Archive for the ‘Songs of 1967’ Category
I recall listening to this song in my younger days. But as was the case with me for most songs, the only thing I knew about this song was what I heard, and no more. In other words, my knowledge of this song was confined to the fact that the song was sung by Rafi. Yes, I could identify Rafi’s voice even then. But I was not aware that songs had lyricists and music directors too. I used to think that the singer did everything !
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There are very well known songs that remain well known to this day. Then there are songs that one may have listened to in distant past, never to be heard again. It is rather like Bollywood lost and found stories where family members get separated in childhood.
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Yaar baadshah yaar dilrubaa
Posted on: April 12, 2010
There are at least two movies called CID that I am aware of. One is CID (1956) and another is CID 909 (1967).
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Nadi ka kinaaraa ho
Posted on: March 31, 2010
When it comes to dancing ladies of Bollywood movies, Helen is known to us all, but there were others as well. Bela Bose was one of her contemporaries and much of her dancing was in 1960s.
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Hamko hone lagaa hai pyaar tumse
Posted on: March 10, 2010
I have listened to this song in my younger days, but I was short on details. I had no idea which movie this song was from.
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Dil le gayi le gayi le gayi
Posted on: March 6, 2010
Just when I thought that I had run out of all the Shammi Kapoor songs, here comes this song about whose existence I was totally unaware !
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I have not posted a song composed by Ganesh in this blog for quite some time. The songs composed by Ganesh, though of high quality are very difficult to find. Even then, I have managed to find and post almost 25 % of all the Ganesh songs that he composed. And that makes this blog perhaps the best place to look for songs composed by Ganesh. And I did notice that a search string “Pyarelal’s brother Ganesh” was used by someone to arrive at this blog.
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Kyun jhuki jhuki hain palkein
Posted on: January 21, 2010
There were two movies called “Chhaila Babu” that I know of. And incidentally, both these movies, which were made in 1960s and 1970s respectively, had the same music directors, viz Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Chunri sambhaal gori
Posted on: January 4, 2010
I have heard this song many a times and liked it. It is a light hearted joyous song sung by Manna Dey and Lata.
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Zara dekhiye meri saadgi
Posted on: December 9, 2009
Dara Singh, who was a legend among Indians of 1960s and 1970s became a fairly well known actor in Bollywood movies too. Most of his movies were C grade stuff, scoffed at by the “purists”, but his movies must have been profitable, considering that movies featuring Dara Singh continued to get produced. IN fact, Dara Singh himself produced many of his own movies.
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