Reasonably Rare Lata Songs - Not Available Easily, solos and duets from the 50s and 60s Options

[sri]

Starting a new topic for reasonably rare Lata songs ( like I did for Rafi songs earlier ). I will be discussing songs here which I like and which I feel are not easily available. Other members - pl feel free to add ... but please ensure that the songs are good and the sound quality is also good, as far as possible.

Today's choice falls on a song composed by one of my favourite music directors _ Roshan - from a movie which has several great and well known songs ( Baar baar tohe kya samjhaen / ab kya misaal doon / kabhi to milegi kahin to milegi / aapne yaad dilaya to mujhe yaad aaya ) - the movie is AARTI, released in 1962

This particular song is not as well known as the others in the movie ... but is a very emotional, soulful tune - very well sung by Lata Mangeshkar .....and after so many years, continues to haunt my mind, whenever I think of it.

Here's "Bane ho ek khaak se, ameer kya gareeb kya". Top class music composition ... great words by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

Enjoy !

Sri

[r&d]

Great song of Aarti. However I wish
you would not upload WMA. Some of us are
forced to re-encode it in order to listen to it.
This is little longer version than the one upload previously.
Is this Film version?

[sri]

Great song of Aarti.  However I wish
you would not upload WMA.  Some of us are
forced to re-encode it in order to listen to it.

r&d,

i have got myself some new software to encode in mp3 format - instead of wma - so in future you will see my uploads in mp3 format - for the convenience of all.

thanks for your feedback

Sri

[sri]

Here's another of my old favorites - from the film Vaasna 1968 - used to hear it regularly on the radio in the days it was released ... but after that, this song became quite rare.

A nice, lively and lilting number from Lata with lovely orchestration and interlude music ( so typical of Chitragupt ). Apparently, this movie was the first time that Chitragupt and Sahir Ludhianvi worked together. What magical music they created in this film !!

So, here's 'Jeenewale jhoom ke mastana ho ke jee'

enjoy !

Sri

[r&d]

Here's another of my old favorites - from the film Vaasna 1968 - used to hear it regularly on the radio in the days it was released ... but after that, this song became quite rare.

A nice, lively and lilting number from Lata with lovely orchestration and interlude music ( so typical of Chitragupt ). Apparently, this movie was the first time that Chitragupt and Sahir Ludhianvi worked together. What magical music they created in this film !!

So, here's 'Jeenewale jhoom ke mastana ho ke jee'

enjoy !

Sri

Quality is not very good. I can't tell whether it is the source
or may be an error in the encoding.

If you want I can upload 4:03 version from the DVD.

Thanks,

Rajnish

[sri]

Here's another of my old favorites - from the film Vaasna 1968 - used to hear it regularly on the radio in the days it was released ... but after that, this song became quite rare.

A nice, lively and lilting number from Lata with lovely orchestration and interlude music ( so typical of Chitragupt ). Apparently, this movie was the first time that Chitragupt and Sahir Ludhianvi worked together. What magical music they created in this film !!

So, here's 'Jeenewale jhoom ke mastana ho ke jee'

enjoy !

Sri

Quality is not very good. I can't tell whether it is the source
or may be an error in the encoding.

If you want I can upload 4:03 version from the DVD.

Thanks,

Rajnish

Please do !! look forward to your u/l from DVD source

[r&d]

Here's another of my old favorites - from the film Vaasna 1968 - used to hear it regularly on the radio in the days it was released ... but after that, this song became quite rare.

A nice, lively and lilting number from Lata with lovely orchestration and interlude music ( so typical of Chitragupt ). Apparently, this movie was the first time that Chitragupt and Sahir Ludhianvi worked together. What magical music they created in this film !!

So, here's 'Jeenewale jhoom ke mastana ho ke jee'

enjoy !

Sri

Quality is not very good. I can't tell whether it is the source
or may be an error in the encoding.

If you want I can upload 4:03 version from the DVD.

Thanks,

Rajnish

Please do !! look forward to your u/l from DVD source

Mine was from a CD - I can't understand why the quality was not OK

When I played it on my iTunes it sound like
it was over normalized (a lot of artifacts).
It sounded fine when I played using Quicktime.
Usually iTunes plays songs flawlessly.
I did notice that you used 22 KHz for sample rate.
When encoding from analog signal sample rate should be 44 KHz.
The sample rate does not determine size of the file.
So you can try 96 Kbps. Also, are you using Mp3Pro?
may be that is the problem.


After listening using Quicktime, your source is better.
If you still want the DVD version I can upload it monday.

[sri]

I did notice that you used 22 KHz for sample rate.
When encoding from analog signal sample rate should be 44 KHz.
The sample rate does not determine size of the file.
So you can try 96 Kbps. Also, are you using Mp3Pro?
may be that is the problem.

Rajnish

I am using mp3pro now (since you expressed preference for mp3 as against wma) - but why would that be a problem ? I'm interested to know

Thanks for your help

Sri