Best songs of year

Best songs of 1949: Wrap Up 1

Rafi and Mukesh June 25, 2016

Songs of Yore Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? As we have seen in the overview post on the Best songs of 1949, and as I have observed elsewhere a number of times, 1949 was the year of Tsunami wave of Lata Mangeshkar. The yesteryear vintage singers, like Suraiya, Shamshad Begum, Rajkumari […]

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Best songs of 1949: And the winners are?

Best songs of 1949 April 3, 2016

In our journey in the Time Machine to yearwise review of the best songs of a year, we now enter what is the single most important year in the history of film music. The evolution of Hindi film music can be seen as gradual changes, shaken with major tectonic shifts once in a while. One […]

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Best songs of 1950: Final Wrap Up 5

Top music directors of 1949 November 22, 2015

The SoY Award for the Best Music Director goes to? This year’s detailed review had more songs (152) than in any preceding year, and I had hoped that this would cover most of the noteworthy songs. Nevertheless, the readers added a large number of songs in the comments. This shows that there are a number […]

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Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 4

1950 films November 11, 2015

Songs of Yore Award for the Best Duet goes to? (Wishing Happy Diwali to everyone) Hans recently commented in some other context that duets generally create less impact than solos. This is certainly true of tennis where the doubles players are not counted in the same league as Federers and Djokovics. In the olden days before the open […]

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Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 3

Lata |Mangeshkar October 19, 2015

(After the overview post on the Best songs of 1950, I have written Wrap Up 1 on the best male solos, and Wrap Up 2 on the best female solos by ‘other’ singers.  Continuing the series, here is the third Wrap Up on the best songs of Lata Mangeshkar. – AK) Songs of Yore Award for the Best Female […]

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Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 2

Suraiya, Rajkumari, Shamshad Begum, Geeta Dutt August 29, 2015

And the award for the Best ‘Other’ Female Singer goes to? This year, too, I faced the familiar dilemma I faced last year while reviewing the best songs of 1951: whether to make a combined list of the best female solos or split it in two – Lata Mangeshkar and ‘Others’. Male solos which I […]

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Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 1

Talat Mahmood, Mukesh, Rafi and Manna Dey July 12, 2015

Songs of Yore Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? The year 1950 too shows, like 1951,  that male solos were far outnumbered by female solos (by about a factor of 4), both in the total songs and in my Select List which comprised about 15% of the total songs of the year. […]

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Best songs of 1950: And the winners are?

Babul, Bawre Nain, Jogan, Arzoo, Sangam, Nirala May 23, 2015

After the year-wise review of the best songs of 1955 and 1953, I entered the era of pre-Filmfare Awards with 1951 last year. Continuing the year-wise review I come to 1950, i.e. the beginning of the glorious 50s. End of the 40s marked the end of an era of the vintage singers, and consolidation of […]

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Best songs of 1951: Final Wrap-Up 5

Anil Biswas-_Shankar-Jaikishan_SD Burman_C Ramchandra December 13, 2014

And the SoY Award for the Best Music Director goes to? This is the third series of detailed year-wise review of songs. Mid-way I had a feeling that this exercise might appear monotonous and uninteresting. I am very happy to note that my fears were unfounded. Rather, the readers’ participation has been more intense and […]

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Best songs of 1951: Wrap-Up 4

1951 films December 1, 2014

And the award for the best duet goes to? We are now nearing the end of the Review of the songs of 1951, with the penultimate wrap-up – of the best duets – before the final wrap-up of the best music director. The wrap-up of the best solos, especially of the male solos, caused some […]

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