Sunil Ganguly
♬ Are Diwano Mujhe Pehchano Sunil Ganguly was born at Sonamura village in Tripura, which is a state in North East India. He was one of the first musicians to popularize guitar in Bengali music in the...
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♬ Crazy Girl The Tremolos were from apparently from Madras, which is the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. For the most part, the majority of the music produce in India, is either...
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♬ Kazi Aniruddha • Main Hoon Pyar Tera ♬ Kazi Arindam • Fever The term “Bollywood” originally referred to Bombay’s (now known as Mumbai) Hindi language film industry. Although there are a number of...
View ArticleCharanjit Singh
♬ Hey Mujhe Dil De ♬ Lekar Ham Diwana Dil Bollywood film music of India is commonly refered to as “filmi music” (from Hindi, meaning “of films”). Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded...
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♬ Jingle Bells ♬ Santa Clause Is Coming To Town Even though it is sometimes referred to as Hindustan, not everyone in India is Hindu. Granted, over eighty percent is Hindu, and another thirteen percent...
View ArticleBarum Kumar Pal
♬ Raju Chal Raju Information. Much like history, it depends on who you ask. And everyone has different story. You know the saying, “written in stone”? Well, it’s not a solid thing. It’s very fluid. You...
View ArticleVan Shipley
♬ Roz Roz Rozi [Note: This is a re-print of a guest post that I wrote for Jonathon Ward’s amazing Excavated Shellac back in September of last year. For that post there is a song from one of Van...
View ArticleBatuk Nandy
♬ Laila O Laila While plodding through Peter Manuel‘s “Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India“, I had a revelation: Filmi music makes up 72% of all music sales in India, but only...
View ArticleUsha Uthup
♬ Christmas, Merry Christmas ♬ Sinner, Come to Me When most people think of the Pop music of India, they think of filmi – the music of India’s film industry. But there were a few other options – albeit...
View ArticleKazi Aniruddha
♬ Sukno Patar Nupur Paye Kazi Aniruddha is mostly known – at least in the Western World – for his steel guitar versions of Bollywood songs. But to a large portion of the population of the Indian...
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Pankaj Bose
♬ Rote Hue ♬ Ye Mera Dil While the Hawaiian steel guitar is the most prevalent when it comes to Bollywood covers, the “mouth organ” – or harmonica – is probably the second most common. I have seen a...
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Jagannath Dhar
♬ Peete Peete Kabhi Yun Jaam For years, I was under the impression that EMI – and its subsidiaries Angle, HMV and Odeon – had a monopoly on the music industry in India. That was at least until the...
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Milan Deb
♬ Aap Jaisa Koi ♬ Chhookar Mere Manko How could I resist that cover, right? I haven’t been able to find anything on Milan Deb. He did record at least one other single for the Senola label that was die...
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Mukesh Karia
♬ Thokar Pe ♬ Kuchh Khone Ko Dil Mukesh Karia released three singles of instrumental versions of film songs.on the Gathani label between 1977 and 1979. If you have any further information, please...
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ରାଧାରାଣୀ ମିଶ୍ର ସହିତ ଭାସ୍କର ପୁହାଶ୍ର
♬ Aaji Mote Laagena Nida / ଅଜି ମୋଟେ ଲାଗେନା ନିଡ I have always been fascinated by languages and fonts – especially non-Latin characters. There are 22 official languages in India – which does not include...
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Jayanti & Honey
♬ Pyar Karne Wale ♬ Yen Bambai Shahar Contrary to what the cover may convey, this is not a Bollywood Bluegrass album. Regrettably, that genre has yet to materialize. The banjo is only featured on one...
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Revival
♬ Seventy Time Seven ♬ Judgement Day India is not the first place that comes to mind when you think about Christian Rock, but Christianity is the third largest religious group behind Hinduism and...
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Senkar Kumar Sarkar
♬ Sujan Majhi Re / সুজন মাঝি রে Senkar Kumar Sarkar was, to the best of my knowledge, from India. This is his sole recording, released by the Ashoka label – which was in business from as early as...
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