Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970’ Category
Jitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: June 20, 2009
Rafi was not only gifted with a divine voice, he was also a very humble and considerate individual. He would help out struggling music directors and would sing for them virtually for nothing. And he would give his best to these songs. There are countless Rafi songs sung for anonymous music directors which were picturised on forgotten/ forgettable actors. Quite a few of these songs are very nice and hummable songs.
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Kis liye maine pyaar kiyaa
Posted on: June 19, 2009
I tend to know only a few popular songs from most movies. As a result, I often miss out on knowing about some very fine songs, just because they were lesser known songs from their movies.
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Le de sainya odhni Panjaabi
Posted on: June 11, 2009
The farmaish for this song was a long pending farmaish from October 2008, and I was unable to comply with it because the video of this song was not available all these days. The fact that I had myself never herad this song meant that I too was quite eager to listen to this song.
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This song is as rare as a hen’s teeth, I suppose. And it is rare is many ways than one.
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Rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai
Posted on: May 27, 2009
Here is a song from “Maa aur Mamtaa” (1970). I had never heard of this movie. Nor had I come across this song “rut bekaraar hai shaam e bahaar hai” from this movie.
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This is one song I remember listening to in my younger days. This was just the kind of song that kids would enjoy listening to. And like many such songs of those days, I had no details available about the song.
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Mere mehboob tere dam se hai duniya
Posted on: May 22, 2009
In the past, I have posted a song from a 1970 movie called “Bhai Bhai”. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh in lead roles.
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Doongi tainu reshmi roomaal
Posted on: May 18, 2009
Bollywood movies have many songs based on folk music of various states. Folk music of punjab has been the source for many such songs.
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Mera man tera pyaasaa
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I have posted one song from “Gambler”(1970) in the past. Somhow I keep confusing among the songs of “Gambler”, “Guide”, “Prem Pujari” etc. All these movies had Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman in them, if I am not mistaken, and all these movies had music by S D Burman.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was perhaps the last time a Dev Anand movie turned out to be very successful at box office, though “Des Pardes” (1978) was also successful.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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