mangeshkar clan, Asha ji was born on this day in 1933. She started singing for films at a very young age of 10 years. Although her released recordings in 1950s were second only to Lata, she was considered as the singer for “bad girls” and vamps, and got the assignments that were turned down by Lata, Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum. Her voice started getting noticed from films like Sangdil (1952), Parineeta (1953) and Boot Polish (1954). And then came the real recognition of her talent in the mid 1950s, under the baton of OP Nayyar, with hits like CID (1956) and Naya Daur (1957). She became the voice of Helen, and has sung most of the songs that Helen has performed on the screen. Helen ji used to attend the song recording sessions personally, to better get a feel of how the song is to be performed.
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Whenever we in India celebrate the birthday of someone, we tend to sing a few happy birthday songs from Hindi movies. There are a few such songs which have become so popular that they have become an integral part of birthday parties in India.
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Among all the genres of songs that one can have in Hindi movies, rail songs are a genre that is quite fascinating. The rail songs are in fact a very interesting topic and I had done a long and deailed discussion on rail songs where I had discussed some 30 odd songs in my by now almost defunct blog.
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Maine kahaa Miss what is this
Posted on: September 8, 2011
“Mitti Mein Sona” (1960) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha. For some reason, the songs of this movie are not easy to come across. It is music lovers’ loss because this movie has some awesome songs in it.
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The original “Devdas” was produced in 1935. The next Devdas came up exactly twenty years later, in 1955.
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Jaanaa thhaa hamse door
Posted on: September 5, 2011
I have discussed as many as four songs from “Adaalat” (1958) and I was surprised to receive the lyrics of this song from Prakashchandra. When I checked up, I found that this well known song from “Adaalat” (1958) was actually missing from the blog.
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“Khul Ja Sim Sim” (1956) is a B grade movie that was obviously based on the Arabian nights tale of Alibaba and the forty thieves.
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Searching for unknown songs from B grade movies is almost always a highly rewarding experience. I always discover some amazing gems ervery time I indertake this exercise.
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While discussing songs, I often like to discuss songs that are rare/ unusual/unexpected in some ways. For example, songs sung by people normally not known for their singing, songs composed by people who are normally known for some other activity, lyricist/music director/singer figuring in the picturisation of the song etc.
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