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O P Nayyar [Hindi]
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Hey babu, yeh hai zamana tera [Film: Bhagam Bhag]
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From the song 'Hay mambo, mambo italiano', covered by Rosemary Clooney,
among other singers!
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Listen to
Hey babu
| Hey
mambo
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Ditto! Here are the
origins of Mambo Italiano! |
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Chanda chandni [Film: Mujrim (1958)]
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From Jim Lowe's 1957 hit Green Door.
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Listen to
Chanda
chandni | Green
door
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Again, ditto!
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Yeh hai bombay meri jaan [Film: CID]
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From the song 'My darling Clementine'.
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Listen to
Yeh
hai bombai | My
darling Clementine |
| Copied. The version of My darling
Clementine here is by Freddy Quinn. Not sure who sang it first! |
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Babuji dheere chalna [Film: Aar
paar]
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From the song 'Perhaps perhaps perhaps' covered by Doris Day, among
other singers.
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Babuji dheere
| Perhaps
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| Partly Copied.
'Perhaps' is the English version of the Mexican song, 'Quizas
quizas quizas'. Here's
more on the original! |
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Lakhon hai yahan dilwale [Film: Kismat (1968)]
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From the oldie western classic 'Red River Valley'.
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Lakhon
hai yaha dilwale |
Red
River Valley |
| I should point out here that O P
Nayyar's localization is in top form in this track, but Mahendra
Kapoor's drawl is very similar to elaborately timed drawls in the
original, besides the tune! Little is known about the original however.
It seems to be an old New York State song around the turn of the 20th century called
'In the Bright Mohawk Valley' from which an adaptation was made to produce “The Bright Sherman Valley” (very close to the Red River). ‘Red River
Valley' looks like an adaptation of this latter tune made over into a cowboy love song.
Gene Autrey's version of Red River Valley is added here.
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Yahan hum wahan tum [Film:
Shreemati 420 (1956)]
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| Lifted off the
1954 Billboard hit, 'The Little Shoemaker' by the Gaylords. |
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Yaham hum |
The Little
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I've been
looking for this track for ages now - 5 years, to be precise
when I posted a request in RMIM back in 2002! The original
has also been covered by many other popular artists in the
50s, like Rosemary Clooney, Alma Cogan and Petula Clark. The
English version is itself a cover of the French track, 'Le
petit cordonnier', composed by Rudi Revil in 1953 with
lyrics by Francis Lemarque. As always, a very perceptive
lift by Nayyar saab! Listen to
Le petit
cordonnier |
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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
Trivia |
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