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To day I want to highlight a very special and unique group on Facebook. It is called THOSE WHO COULD NOT MAKE IT BIG BUT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM. These guys are world experts in identifying the background dancers in group song and various party-goers, wedding attendants, jury members etc, They must have made hundreds of them known to the world. Hats off to them. Here is an example

Shinde, Chinu and Basant in Tarzan Comes to Delhi (1965). Of course, you already know about Shinde if you read my book on Edwina Violette!
Now you know!
RMIM WestCoast 2017 02
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Film Parinay has a very famous song, Sooraj Ko garmee se' by the Shrre Ram Darbar Sharma Bandhu. It is not too well-known that their father Pt Ramanand Sharma had acted and sung in few Hindi films during his youth. Here is a song by him in Naushad's first film by himself.
Listen to 1940090008_1940_prem-nagar_08_raamaanand_man-ke-taat-hilaa-jaa.mp3
Now you know!
Bharat 14 Lata with Hridyanath
- Musing 146: Clapping in song, RMIM 09
- Muisng: 522: Rafi 226. Madhubala in Mahal
- Musing 505: Rafi 209. madhuras
- Musing 415: Rafi 120. Vitthal.
- Musing 559: Laila Majnu, Neelam
- Musing 679: Surekha Sikri. Misc 10
- Musing 284: Ballon-vaalee, Rafi 22
- Musing 376: muniyaaN, Rafi 85
- Musing 461: Rafi 166. sitaare zameeN
- Musing 134: Shankh and ghaNTiyaaN, Narsingh 736
- Musing 268: Pukar tune used, Rafi 10
- Musing 329: Madhu at 12, Rafi 62
- Musing 359: Rafi MDs, Fusion Music
- Musing 388: Khyal origins, Rafi 93
- Musing 135: First song on screen, Roberto 71


