Posts Tagged ‘Yogita Bali’
The regulars of the blog know it by now that I miss no opportunity to gloat about my pets. And such opportunities present themselves in the form of songs featuring dogs and cats. My pets seem to have become popular, guazing by the fact that regulars tell me about various dog songs that they come across.
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Sun man ke meet more prem geet
Posted on: June 28, 2011
Most nice songs usually become popular. Or is it really so ? There is much legwork involved before the songs of a movie can become popular. The movie, as well as its songs need to arouse the curiosity of public before their release. For that the movie and its songs need to be marketed. In case the movie has saleable stars and the movie is made by a well known production house with deep pockets, then the songs of that movie stand a good chance of being heard.
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I recall listening to this song quite a lot and liking it too. I knew that the song was sung by Mahendra Kapoor, but that is all I knew about this song. And as this song ran its course, I forgot all about this song.
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Samjhautaa ghamon se kar lo
Posted on: July 24, 2010
This title song/ theme song from “Samjhauta” (1973) has gone on to become an iconic song. I was under the impression that I had posted this song already, but farmaishes from several readers made me realise that I had not posted this song so far.
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Piyaa ki gali laage bhali
Posted on: July 24, 2010
Madan Mohan is often associated with serious ghazal songs sung by Lata. But Madan Mohan has composed all kinds of songs including light hearted and non serious songs sung by several singers. In fact, the Madan Mohan song that climbed the highest in Binaca Geetmala annual charts in his lifetime was not a ghazal by Lata but a mela song by Asha Bhonsle. It was the hugely popular Jhumka gira re Bareli ke bazaar me from “Mera Saayaa” (1966).
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Pyaar kabhi kam na karnaa sanam
Posted on: May 28, 2010
This is one of those songs that I loved listening to in my formative years without having much clue about it and then I forgot all about the song once this song stopped playing on radio and loudspeakers.
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Koi hota jisko apna
Posted on: April 10, 2009
Kishore Kumar has sung a large number of songs for the leading actors of their eras, viz Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. In addition, he also sang many songs for actors who were near the top, but who never quite reached there.
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This song is a rather uncharacteristic song on many counts, when viewed in hindsight.
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