Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
Chandaniya nadiya beech nahaaye
Posted on: October 21, 2009
When I had started this blog with the aim of posting old classic songs, I had assessed that if I posted about 2500 songs, I would have covered them all. How wrong I was ! I have already posted over 2000 songs, and I still continue to stumble upon “new” songs almost every day. And I still feel like I am only scratching the surface. I have yet to go deeper.
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“Sailaab” (1956) is an obscure movie and so is the case with its music.
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“Pyaar ki raahein” (1959) is an obscure movie by now and its music is just as obscure. But as far as the music is concerned, it deserved much better fate.
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I had mentioned it earlier that “Chaand” (1959) is one forgotten movie that had some lovely songs in it. I have posted two songs from this movie already and both these songs are forgotten gems.
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There are many songs from the past which despite their obvius class did not become very popular. one can say that such songs were not quite meant for the masses. And those who appreciated such compositions were in a very small minority.
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This song “jaane kahaan mera jigar gayaa ji” is a very well known song. One may not be aware of the movie of this song, but everyone is aware of this song.
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Ik saathi mera badaa puraanaa
Posted on: October 17, 2009
Just now I stumbled upon a 50 year old song, and listened to it for the first time.
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Bachpan ke din bhulaa naa denaa
Posted on: October 15, 2009
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I have posted a few songs from “Deedaar” (1951) but the most well known song from the movie is not one of them.
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Just how many nice songs did a typical Bollywood movie use to have in olden days ? I have already posted three songs from “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) and it turns out that a few great songs from this movie are still left to be covered.
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“Raag rang” (1952) is one movie about which very little is known today. The only thing that I know about this movie is that it had music by Roshan and that Geeta Bali was the lead actress in this movie.
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