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

[maheshks]

Madan Mohan and Lata Mangeshkar - a well known and fabulous combination !! Here's one such classic from one of Madan Mohan's later years, from the film Dil ki rahen (1973).

"Rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhayen to nibhayen kaise
har taraf aag hai daaman ko bachaen kaise"
lyrics of Naqsh Lyalpuri

The track begins with a small speech by Madan Mohan ( from one of his radio programmes). This is a very typical Madan Mohan composition which has his style stamped all over it. Listen to the lovely sitar interludes and the sitar music at the end - all played by Rais Khan, who used to play regularly for Madan Mohan. A few years later, Madan Mohan, apparently feeling insulted by something that Rais Khan had said, dropped him from his music. In fact he dropped the sitar itself from his compositions.... and for Mausam, his next film at that time, he switched completely to the flute with a background of strings. And, what fantastic music and orchestration he produced with 'Dil dhoondta hai phir wohi fursat ke raat din' !!

Such monumentally great composers we had in those days ...

Anyway, enough of my speech ... now enjoy the song!


Sri

Sri Bhai...Rais Khan had a very long association with O P Nayyar saab, much more than
any other music director. You will find many of the Nayyar saab's song with Sitar taking the
centre stage amongst from all the other instruments that nayyar saab have used beautifully
in his songs. Alas this is Lataji's forum and there is no song of this combination
(Lataji and Nayyar Saab) in the Indian film music.

[sri]

Sri Bhai...Rais Khan had a very long association with O P Nayyar saab,
.....and there is no song of this combination (Lataji and Nayyar Saab) in the Indian film music.

mahesh - thanks for the info
..and yes, the fact that Lata and OPN never got together will always remain a loss for HFM. But then, if they had also worked together like all the others did.... who knows, we may have lost all the Asha - OPN gems that we were blessed with in the 60s !!

by the way...how do you find the Lata song in Panchayat - Tuhi shyam mera?

Sri