Archive for the ‘Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960)’ Category
During early 1950s, the biggest name in male playback singing was Talat Mehmood, and like Suraiyya on the distaff side, he was foraying into acting too. In fact, many music directors at that time thought that he was not avaialble to sing for other actors ( like Suraiyya) and as a result he stopped getting offers for playback singing for other actors.
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Here is a song from a movie called “Heer” (1956). It is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist and Anil Biswas composed the music.
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Hemant Kumar was a singer whose voice was tailormade for singing “chaayaageet” songs. And he had been singing such songs from the time when even this term “Chaayaageet” was not coined because the radio channel that broadcasted this programme was non existent those days.
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“House Number 44” (1955) is a movie so old that not too many people know about this movie. This movie had Dev Anand in lead role and it had music by S D Burman.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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Darshan do Ghanshyaam
Posted on: August 20, 2009
In my school days, my Hindi textbooks used to contain poems by eminent Hindi poets. One such poet was called Gopal Singh Nepali.
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In 1940s and 1950s, Bollywood music was undergoing a paradigm shift. Initially the music was based on Indian classical music. But then other influences came in. Indian folk music was one, and that helped take Bollywood music to the masses.
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“Miss Mary” (1957) is a movie that I like a lot. It has Gemini Ganeshan (Rekha’s father), Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar etc in lead roles and it is a nice, heartwarming movie.
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“Aanchal” (1960) was a movie full of some wonderful songs.
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This song is an awesome “chaayaageet” song that one can enjoy the best at night time.
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