Posts Tagged ‘Shankar Jaikishan’
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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Ye mera prem patra padhkar
Posted on: February 18, 2009
I have posted several “chitthi” songs in this blog. These “chitthi” songs began to make their appearance in Bollywood movie is 1960s, I think.
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Mere tumhaare beech mein
Posted on: February 17, 2009
This Lata song from “Jhuk Gaya Aasmaan” is a new song for me, in the sense that I have never heard this song till today.
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Likhe jo khat tujhe
Posted on: February 17, 2009
I have posted quite a few “chitthi” songs from 1970,1980 and 1990s. It is not that such songs were not there in the earlier decades. Not at all. There were such “Chitthi” songs in 1960s too.
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Zulmo sitam ko bhi
Posted on: February 14, 2009
I have posted many Rafi-Shammi songs in this song. Have I run out of more such songs to post ? Not at all. I keep coming across “new” Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs every now and then.
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Aap huye mere balam
Posted on: February 13, 2009
Kishore Kumar was a versatile artist. There was little he had not done in movies. He has been producer, director, actor, singer, lyricist, music director etc etc. in movies. Though most commonly, he would play actor cum singer in many movies of 1950s and 1960s, before he turned a full time playback singer in late 1960s.
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O shama mujhe phoonk de
Posted on: February 12, 2009
Here is a typical Raj Kapoor song. Typical Raj Kapoor song meant it was sung by Mukesh, lyricist was Shailendra and the music was composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
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Aate jaate pahloo me aaye koyi
Posted on: February 12, 2009
It is so pleasant to watch Meena Kumari singing a happy song. But then this song is from “Yahudi”, a 1958 movie and Meena Kumari had yet to start playing those melancholic roles that she later became associated with.
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Pahla pahla pyaar hai ye
Posted on: February 11, 2009
This song is from a 1966 movie called “Badtameez”. I have no idea what this movie was all about, but the movie boasted of big names in Bollywood music. Shankar Jaikishan were the music directors while Shailendra wrote the lyrics.
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Just like we had Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, we also had Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs.
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