1940

Best songs of 1940: Wrap Up 3

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The Award for the Best Duet of 1940 goes to? If you look at the broad statistics in my Overview Post on the best songs of 1940, you would see out of total 351 songs in the year, whose singers are identified, the ratio of male solos, female solos and duets are 1:1.47:1.19. This may […]

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Best songs of 1940: Wrap Up 2

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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 […]

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Best songs of 1940: Wrap Up 1

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And the Award for the Best Male Singer goes to? 1940 was a year of churning in the film world. It came at the transition of the first decade of spoken films, 1930s, and the beginning of the 1940s. It was a churning of musical styles when one kind of music making was coming to […]

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Best songs of 1940

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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, […]

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