Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Koi hota jisko apna
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Kishore Kumar has sung a large number of songs for the leading actors of their eras, viz Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. In addition, he also sang many songs for actors who were near the top, but who never quite reached there.
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“Kartavya” (1978) was a Dharmendra-Rekha movie which for some reason has been forgotten, so much so that I have not been able to get my hands on its VCD/DVD despite trying for several weeks.
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Jab muhabbat jawaan hoti hai
Posted on: April 6, 2009
In the long list of Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, this song must be the last such song. This is because this song is from “Jawaan Mohabbat” and this movie was released in 1971. This was the last movie in which Shammi Kapoor played the kind of role that had become his hallmark for the entire decade of 1960.
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ABCD chhodo nainon se naina jodo
Posted on: April 5, 2009
I have noticed that Bollywood movie offers songs for all occasions and all occupations. For example, beggars, band parties of weddings etc have been using appropriate songs for decades.
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I had mentioned a little known fact in some earlier posts that Madan Mohan had once given music for an Amitabh Bachchan movie. Here is another little known fact- Amitabh Bachchan has also worked in a Rajshri productions movie. And this Rajshri production movie was very much a small budget deglamourised affair as was the case for all Rajshri productions movies of those days.
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Jab chhaaye mera jaadoo
Posted on: April 1, 2009
I just posted a “Lootmaar” (1980) song as the 1000th song of this blog. Comments on that song indicated that the posted song (“piya ham saath mulk ka paani”) was not known to many.
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Tum jo chale gaye to
Posted on: March 31, 2009
Dharmendra- Hema Malini pairing was the most popular pairing of Bollywood in entire 1970s and for the first few years of 1980s as well.
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Here is a song which I remember listening to in my younger days, though I never could find out those days which movie this song was from. That is how it was with loudspeaker songs those days. Unlike radio songs, they would not announce the name of the movie before playing such songs. 😉
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This is a very special song for this blog. This song is the 1000th song being posted in this song. So I wanted this song to be a special song. And I believe the song that I have chosen for the occasion is nearly perfect.
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Meri paayaliyaa geet tere gaaye
Posted on: March 30, 2009
This was a wonderful “paayaliya” song from “Jugnu” (1973), before the newer “paayaliya ” song came up two decades later in “Deewaana” (1992).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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