Lambi Joru Badi Museebat, Who sang it? Options

[Priya]

Hi friends,
Was listening to the song lambi joru badi museebat--was the controversy on who sang this ever cleared--is it Lata or asha. VN bk says Asha. I believe Geet Kosh says lata. When u listen to the song it could be either of them. Any definitive info?
Priya

[mohd2004]

Thanks Priya for a rare song. This track has created a very interesting situation. The female voice for me sounds more of Ashaji not Lataji, maybe I am wrong. Lataji's voice was more matured as she did around 80 songs in 1948 and around 100 songs in 1949 and already hit the charts with block-busters like Ayega Anewala (MAHAL-1949), uthayeja unke sitam (ANDAZ-1949), Hawa me udta jaye (BARSAAT-1949) and so on. We have not heard much songs of Ashaji during late forties and the song in question from EK THI LADKI as per www.. is shown as released in 1949. IMOP, if we say its Lataji then this voice does not match with other tracks of the same film credited to Lataji, like " Laralappa laralappa , Ye shokh sitare, ghir ghir ke aye badarwa sajanwa na ja etc.
Also since this looks like a record version -78 RPM, it may be quite possible that Ashaji voice was used for this one and Lataji's voice was used for the film-version
Hence VN book should be OK here.
This can also be confirmed by obtaining the film version (VCD/DVD) of the same song.
Aslo we can post this question in RMIM and get views.

Mohd.