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Multiple Versions Songs (23): A Male / Female solo / duet or a Chorus – More than two versions of a song

Multiple Version Songs July 3, 2015

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Ashokji is coming to the end of his current enquiry into the songs that have a specific type of multiple version songs.  He has covered songs that have a male solo and a duet or chorus in two parts – MVS (20) and MVS (21), and the ones having […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (22): Female Solo and A Duet or A Chorus

Multiple Verssion Songs June 24, 2015

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Ashokji has been currently exploring a specific type of multiple version songs that have a solo and a duet or chorus versions.  In his last two articles, Multiple Version Songs (20) and (21), he explored those songs that have a male solo and its duet/chorus versions.  He continues the […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (21): Male solo and Duet or Chorus (Part II)

Multiple Version Songs May 14, 2015

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Ashokji has been recently exploring songs that have a solo version and a duet or chorus version.  In this series within the Mega series on Multiple Version Songs, he wrote on January 20, 2015 on songs that have a male solo and a duet or chorus version.  This guest […]

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Songs of Holi

Holi March 6, 2015

Wishing Happy Holi to all This is the fifth year of Songs of Yore, and I have not yet done a post on Holi songs. Every time Holi came, I thought everyone would be doing a list of Holi songs, and my doing one would be trivial, and may contain overlapping songs. Along the way, I […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (20): Male Solo and Duet or Chorus

Multiple Version Songs January 20, 2015

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (Ashokji is the originator of the mega series ‘Multiple Version Songs’, when he expanded the straight ‘Twin’ (male solo and its twin female solo) songs to other varieties of multiple versions. This caught on and, with the help of other guest contributors, expanded into similar version songs in Hindi […]

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Aao bachcho tumhein dikhayen jhanki….ki

Pakistani film Bedari (1957), a frame by frame remake of Jagriti (1954) August 15, 2014

Independence Day greetings to India and Pakistan Fill in the blank in ‘Aao bachcho tumhein dikhayen jhanki…ki’. We all know the answer – ‘Hindustan’. If you think of it, ‘Pakistan’ also fits in perfectly. It is quite befitting that this is so, because no two countries have such shared history, shared culture, language, musical tradition, […]

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Multiple Version Songs (18): Hindi-Telugu exchange

Hnadbill of 'Bhakta Prahlad' (1931 - Telugu) August 8, 2014

Guest article by Arunkumar Deshmukh (The Living Encyclopaedia, Arunji, needs no introduction to the readers of SoY or other music related blogs.  His first guest article in the series on Multiple Version Songs was on Hindi-Marathi, naturally.  When I was struggling to look for someone to write on Hindi-Kannada, Arunji surprised me by doing the […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (17): Haunting Melodies in Different Moods And Settings

Haunting Melodies May 17, 2014

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (As the SoY regulars are aware, the series on  Multiple Version Songs has grown in dimension well beyond what was originally envisaged by Ashokji, about a year and half back.   Fortunately, SoY family has some tremendously talented and knowledgeable people, and they chipped in with guest articles, on my […]

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Multiple Version Songs (16): Rabindra Sangeet and Pankaj Mullick

Rabindranath Tagore and Pankaj Mullick May 7, 2014

Hridaya Pankaje Rabi Viraje A tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) and Pankaj Mullick (10 May 1905 – 19 February 1978) by guest author N Venkataraman (The appeal of Rabindranath Thakur’s poetry and songs of love, nature and worship transcends the boundaries of language and culture. Pankaj Mullick, one […]

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Songs of Atariya

Romeo and Juliet on Atariya February 12, 2014

With a tribute to Begum Akhtar in her Centenary Year I had thought songs of atariya are one of the things – like lori, bidaai songs, bhajan, piano songs etc. – that have been irredeemably lost from our films. Loosely translated as ‘balcony’, atariya was the place where the heroine would go stealthily from the […]

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