Amin Saayani's "binaca Geet Mala" And Laxmi-pyare., Laxmikant-Pyarelal's era .. 1963-1998 Options

[ajay]

Laxmikant-Pyarelal have completely dominated the Weekly Countdown programme called “Binca Geet Mala”, the most popular and famous musical radio programme of it’s time. It's first broadcast was in 1953 by Radio Ceylon and it's host was the inimitable Ameen Sayani. The Binaca Geet Mala ranked the most popular Bollywood film songs according to sales in select shops in select cities.

In the third quarter of 1963, LP’s first ever songs Hasta Hua Nurani Chehara form Parasmani hit the “Binaca Geet Mala”. After that LP’s songs were regularly and prominently aired on “Binaca Geet Mala”. There used to be sixteen songs in each of the weekly “Binaca Geet Mala” programme, more than half the numbers of the songs were of LP.

There are certain weekly Binaca Geet Mala programmes in which more than 13 out of 16 songs of LP were broadcast when LP were on right on top of their carrier. Binaca Geet Mala used to broadcast annual (Vasrshik ) programme giving the orders of the top 32 songs of every year. In this programme also LP were having upper hand. Not only that, on an average, there used to be at least more than 15 songs used to be of LP, that too about 50 % of the songs in between top to first ten positions. The Binaca Geet Mala records shows that Laxmikant-Pyarelal have completely dominated this musical programme.

Here is the list of the songs of LP which were on top position in that particular year.

1967 Milan:- Sawan Ka Mahina
Mukesh & Lata Mangeshkar

1968 Shagird:- Dil Bil Pyar Vyar
Lata Mangeshkar

1969 Intquam:- Kaise Rahu Chup
Lata Manageshkar

1970 Do Raste:- Bindiya Chamake Gi
Lata Mangeshkar

1975 Roti Kapada Aur Makarn:-
Mehangai Mar Gai
Jani Babu Quwal & Lata, Mukesh, Narendra Chanchal

1980 Sargam:- Dafali Wale
Mohammad Rafi & Lata

1984 Hero:- Tu Mera Hero Hai
Anuradha Paudwal & Manhar

1986 Sanjog:- Yashoda Ka Nandlala
Lata Mangeshkar

1987 Naam:- Chitthi Aayi Hai
Pankaj Udhas

1989 Ram Lakhan:-
My Name Is Lakhan
Mohammed Aziz

1993 Khalnayak:- Choli Ke Peeche
Alka Ygnik & Ila Arun

[sholay]

In the late 60s and early 70s each song could appear a max of 18 weeks before it was called a sartaj geet - in the annual programs all songs that played for less than 18 weeks would be played first (going from #32 upward in ascending order of weeks played) until you reach the sartaj geets:

in 1969 mere sapnon ki rani was the most popular song - however it played for 15 weeks by the time tha year rolled to a close so it missed being a sartaj geet by 3 and missed being on the #1 paydaan for the year

in 1970, the song ae bhai zara dekh ke chalo would have easily been the top song of the year were it not for the fact that it played for 17 weeks until the end of the year rolled along , thus it missed out on being a sartaj geet by 1 week.

LP overtook SJ as being the most popular music director (most # of songs in the annual program) in 1968: the LP - RD battle royal began in earnest in 1971: in 1972 the two were tied for the most # of hits, in 1973 RD overtook LP.

In the early 80s LP and RD were remarkably competitive, mostly won by LP :however both LP and RD were overtaken by Bappi Lahiri as having the most # of hits in 1983 and 1984; in 1985 RD took the most # of hits spot from Bappi and LP. After that there were barely any RD songs on the geetmala.