Rolling Back The Years With Lata Mangeshkar, 5 melodious decades (1948 - 1998) |
Rolling Back The Years With Lata Mangeshkar, 5 melodious decades (1948 - 1998) |
unni |
Apr 8 2006, 04:51 PM
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Dedicated Member Group: Away Posts: 8769 Joined: 20-March 04 From: Vaanar Nivas, Tribandar Marg, Bandarabad, MONKEYSTAN. Member No.: 356 |
I had over 2500 songs of Lata-ji on the hard-drive that crashed, though I would've heard only half of them! Fortunately, I had copied them on CDs and given them to my brother in India --- so they were not permanently lost.
But while trying to restore on computer my collection of Lata-ji's songs, I chose just those songs that I like most. As of now, I have put together close to 275 selected songs from 1948 to 1998, and tagged them with year/film name/music director. Most of them are popular, easy-to-find songs, and there are just a handful of rare ones. They are taken from film discs, CDs, audio-tapes, vinyls and HF uploads. I've checked each track for sound-quality, sound-edited them as required, and adjusted the volume to the 'default' of GoldWave. Please let me know if it is of interest to you, whether you'd like me to upload them, in case you'd also like to build up a collection, in chronological order, of many of Lata-ji's finest songs through the years (upto 1987 only, due to forum rules). If you stop trying to make sense of it all, you'll be less confused. Reality is an illusion.
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unni |
Apr 10 2006, 07:23 PM
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Dedicated Member Group: Away Posts: 8769 Joined: 20-March 04 From: Vaanar Nivas, Tribandar Marg, Bandarabad, MONKEYSTAN. Member No.: 356 |
A sprinkling of duets have been included in this compilation, representing Lata-ji's musical collaboration with the great male artistes of that era. The duets were chosen for different reasons. The duet with Rafi-sahab from "BIRHA KI RAAT" was one of their early duets, an "innocent" uncomplicated tune representative of the times, as a precursor to three decades of fruitful collaboration. The duets with Karan Dewan, Talat-sahab, Mukesh-ji and Kishore-da I consider particularly melodious and memorable landmarks of HFM. The one duet (coming up later) with Manna Dey, was incidental, for it was predominantly in Lata-ji's voice. I could not resist including an ethereal duet with Hemant-da (also coming up). I intend to add the beautiful duet with Mahendra Kapoor from "Adventures of Robin Hood".
Many of the songs, and particularly most from 1960 onwards, come under the definition of "easily-available songs". Even earlier songs, such as the classic 'Yeh Zindagi Usiki Hai" can be found on any compilation of Lata-ji's best songs, just as "Aayega Aaneywala" from "MAHAL". Such songs are being uploaded in this thread only for chronological continuity, and my apologies for uploading such popular songs. Music companies often include only one song from a movie in each compilation. But I've gone by the quality of the songs, and in instances such as "BARSAAT", "AAH", "YASMIN", etc. there were several lovely songs of Lata-ji in the same movie, hence I've included them. (2.55) If you stop trying to make sense of it all, you'll be less confused. Reality is an illusion.
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