THEY LEFT BEHIND THE LEGACY OF HUNDREDS OF EVERGREEN MELODIES—-TO HEAR IS TO SEE.

Chandra Gopal Shroti's Tribute to SJ (12th Episode)
(Courtesy : Shri Gopal Shroti's blog http://gopalshroti.wordpress.com

IN 50s,60s and 70s the only alternative was the radio to listen to the S-J Bumpers. when on cycles we passed thro’ a ”paan” shop or a hotel, the hit magic of S-J obstructed us and till the song was over, nobody will move. and the HMV records were there during functions playing S-J.
i still regret, why the music directors could not fight for the ”royalty” for the tunes originated from their hearts, like what Lataji did. what the singers sang was tunes of the heartblood of the S-J. so were the sufferers like Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri, who wrote from their brain’s salt…..where is the ”royalty” for them. very sad on this point?
12 sept,1971 and 26 april, 1986, the two great souls left this earth, leaving a great legacy of evergreen tunes, which no body cud match till yet. at that time each film had at least 8 songs…so if i calculate 125 film x 8= 940 and include others tunes, it went to 1000. and as on date, some 700 to 800 songs of S-J are still played,sung,hummed by the music lovers and on vividh bharti. IS THIS CONTRIBUTION TO FILM WORLD NOT A MAGIC?? AFTER ”BARSAAT” Shankar Jaikishan changed the trend of film music and there was a rain of musical hits enriching the then film sagar overflowing with different tunes and songs. the romanticism started with their first song ”hawa mein udta jaye mora lal dupatta malmal ka….ho jee” and established a record and made people to sing each song of ”Barsat”. the great analyst of hindi film songs, Feroz Rangoonwala expressed his opinion that the Barsat songs had a scented air’s freshness and of romance. S-J’s soil was different and they opened the treasure of masmeric tunes. during one year they composed the immotral music of NAGINA,AWARA,BADAL,KALIGHATA. then public felt, will they repeat their successes……but next came BASANT BAHAR, PATRANI, CHORI CHORI, HALAKU, NAI DILLI, RAJHATH AND THE WHOLE INDIA TUNED WITH THEM. from ‘kholi’ to ‘palace’, the credit goes to S-J to enter their places/homes simultaneously. it was a ”ganga” of music……..(to continue).