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Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (7) – Desh and Tilak Kamod

Raga Desh March 16, 2013

Guest article by Subodh Agrawal (Subodh returns, after some gap, with an outstanding article on Desh and its close variant, Tilak Kamod.  Some of the most iconic songs, such as ‘Dukh ke ab din beetat nahi’, ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Baje sargam har taraf se goonj bankar Desh Raga’ are in Desh. He also includes the […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (6) – Both versions by female playback singer(s) (1) – Abhi To Main Jawan Hun

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Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (The series on multiple version songs, started by Mr Ashok Vaishnav, is now getting multidimensional.  Besides three parts by Ashokji, we also had Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh writing on Hindi-Marathi, and Mr N Venkataraman on Hindi-Tamil version songs.  Ashokji resumes where he left off – now with all-female versions.  This […]

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Multiple Version Songs (5): Hindi and Tamil film songs (1) – ‘Inspired and adopted’ songs

Naushad and MS Vishwanatahan February 15, 2013

Guest article by N Venkataraman (Mr N Venkataraman had been benefitting the SoY readers with his erudite comments for quite some time. Therefore, when Mr Ashok Vaishnav’s mega series on Multiple Version Songs came along, my thoughts went to him for doing Hindi songs and their versions in South Indian languages. I am grateful that […]

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Multiple Version songs (4): Hindi and Marathi

Scene from Hindi-Marathi bilingual film 'Ayodhya Ka Raja' February 6, 2013

Guest article by Arunkumar Deshmukh (On the blogosphere dealing with old films and music, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh is known as a  living encyclopaedia. SoY regulars are aware of the mega series on multiple version songs, started by another stalwart, Mr Ashok Vaishnav, spanning across singers, films, genres and languages, some parts of which may require […]

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Multiple Version Songs (3): Both versions by male playback singers – Different Moods

Same singer, several versions, different moods January 29, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (In his last post Mr Ashok Vaishnav covered a sub-category of multiple version songs in which the two versions are sung, generally, by the same male playback singer, one version being happy, and the other sad. At times, the two versions are not so clearly differentiated – the variation […]

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Multiple Version Songs (2): Both versions by male playback singers – Happy and A Sad Song

Same songs two versions, both male January 17, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (In his first article in the mega series on Multiple Version Songs, Mr Vaishnav gave an overview of the subject, several types of multiple version songs, ranging from simple vanilla twin songs – male/female versions – to same singer different moods, different male or female singers, solo/duets, film/non-film songs, […]

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Film songs based on classical ragas (6): The Majestic Malkauns

Malkauns December 11, 2012

Guest article by Subodh Agrawal (Followers of SoY are familiar with Subodh’s elegant writings on songs based on classical ragas.  He surpasses himself with this article on one of the most popular and accessible ragas – Malkaus – which he describes as the greatest pentatonic raga.  He bears his scholarship lightly with his fluent and […]

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Film songs based on classical ragas (5): The Majestic Malkauns

Raga Malkaus December 11, 2012

Guest article by Subodh Agrawal (SoY readers are familiar with Subodh’s elegant writing on songs based on classical ragas.  He surpasses himself with this outstanding article on one of the most popular and accessible ragas – Malkauns – which he describes as the greatest of pentatonic ragas.  Subodh carries his scholarship lightly with an easy […]

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Multiple Version Songs (1): An overview of different types

Same songs by different singers November 13, 2012

Guest article by Ashok Vaishnav (Mr Ashok Vasihnav needs no introduction to the regulars at Songs of Yore. His highly informed and researched comments are several times worth the original article. Therefore, his movement from the bottom boxes to the top line is a mere formality. I had written on Twin Songs more than two […]

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Film songs based on classical ragas (4): The romantic quartet

Chhayanat, Gaud Sarang, Gaud Malhar, Kamod August 13, 2012

Guest article by Subodh Agrawal (Rains bring in romance in the air with their musical sound of raindrops, greenery and chirping of a variety of species which were, as if, only waiting for the monsoon.  Pankaj Mullick sang in his famous ‘Ye raatein ye mausam’ thus – Ki do garm saanson ka ek saath ana/ […]

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