Index

2023

• The Sculptors of Film Songs (10): Van Shipley (12/21/2023)
• Best songs of 1942: Wrap UP 4 (12/10/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (9): Dattaram (11/30/2023)
• Best songs of 1942: Wrap Up 3 (11/20/2023)
• Book Review: “Reflections & Stray Thoughts” (11/10/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (8): Ramlal (10/30/2023)
• SN Tripathi Part 5 (post-50s): His best songs by other female playback singers (10/19/2023)
• Best songs of 1942: Wrap Up 2 (10/8/2023)
• SN Tripathi Part 4 (post 50s): His best songs for Lata Mangeshkar (9/28/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (7): V Balsara (9/17/2023)
• Krishna and Flute (9/6/2023)
• SN Tripathi Part 3 (post-50s): His best songs for Mukesh and other male singers (8/27/2023)
• Book Review: “Behind the Curtain” (8/18/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (6): S Hazara Singh (8/9/2023)
• SN Tripathi Part 2 (post-1950s): His best songs for Mohammad Rafi (7/31/2023)
• Best songs of 1942: Wrap Up 1 (7/22/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (5): Manohari Singh (7/13/2023)
• Love Counsellors in Bollywood (6/30/2023)
• Shikwa in Bollywood (6/19/2023)
• Songs of Yore completes 13 years (6/7/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (4): Kishore Desai (5/28/2023)
• Ballads of Love: Flippant (5/18/2023)
• Best songs of 1942 (5/8/2023)
• Songs of Synecdoche and Onomatopoeia (4/28/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (3): Enoch Daniels (4/16/2023)
• Ballads of Love: Agony (4/7/2023)
• SN Tripathi Part 1: The Vintage Years – A Multi-faceted Talent (3/28/2023)
• Ballads of Love: Ecstasy (3/18/2023)
• Kleptomania in Bollywood (3/8/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Music (2): Anthony Gonsalves (2/27/2023)
• Nimmi – ‘The Unkissed Girl of India’ (2/18/2023)
• Book Review: “चल उड़ जा रे पंछी (संगीतकार चित्रगुप्त: व्यक्ति एवं कृति)” (2/8/2023)
• The Sculptors of Film Songs (1): Sebastian D’Souza (1/29/2023)
• Pyarelal Santoshi: Jack of All Trades? (1/12/2023)
• ‘Parent’-‘Adult’-‘Child’ in songs (1/1/2023)

2022

• Vasant Desai Part 4 (post-1950s): His ‘other’ female singers (12/22/2022)
• Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 4 (12/11/2022)
• Thinkers’ songs (11/30/2022)
• Romancing other miscellaneous balmas (11/20/2022)
• Master Ghulam Haider: A Trailblazer (11/9/2022)
• Saraswati Devi: The First Lady of Film Music Who Broke The Glass Ceiling (10/28/2022)
• Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 3 (10/19/2022)
• हे भगवान्‌ ! (10/9/2022)
• Vasant Desai Part 3 (post-50s): His best songs for Lata Mangeshkar (9/28/2022)
• Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 2 (9/19/2022)
• Khayyam at the Mountain Peak (2): Songs sans Pahadi (9/8/2022)
• Book Review: ‘Hindi Cine Raag Encyclopaedia’ Vol. 3, 4 & 5 (8/30/2022)
• Khayyam at the Mountain Peak (1): Songs on Pahadi (8/19/2022)
• Songs of Sarcasm (8/13/2022)
• Rafi’s songs with some unrecognised composers (7/31/2022)
• Duets (+) of Mukesh: With Male Singers (7/22/2022)
• Vasant Desai Part 2 (post-1950s): His male singers (7/10/2022)
• In praise of a woman’s beauty (6/29/2022)
• Songs of Narcissists (6/18/2022)
• Songs of Yore completes twelve years (6/7/2022)
• Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 1 (5/26/2022)
• Vasant Desai Part 1: A Multifaceted Talent (5/14/2022)
• Nathli se toota moti re: Manna Dey’s Non-film Hindi Gems (5/1/2022)
• Best songs of 1943: And the winners are? (4/15/2022)
• Book Review: “The Unforgettable Music of HEMANT KUMAR” (3/31/2022)
• Impossible Songs (3/18/2022)
• हेतुहेतुमद्भूत songs (3/4/2022)
• The Teary-eyed Songs (2/18/2022)
• Lata Mangeshkar Lives Forever (2/6/2022)
• Book Review: “Majrooh Sultanpuri: The Poet For All Reasons” (1/25/2022)
• Romancing the Jaadugar Balma (1/12/2022)
• Romancing the Rogue or Songs of Beiman Balma (1/1/2022)

2021

• Mohammad Rafi’s Non-film Hindi Geets and Ghazals (12/24/2021)
• Book review: ‘Yesterday’s Melodies Today’s Memories’ (12/12/2021)
• Rajendra Krishna with Chitragupta and Ravi: Reaching for the skies (11/29/2021)
• The out of sight genius Hansraj Behl (11/19/2021)
• Songs of women for the women by the women (11/10/2021)
• Best songs of 1944: Final Wrap Up 4 (10/30/2021)
• Rajendra Krishna and Madan Mohan: Classic Case of Two Geniuses at Work (10/17/2021)
• Romancing through the Window and Door (10/5/2021)
• Rajendra Krishna with the Albela Karigar C Ramchandra (9/23/2021)
• Best songs of 1944: Wrap Up 3 (9/17/2021)
• Q&A in songs (9/6/2021)
• Mukesh’s Non-film Hindi Geets and Ghazals (8/27/2021)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies: Bipin-Babul/Babul (8/17/2021)
• The Gravitas of Sitar in Songs (8/7/2021)
• Kumkum: The Danseuse Butterfly of Bollywood (7/28/2021)
• Best songs of 1944: Wrap UP 2 (7/21/2021)
• Best Songs of 1944: Wrap Up 1 (7/6/2021)
• Raja Mehdi Ali Khan: Lyricist Par Excellence (6/25/2021)
• ‘Hindi Cine Raag Encyclopaedia’ by KL Pandey: Book Review (6/16/2021)
• Songs of Yore completes eleven years (6/7/2021)
• Dattaram Part 2: Breaking out of the Banyan Tree with ‘Other’ Singers (5/29/2021)
• Dattaram Part 1: Under the shadow of big banyan tree with songs of Mukesh and Manna Dey (5/20/2021)
• ‘क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’ (4/30/2021)
• Best songs of 1944: And the winners are? (4/11/2021)
• Jogi, Bhogi or Dhongi (3/29/2021)
• Romancing with ‘Zindagi’ (3/16/2021)
• Remembering Ninu Mazumdar – the composer and the singer (3/3/2021)
• Romancing the Stranger (2/19/2021)
• Songs of Raja-Rani (2/7/2021)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (14) – The Melodious Trio: Bageshri, Rageshri and Malgunji (1/26/2021)
• The Unlucky Genius N Datta: His songs for ‘other’ singers (1/14/2021)
• Hans Akela: A song that stood tall amid the ruins (1/1/2021)

2020

• Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 4 (12/25/2020)
• N Datta-Rafi: When they meet it is GOLD (12/13/2020)
• Hemant Kumar’s Non-film Songs (12/4/2020)
• Hemant Kumar’s solo songs under ‘other’ batons (11/25/2020)
• Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 3 (11/16/2020)
• Mughals Engulf Bollywood (11/7/2020)
• Hemant Kumar’s Hindi Duet Compositions (10/27/2020)
• Salt, pepper and foods (10/16/2020)
• Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 2 (10/7/2020)
• Hemantayan – Part 2 (9/26/2020)
• Hemant Kumar’s male playback singers (9/17/2020)
• N Datta: The Third Musketeer for Asha Bhosle (9/8/2020)
• Hemant Kumar’s Female Playback Singers (8/27/2020)
• Remembering Ajit Merchant (8/15/2020)
• Chitragupta’s duets for Rafi: Melody Personified (7/31/2020)
• Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 1 (7/23/2020)
• Madan Mohan: The Pied Piper of Bollywood in Different Moods (7/14/2020)
• NASEEM BANU: The Maiden Venus of Bollywood (7/4/2020)
• Fanciful ideas about breaching embankments (6) (6/25/2020)
• Hemantayan – Part 1 (6/16/2020)
• Ten years of Songs of Yore (6/7/2020)
• Twins Phenomena In Bollywood (5/29/2020)
• Best songs of 1945: And the winners are? (5/20/2020)
• Songs and contra-songs (5/10/2020)
• Remembering a special singer Manna Dey (5/1/2020)
• Baaja that was Harmonium that was Music (4/22/2020)
• “Guide, The Film: Perspectives” (4/14/2020)
• The immortal voice: The echoing memories of KL Saigal on his birth anniversary (4/4/2020)
• The lost world of piano when it was more than a musical instrument (3/26/2020)
• In the Musical Memory of Meena Kapoor (3/17/2020)
• Nayika Bhed in songs (3/8/2020)
• ‘The stormy petrel of the Indian screen’: Shanta Apte (2/24/2020)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (13) – An afternoon with ragas: Bhimpalasi and her Sisters (2/15/2020)
• Film Songs From Firmament (2/5/2020)
• ‘Vandya Vande Mataram’: The story of a Song Perennial (1/26/2020)
• Surrogate Songs (1/13/2020)
• Romancing the Route 66 (1/1/2020)

2019

• Best songs of 1946: Final Wrap Up 4 (12/25/2019)
• Ravi’s many-splendoured genius with the ‘other’ singers (12/15/2019)
• Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 3 (12/6/2019)
• Ravi’s ‘other’ female playback singer: Lata Mangeshkar (11/28/2019)
• Ravi: Booster rocket for Mahendra Kapoor (11/18/2019)
• Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 2 (11/9/2019)
• Sachin Karta’s Last Visit to Agartala (10/31/2019)
• SD Burman: Pioneer in Composing Tune First (10/24/2019)
• SD Burman: ‘The Courage of His Convictions’ (Establishes Geeta Dutt As a Frontline Singer) (10/16/2019)
• SD Burman: ‘The Courage of His Convictions’ (Has his way on Hemant Kumar) (10/8/2019)
• ‘Would there ever be another Lata Mangeshkar?’ (9/28/2019)
• Shakeel Badayuni: Revitalising bond with Ravi (9/18/2019)
• Ravi and Asha Bhosle: A class combination (9/8/2019)
• Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri: Two lyricists in tandem and contrast (8/30/2019)
• Ravi’s best duets for Rafi (8/20/2019)
• Book Review: “Incomparable Sachin Dev Burman” (8/10/2019)
• Rafi’s best songs by Ravi (7/31/2019)
• Ek bangala bane nyara (7/17/2019)
• Bharat Vyas: Lyricist Extraordinaire in Hindi (7/4/2019)
• Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 1 (6/26/2019)
• Hemant Kumar’s duets with ‘other’ singers (6/16/2019)
• Songs of Yore completes nine years (6/7/2019)
• Chorus Songs in the Hindi Films of Yore: Part 3 (5/26/2019)
• Chorus Songs in the Hindi Films of Yore: Part 2 (5/14/2019)
• Chorus Songs in the Hindi Films of Yore: Part 1 (5/2/2019)
• व्याकरण, उच्चारण और उत्पीड़न (4/22/2019)
• Best songs of 1946: And the winners are? (4/11/2019)
• The Unified Theory of Fools (4/1/2019)
• Barahmasa in film songs (3/21/2019)
• The silent giant-killer and the man of many-splendoured talents: Ravi (3/7/2019)
• The real mesmeriser Talat Mahmood: His best non-film songs (2/24/2019)
• MADHUBALA: The Bewitching Beauty of Bollywood (2/14/2019)
• Tujhe chaand ke ‘bahaane’ dekhun ki ‘chhat’ par aa ja goriye (2/5/2019)
• Romancing the Pardesi (1/26/2019)
• Greatness in the shadow of the giants: Pandit Shyam Sundar (1/14/2019)
• Swing a song of sixpence (1/1/2019)

2018

• Remembering my father and the legend Madan Mohan (12/25/2018)
• Rafi’s best duets by Madan Mohan (12/14/2018)
• Best songs of 1947: Final Wrap Up 4 (12/4/2018)
• In the Musical Memory of Meena Kapoor (11/23/2018)
• Roshan’s songs for ‘other’ singers (11/16/2018)
• Rafi’s duets by Roshan (11/5/2018)
• The Faint Echoes of the October Revolution: A Centenary of the Capricious Philosophy in the Socio-political life! (10/24/2018)
• Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 3 (10/11/2018)
• Madan Mohan’s tuning with Lata Mangeshkar (9/28/2018)
• King of Ghazal Talat Mahmood with Ghazal Maestros Madan Mohan and Roshan (9/18/2018)
• Roshan aur Madan Mohan ki Asha (9/8/2018)
• Best of Mukesh by Roshan and Madan Mohan (8/27/2018)
• ‘Forgotten Artists of Early Cinema and The Same Name Confusion’ (8/18/2018)
• The Master of Qawwali Roshan and some hidden qawwalis of Madan Mohan (8/9/2018)
• Rafi’s best songs by Madan Mohan (7/31/2018)
• Sajjad Hussain, Bollywood’s Loss (7/21/2018)
• Roshan & Madan Mohan: Twin Towers of Rhapsody (7/14/2018)
• Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 2 (7/4/2018)
• Best songs of 1947: Wrap Up 1 (6/25/2018)
• Suraiya: The Last Nightingale of Bollywood (6/15/2018)
• Songs of Yore completes eight years (6/7/2018)
• Greatness in the shadow of the giants: Bulo C Rani (5/24/2018)
• The path, the traveller, the journey and the destination (5/12/2018)
• Talat Mahmood: A Mesmeriser (5/9/2018)
• Songs of stars (4/28/2018)
• Songs that tell a story (4/17/2018)
• Best songs of 1947: And the winners are? (4/1/2018)
• Tasveer exhibits of Bollywood (3/22/2018)
• Parody songs: Part 2 (3/12/2018)
• Parody songs: Part 1 (3/2/2018)
• Around the World in Songs (2/18/2018)
• Bharat Darshan in Songs (2): Metros (2/6/2018)
• Bharat Darshan in Songs (1): Small towns (1/26/2018)
• Nuptials in Bollywood (1/14/2018)
• It’s prose, It’s recitation, It’s a song (1/1/2018)

2017

• Best songs of 1948: Final Wrap Up 4 (12/25/2017)
• OP Nayyar unlike OP Nayyar (12/14/2017)
• Duets of OP Nayyar: Part 2 (12/3/2017)
• Duets of OP Nayyar: Part 1 (11/23/2017)
• Best songs of 1948: Wrap Up 3 (11/12/2017)
• Waterfalls in Bollywood (11/2/2017)
• Best songs of 1948: Wrap Up 2 (10/23/2017)
• Best songs of Kishore Kumar 1.0 (10/13/2017)
• Lata Mangeshkar’s best songs by Hemant Kumar (9/28/2017)
• Best songs of 1948 songs: Wrap Up 1 (9/18/2017)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies: S Mohinder (9/8/2017)
• OP Nayyar’s influence on other Music Directors (8/31/2017)
• Asymmetric Duets (8/21/2017)
• The first duo Husnlal-Bhagatram (2): Their songs for ‘other’ singers (8/11/2017)
• MEENA KUMARI: An enigma (8/1/2017)
• OP Nayyar-Geeta Dutt: A peerless combination (7/20/2017)
• The first duo Husnlal-Bhagatram (1): Their songs for Suraiya, Lata Mangeshkar and Rafi (7/11/2017)
• One hundred years of Sarat Chandra’s ‘Devdas’ (6/30/2017)
• Cycle trails of Bollywood (6/19/2017)
• Songs of Yore completes seven years (6/7/2017)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (12) – A morning with Asavari/Jaunpuri (5/27/2017)
• Shankar Jaikishan’s duets (2) (5/16/2017)
• Beena madhur madhur kacchu bol (5/6/2017)
• Shankar-Jaikishan’s duets (1): Mukesh/Rafi with female singers (4/25/2017)
• Shamshad Begum with 3G (4/14/2017)
• Some unique good good songs (4/1/2017)
• Best songs of 1948: And the winners are? (3/22/2017)
• “Whose father’s what goes?” (3/13/2017)
• Film songs in classical ragas (11) – The evocative duo: Mand and Shivranjani (2/28/2017)
• Hundreds of shades of Pyaar (2/14/2017)
• Flowers bloom in Bollywood (2/5/2017)
• The three distinct phases of OP Nayyar’s career (1/28/2017)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (10) – Bihag and its family (1/19/2017)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (11): Dilip Dholakia (1/10/2017)
• Steam behemoth rides in Bollywood (1/1/2017)

2016

• Best songs of 1949: Final Wrap Up 5 (12/24/2016)
• MS Subbulakshmi: A journey from Kunjamma to Meera (12/11/2016)
• Shankar-Jaikishan’s multi-faceted genius with ‘other’ singers (12/1/2016)
• Best songs of 1949: Wrap Up 4 (11/20/2016)
• Some great songs of Lata Mangeshkar by Shankar-Jaikishan (11/9/2016)
• Bollywood celebrates Deepavali (10/30/2016)
• Songs of Angana (10/19/2016)
• Bacchus in Bollywood (10/9/2016)
• Best songs of 1949: Wrap Up 3 (9/28/2016)
• Dekho Dosto Chhed Ka Maza! (9/18/2016)
• Best songs of Asha Bhosle by OP Nayyar (9/8/2016)
• Mukesh’s vintage duets (8/27/2016)
• “Kuchh to log kahenge” (8/18/2016)
• The Unforgotten and Unremembered Genius Jaidev (8/9/2016)
• My favourite Rafi songs by Shankar-Jaikshan (7/31/2016)
• Shankar-Jaikishan’s songs for Mukesh (7/22/2016)
• Best songs of 1949: Wrap Up 2 (7/13/2016)
• Star showers in Bollywood (7/4/2016)
• Best songs of 1949: Wrap Up 1 (6/25/2016)
• Romance of letters (6/16/2016)
• Songs of Yore completes six years (6/7/2016)
• Shankar-Jaikishan’s female dance duets (5/29/2016)
• Moon and Mumbai (Bollywood) (5/20/2016)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies: Iqbal Qureshi (5/10/2016)
• Manna Dey’s songs by Shankar-Jaikishan (5/1/2016)
• The Swar Kokila Kanan Devi (4/22/2016)
• Shamshad Begum’s songs by OP Nayyar (4/14/2016)
• Best songs of 1949: And the winners are? (4/3/2016)
• Ode to the Great Indian Family (3/24/2016)
• Best duets of the not-so-unloved Mahendra Kapoor (3/14/2016)
• Tonga in the Tinsel World (3/5/2016)
• The Unlucky Genius Ghulam Mohammad’s best songs for Talat Mahmood (2/24/2016)
• Shankar-Jaikishan’s dance songs for Lata Mangeshkar (2/12/2016)
• Multiple Versions Songs (24): Songs having versions across different films – similar initial lyrics in mukhada (1/31/2016)
• Bollywood’s love affair with Horse (1/20/2016)
• Best songs of the most unloved singer Mahendra Kapoor (1/9/2016)
• An aviary of Songs (1/1/2016)

2015

• Naushad’s Priceless Moment: ‘Anmol Ghadi’ (12/25/2015)
• C Ramchandra as Chitalkar (12/14/2015)
• Naushad’s gems before ‘Rattan’ (1944) (12/3/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: Final Wrap Up 5 (11/22/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 4 (11/11/2015)
• Ten best songs (solos) composed by SD Burman (10/31/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 3 (10/19/2015)
• First male dancer of Hindi films: Mumtaz Ali (10/9/2015)
• The Great Mughal and The Empress of playback singing (9/28/2015)
• Asha Bhosle with reluctant Naushad and C Ramchandra: Part 2 (duets) (9/18/2015)
• Asha Bhosle with reluctant Naushad and C Ramchandra: Part 1 (solos) (9/8/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 2 (8/29/2015)
• Naushad’s Long-distance Duets of Separation (8/19/2015)
• The Master of Masters Khemchand Prakash (8/10/2015)
• C Ramchandra-Naushad comparison and contrast with Rafi (7/31/2015)
• Naushad’s exceptional Mukesh (7/22/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: Wrap Up 1 (7/12/2015)
• Multiple Versions Songs (23): A Male / Female solo / duet or a Chorus – More than two versions of a song (7/3/2015)
• Multiple Versions Songs (22): Female Solo and A Duet or A Chorus (6/24/2015)
• Naushad’s “The Singing Girl Next Door”: Suraiya (6/15/2015)
• Songs of Yore completes five years (6/7/2015)
• Best songs of 1950: And the winners are? (5/23/2015)
• Multiple Versions Songs (21): Male solo and Duet or Chorus (Part II) (5/14/2015)
• Raju Bharatan’s ‘Naushadnama’ (5/5/2015)
• Shamshad Begum songs by C Ramchandra (4/23/2015)
• Shamshad Begum songs by Naushad (4/14/2015)
• Some thoughts on taxonomic-mathematical analysis of Hindi films and songs (4/1/2015)
• Tennis, Pathakji and ‘Tere sadke balam’ (3/22/2015)
• Naushad-C Ramchandra duel for Amirbai Karnataki (3/15/2015)
• Songs of Holi (3/6/2015)
• Talat Mahmood by Naushad and C Ramchandra (2/24/2015)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (9) – Pilu (2/15/2015)
• Kavi Pradeep: The singer of Message Songs (2/6/2015)
• OP Nayyar’s quintessential Rafi (1/28/2015)
• Multiple Versions Songs (20): Male Solo and Duet or Chorus (1/20/2015)
• The Master of Musical Comedies C Ramchandra and his ‘Patanga’ (1949) (1/12/2015)
• The Jewel in the Crown of Naushad: ‘Rattan’ (1944) (1/1/2015)

2014

• Down the memory lane with ‘Anil Da’ (12/25/2014)
• Best songs of 1951: Final Wrap-Up 5 (12/13/2014)
• Best songs of 1951: Wrap-Up 4 (12/1/2014)
• The revolutionary music genius: Salil Chaudhary (11/19/2014)
• Anil Biswas’s songs for Bombay Saigal: Surendra (11/11/2014)
• The Doyenne of Vintage Era: Khursheed (11/1/2014)
• Best songs of 1951: Wrap Up 3 (10/23/2014)
• Kishore Kumar’s duets by SD Burman (10/13/2014)
• The Lonely Ghazal Queen: Begum Akhtar (10/7/2014)
• The Swar-Saamraagyi and the the Sangeet-Maartand: Best of Lata Mangeshkar by Anil Biswas (9/28/2014)
• Hemant Kumar’s songs by SD Burman (9/17/2014)
• Best Songs of 1951: Wrap Up 2 (9/6/2014)
• Made for each other: Mukesh and Kalyanji-Anandji (8/27/2014)
• Aao bachcho tumhein dikhayen jhanki….ki (8/15/2014)
• Multiple Version Songs (18): Hindi-Telugu exchange (8/8/2014)
• Rafi’s duets by SD Burman (7/31/2014)
• The Maker of Mukesh: Anil Biswas (7/22/2014)
• Remembering Anil Biswas, The Singer (7/7/2014)
• Best songs of 1951: Wrap Up 1 (6/26/2014)
• Suraiya’s songs by SD Burman (6/15/2014)
• Songs of Yore completes four years (6/7/2014)
• The incredible brother-sister in music: Anil Biswas’s songs for Parul Ghosh (5/27/2014)
• Multiple Versions Songs (17): Haunting Melodies in Different Moods And Settings (5/17/2014)
• Multiple Version Songs (16): Rabindra Sangeet and Pankaj Mullick (5/7/2014)
• East meets West: Shamshad Begum’s songs by SD Burman (4/23/2014)
• Best songs of 1951: And the winners are? (4/10/2014)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (9): Lachhiram (3/30/2014)
• A ‘serious’ review of Sangam (1964) in its Golden Jubilee Year (3/17/2014)
• Talat Mahmood’s songs by SD Burman (3/6/2014)
• The Mentor and the Protégé: Talat Mahmood songs by Anil Biswas (2/24/2014)
• Songs of Atariya (2/12/2014)
• Door Papiha Bola: Suraiya by Anil Biswas (1/31/2014)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (8) – In the royal presence of Darbari (1/21/2014)
• KC Dey: The divine singer with inner vision (1/11/2014)
• Anil Biswas: The Maestro and My Father (1/1/2014)

2013

• Best songs of 1953: Final Wrap Up 4 (12/21/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (15): In the ‘Realm of Remakes’ – Hindi to Tamil (12/10/2013)
• Sudha Malhotra: The last of the niche singers of the Golden Era (11/30/2013)
• KC Dey’s songs in ‘Devdas’ (1935) (11/20/2013)
• The ultimate SD Burman: His pure Bengali songs (11/10/2013)
• Remembering SD Burman’s Manna Dey (10/31/2013)
• SD Burman’s Bengali songs and their Hindi versions (10/22/2013)
• Kishore Kumar’s best songs by SD Burman (10/13/2013)
• Best songs of 1953: Wrap Up 3 (10/6/2013)
• Lata Mangeshkar’s best songs by SD Burman (9/28/2013)
• Best songs of 1953: Wrap Up 2 (9/18/2013)
• Asha Bhosle’s best songs by SD Burman (9/8/2013)
• Mukesh’s best songs by SD Burman (8/27/2013)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (8): Avinash Vyas (8/20/2013)
• Best songs of 1953: Wrap Up 1 (8/8/2013)
• Rafi’s best songs by SD Burman (7/31/2013)
• Geeta Dutt’s best songs by SD Burman (7/20/2013)
• Best songs of 1953: And the winners are? (7/9/2013)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (7): Jamal Sen (7/1/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (13): Hindi and Tamil film songs (3) – Dance (r) s of Deccan (6/23/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (12): Similar songs in Hindi and Kannada (6/15/2013)
• Songs of Yore completes three years (6/7/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (11): Similar songs in Hindi and Malayalam (5/30/2013)
• Multiple Versions Songs (10): Gujarati to, and fro, Hindi (film) songs (2) (5/22/2013)
• Multiple Versions Songs (9) : Gujarati to, and fro, Hindi (film) songs (1) (5/14/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (8): Hindi-Tamil film songs (2) Songs from Dubbed Versions (5/6/2013)
• In conversation with Minoo Mumtaz (4/26/2013)
• Caught stealing from ‘Songs of Yore’, two Harvard students sadden me (4/20/2013)
• ‘Mere piya gaye Rangoon’ and some more Indo-Burmese links (4/14/2013)
• Multiple Versions Songs (7) – Both versions by female playback singers (2) – A Happy and A Sad Version (4/5/2013)
• Romancing the dunce or ‘Mahamoorkhon Ke Gaane’ (3/27/2013)
• Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (7) – Desh and Tilak Kamod (3/16/2013)
• Multiple Versions Songs (6) – Both versions by female playback singer(s) (1) – Abhi To Main Jawan Hun (3/6/2013)
• Best duets of Talat Mahmood and Asha Bhosle (2/24/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (5): Hindi and Tamil film songs (1) – ‘Inspired and adopted’ songs (2/15/2013)
• Multiple Version songs (4): Hindi and Marathi (2/6/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (3): Both versions by male playback singers – Different Moods (1/29/2013)
• Multiple Version Songs (2): Both versions by male playback singers – Happy and A Sad Song (1/17/2013)
• An evening with Mubarak Begum (1/5/2013)

2012

• Best songs of 1955: Final Wrap Up 4 (12/25/2012)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (5): The Majestic Malkauns (12/11/2012)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (6): The Majestic Malkauns (12/11/2012)
• Forgotten actor-singer of New Theatres: Asit Baran (11/27/2012)
• Multiple Version Songs (1): An overview of different types (11/13/2012)
• SD Burman: His wonderful landscape of non-film songs (10/31/2012)
• A novice’s romance with Raga Durga (10/21/2012)
• Best songs of 1955: Wrap Up 3 (10/9/2012)
• Best Songs of 1955: Wrap Up 2 (9/28/2012)
• Songs of Kinare (9/17/2012)
• Songs of Jigar (9/7/2012)
• Mukesh and his romance with ‘Dil’ (8/27/2012)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (4): The romantic quartet (8/13/2012)
• Best songs of Rafi by Roshan (7/31/2012)
• Songs of Naiya (7/16/2012)
• Songs of River (7/1/2012)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (3) – Music from the mountains (6/17/2012)
• Songs of Yore completes two years (6/7/2012)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (6): Pardesi (5/22/2012)
• Best songs of 1955: Wrap Up 1 (5/9/2012)
• Film songs based on classical ragas (2) – A date with Yaman (4/26/2012)
• Best songs of 1955: And the winners are! (4/9/2012)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (5): Sardar Malik (3/21/2012)
• Some perspectives on Jhumka gira re (3/8/2012)
• Duets of Talat Mahmood: Breaking the image trap (2/24/2012)
• Suraiya: The Last Singing Star (1/31/2012)
• Best non-film songs of KL Saigal (1/18/2012)

2011

• Naushad’s best songs for Mohammad Rafi (12/24/2011)
• Dilip Kumar’s many voices (12/12/2011)
• Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (4): Shailesh Mukherjee (12/6/2011)
• Roshan: the great melody maker for Lata Mangeshkar (11/16/2011)
• Best film songs based on classical ragas (11/7/2011)
• Forgotten Composers, Unforgettable Melodies (3) – C Arjun (10/27/2011)
• Kishore Kumar – The best mad, crazy, comic songs (10/13/2011)
• My favourite Lata Mangeshkar songs by C Ramchandra (9/28/2011)
• Mukesh’s best happy duets (9/17/2011)
• My favourite ‘special’ Asha Bhosle songs (9/8/2011)
• My favourite happy songs of Mukesh (8/27/2011)
• Forgotten Composers, Unforgettable Melodies (2) – Vinod (8/13/2011)
• My favourite Rafi – Lata duets (7/31/2011)
• My favourite zulf songs (7/9/2011)
• Forgotten Composers, Unforgettable Melodies (1) – Daan Singh (6/20/2011)
• Songs of Yore completes one year (6/7/2011)
• New Theatres’ romance with Prem (5/29/2011)
• My favourite Pankaj Mullick songs (5/10/2011)
• Some timeless songs of Jagjit Kaur (4/24/2011)
• Best Hindi film songs of Subir Sen (4/12/2011)
• The World Cup mania: A song to cricket (4/1/2011)
• Kamal Barot – A tangy flavour to music (3/21/2011)
• The ‘other’ Madan Mohan (3/3/2011)
• Mukesh not the only voice of Raj Kapur (2/3/2011)
• Best of Mahendra Kapoor-OP Nayyar (1/9/2011)

2010

• A Mahendra Kapur-Sahir Ludhiyanvi-Ravi classic (12/20/2010)
• Mohammad Rafi versus Kishore Kumar (11/14/2010)
• Hemant Kumar-Lata Mangeshkar duets (10/21/2010)
• Suman Kalyanpur outshines Lata Mangeshkar (10/4/2010)
• Lata Mangeshkar vs Noorjehan (9/14/2010)
• Remembering Mughal-e-Azam’s Music (8/22/2010)
• Chitragupta – Magic Maker with Lata Mangeshkar (8/13/2010)
• Twin songs: A front runner and a laggard (7/31/2010)
• Door Papiha Bola (6/18/2010)
• Well Done Abba: Mainstreaming of the ‘Muslim’ in Hindi films (6/7/2010)