Famous Songs & Their Inspiration, Original song & later better-known version |
Famous Songs & Their Inspiration, Original song & later better-known version |
Faraaj73 |
Nov 29 2008, 07:39 AM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 2198 Joined: 1-July 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 58864 |
I'm uploading 2-3 famous songs which most music-lovers are familiar with and the original (and lesser known) song that inspired them. The audio of the extremely rare originals is quite good even if the bit rate is low.
Please note, there is no knowing how old some original tunes are. The original song that I attach may very well be inspired by an original dating back to the 19th century. Credit is certainly due to the later composer for the re-packaging and presentation of the song. For nearly everyone Mohe Panghat Pe Nandlal equals Mughal e Azam as rendered by Lata. I attach below at 192 kbps mp3 the Mughal e Azam song as well as the original Indubala version of the 1920s. Indubala, now forgotten was a great name of the 1920s and was trained by Gauhar Jaan. Enjoy! And members having similar examples are welcome to share them here. Kind Regards Faraaj Kind Regards Faraaj Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo There is only one better thing than music - live music. - Jacek Bukowski I hate music, especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. - W. H. Auden |
abhayp |
Jan 2 2009, 07:27 PM
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Regular Member Group: Members Posts: 982 Joined: 13-March 04 Member No.: 335 |
Continuing the thread with bandish-inspired film songs, we come to a piece that has been sung by any number of classical and semi-classical stalwarts: the Bhairavi thumri, "lagat karejawaa me.n choT". To open this round, I am uploading first a version by Jaddan Bai. Known to most people now only as Nargis Dutt's mother, Jaddan Bai was a celebrated figure in her own day. A singer and actress herself, she was also a film producer and a promoter of talent: she was, for instance, one of the earliest mentors of Akhtaribai (way before she became Begum Akhtar).
There is almost no recording of Jaddan Bai's in the public space. A friend had long ago sent me this rendition taken off a 78 rpm record. The sound quality is not great, but the singing still shines through. The voice and style are both reminiscent of Rasoolan Bai. Here, then, is Jaddan Bai's rendition (3:24 minutes, mp3 @ 80 kbps VBR): Two more renditions of this thumri - a long-ish rendition by Bhimsen Joshi and a 78 rpm version by his guru, Sawai Gandharva - can be found on post # 17 at http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...id=561391&# Once again, Roshan is the music director who chose this bandish to create a song for the film "Dooj Ka Chaand" (1964). The mukhaDaa is retained as is; Sahir wrote the antaraa-s. Manna Dey has sung the song very well, although the comic situation created in the film (Agha lip-synching to this record being played in the background, the record getting stuck a couple of times, a snake scaring everyone concerned) detracts from the beauty of the rendition to some extent. I wonder whether there exists a studio version of the song without all these frills: it would be great to find out how the 'unadulterated' adaptation would sound! Here is the Manna Dey version from the film (3.20 minutes, 192 kbps): PS: That this is a Bhairavi doesn't mean that we have ended this series - many more to come yet! Warm regards, Abhay This post has been edited by abhayp: Jan 2 2009, 07:29 PM |
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