Posts Tagged ‘1959’
Arre ja re hat natkhat
Posted on: March 10, 2009
As Holi songs go, this is the second oldest of all well known Bollywood Holi songs. This song from “Navrang” is exactly 50 years old by now.
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Teri shehnaai boley
Posted on: March 5, 2009
I have posted quite a few songs from this movie but the theme/ title song of the movie was not one of them.
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Shaam bhaye Ghanshyam na aaye
Posted on: March 4, 2009
While looking for some forgotten songs from forgotten movies of the past, I came across this song from a 1959 movie called “Kavi Kalidas”.
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Bach gaye ham dono
Posted on: February 26, 2009
This song is from “Chacha Zindabad” (1959). One may think it is O P Nayyar’s music, but it turns out to be Madan Mohan’s music. And for a change, this song is quite a light hearted comedy song. Certainly not something with which Madan Mohan is associated now a days.
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There are different singers who have different effects on their listeners.
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Wo chand khila wo taare hanse
Posted on: February 18, 2009
I have noticed that the word “Chaand” figured quite frequently in movie songs of 1950s and 1960s. And many of these songs are quite well known even today.
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Daga daga wai wai
Posted on: February 16, 2009
I have posted a few songs from 1950s and 1960s which featured Kumkum. She never made it to the top, but that does not mean that she was not good. It is just that she was confined to C grade movies most of the time, just as Chitragupta found himself confined to composing music for C grade movies.
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Maine peena seekh liya
Posted on: February 14, 2009
Rafi has sung many drunkard songs in his career. And they were mainly picturised on Raj Kumar, Dev Anand etc. I was not aware that Rafi had sung a drunkard song for Rajendra Kumar too.
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Just like we had Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, we also had Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs.
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Aa laut ke aaja mere meet
Posted on: February 10, 2009
“Rani Roopmati” was a C grade movie, and songs from such movies typically failed to catch the ears of the mainstream listeners. But there were some exceptions.
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