VERSION RECORDINGS: During 50s HMV wanted to copy the West (where one hit English song was sung by many singers) and create VERSION RECORDINGS of popular Hindi songs. Since Talat Mahmood was the most popular singer in those days they persuaded him to do the first recording Chal ud ja re panchi which Mohd Rafi had sung for film BHABHI. Similarly, HMV wanted Rafi to sing a Mukesh hit and Hemant Kumar to record a Talat hit. But this idea of singing other singers songs was not going down very well with the singers and they got together to finally decide against going ahead with this VERSION RECORDINGS idea of HMV. Seeing the singers opposition, HMV decided to drop this idea of VERSION RECORDINGS entirely after that. But by this time Chal ud ja re panchi sung by Talat was already in the market, releasing as Version Recording FT21027 Twin/Black Label 78 RPM. That is how one can hear the BHABHI film song Chal udja re panchi in the voices of both singers - Mohd Rafi (from the film) and Talat Mahmood (from the version recorded by HMV)
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:50:37 +0000
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