Thank you dear friends, readers, participants and lovers of the quiz and the blog!
Thank you for the overwhelming response! It was also nice to see you, Lomo and Andi, who put their annual appearance at the birthday celebrations. Good to know, that you are there somewhere in the background. Maybe this is also a good opportunity to thank all the dear readers, who read the posts but can’t respond. THANK YOU everybody for all the support, love and affection you shower on me and the blog.
It was great fun for me to put the quiz together, but what was difficult, was to give points. In fact most of the participants gave all the answers right. There were only small technical mistakes, like forgetting to name a singer or the film name explicitly. So the points scored show rather my stringency, or shall we say tight-fistedness in giving points, rather than the participants’ knowledge of the songs.
Nobody got the answer to the 20 points question. What’s more, some also attempted to solve it. In fact, I would have been really surprised if anybody had got it right. Who would keep the statistics of this blog? 🙂
Maybe I should have framed the question properly. My mistake!
Sunehriyaadein had the best go at that question and her answer had me in splits for hours. With her kind permission I’m sharing it here.
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Tags: A big white mausoleum, aaja re aa zaraa aa lehra ke aa zara aa, above the second floor, AK, Anand Bakshi, Andi, Anniversary Quiz Answers, Anu, Aparna, Arunkumar Deshmukh, Asha Bhosle, Asha Parekh, Asha-Rafi, Ava, bachpan ke din bhi kya din the, Badi Behen [1949], Bina Rai, blames it on somebody, broken heart and don’t want to live anymore, chale jaanaa nahin, Chris, come hither a bit = aaja re aa zaraa aa, coy boy toy Roy, Cycle, dance till it dies, Dave, dekhiye sahibon woh koi aur thi, dev anand, Dharmendra, don’t go after meeting the eyes, Elder sister, Elvis and a wish, Flames, Footpath [1953], geeta bali, Geeta Dutt, Gold = Hema Malini, Hemant Kumar, Husnlal Bhagatram, Jaal [1952], jab dil hi toot gaya, jab tak hai jaan jaan-e-jahan, Joy Mukherjee, K. L. Saigal, kaisa jaadoo daalaa re, kaisa jadoo daalaa re, Khayyam, Kishore Kumar, Lalitha, Lata Mangeshkar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Lomo, Lotus-like, Love in Tokyo [1966], Madan Mohan, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Manna Dey, Meena Kumari, Miss Fish, Mohd. Rafi, Moon-Art, Mukesh, nain milaake, Nalini Jaywant, Naujawan [1951], Naushad, Pacifist, punished for love, Quiz Answers, R. D. Burman, Raja, Rajinder Krishan, Roshan, S. D. Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi, Saigal, Sardar Jafri, Shahjehan [1946], Shailendra, Shammi Kapoor, Shankar-Jaikishan, Shashikala, Sholay [1975], songsofyore.com, Sujata (1959), Sujata (means of a good caste), Sunehriyaadein, Taj Mahal [1963], Teesri Manzil [1966], thandi hawayein lehrake aaye, The childhood days spent like a butterfly, The cool breezes blowing, The Emperor of the world, the magician’s spell, the net, the night and moonlight will not come again, the pedestrian zone, The sacred book, The stringed instrument, where the sun rises, woh koi aur thi, ye raat ye chandani phir kahan, Youthful, zurm e ulfat pe hamen log sazaa dete hain
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Seeing no new post from me on my blog, my readers got concerned about it. Pacifist just couldn’t tolerate this utter neglect and came again to my rescue. thank you, dear Pacifist. This is her third post on this blog and with it she is showing her business acumen. Bravo, Pacifist! More power to the small businessmen and -women!
Pacifist’s choice of 10 songs of small business
Thank you Harvey. I’m quite pleased at having this opportunity of posting 10 songs on a subject I have often thought about. People selling stuff, doing business. It was a wonderful time of economic opportunity, letting the small fish survive. Today they have been eaten up by the big fish. I don’t mean to imply that they all sold stuff in the filmi manner, but sell, they did.
So in memory of those small dying/dead businesses, here are 10 such songs.
I do have more than 10 songs with a different product being sung and sold, but I’m such a sucker for melody, tunes which are pleasing to my ears that I left some and took some even though the product got repeated. Boot Polish was one such, Tel Maalish another 🙂
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Tags: aaj ki taaza khabar, Asha Bhonsle, baman ho ya jaat, Bhagwaan, boot chappal sandal- Karigar (1958), C Ramchandra, channa chor garam babu, Chitragupt, dev anand, Dhumal, ek aana boot polish do aana tel maalish, Film Pyaasa (1957), Ghar ki Laaj (1960), Guest Post, Jaan Nissar Akhtar, Jadoo [1951], Johnny Walker, Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala (1958), Karigar (1958), Kishore Kumar, lelo choodiyan main laya nirali, lelo lelo do phool jani lelo, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Maya [1961], Meena Kumari, Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, Nalini Jaywant, Naushad, Naya Andaaz (1956), O. P. Nayyar, OP Nayyar, Pacifist, Prem Dhawan, Rajendra Krishan, Ravi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Sajid Khan, Salil Choudhary, sar jo tera chakraye, SD Burman, Shakeel Badayuni, Shamshad Begum, Shanti Mathur, Sheikh Mukhtar, Son of India (1962), surma mera nirala, Tel Maalish Boot Polish (1961), This Singing Business, Usha Mangeshkar, zindagi hai kya, Zorabai
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