Muse & Music, Music of the Golden Age Options

[swarapriya]

Muse & Music

Most film loving folks think that the music made for films from 50’s through 80’s represents golden age of music. This may be debatable. However, one thing is certain. Several great musicals emerged during this period and we saw the rise of many singing legends during this time.

One way to take a closer look at the music of the Golden Age is to look into the period through the female stars who were popular in this time frame. Because it is just about impossible to cater for all the stars, I came to a conclusion that probably the following 12 stars will sufficiently represent movies that are part of this golden era. These are:

Asha Parekh
Hema Malini
Mala Sinha
Mumtaz
Nutan
Rekha
Sadhana
Saira Banu
Sharmila Tagore
Vyjayanti Mala
Waheeda Rehman
Zeenat Aman

Others may come up with a different list. But for the music of the Golden Age I want to share with our fellow members these stars probably make a fair representation.

Let us look at filmographies of these actresses and see if we can come to some conclusions. I will present the filmographies in the order listed above.

[simplefable]

Thankyou SB..and Exon for enjoying these tidbits..
Came across this interesting information on net :

According to VAK Ranga Rao, the song's tune is used by CR Subbaraman in Sri Lakshmamma Katha (1950), where the folk-singers Seeta and Anasuya claimed authorship, although it was probably adapted from a 20's HMV recording by their teacher Valluri Jagannadha Rao. When the MG Ramachandran's hit Madhurai Veeran (1956) used a similar tune, the producer was sued for plagiarism.
VAK Ranga Rao is a walking encyclopaedia on indian film music and holds the biggest collection of Vinyl Records in India.. here is the link for that info..

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/01/19/stories...11901940300.htm

[swarapriya]

Thankyou SB..and Exon for enjoying these tidbits..
Came across this interesting information on net :

According to VAK Ranga Rao, the song's tune is used by CR Subbaraman in Sri Lakshmamma Katha (1950), where the folk-singers Seeta and Anasuya claimed authorship, although it was probably adapted from a 20's HMV recording by their teacher Valluri Jagannadha Rao. When the MG Ramachandran's hit Madhurai Veeran (1956) used a similar tune, the producer was sued for plagiarism.
VAK Ranga Rao is a walking encyclopaedia on indian film music and holds the biggest collection of Vinyl Records in India.. here is the link for that info..

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2007/01/19/stories...11901940300.htm

Thanks for this additional info.

To continue the story, what happened was that Sarathi Studios, who originally produced "Rojulu Maaraayi" wanted to make it in Tamil. By that time, the tune for "Eruvaaka" was already copied for the above Tamil film. Sarathi owners sued for copyright infringement the producers of the Tamil movie, but lost the case because there were no copyright laws of music ownership during those days.

Cheers,
Swarapriya