Muse & Music, Music of the Golden Age Options

[swarapriya]

[quote name='romesh' post='658816' date='May 7 2010, 06:04 AM']

thanks SP for teh quick response

romesh
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Romesh, it is always a pleasure. Cheers. -S

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This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 8 2010, 12:24 AM

[swarapriya]

(Sharmila) Ye Gulistan Hamara (1972)

Here is another one by Burmanda. For composing this music, Da goes back to his roots in Assam as the story was based in Assam. There are several beautiful songs in this album. Some examples are, "Gori Gori","Kya Yeh Zindagi" and "Raina Soyee". Especially the song "Gori Gori". One can immediately tell that it is Burmanda's musical composition. His sweet melodic imprint is all over there.

Danny, who hails from Assam, sings a song in this film. Inetrestingly, besides an actor and singer, Danny is also a song writer. Few years ago I came across a cassette of his, probably recorded before he became an actor. All lyrics in that cassette were written by him. He also sang all of the songs he wrote for that cassette. I misplaced the cassette and don't even remember what its name was. It was an okay album and may be that is the reason I don't remember the details. My main curiosity was to find out what this actor has done as a writer and as a singer.

Sharmila teams up with Dev in this movie. Did they appear in any other movie besdies this one? This movie itself was made by Dev's close friend and associate, Amarjeet (of "Teen Deviyan" fame). One of the great things about Dev is that he always stuck by his friends, through thick and thin. That alone is enough for me to make this man loveable.

Now for the songs ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: May 8 2010, 05:53 AM

[ketaki shukla]

Thanks Swarapriya for the album Ye Gulistan Hamara.


Ketaki

[swarapriya]

Thanks Swarapriya for the album Ye Gulistan Hamara.


Ketaki

You're very welcome, Ketaki. Cheers. -S

[kishor]

Thanks swarapriya for the album.

I didnt knew that SD Burman and RD Burman have sung a song together.....

[swarapriya]

Thanks swarapriya for the album.

I didnt knew that SD Burman and RD Burman have sung a song together.....

You're welcome, Kishor. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

(Vyjayanti) Raj Tilak (1958)

This album has many songs, mostly of smaller duration. Their quality is so so. Apart from the songs I am uploading here, there are at least four chorus songs in this film. I have these four but their quality is so unintelligible I thought best to skip them altogether.

Here are my selections from this album ...

[sangeetbhakt]

Here are the 4 chorus songs. The quality seems good. May have gotten them from HF.

Singers: Chorus
Bitrate: 128 kbps

Song: Jhamar jhamar jhoome
Duration: 0:29

Song: Le lo maza le lo
Duration: 0:33

Song: Pinjre ke haiN panchhi
Duration: 0:47

Song: Roop ki raani
Duration: 1:00

[sangeetbhakt]

"Raaj tilak" is a remake of a super-hit Tamil film called "VanjikoTTai vaaliban".
C Ramachandra composed the tunes for the Tamil film - his first (maybe his last)
venture into Tamil cinema. In addition to the film being a hit, 2 of the songs were
absolute chart toppers and remain so to this day for people who actually know the
songs. While I am a huuuuuuuuge fan of Asha's, she is unable to do justice to either
of these songs (one is a solo and one is a duet with Sudha Malhotra). I love the Tamil duet and can
listen to it countless times.

In Tamil, the songs were sung by P Leela and Jikki. I have uploaded both those songs here.

Film: VanjikoTTai vaaliban (1958)
Music: C Ramachandra

Song: KaNNum kaNNum kalarNthu
Singers: P Leela, Jikki
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Duration: 8:16
This is the equivalent of "Aaja o raaja aaja" and is a dance competition between Padmini and Vyjayanthi.
The on-screen scene was as popular as the song itself.

Song: Raaja magaL
Singer: P Leela
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Duration: 5:57

[swarapriya]

Here are the 4 chorus songs. The quality seems good. May have gotten them from HF.

Singers: Chorus
Bitrate: 128 kbps

Song: Jhamar jhamar jhoome
Duration: 0:29

Song: Le lo maza le lo
Duration: 0:33

Song: Pinjre ke haiN panchhi
Duration: 0:47

Song: Roop ki raani
Duration: 1:00

Thanks for the chorus songs. Like mentioned in the post, I already have them and am not downloading them here. They were earlier downloaded from HF. Thanks for sharing, SB. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

"Raaj tilak" is a remake of a super-hit Tamil film called "VanjikoTTai vaaliban".
C Ramachandra composed the tunes for the Tamil film - his first (maybe his last)
venture into Tamil cinema. In addition to the film being a hit, 2 of the songs were
absolute chart toppers and remain so to this day for people who actually know the
songs. While I am a huuuuuuuuge fan of Asha's, she is unable to do justice to either
of these songs (one is a solo and one is a duet with Sudha Malhotra). I love the Tamil duet and can
listen to it countless times.

In Tamil, the songs were sung by P Leela and Jikki. I have uploaded both those songs here.

Film: VanjikoTTai vaaliban (1958)
Music: C Ramachandra

Song: KaNNum kaNNum kalarNthu
Singers: P Leela, Jikki
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Duration: 8:16
This is the equivalent of "Aaja o raaja aaja" and is a dance competition between Padmini and Vyjayanthi.
The on-screen scene was as popular as the song itself.

Song: Raaja magaL
Singer: P Leela
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Duration: 5:57

SB,

Thanks for the details. I don't know an ounce of Tamil, yet I downloaded both the songs to enjoy the music.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[sangeetbhakt]

Finishing out the songs from "Chaandi ki deewar"

Film: Chaandi ki deewar (1964)
Music: N Dutta
Bitrate: 160 kbps

Song: Kal se kul duniya hamaari (Part 1)
Singer: Asha Bhonsle
Duration: 2:54

Song: Kal se kul duniya hamaari (Part 2)
Singer: Asha Bhonsle
Duration: 3:29

Song: Jo kehne se tum sharmaati ho
Singer: Asha Bhonsle, Mohammad Rafi
Duration: 3:05

Song: Barso raam dhaDaake se
Singer: Mahendra Kapoor
Duration: 3:20

[vdsachin]

Thank You for the Chaandi Ki Deewar (1964) songs SangeetBhakt

[swarapriya]

Finishing out the songs from "Chaandi ki deewar"

My Dear SB,

Thank you very very much for the rest of the songs from this album.

By the way I heard both of the songs from the film "Vanjikottai Valliban" you uploaded. Like you promised, they are very beautiful. Thank you for sharing these gems.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

[swarapriya]

(Zeenat) Shalimar (1978)

This movie was made by Krishna Shah. A graduate of Bombay University, UCLA, and Yale, he settled in USA and made money in different enterprises. He had passion for cinema but this always did not transfer to good film making. Before he made "Shalimar" in Hindi and English, he made several other forgettable English movies - all B grade. Some of the English movies he produced and directed were "Hard Rock Zombies", "Rivals", and "The River Niger". He also made a documentary on Hindi cinema called "Cinema Cinema". Later he pioneered movie animation in India with full length animation feature films like "The Legend of Ram" and "The Prince of Light". But his biggest achievement was to bring in several notable Hollywood actors and Bombay actors together to make "Shalimar".

"Shalimar" stars several Hollywood dignitaries like Rex Harrison (who won an Oscar for "My Fair Lady"), John Saxon (Indian fans should remember him from Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon"), and Sylvia Miles. It was made in English and Hindi using the same actors. Even though very huge amount of money was spent on the movie, it was a financial disaster. It failed in both languages. Originally the English version had the same name "Shalimar". Later it was released in DVD under various names; "Raiders of Shalimar", "Raiders of the Sacred Storm", and "Deadly Thief". In spite of all these gimmicks, neither the movie nor the DVDs became popular. A book on making of the movie was published but it also went into obscurity.

The only redeeming feature of the movie was the music of R.D. Burman. It was not his best, but even when RD was not at his best, he still was good. I will be uploading all the songs in three back-to-back posts. The first posting will have all the songs from the movie. The second post will contain several musical themes from the movie. The third post will contain three songs of this film rerecorded by Asha from her album "Asha Reveals Real R.D. Burman CD1".

Now for the first posting. Here is a description of the songs and the songs themselves ...