Indiavision (Hindi Film Songs & Instrumentals 1966-1984) - Various Artists

Hindi film songs saw the golden period in the 50's and the 60's, after which the quality steadily deteriorated.The 50's had it all...The best Composers,Singers,Lyricists etc etc; truly a GOLDEN PERIOD..the sixties continued to be as good ....
By the seventies the lyrics and the tunes became loud and the singing style matched the whole set up.By the eighties and thereafter the music had lost all charm except that the sound quality and other ...
...longing for those good old songs of the fifties and sixties and even the early seventies...
The 16 tracks that have been selected for this album come more from the seventies and eighties..but i must say that they have managed to put together a better selection of songs from that period..there are some pleasing songs like Lata's 'Yashomati mayya se' and Asha and Kishore kumar's 'Le kar hum deewana dil'..and some theme music from films of the ... more

Hindi film songs saw the golden period in the 50's and the 60's, after which the quality steadily deteriorated.The 50's had it all...The best Composers,Singers,Lyricists etc etc; truly a GOLDEN PERIOD..the sixties continued to be as good ....
By the seventies the lyrics and the tunes became loud and the singing style matched the whole set up.By the eighties and thereafter the music had lost all charm except that the sound quality and other technicalities improved, whereas the songs themselves left you cold and longing for those good old songs of the fifties and sixties and even the early seventies...
The 16 tracks that have been selected for this album come more from the seventies and eighties..but i must say that they have managed to put together a better selection of songs from that period..there are some pleasing songs like Lata's 'Yashomati mayya se' and Asha and Kishore kumar's 'Le kar hum deewana dil'..and some theme music from films of the eighties and nineties ...mainly by the music duo Kalyanji Anandji and the Talented R.D.Burman..
Not a bad album if one is looking for a good mix of the not so old and newer songs..worth collecting for variety... 

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