Archive for the ‘Songs of 1959’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
The shock of news was too much to digest yesterday. I was browsing this blog, when Nahm Bhai’s brief message appeared in the comments. I couldn’t believe. Just very recently, I had read an interview in the newspapers. And the Yahoo-man seemed to be set to go on forever. Age seemed never to have touched his spirit. A childhood idol for me, he is the Prince, the true Prince of the clan, and will always remain thus for me.
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Bolo to bolo to bolo to
Posted on: August 12, 2011
In olden days there used to be movies with titles like “School Girl” (1947), “School Master” (1959), ‘College Girl” (1960) etc. It shows that education, especially for girls, was considered important those days. 😀
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Ham aur tum aur ye samaa
Posted on: August 8, 2011
Shammi Kapoor discovered his calling as the actor we all know and admire in 1957 with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha”. It was followed by “Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) and the phenomenon of Shammi Kapoor was well on its way.
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Badi cheez hai pyaar muhabbat
Posted on: August 4, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 🙂
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O ameeron ke parmeshwar
Posted on: August 3, 2011
Though I have discussed as manay as five songs from “Paighaam” (1959), I was not aware of this song from the movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A most hilarious song from Navrang (1959). Lyrics are by Bharat Vyas and the composition is by C Ramchandra. The song is sung by Bharat Vyas himself.
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I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song. But as is often the case, I realised that my impression was wrong when the lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
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Main nashe mein hoon
Posted on: July 24, 2011
Here is a drunkard song that begins with the line ‘Main nashe mein hoon”. No, this song is not the title song ( Mujhko yaaron maaf karna main nashe me hoon) of “Main Nashe Mein Hoon” (1959) sung by Mukesh. This song is from another movie that was released in the same year.
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Main kyun na naachoon aaj kaho jee
Posted on: July 18, 2011
“Paighaam” (1959)which was a Gemini Pictures productions, is a movie that had Dilip Kumar and Raj Kumar together for the first time. This big budget movie was directed by S S Vasan.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this song.
The name Vasant Desai brings to memory a long list of songs rooted in the classical and folk traditional music of India. On this blog, today we have another celebration. With this post, the blog now carries 100 songs composed by Vasant Desai. In a career that lasted more than four decades, Vasant Desai was selective in the associations he made and never strayed away from his musical foundations. He scored the music for less than fifty films during this time. Thirty of these films are represented on this blog.
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