Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 25, 2009
In 1950s and 1960s, there were some songs where kids would ask a lady to tell them a story and the lady would sing a sad song. In the song, she would tell the kids about her own sad story. I had posted such songs here from “Gumrah” and “Lajwanti” , where Mala Sinha and [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 13, 2009
“Boyfriend”(1961) is a little known movie that had Shammi Kapoor and Madhubala in it ! And Dharmendra too !
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 9, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie where Nutan played a tragedy queen role for the first time. As befitted her role, she would remain sad in the movie all the time.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 8, 2009
I have posted three songs from “Baadal” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: November 1, 2009
In 1950s, there were a few movies where Johny walker was the hero and O P Nayyar was the music director. One of these movies was in fact called “Johny Walker”.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 27, 2009
I have not watched the movie “Tum Haseen Main Jawaan” (1970) but going by the songs of this movie, I think this movie was one whose story was quite over the top.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 20, 2009
1960 was a decade that saw some memorable qawwalis being created. It is not just Roshan and Ravi who created them, even some lesser known music directors came up with nice qawwalis.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 12, 2009
The movie “Jab pyaar kisi se hota hai” (1961) had music by Shankar Jaikishan, lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, songs by Rafi and Lata, the lead actress was Asha Parekh. All that this movie needed was Shammi Kapoor.
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 5, 2009
While listeneing to the songs of old movies, we often praise the singer and/ or the music director, but many of us tend to underestimate the contribution of the lyricist. However great a tune, or however wonderful a voice may be, unless the singer gets a good well written song, it is not very likely [...]
Posted by: squarecutatul on: October 2, 2009
As old songs go, there are many such songs that I am discovering for the first time these days. Here is a song that is as old and as obscure as a song can be, but this time for a change, I have heard this song before. In fact I heard the audio of this [...]