Archive for the ‘Songs of 1954’ Category
Wo marne se nahin darte
Posted on: September 22, 2009
This song is an important song for Shammi Kapoor fans. This song is from “Shama Parwaana” (1954) where Shammi Kapoor was cast as a hero for the first time in a movie, and that too opposite a big star like Suraiyya.
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Here is a song that is so well known that people take it for granted and no one has much idea which movie this song is from.
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Here is one OP Nayyar music that is perhaps the most widely known among present generation, mainly because of its countless remixes. This song is the immortal “Babuji dheere chalna” from “Aar Paar” (1954).
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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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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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Here is a lovely song from a forgotten movie called “Baraati” (1954).
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Main kaun hoon kyaa hoon
Posted on: July 27, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who made his singing debut in 1948 with “Ziddi”(1948) soon became an actor-singer too. In 1950s, he began to come into his own in this role.
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Dil se milaake dil pyaar kijiye
Posted on: July 19, 2009
“Taxi Driver” (1954) was one of the earlier movies of Dev Anand. Here he was paired with Kalpna Kartik.
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Na shikwaa hai koi na koi gilaa hai
Posted on: July 16, 2009
Bollywood movies of yesteryears used to have party songs cum piano songs where people would be gathered in the palatial mansion of the hero/ heroine and the hero/ heroine would be asked to sing.
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Dil jale to jale
Posted on: July 14, 2009
“Taxi Driver” (1954) is too old a movie for much of the present day music lovers. Still, its songs continue to charm people even today.
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