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S D Burman [Hindi]
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Jeevan ke safar mein raahi [Film: Munimji]
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Inspired from The Mexican hat dance!
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Listen to
Jeevan
ke safar | Mexican
Hat Dance
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The original of SD Burman's 'Jeevan ke
safar mein raahi' from Munimji - The Mexican Hat Dance. The version of
Mexican Hat Dance I've uploaded is by Jose Ortega and his Mariachi Band.
Incidentally, while the original has a real fast tempo, the hindi
version is a tad bit slower. Also, I would only term it as an
inspiration, not a blatant rip off as its quite difficult to see the
similarity in the first listen, 'cos of the incredible tempo of the
original. My dad tells me that SDB had also incorporated a slower
version of the same song in the same album/ bgm of the movie!
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Ye bhi koi roothne ka din hai [Film: Solva Saal (1958)]
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From the song 'Ya Ghozayel', composed by Rahbani brothers and sung by
Lebanese singer Fairuz.
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Listen to
Yeh bhi koi rootne ki
(Solva Saal) -
Arab Feast
(Ya Ghozayel)
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SDB, in all probabilities, derived
inspiration from the original Rahbani Brothers number. The same song (Ya
Ghozayel)
was titled 'Arab Feast' when it was included as part of the Ron Goodwin
compilation, 'Music for an Arabian Night', which was released in 1959.
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Chahe koi khush [Film: Taxi driver (1954)]
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Inspired by the Italian folk tune, 'Tarantella'.
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Chahe koi khush |
Tarantella
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| Also listen to Shankar Jaikishen's
version of the same - Shankar Jaikishen's page, 10th item!
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Chalti ka naam gadi
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Two popular lifts from Kishoreda's Chalti ka naam gadi (1958). These
songs were apparently lifted by S D Burman on Kishore Kumar's
insistence! 'Ek ladki bheegi bhagi si' is inspired by the song 'Sixteen
Tons' (1955), while 'Hum the woh thi' is inspired by the song 'The
Watermelon song' (1957), both by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Interestingly the
lift in 'Ek ladki...' looks pretty minimal, I mean the kind of Hindi
song that has come out of the original sounds drastically different and
of course, much more enjoyable!
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Listen to
Ek
ladki bheegi bhagi si |
Sixteen
Tons
Listen to
Hum
the woh thi |
The
Watermelon song
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Yeh
dil na hota [Jewel Thief (1967)]
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song River Kwai March from the soundtrack of the David Lean
classic, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Yeh
dil na hota | River
Kwai March
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Can be called as the true
inspiration, 'cos both the songs have such a unique sound! One
of this site's visitors, Anoop, wrote in to say that he
remembers Asha Bhonsle talking about this in Vividh Bharathi....that
SDB and RDB were returning after watching the David Lean movie
and SDB was tapping on the dashboard of their car, trying to
improvise on the movie's theme tune, to create the Jewel Thief
number! Interestingly the antra of the same Jewel Thief number
reminded me of one of the faster versions of the Spanish
classic, 'Perfidia', which had original Spanish words and
music by Alberto Dominguez. The cover instrumental version by
The Venturers is a lot faster than Alberto's original and is
what is added here! You may find the opening of Perfidia and
the antara of 'yeh dil na hota' a bit similar. Listen to the
Hindi number from point 00:40:00 onwards!
Listen to Perfidia
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Yeh Chanda Ruus Ka
[Insaan Jaag Utha (1959)]
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Lifted off
'Barefoot Girl' from
the compilation 'Music for an Arabian Night'. Originally titled 'Albint Al
Shalabiyya', composed by Rahbani
Brothers.
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Yeh Chanda Ruus Ka |
Barefoot Girl
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Saala main tho
[Sagina (1974)]
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Lifted directly off a 1957 Italian
track, 'Chella Llà', by the legendary Renato Carosone.
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Sala main to
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recently, 'Sala main to...' was used as-is for a scene in
Darmesh Darshan's 'Raja Hindustani'. |
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Hindi
Anu Malik
Anand Milind
Anand Raaj Anand
Bappi Lahiri
Jatin Lalit
Kalyanji Anandji
Laxmikant Pyarelal
Nadeem Shravan
OP Nayyar
Pritam Chakravarty
Rajesh Roshan
RD Burman
Salil Chaudhry
SD Burman
Sandeep Chowta
Sanjeev Darshan
Shankar Jaikishen
Hindi - others
Tamil
A R Rahman
Deva
Ilayaraja
Karthikraja
Yuvan S. Raja
Tamil - others
Assorted
Coincidences
Indipop
Advt. jingle lifts
Telugu
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