After reading the lively debate about Rafi and Ghantashala, I'm
tempted to bring another debate into focus---- that of Rafi and
Yesudas. Like Ghantashala, Yesudas also had training in Carnatic
music. His guru being none other than the great Chembai Vaidyanatha
Bhagvathar. But unlike Ghantashala, Yesudas has a filmi voice. He
combines the classical singing prowess with a filmi voice. The voice
of Ghantashala reminds me of Kannada singer P.B.Sreenivas.

Those who are not familiar with Yesudas's output in southern films,
could rate him by his Hindi songs. But I think his songs for southern
films, particularly Malayalam, are far superior. He has sung classical
and light romantic songs with equal verve. No wonder he is already a
legend in South India. In fact he does carnatic music concerts
regularly. Though purists haven't accepted him as a complete Carnatic
musician none could find fault with his voice.

His best songs came in the period from sixties to eighties when his
voice was best. His voice quality declined from the nineties though he
still manages to sing good songs. Could somebody post videos of his
classical film songs in South Indian languages?

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This may have been discussed before. If so, my apologies for not
checking the RMIM archives.

Listen to this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNuIZgh8b8

HFGK, Vol 4 (page 100) credits this song (Raste mein jo anjane from
the movie Akeli Mat Jaiyo) to Lata & Rafi. It sounds more like Asha &
Rafi to me. Surjit ji, this time I very carefully checked the Addenda
and Corrigenda and there is no correction. Is it possible that Asha
sang in the movie and Lata sang in the gramaphone record?
Narsingh

There was a Gurbani telecast on Geo TV around 7:15 pm EST today. The
words were "Maadho sat sang..." Can someone please provide any info on
this Gurbani. I am looking for lyric and the name of singer. I found a
kirtan by Bhai Sarabjit on youtube, but that doesn't sound like what
we (my mother and I) heard. Since its a Pakistani channel, the singer
is probably Pakistani too.

Hema.

On the 8th of November, 1902, Miss Shashimukhi became the first Indian to
record songs for the Gramophone Company. The record number was 13024. The
song was "AMI KI SAJANI KUSUMERI" in Bengali.
Miss Phanibala became the second recording artiste the same day. Her first
record number was 13025. The song was "SARAL MONE SARAL PRANEY" in Bengali.
She recorded her next song "JATONA DITEY AMAY" the same day and the record
number was 13026. I cannot say whether any of these were classical or
not.
Three days later, on the 11th of November, 1902, Miss Saila Bai (alias
Miss Sili Bai)became the third Indian artiste to sing for the Company. Her
first record number was 13029. Miss Saila Bai recorded several songs on
that day , her record numbers extending from 13029 to 13036. Her songs
were classified...

interesting group and nice to see people having great knowledge about
music in different forms...however, i am surprised that no one
mentioned about the great muzra composition by jaidev in 'mujhe jeene
do'...raat bhi hai kuch bheegi bheegi, chaand bhi hai kuch maddham
maddham...tum aao to aankhein khole, soi hui payal ki chum
chum...jaidev at his best on harmonium and even lyrics are
great...please listen and enjoy

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In fact this stanza hummed by Mukri was quite clear. There was one
more stanza by Mukri in the film which went like :

dushman gaye ke....................dosti gayii
dushman gaye ke dost kinaare chale gaye

anybody knows the full lyrics of Majrooh saab's gem ?

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Here's a beautiful video of MS Subbulakshmi singing the famous bengali
song by Dwijendralal Roy - Dhana Dhanye Pushpe Bhara...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5VHsHDq_t4

She sings only two of the stanzas, not the entire song (), and, in the
middle of the song, she sings one verse in Sanskrit, which sounds as
beautiful as the rest of the song, but I couldn't get the lyrics due
to my limited knowledge of Sanskrit. I'd really appreciate if
somebody could post the words of that verse.

- Partha