Archive for the ‘Songs of 1951’ Category
Aa jaao tadapte hain armaan
Posted on: September 19, 2009
The more songs I post, the more I realise how small is the collection of songs in this blog vis a vis the sheer volume of quality songs that are not yet covered. I am approaching 2000 songs in this blog, but I feel that I have only scratched the surface so far.
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“Malhaar” (1951) was one movie in which Roshan had come into his own and he created some wonderful songs that have gone on to become immortal. I have posted one of these songs (bade armaanon se rakkhaa hai kadam) in the past.
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Rote rote guzar gayi raat re
Posted on: September 14, 2009
“Buzdil” (1951) was a movie starring Premnath and Nimmi and Kishore Sahu. Yes, those were the days when Premnath used to act as hero in Bollywood movies.
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In 1950s, Shankar Jaikishan tended to use Lata’s voice for all female playback songs. It is alright if they had to use her voice for one actress, but there were occasions when more than one actress in the same movie lip synced to Lata’s voice. Fortunately, they did not do so in the same song.
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Wo din kahaan gaye bataa
Posted on: August 30, 2009
One of the earlier pioneers of Bollywood movie music was Anil Biswas. He was one of the earlier music directors to make the most of Lata’s voice.
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This is a song that I must have heard many a times. It is a timeless classic. And considering that this song is from “Aawaara”(1951) and it is sung by Lata, I took it for granted that this song was picturised on Nargis.
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Here is a lovely song from “Kaali Ghataa” (1951).
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Ye sansaar ye sansaar
Posted on: July 20, 2009
Here is a “new” song for me in the sense that I heard this song for the first time just recently. This song is from a movie called “Sansaar” (1951).
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Lucknow chalo ab raani
Posted on: July 12, 2009
We are used to listening to songs sung by the usual voices. But sometimes, when we get to listen to some different voices, then it comes as a whiff of fresh air.
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