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Best songs of 1944: Wrap Up 3

September 17, 2021

And the Award for the Best Duet goes to? In my list of 81 MEMORABLE SONGS in the Overview Post on the best songs of 1944, I counted 17 duets. This is quite a small number, but as we have seen in the reviews of other years, duets always punch above their weight. There is […]

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Best songs of 1944: Wrap UP 2

Amirbai Karnataki-Zohrabai Ambalewali-Noorjehan-Manju

July 21, 2021

And the award for the Best Female Song goes to? If you browse through my Overview Post on the best songs of 1944 and the Wrap Up 1 about the best male solos, two features would strike you immediately. One was the significantly large number of female solos compared to the male solos. And two, […]

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Best Songs of 1944: Wrap Up 1

July 6, 2021

And the award for the Best Male Solo goes to? In my Overview Post of the best songs of 1944, I had mentioned that in the total songs in the years in which the singers’ names were known, male solos to female solos to duets followed a ratio of 1: 3.69: 1.69. Thus, the male […]

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Best songs of 1944: And the winners are?

April 11, 2021

Season 2 of the year-wise reviews begins I have explained in my final wrap up of the review of songs of 1945 how the idea of year-wise reviews of the best songs of the year started and why I termed the year 1945 as the end of Season 1. There was doubt in my mind […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 4

Shyam Sundar-Bulo C Rani-Anil Biswas-R C Boral

December 25, 2020

And the Award for the Best Music Director of 1945 goes to? And wishing everyone Merry Christmas Coming to the final Wrap Up 4, i.e the Best Music Director of 1945 is akin to the end of a Season of a web-series. For those who have not been with SOY since the beginning of the […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 3

November 16, 2020

And the Award for the Best Duet goes to? We have seen in some years that either male solos or female solos may be tepid, but duets never disappoint. That has to do with combinatorics. If there are, say, 3 prominent male singers and 4 female singers in a year, there are 12 possible voice […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 2

October 7, 2020

And the Award for the Best Female Playback Singer goes to? When Noorjehan visited India in 1982 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Indian talkie movies, one of the songs she chose to sing was Baithi hun teri yaad ka lekar ke sahara from Village Girl (1945), composed by Shyam Sundar, to a deafening applause. […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 1

July 23, 2020

And the Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? My Overview post of the best songs of the year 1945 had a Master List of 59/60 Memorable Songs (one song had a female solo and a female-female duet version), the least in the year-wise reviews so far. This was expected not only because […]

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Best songs of 1945: And the winners are?

Best films of 1945_Tadbir-Kurukshetra-Village Girl-Zeenat-Badi Ma-Pahli Nazar

May 20, 2020

Now we come to the end of the year-wise review going backwards. It was progressively going into more unknown territory. Out of approximately 670 songs from 74 films in 1945, nothing is known about the singers of about 300 songs, i.e 45% of the total. However, a striking feature of this year is the significantly […]

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Best songs of 1946: Final Wrap Up 4

December 25, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Music Director goes to? Wishing Merry Christmas to the readers and a tribute to Naushad on his Birth Centenary (25 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) I need not have put a question mark about the best music director of 1946. Rarely one comes across such a single-horse […]

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