Posts Tagged ‘Dilip Kumar’
Ek baat kahoon mere piyaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have come to to the realisation by now that most old Bollywood movies were musical blockbusters by default. It meant that each of these movies had several nice songs contained in them.
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So jaa mere pyaare so jaa
Posted on: December 3, 2009
“Lori” (Lullaby) is a much loved category of song. Most popular lories of Bollywood movies were created in 1950s and 1960s.
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Nain mile nain huye baawre
Posted on: November 27, 2009
“Taraanaa” (1951) was released nearly six decades ago, but there are people who regard this movie as a timeless classic and one of the most memorable movies from Bollywood.
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I have posted several songs from “Mughal e Azam” (1960) and many more need to be posted. Just about every song of this movie was a classic that is a feast for the ears and eyes even to this date.
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This is the fifth song from “Shikast” (1953) that I am posting here. This shows that this movie had some lovely songs in it.
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I have posted a few songs from ‘Baabul” (1950) already. Al these songs were (and still are) very popular. But one of the most popular (and as yet unposted) song from this movie is the iconic song “chhod baabul ka ghar mohe pi ke nagar aaj jaana padaa”.
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Bachpan ke din bhulaa naa denaa
Posted on: October 15, 2009
- In: "Horse" song | "horseback" song | Children's song | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Flashback song | Lata song | Multiple version song | Nostalgic song | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Shamshad Begam -Lata duet | Shamshad Begam songs | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1951 | Tonga song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I have posted a few songs from “Deedaar” (1951) but the most well known song from the movie is not one of them.
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One big reason why the songs of the golden era are still popular is the lyrics of these songs, which were meaningful and they in fact formed the soul of these songs.
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Ek chaand aasmaan pe hai
Posted on: October 9, 2009
- In: "chaand" song | "Get together" song | "Piano" song | Duet | Mahendra Kapoor songs | Multiple version song | Party song | Rafi -Mahendra Kapoor duet | Rafi songs | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1968 | Talat Mehmood - Rafi duet | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I had once mentioned that the version of song seen in the movie and heard in the records was often different because they were recorded on two separate occassions. Imagine a great song being recorded not once but twice ! Once for the movie sound track, and once for the record company.
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Just as the male singers of 1940s were influenced by the singing of K L Saigal, the female singers were influenced by Noorjahaan and sang in her style.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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