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Here is an parody song with fake, comic crying that I have not heard in any earlier song. Enjoy!
Listen to 1937_Challenge_05_x_tumheen-ne-mujhako-maar-khilaayaa.mp3
Now you know!
Listen to Narsingh Misc 681
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How Kesarbai Kerkar's Jat Kahan Ho ended up on the Voyager Spacecraft Disc
Ann Druyan made a host of essential
contributions, on both the creative and production sides of the project, and I can’t
resist quoting one of her reminiscences:
“Robert Brown had placed Surshri Kesar Bai Kerkar’s ‘Jaat Kahan Ho’ at the top
of his list of world music for outer space,” she writes. “It was an old recording that
had recently gone out of print. After hunting through a score of record stores without
any success, I phoned Brown and asked him to suggest an alternative raga.
“He refused.
“ ‘Well, what happens if we can’t find a copy of this one in time to get it on the
record?’ I pleaded. We had three more days in which to complete the repertoire. I was
terribly worried that Indian music, one of the world’s most intricate and fascinating
traditions, might not be represented.
“ ‘Keep looking,’ he told me.
“When I phoned him the following day after a series of very unrewarding
conversations with librarians and cultural attachés, I was desperate.
“ ‘I promise I’ll keep looking for “Jaat Kahan Ho,” but you’ve simply got to give
me the name of a piece that we can fall back on. What’s the next best thing?’
“ ‘There’snothingclose,’heinsisted.‘Keeplooking.’The other
ethnomusicologists we had been consulting told me to trust him. I started phoning
Indian restaurants.
“There’s an appliance store on Lexington Avenue in the Twenties in New York
City that is owned by an Indian family. Under a card table with a madras cloth thrown
over it sits a dusty brown carton with three unopened copies of ‘Jaat Kahan Ho.’ Why
I want to buy all three occasions a great deal of animated speculation on the part of
the owners. I fly out of the shop and race uptown to listen to it.
“It’s a thrilling piece of music. I phone Brown and find myself saying thank you
over and over.”
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Gwalior Gharana 4
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This song from Shukriya 1944 was used again in the 50s, different singers
Listen to 1944_shukriyaa_hamaaree-galee-aanaa.mp3
Now you know!
Rafi 20
- Musing 182: Sticks in song, Bharat 20 Lata Jamal Sen
- Musing 418: Rafi 123. First cinema in Punjab
- Musing 199: One to twelve, Bharat 37 Lata Roshan
- Musing 57: Piano song, Chhaila Babu (1967)
- Musing 285, Raj Kapoor weds, Rafi 23
- Musing 407: Rafi 112, daal not Daal
- Musing 184: Meena first song, Bharat 22 Lata Manna De
- Musing 283: Nehru fan of Devika Rani, Rafi 21
- Musing 362: Rafi 78, Rafi MDs
- Musing 159: Caste system among JAs, RMIM CR 2017 02
- Musing 194: First Western Instrument in India Virginal, Bharat 32 Lata Ravi Shankar
- Musing 225: Mother of Indian Cinema, Roberto 76
- Musing 169: Damle of Prabhat, Bharat Lata Bulo C Rani 07
- Musing 76: Sarangi in song, Amar Prem (1971)
- Musing 118: Hand-held bells, Narsingh 720
