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The Rare & Popular Songs of Talat Mahmood

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                                                              Part 1   Talat Mahmood began his singing career at the age of 16 in 1939, when he began singing the  Ghazal s of Daag, Mir, Jigar etc. on  All India Radio , Lucknow. His voice had a quality distinct from all the other singers.  HMV  was quick to notice this and offered Talat his first disc in 1941  Sab din ek samaan nahin tha, Bun jaoon ga kya se kya main, Iska to kuch dhyan nahin tha.  His reputation as a  ghazal  singer was not limited to his hometown of Lucknow, but it reached the city that proved to shape his destiny – Calcutta. He acted in 3 Bengali films before coming to Bombay in 1949.  His big break came with the song  Ae dil mujhe aisi jagha le chal jahan koi na ho  composed by music director  Anil Bi...

The Songs of Anand Bakshi since the Begining of his Career( 1956 -1965)

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  Anand Bakshi (21 July 1930-30 March 2002)  was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby. He worked in Army but left it to join Hindi Film Industry as a writer or a singer but not a lyricist.  He got his break writing songs in a film titled  Bhalaa Aadmi  (1958), acted by  Bhagwan Dada . He wrote four songs in this film. His first song in this film was "Dharti Ke Laal Na Kar Itna Malaal" which was recorded on 9 Nov 1956. (In his own voice on All India Radio interview) . Anand Bakshi thought at that time that now his career has started but i t was not like that, he had to struggle further. He was given one or two songs in the films like Miss Toofan Mail, Sun To Le Haseena(1958),  CID Girl,  Laal Nishaan(1959) but he got noticed from the 1962 film 'Kala Samundar' Qawwali   “ Meri Taveer Le Ke Kya Karoge ”. Plus the films ‘Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath’ His first super hit song was 'Mere Mehboob Kayamat H...