Posts Tagged ‘Rafi’
This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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Sach kahta hoon bahut haseen ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960), by now a forgotten movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. Moreover, it had music by O P Nayyar.
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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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Hai kali kali ke lab par
Posted on: March 27, 2009
Talat Mehmood was trying his hands on acting in addition to playback singing in 1950s. His singing career suffered as a result. What is more, sometimes the music directors in movies where he acted would contemplate using the voice of some other singer for Talat Mehmood. That way, Talat Mehmood sometimes found himself in the same boat as Kishore Kumar.
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Here is a typical Rafi song sung in Shammi style, except that this song was picturised on Joy Mukherjee, and he was the closest to Shammi Kapoor in such roles.
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Adaa se jhoomte huye
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Chitragupta Srivastava, better known as Chitragupta, made his debut as a music director in 1946. He had to wait for 6 years to deliver his first hit song.
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Armaan thha hamen jinka
Posted on: March 25, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Aulaad” (1968) already. This movie had some nice songs that were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Chitragupta.
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Ye do deewaane mil ke
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Watching old movie songs can often turn out to be lessons in history. For instance, how many people in India know that Goa was not part of India till 1961 and that it was still a Portuguese territory till 1961 ?
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Tum hi tum ho mere jeewan mein
Posted on: March 24, 2009
I found it interesting that the same Shankar Jaikishan, who were the regular music directors of Raj Kapoor were the regular music directors of Shammi Kapoor as well. But while SJ would use Mukesh ( and sometimes Manna Dey) for Raj Kapoor and create hit songs, they would create hit songs with Rafi for Shammi Kapoor.
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Phir tumhaari yaad aayi ai sanam
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Here is a song which I do not recall having listened to in the past. It is a qawwaali, and one that appeals to the listener the very first time one listens to it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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