Best songs of year

And the Award for the Best Female Singer goes to? The year 1940 also shows preponderance of Female Solos over Male Solos in total numbers, in line with the  long-term trend, as evident in the list of MEMORABLE SONGS in the Overview Post. But there the comparison ends. Music is never about total numbers, it […]

And the winners are? This is the transition year between the 1930s and 1940s. This was the year when Himanshu Rai, the founder of Bombay Talkies, passed away. The internecine war in the studio had not yet begun. So Bombay Talkies was going great guns with Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis with films like Aazad, […]

And the SOY Award for the Best Female Singer goes to? As the readers are aware from the year-wise reviews, the female solos on the average far outnumber the male solos. In the Overview Post of the best songs of 1941, I had included 71 songs. In the Wrap Up 1  about the best male […]

And the winners are The regulars of SOY who have been following year-wise reviews of the best songs of the year would have noticed an interesting feature. Every vintage year was characterised by some film(s) whose music became timeless. If we had Rattan in 1944 by Naushad, we had Kismet and Tansen in 1943, and […]