Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960’ Category
Johny Walker, who mostly played a comedian in Hindi movie had become so popular that he began to command one song per movie which was typically sung by Rafi. This song was often a major highlight of the movie.
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This song from “Kohinoor”(1960) is an ultimate “Chhaayaageet” song which is my way of saying that this romantic song is ideal for listening to at late night. And indeed many listeners may have listened to this song in the late night “Vividh Bharati” programme of this name.
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When I was a youngster in my teens, I was under the impression that old songs meant boring songs, which were mostly like Ghazal, sad songs etc. But it is only much later that I realised that some wonderful light hearted songs too were created those days. I have already posted many of them in this blog.
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Few people know that the Sitar maestro Pt Ravi Shankar had initially tried his hands as a music director in Hindi movies before he found his true calling as a Sitar exponent. He in fact gave music in a few Hindi movies in his early days.
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Ye waadaa karen jahaan bhi rahen
Posted on: August 8, 2010
When one talks of “Dil Bhi Tera Ham bhi Tere” (1960), then only one song comes to the mind of most people and that song is Mujhko iss raat ki tanhaayi me aawaaz na do. But this movie had other songs in it too.
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Koi pyaar ki dekhe jaadugari
Posted on: August 7, 2010
I was recently informed by Lalitha that many “Kohinoor” (1960) songs are missing from the blog. In fact, many songs from many movies are missing, if you think about that. 😀
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Yoon zindagi ke raaste
Posted on: July 29, 2010
One of the less common category of songs is what I call “Radio” songs. These are the songs that come out of Radio and people are shown listening to the song in front of their radios. And the hero/ heroine/ other actor is shown singing the song live in the radio station.
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Ae baby ae ji idhar aao aa gayaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
“Love in Shimla” (1960), which predates all other “Love in …” movies in Bollwood was the debut movie of Sadhana and Joy Mukherji. And what a superb launch vehicle the two of them had got ! I have not watched the movie, but I have heard and watched a few songs of this movie, and if the songs are any indication, this movie was a great fun movie.
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These days I am posting songs from the movie “Saarangaa” (1960) which is a treasure of some superb songs.
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I have not posted a song featuring Dev Anand, Madhubala and Helen for quite some time. To make amends, here is a song that features all the three !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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