Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
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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Ankhiyon ko rahne de
Posted on: March 30, 2009
“Bobby”(1973) was made by Raj Kapoor to launch the career of his son, Rishi Kapoor, and his career got launched alright.
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Ab main jaaun
Posted on: March 29, 2009
Kishore Kumar and Mumtaz were signed up for a movie called “Pyaar Deewaana” in 1966 when both were relatively small time players in Bollywood scheme of things. The makers of the movie were equally small time players who had signed up small time artists for other tasks viz lyrics writing, music direction etc too and the shooting of this movie progressed at snail’s pace.
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This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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Apni aadat hai sabko salaam karna
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is a very special song in more ways than one.
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