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Everybody knows that the record companies cannot be trusted completely with respect to the information printed on the record. For example., for the famous song 'aayegaa 3 aane waalaa' sung by Lata, the record label says Kamini, the role played by Madhubala. One might think that for non-film records, they would be truthful. Not so, as V A K Ranga Rao declares:
He wrote this in a letter to the Editor of The Record News, a publication (1991-2010) of the Society of Indian Record Collectors. This magazine is full of very valuable and interesting info about Indian records from the very beginning. The whole set can be read on my website.
Now you know!
Listen to Narsingh 705
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Here is a very nice article on Madhubala from an American magazine published in August 1952. They called her,
The biggest star in the world and she is not in Beverly Hills
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The tune here is decidedly Western, but the words are so fascinating that they were used again with a very similar tune. I will let you guess where.
Listen to 1939_Hero-No-1_leujee-memasaab-hamaaraa-pistaa.mp3
Now you know!
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