Singh Is King, Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King & More Options

[swarapriya]

Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King

Jagjit Singh. He was a true legend in his own time. In a span of nearly 35 years, by several estimations, he released 80 plus discs. But during the same time, along with his singing wife Chitra (see the attached pictures below), he released nearly 400 albums. These included, apart from the individual albums, various collections of songs from his released albums. This number is truly an astonishing achievement.

Jagjit Singh, though popularly known for his ghazals, also had numerous devotional albums to his credit. He also was active in many films. He was occasionally participated in composing music for TV shows. He sang in many languages, but mostly in Hindi and his mother tongue, Punjabi.

He was decorated with innumerable awards. Prominent of these include Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Academy Award, Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Sahitya Kala Academy Award, and host of others.

I was encouraged by several members of this Forum to start a thread on Jagjitji. Finally I decided to take the plunge.

Jagjitji, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 70, left us with a legacy of overwhelming song contributions. Singhji was affectionately known as the Ghazal King. Because he lives through his work in our hearts forever, Singhji is still the King.

I will start this thread with Singhji’s discography. I split this into various parts, sorted alphabetically. Each part of the discography lists 20 albums. I will upload these parts below.

I will follow up this with a devotional album of Jagjitji.

Next, the discography…

[swarapriya]

Prem Geet

According to the screen credits this is the film that introduced Jagjitji as a music director into the films. It also introduced Anita Raj who has the lead role.

This is an outstanding effort by Jagjitji. Some of the songs from this film became very popular, especially the numbers by Suresh Wadkar and Jagjitji. But Jagjitji's solo, "Hothon Se Chhoo Lo Tum" became so popular that it overshadowed all other songs from the album. In my opinion, Wadkar's song "Khwaabon Ko" stands equally with that of Jagjitji's. "Hothon Se" became one of the perennial favorites with concert goers in attendance at Jagjitji's live performances.

I am uploading songs from this film from an original soundtrack album in the first post. In the second post I am including some specials.

Here are the songs from this beautiful album...