Top Ten South Asian Pieces of Music

mannyd #193: There may be many sites where you can listen to punjabi new and old music. I am not much active in listening to music on internet. I think www.sadapunjab.com, www.punjabi.net and www.apnaorg.com have some decent collection of punjabi music. I only listen to internet music when I feel like listening to Rafi or Shamshad Begum`s old Punjabi songs. Sada Punjab had pretty good line-up but recently they are reconctructing their site and it might be a while before they have all the songs. Try www.punjabi.net.

Once I was just curious to know if Mukesh sung some Punjabi songs and if they are available somewhere on the internet but could not find any!

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: Tantralogician # 197

Thanks a lot gentlemen. Quite an artist, our poor Nawab. I think Google is the best thing since sliced bread. Thanks again.

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: Tantralogician # 197

Thanks a lot gentlemen. Quite an artist, our poor Nawab. I think Google is the best thing since sliced bread. Thanks again.

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Mannyd writes: ``If you find time, can you shed some light on Wajid Ali Shah please?``

Go to this site and do a search on the keyword ``wajid ali shah``

http://groups.google.com/

tantralogician

Mannyd #194

[If you find time, can you shed some light on Wajid Ali Shah please? Was he the same guy in Prem Chand`s ``Shatranj Ke Khilari`` or somehow related to him?]

Yes indeed one and the same. He was a most curious character who spent his time in the pursuit of arts and women rather than statecraft. However, the art world is thankful for that. He was an accomplished singer, a trained Kathak dancer and a well-known actor. He composed plays as well as shows based on `raas-leela`. He was also the composer of the first opera based on Indian music `Indrasabha`. And of course he has enough songs, thumris and the like to his name to make his name immortal.

Check out this site:

http://www.dhadkan.com/cgi-bin/dhadkan/profiles.cgi?artistID=1238&jnd=C

REF TA321 # 181:

Welcome back TA Sahib.

`` A set of 15 CDs of Lata Mangeshkar. For Rs. 90 each. Great quality. I understand even this is a small fraction of the over 3,000 songs that the Great Lata ...``

A great deal, but what is this talk about Great Lata? First Gandhi, now Lata. If you are not careful about your adjectives, you will become a marked man for the young patriotic platoon faster than you can sing `Ichhak Dana Beechak Dana`.))

Ref Neptune # 60:

Thanks for the info Neptune.

```Babul Mora` is a classic, composed by Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh. In your music classes, it is shown as what a Bhairavi thumri should be like. For the last 130 years or so...``

If you find time, can you shed some light on Wajid Ali Shah please? Was he the same guy in Prem Chand`s ``Shatranj Ke Khilari`` or somehow related to him?

In another post you mentioned Mukesh sang ``Dil Jalata Hai``. Agreeed. Some of my other favorite Mukesh songs are: Jiyenge Magar Muskura na sakenge, DO Zulami Naina Hum Pur Zulam, Mujh Ko iss Raat Ki.

Lata should have retired after Pakeezah. She is a mere shadow of her former self, but then she performed ``Jiya Jale`` in Dil Se and still won some kind of award. My all time favourite:

`Mere Sainyaa jee Uterenge Paar Ho` from Uran Khatola. The tune is based on some Raga.

REF TA321 # 181:

Welcome back TA Sahib.

`` A set of 15 CDs of Lata Mangeshkar. For Rs. 90 each. Great quality. I understand even this is a small fraction of the over 3,000 songs that the Great Lata ...``

A great deal, but what is this talk about Great Lata? First Gandhi, now Lata. If you are not careful about your adjectives, you will become a marked man for the young patriotic platoon faster than you can sing `Ichhak Dana Beechak Dana`.))

Ref Neptune # 60:

Thanks for the info Neptune.

```Babul Mora` is a classic, composed by Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Oudh. In your music classes, it is shown as what a Bhairavi thumri should be like. For the last 130 years or so...``

If you find time, can you shed some light on Wajid Ali Shah please? Was he the same guy in Prem Chand`s ``Shatranj Ke Khilari`` or somehow related to him?

In another post you mentioned Mukesh sang ``Dil Jalata Hai``. Agreeed. Some of my other favorite Mukesh songs are: Jiyenge Magar Muskura na sakenge, DO Zulami Naina Hum Pur Zulam, Mujh Ko iss Raat Ki.

Lata should have retired after Pakeezah. She is a mere shadow of her former self, but then she performed ``Jiya Jale`` in Dil Se and still won some kind of award. My all time favourite:

`Mere Sainyaa jee Uterenge Paar Ho` from Uran Khatola. The tune is based on some Raga.

tahmed321, ``Couldnt you have downloaded it from Napster? ``

I wish. I don`t have a DSL connection, otherwise I`d have been downloading songs twenty four seven.

Reply #: 190 tahmed321

[``while I am happy just to get CDs for Rs. 90 each from Sadar bazar Rawalpindi...``]

Welcome back to the neighborhood Mr. Rogers!! We eagerly await you ``muffassil roznaamcha`` aka details of you Pindi Yatra. Did you get to see the havoc caused by the floods first hand? Some of my relatives who had businesses in the low lying areas... most large businesses are in the low lying areas... literally lost their shirts.

Rs. 90/- is too much, you could have gotten them for Rs. 65/- at Raja Bazar, and enjoyed Fav-vara chowk`s famous qulfi falooda with the change.

scout #186 Couldnt you have downloaded it from Napster? Although I suppose Napster is no longer available for that purpose - I dont really know since the experts on Napster are my kids while I am happy just to get CDs for Rs. 90 each from Sadar bazar Rawalpindi...

stuka:

``Bhai, everyone here is way too culture for me.``

haina :(

``Hmmm, let me muddy the water here a bit.

Anyone remember Hassan Jahangir of Hawa Hawa fame?``

LOL..ure saying u havent heard `Shadee na karna yaron`? lol...please hear it at pakistanimusic.com and do tell us what u think

Temporal # 172,

Reporting back ..... wow, that is quite a collection .Visited just a couple of them yet ... what i saw and read was beautiful, with a good selection .I know now, how my weekend would be spent :)

Thank you ....

lots of love,

sa:)

Aamir - ``Nothing wrong .Thats what all superstitious say``

: ) you got me there f&s! But really it is more to keep my mothers heart than anything else (dil rakhte rakhte have grown very attached to it). Think we have cluttered up this board enuff - time to move back to music??

aicha