Liberal Arts Blog — Lata Mangeshkar (1929 -2022) — “Nightingale Of India,” “The Queen Of Melody”
Liberal Arts Blog — Thursday is the Joy of Music Day
Today’s Topic: Lata Mangeshkar (1929 -2022) — “Nightingale of India,” “The Queen of Melody”
She mostly sang in Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi, but she also sang in 33 other Indian languages and is perhaps the best loved Indian singer of all time. She is called a “playback singer” which means that she records songs for the soundtracks of films which actors lip sync. She is the elder sister of Asha Boshle (1933 — ) who has actually won more best playback singer awards.
They have recorded 80 Hindi songs together.
“In 1974, she became the first Indian playback singer to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.” And in 2001 she became only the second singer in history to receive India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna. An “In 2007, France made her an Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, the country’s highest civilian award.”
Today, three of Lata Mangeshkar’s top hits: “Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamann Hai,” “Tujhe Dekha Toh Yeh Jana Sanam,” and “Hothon Mein Aisi Baat.”
Do you have a favorite Indian singer? song?
Experts — please chime in. Correct, elaborate, elucidate.
“AAJ PHIR JEENE KI TAMANN HAI” (“Today, I have a desire to live again”)
1. “After pulling my dress out of the thorns, after breaking the anklets of vows, please no one stop the flight of the heart. This heart is flying one.”
2.”Today, I have a desire to live again. Today I have an intention to die again. Today, I have a desire to live again. Today, I have an intention to die again.”
3. “I don’t have any control over myself, My heart is somewhere and I’m somewhere else, I don’t have any control over myself. My heart is somewhere and I’m somewhere else. I don’t know what my life has attained but it says this laughingly.”
NB: “Am I intoxicated ort am I a storm, Please someone tell me where am I, Am I intoxicated or am I a storm. Please someone tell me where am I, I’ms scared that I might get lost in the journey as these roads are new to me…”
Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai — Guide — Lata Mangeshkar — HD
TUJHE DECKHA TOH YEH JANA SANAM — “Sweetheart., on seeing you I learnt that….”
1. “Sweetheart, on seeing you I learnt that Love is crazy, sweetheart, Sweetheart on seeing you I learnt that,,,”
2. “Now where should I go from here, I’ll die in your arms…”
3. “My arms, your dreams, my heart, your memories, Oh…forget me, everything is yours, This life, this breath is yours, Your tears came in my eyes, and all my sorrows started to smile.”
NB: “This heart is not interested in anything, what should I say and do, Yes…when you sit in front of me, I just keep looking at you, you called and I cam over, There is no bigger promise than love.”
Tujhe Dekha Toh Song | Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol | Lata, Kumar Sanu | DDLJ
“HOTHON MEIN AISI BAAT” (“Something on my lips came hiding”)
1. “Something on my lips came hiding something on my lips If it comes out can bring destruction I came hiding something on my lips If it comes out ,can bring destruction It has love but also poisonous”
2. Ho Shalu Night at peak,growing dark like a snake Night at peak,growing dark like a snake Who’ll be the victim tonight ? Who’ll be the victim tonight If I look back,my anklet rebels If I move ahead, my body shivers
3. Ho Shalu, my fiery body is swaying, My fiery body is swaying My ponytail & 2scarf keep slipping away My ponytail and scarf keep slipping away When my earring brakes, Bindi washed away…
Hothon Mein Aisi Baat | Jewel Thief 1967 | Lata Mangeshkar | English Subtitles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin — then periodically review, re-rank, and exchange your list with those you love. I call this the “Orion Exchange” because seven is about as many as any human can digest at a time. Game?
A LINK TO THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF POSTS ORGANIZED BY THEME:
PDF with headlines — Google Drive
ATTACHMENT BELOW:
#1 A graphic guide to justice (9 metaphors on one page).
#2 “39 Songs, Prayers, and Poems: the Keys to the Hearts of Seven Billion People” — Adams House Senior Common Room Presentation, (11/17/20)
NB: Palestine Orion (Decision) — let’s exchange Orions, let’s find Rumi’s field (“Beyond all ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. Meet me there” Rumi, 13 century Persian Sufi mystic)
YOUR TURN
Time to share the coolest thing you learned in the last week related to music.
Or the coolest thing you learned in your life related to music.
Say your favorite song or songs. Or your favorite tips for breathing, posture, or relaxation. Or some insight into the history of music….Or just something random about music… like a joke about drummers. jazz, rock….or share an episode or chapter in your musical autobiography.
This is your chance to make someone else’s day. And perhaps to cement in your memory something important you would otherwise forget. Or to think more deeply than you otherwise would about something that matters to you.