Help Identify These Unknown Singers

admin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:50:12 +0000

HMV released four cassette set of Vintage Favourites From Films – The Earliest Hindi Film Hits from 1932 – 1942 long time ago. It was a good collection of rare and old Hindi film songs from 30s and early 40s. The covers of this 4 cassette set had pictures of 14 vintage singers from that era. HMV didn’t provide any information on who is who on these covers… I was able to identify most of them except few.. and I need yours help to identify them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Vintage Favourites - Part 1

Vintage Favourites - Part 2

Vintage Favourites - Part 3

Vintage Favourites - Part 4

1. Ashok Kumar

2. Juthika Roy?

3. Saraswati Devi

4. Surendra

5. Pankaj Mullick

6. Ashok Kumar

7. Pankaj Mullick

8. Probably Kanan Devi?

9. Probably Khursheed Begum?

10. Shamshad Begum

11. Noor Jehan

12. K.L. Saigal

13. Suraiya

14. ?

Also help me identify two more unknown singers from black and white era.

Who is she?

Who is she and the guy next to her?

Errors made by Recording Companies – Dekh chand ki Or (Aag – 1948)

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:04:07 +0000

Shamshad Begum - The Golden Collection

Today I was listening to the “The Golden Collection – Shamshad Begum” 2 CD set and that prompted me to write this post. If you are an avid collector of old records or just a careful listener.. have you ever noticed how many times reputed recording companies like EMI, HMV etc goofed up the credits of either singers, music directors or lyricists on their cassette or CD jackets?

Shamshad Begum - The Golden Collection - Credits

Song 4 on first CD “Dekh chand ki Or” from Aag (1948) is one good example of such goof ups. It is erroneously attributed to Shamshad Begum and Sailesh, when in fact this song is sung by Meena Kapoor and Sailesh. Just a casual hearing of this song is enough to tell you that this song is NOT sung by Shamshad Begum. But still on Youtube and many other places this song is attributed to her.

All other songs of this film involving female voice were sung by Shamshad Begum which may partially be responsible for attributing this song to Shamshad Begum. Also, Shamshad DID sing this song but only for 78 rpm record. The film version was sung by Meena Kapoor. Without doing the proper research, HMV attributed the film version to Shamshad Begum and released it in Shamshad Begum’s collection, which I think is an insult to both artistes. I will post more errors like these in the future, but for now you can enjoy both versions below :-

Version 1 (The famous film version sung by Meena Kapoor and Sailesh and erroneously attributed to Shamshad Begum) :-

Dekh Chand ki Or – Version 1

Version 2 (The rare 78 rpm record version actually sung by Shamshad Begum and Sailesh) :-

Dekh Chand ki Or – Version 2

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Help Identify These Unknown Singers

Errors made by Recording Companies – Dekh chand ki Or (Aag – 1948)