The Micro View of The Best Songs of 1950 @ Songs of Yore – Male Solo Songs – Talat Mahmood

We listened to Mukesh’s solo songs in our last episodeas part of our journey through the ‘Best songs of 1950: And the winners are?.

We would now pick solo songs of Talat Mahmood.

Talat Mahmood had two great films – Arzoo (Anil Biswas) and Babul (Naushad) this year. With so much astounding commercial success, it was quite ironical that Talat Mahmood had a very short association with Anil Biswas and with Naushad Babul was the only one. They did one more song a good 18 years later (Aadmi- 1968 – Kaisi Haseen Ye Baharon Ki Raat Hai) which also got overturned in the final take !

Be that as it may, we have here a very wide range of songs to listen to :

1. Jab kisi ke rukh pe zulfein aa ke lahrane lagin – Anmol Ratan – DN Madhok – Vinod

2. Ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal – Arzoo – Majrooh Sultanpuri – Anil Biswas

3. Husnwaalon ko na dil do – Babul – Shakeel Badayuni- Naushad

4. Mera jeewan saathi bichhad gaya – Babul – Shakeel Badayuni – Naushad

5. Sundarata ke sabhi shikaari – Jogan – Pt Indra – Bulo C Rani

6. Mitne De Meri Zindagi – Meharbani -Shewan Rizvi – Hafeez Khan

Additional songs sourced from Hindi Film Geet Kosh, with the support of YT:

7. Sooni Kar Gaye Sham Hamari Soona Kiya Savera – Wafa – Dina Nath Madhok – Vinod

8. Ban Than Ke Chali, Saj Dhaj Ke Chali– Bhai Bahen – Ishwar Chandra Kapoor – Shyam Sundar

9. Jalti Hai Duniya, Jalti Rahegi, O Dilwale Pyar Kiye Ja – Kamal Ke Phool – Rajendra Krishna – Shyam Sundar

While searching on YT, this great Non-Film Song is also said to be created in 1950:

10. Mera Pyar Mujhe Lauta Do – Sajjan – V Balsara

Author: ASHOK M VAISHNAV

In July 2011, I opted to retire from my active career as a practicing management professional. In the 38 years that I pursued this career, I had opportunity to work in diverse capacities, in small-to-medium-to-large engineering companies. Whether I was setting up Greenfield projects or Brownfield projects, nurturing the new start-ups or accelerating the stabilized unit to a next phase growth, I had many more occasions to take the paths uncharted. The life then was so challenging! One of the biggest casualty in that phase was my disregards towards my hobbies - Be with The Family, Enjoy Music form Films of 1940s to mid-1970s period, write on whatever I liked to read, pursue amateur photography and indulge in solving the chess problems. So I commenced my Second Innings to focus on this area of my life as the primary occupation. At the end of four years, I am now quite a regular blogger. I have been able to build a few very strong pen-relationships. I maintain contact with 38-years of my First Innings as freelance trainer and process facilitator. And yet, The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. View all posts by ASHOK M VAISHNAV