Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping Op, The King of Rhythm Options

[Erum Hashmi]

Thanks, Sitaji!

[swarapriya]

I have uploaded the songs of 'Zid' here:- Sita.

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=60858

Thank you very very much Sitaji for the songs of "Zid". Appreciate it very much.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[sita]

You are most welcome.-Sita.

[yob]

a rare vdo from--the killers
churate ho najren-asha b--4.36min

[swarapriya]

a rare vdo from--the killers
churate ho najren-asha b--4.36min

Yobji, thanks for sharing te rare video. -S

[swarapriya]

Taxi Driver (1973)

Here is an early 70's album from OP. There are some pretty good songs here. He had Krishna Kalle sing one of the songs for the first time for his movies. Also, there are couple of other new singers; Ambar Kumar and Badri Prasad. At least they are new to me.

One of the songs "Baalam Harjaaee" is six minutes long in the album. However there are two completely different songs in this with a gap of nearly 10 seconds. I decided to separate them into two songs. One of them is "Baalam Harjaaee" and the other one is "Yahaan Chiragh".

Here are the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

[swarapriya]

Heera Moti (1979)

Here is an OP album from post-Ashaji era. Here he has Dilraj Kaur singing all the female songs. Surprisingly, she does sound, at least on occasion, like Ashaji. May be she was trying to imitate Ashaji's voice or may be she was instructed to do it by OP.

Rafi Saab who was dropped by OP from some of his movies after a dispute with him is back co-singing three songs here.

I think these songs never got their proper due because the album was released during the tumultuous times of OP's famous split with Ashaji (or vice versa). Inevitably people were comparing, however unfair it was, how Dilraj Kaur sounded different from Ashaji.

Now for the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Sep 12 2008, 09:04 PM

[swarapriya]

Songs Of "Heera Moti (1979)" Continued ...

Here are the last two songs from this album ...

[parag_sankla]

Swarapriya

I was eagerly awaiting for this album. IMHO, Dilraj Kaur has done good justice to the songs, but the inevitable comparison to Asha ji overshadowed the talent. I think the producer Ratan Mohan stood by OP sahab when he was deserted by Asha ji and again IMHO OP sahab has given great music for this album.

Big thanks for posting these in CDQ.

Cheers
Parag

[hildebrand]

Hi Swarapriya ji
This is an excellent thread. I mean to download many of these songs once I improve my ratio. Some albums have expired. I shall request reupload specifically Once I am in a position to download. Also at the same time I shall request upload of all songs of his early albums like Asmaan, Baaz, Miss Cocacola and Musafirkhana. I have some songs from these movies but not all.
Thanks a lot for your excellent uploads once again.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Sep 14 2008, 06:16 PM

[swarapriya]

Hi Swarapriya ji
This is an excellent thread. I mean to download many of these songs once I improve my ratio. Some albums have expired. I shall request reupload specifically Once I am in a position to download. Also at the same time I shall request upload of all songs of his early albums like Asmaan, Baaz, Miss Cocacola and Musafirkhana. I have some songs from these movies but not all.
Thanks a lot for your excellent uploads once again.

Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to send in this message. We'll see what we can do about your requests. By the way, "Miss Cocacola" songs were recently uploaded by me in Sangeet Ke Sitare section under "Shammi Kapoor" header. The songs are still available. Here is the URL for it:

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...59103&st=75

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[hildebrand]

Hi Swarapriya ji
Thanks for the link. I have downloaded Miss Coca Cola songs.
Now that my ratio is getting better I shall download other songs also.
Keep up the good work.

[hildebrand]

Hi Swarapriya ji
I have downloaded the songs. Request reupload of the songs of the movies Jaali Note, Do Ustad, CID909, Hong Kong and Humsaya which I missed.
Also while going through my collection I came across an OPN movie called Ustaad which has geetaji's song Chor Daaku Lutere. Do you have other songs of the movie? (I hope both are different ones).

I have a couple of Asmaan songs please let me know. I will be glad to upload them.
Keep up the wonderful work.

[swarapriya]

Hi Swarapriya ji
I have downloaded the songs. Request reupload of the songs of the movies Jaali Note, Do Ustad, CID909, Hong Kong and Humsaya which I missed.
Also while going through my collection I came across an OPN movie called Ustaad which has geetaji's song Chor Daaku Lutere. Do you have other songs of the movie? (I hope both are different ones).

I have a couple of Asmaan songs please let me know. I will be glad to upload them.
Keep up the wonderful work.

I will reupload your requested albums in due course. Thanks for the offer about songs of "Asmaan". I do have all the songs from this album. I will try to upload them one of these days.

Thanks,
Swarapriya

[swarapriya]

Mujrim (1958)

Here is a movie made by F.C. Mehra of Eagle Films. This was the first of several movies Shammi was associated with Mehra. I think this was the last movie OP provided music for a Mehra movie. Mehra swicthed to Shankar-Jaikishan after this movie and the team made several successful musicals. The switching happened not becausae Mehra wanted it, but Shammi insisted on it. More on this in Shammi's topic on SKS at proper time.

Ragini, the youngest of the Travancore sisters, made a few Hindi movies. She was the heroine of this picture. Even though it was out and out a Shammi's film, most of the songs were picturized on Ragini using her dancing talent as the backdrop. So most songs are female vocals.

Incidentally, the Eagle Films banner is still alive. It is run by Mehra's son. In the late 80's he made a movie with the same title "Mujrim" but not with the same story.

There are eight songs in this album. Some are from different CD collections and others are from tapes. Therefore you will find their quality not uniform. With that warning, here are the details of the songs and the songs themselves ...