The Three Reigning Queens

(Madhubala) Pardes (1950)

Here is one of my favorite albums of Ghulam Mohammed Saab. This one boasts several beautiful songs. It has one of my favorite solo of Shamshadji, "Mere Ghungharwaale Baal". It is so sensational that you feel like swinging to the tune the way Shamshadji sings with such gay abandon. Then there is an utterly delightful duet of Lata and Rafi Saab, "Ankhiyan Mila Ke". This song was composed with so much zest that you are envigorated with its melody. The song contrasts Lata's melosonically sweet young voice to that of the deep vocals of Rafi Saab that has a touch of strong inflection and a distinctive and decisive tinge in the style of singing. Lata also has another five beautiful solos. Ghulam Mohammed Saab was such a great composer and you wonder why he never got his due. It is a pity.

The album has nine songs. I am uploading seven of them here. The two missing songs are shown in red italics in the table below. I am requesting members to share these songs if they can. Thank you.

Now for the songs ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Oct 26 2009, 11:32 AM

Great upload Swarapriya. One often wonders about the extremely talented lot, the mainstream success and its elusiveness. Such musings take on subtle shades of mood and meaning. They are at times perhaps a bit like melodious random notes on a harmonica. Like sunlight sifting through trees on the face of a sleepy traveller on the train. The fleeting twinge of sadness for some may be a tranquil yet surreal personal moment for others.

SP,

Here is one missing song of Pardes. The song audio originated from HF member.

Mohammad Rafi, Shamshad Begum:
main hoon badaa naseebon waalaa, naseebon waalaa
o huaa tera meraa pyaar phataafat, phataafat (3:25 \ 128)


Exon

This post has been edited by Exon: Oct 26 2009, 08:14 AM

Thank you. There is so much beauty buried in the expressions of your lovely and beautiful thoughts. These are the types of things that I helplessly and sometimes hopelessly fell in love with. I feel like that sleepy traveller on the train except in this case the sunlight is occasionally sifting through on my face as well. What a great feeling. I feel that tranquility to be a personal surreal moment for myself ...

Love it.

Cheers,
Swarapriya

My Dear Exon,

My wholehearted thanks for repeatedly coming to my "rescue". Cheers.

Swarapriya

(Meena) Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag (1952)
Also Known As "Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp"

This story was made into a movie so many times, it seems like in almost all languages of the world. In Hindi alone it was made a few times. There is a question whether the music for this movie was composed by either Tripathi and Chitragupt together or Tripathi alone. Many references I have seen seems to suggest that it was by both of them.

Chitragupt also sang a couple of songs in this movie. Interestingly, Chitragupt gave music to another movie of the same title (the title of the Hindi movie was in English) made 20 years later in 1972.

This story was made into a movie in Telugu as well in 1957. I will upload its songs in this section after uploading the Hindi songs.

Here are the songs of the Hindi version ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Oct 31 2009, 06:27 AM

Aladdin Adbhuta Deepam (1957) - A Telugu Film

This movie was either shot partly in color or fully in color. They went to Kashmir to picturize some of the songs. Songs are nice and the scenery was good. But the movie itself was a bomb. Here are the songs ...

dear swarpriya

I have one song sung by rafi sahib tagged as from film roomal in my library. this song is not listed above. after checking earthmusic i found it is from roomal so i am uploading it pl confirm its tagging

romesh

hum panchhi the bawre--dil toota aur armaan lute---rafi--160kbps--3.12mts



quote=romesh

Thanks for the song Romesh. Yes. It is tagged as from "Roomal (1949)". -S

thanks for the quick response

romesh

Romesh, I had already uploaded this songs as Hum Panchhi The Baawre.
Aditya

(Nargis) Aadhi Raat (1950)

Songs of this album were recently uploaded by our fellow member Romesh in the Legends > Legendary Music Directors > Husnlal - Bhagatram section under the thread "Aadhi Raat-1950/8 Songs". These are still active and can be accessed at the following location ...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=82302

Thank you very much Romesh for the songs ...

These songs are sooo sweet!! Thanks for finding them and sharing them.
nandi

You're very welcome, Nandi. Cheers. -S

(Madhubala) Aaraam (1951)

Here are some pretty good songs from this album. Couple of these came from CD collections and others are by the courtesy of the Forum members. Thank you. I have longer versions of most of these songs but their quality is so terrible that I have decided to not upload them. But the quality of these songs I am uploading here is fine. Here they are ...