Best songs of year

Best songs of 1946: Final Wrap Up 4

Naushad-Ghulam Haider-Hansraj Bahal 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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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 3

Aawaz de kahan hai December 6, 2019

And the SoY award for the best duet goes to? In the year-wise reviews of the best songs, as we entered pre-1949, we gradually encountered less and less familiar songs. It became quite pronounced in 1946, in which I could include only 81 MEMORABLE songs in my Overview post, which is far less than the […]

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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 2

Noorjehan-Amirbai Karnataki-Shamshad Begum-Suraiya November 9, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Female Playback Singer goes to? As the readers would recall from Wrap Up 1, the Award for the Best Male Solo turned out to be a one-horse race, thanks to KL Saigal’s superlative songs in the film Shahjahan, composed equally superbly by the Great Mughal Naushad. Lata Mangeshkar […]

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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 1

KL Saigal-GM Durrani-Surendra-Rafi-Mukesh June 26, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? Now we come to category-wise discussion of the best songs, following from my overview post on the Best songs of 1946. Understandably, the total number of MEMORABLE SONGS mentioned in the post (81) was the lowest so far in the series on year-wise […]

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Best songs of 1946: And the winners are?

Anmol Ghadi-Shahjahan-Safar-Eight Days April 11, 2019

As I started traversing back from the 1950s to the 40s in the year-wise review of film songs, I mentioned that we are entering the era of more unknown than the known. This is best exemplified by the year 1946: Out of 153 films in the year, nothing is known about five films, whether its […]

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Best songs of 1947: Final Wrap Up 4

Naushad_C Ramchandra_Husnlal-Bhagatram_Khursheed Anwar December 4, 2018

And the Award for the Best Music Director goes to? After the Overview post and the three category-wise wrap ups: Wrap Up 1 for the best male solo, Wrap Up 2 for the best female solo and Wrap Up 3 for the best duets – it is time to collate and discuss the dominant music […]

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Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 3

Best films of 1947 October 11, 2018

And the Song of Yore Award for the Best Duet goes to? The total number of duets in the list of ‘Memorable Songs’ in the Overview post on the best songs of 1947 is about 30 out of 119. This is about 50% more than the male solos, but less than half the female solos. […]

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Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 2

Suraiya-Amirbai Katnataki-Noorjehan-Uma Devi-Shamshad Begum-Zohrabai Ambalewali July 4, 2018

And the SoY award for the Best Female Singer goes to? This was the year of female playback singers. Compared to 19 male solos as discussed in the Wrap Up 1, female solos numbered 67 (N Venkataraman counted 69) in the list of 117/119 Memorable Songs (referred to also as Master List) in my overview […]

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Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 1

KL Saigal-Rafi-Mukesh-Surendra June 25, 2018

And the Songs of Yore Award for the Best Male Playback singer goes to? As I go down the list of 117/119 memorable songs (two songs had double versions) in my overview post on the best songs of 1947, the most striking thing is the rarity of male solos. I could count only 19 male […]

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Best songs of 1947: And the winners are?

Parwana-Dard-Jugnu-Meera-Shehnai-Mirza Sahiban April 1, 2018

It was the best of years, it was the worst of years. The euphoria of independence was marred by the trauma of partition, the communal frenzy sweeping large swathes of the country, the bloodshed, and the largest mass migration in history from one side of the border to the other. The film world too could […]

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