Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle

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Say something enlightening about Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle...
Who were they and why did Cornershop write a song about them?
If you are well versed, offer us a Classic or Dud/Search and Destroy/Taking Sides on them.

Thank you for your attention.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 25 May 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure we've had threads on both of them, custos

a. mangeshkar has recorded more songs than anyone else alive; second most = bhosle
b. they are sisters
c. they hate each other
d. they are huge bollywood playback stars = they sing the songs in bombay musicals (which are all dubbed)

when it's daylight here if i remember i shall dig out some of my tapes: i am not at ALL an expert on this music but i love it to bits

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 25 May 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i looked them up in ilm search and turned up myself making a more or less identikit post to the above abt 15 times: i am v.proud of my mite of knowledge in this area ppl

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Asha Bhosle u must hear

60's-70's Bollywood Soundtracks

RFD: Indian music

S&D: Bollywood sndtrks/comps.

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 25 May 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i got this asha lp on a market stall recently (£3)
called 'an unforgettable treat' and i cant recommend it enough,
its got this song called 'aali re mere naina baan par', i must
of played it at least 50 times this week....

― joni, Monday, 26 May 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been meaning to get an asha bholse compilation that i saw in tower,but haven't got around to it yet
but given that there's millions of recordings,is it safe to buy a random compilation or should i look for a specific album?

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 May 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure we've had threads on both of them, custos
Well, now theres another thread about them, s.
(I saw some CD-R bootleg comps of their stuff at a booth in a flea market on the 24th. Was tempted to buy some, but wanted guidance. Hence, the thread.)

c. they hate each other
Okay, then we DEFINITELY must initiate...
The Bollywood Grudge Match of the Century
Taking Sides: Asha vs Lata...FITE!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 26 May 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought Lata's duets in a shopping expidition in the indian part of town and they're all from 58-64 and have this interesting feel in that half are indian vocals with western instrumentation (lotsa accordians!!) and half are very western vocals over very trad-instrumentation.

I also bought, among other things, my first Fateh Ali Khan album ever and was completely blown away by how fan-fucking-tastic it is.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

also check out Noor Jehan, one of the last singing actresses before it all went playback

― bob snoom, Tuesday, 27 May 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Blomeley to thread. (Mancunian chum of mine who's posted to ILM perhaps twice ever; be nice if he Googled this).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

So that kid at the booth was lying! ("Asha...she's...like India's version of Madonna...")
Subthreads:
1) Who *is* India's version of Madonna? Najma?
2) Who is India's equivalent of, say, Joni Mitchell or Janis Joplin?
3) India's Enya?
4) India's Souixsie Sioux?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lata's duets album"--which of the 4,000 of them? (I fear I do not exaggerate.)

Don't bother buying bootlegs, since if you can get to an Indian neighborhood you can find legal CDs for pretty cheap, not to mention cassettes for ridiculously cheap. A lot of them are on RPG, or EMI-India. Any of the CDs on the endless "Golden Collection" series are probably recommended. I'd have to check my shelf when I get home to be more specific.

Asha is so NOT Madonna. Actually it's a crime to say "Asha is the Indian version of _____"--she's so ubiqitous it would be more appropriate to say "____ is the ____ version of Asha."

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so then
"who is the (American|British|HopHop|Goth|Indie) version of Asha?"
Hmmm. Maybe be the word "version" should be "equivalent"...

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Master P is the hip-hop Asha Bhosle."

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahahahahaha!
How does 'Lil Bow Wow fit into your conspiracy theory, then, amatuerist?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The duets album is from the EMI/Grammaphone rare gems series.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 May 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

i need the e-mail address of the great indian singer madam lata manges
kar ( lata jee ). i am a music composer and director of bangladesh.she
is my most and the best favourate singer i8n this world. so,i want to
communicate her through e- mail.thanks.

― saleem ashraf, Friday, 16 April 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

Brought back from the dead so the subthreads can be tackled.

Subthreads:
1) Who *is* India's version of Madonna? Najma?
2) Who is India's equivalent of, say, Joni Mitchell or Janis Joplin?
3) India's Enya?
4) India's Souixsie Sioux?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 11 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Alisha! (frenchbloke to thread)

― bulbs (bulbs), Monday, 11 October 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

revive cause I scored a lata rough guides comp (released in '04) last night -- its stuff from late 40s (when she started) up to the mid-90s. In the info booklet it says bhosle recorded more songs. was enjoying a cpl of tracks this morning, what a peculiar voice she has!there's a bhosle comp to so I must check that out.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I found (what might be) the same comp ("Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Lata Mangeshkar" ?) in the Library but didn't check it out.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if anybody said this on any other threads but

Search "Piya Tu Ab Tu Aaja"- byAsha Bhosle

which has kind of a spaghetti western sound and features her husband and producer RD (Rahul Dev) Berman shouting "Monica! Oh, my darling!"

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i never ceased to be amazed at the sheer number of l.m. compilations available. i think it must be at 10,000.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I want to pay my salam to lata jee. I am grand son of master Ghulam Haider.

― muhammad imran munir, Monday, 1 May 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I actually had no idea they were sisters until recently.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

asha's new album
love supreme is pretty good,
old ghazal love songs

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do they really hate each other?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Look - they don't hate each other!
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041027/images/27Lata.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.godesigo.com/images/sisterss.jpg
ahhhhh...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to find e-mail address to send e message to Ms. Asha Bhosle. Please send iy can. "Ms. Bhosle, I was vey much suprised, pleasantly, that you look so young at this age. I bet your your HDL is very high. I am just very cuirous engineer preoccupied with staying and feeling young. Please reply if you can. Thanks a million. Have a long and health life.

Vijay Khasat (Tel: 330/854-4808)

― Vijay P Khasat, Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

If you wanna stay young, dude, just dum maro dum.

― Ashadavid Bhosle (Hurting), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

Saw Asha last night with an orchestra (and her 14 year-old grand-daughter) finish her set with "dum maro dum." Not bad for 82. She did Bollywood numbers, a ghazal or 2, a song from her sister, and some other stuff. Her voice still has range, although it's not what it once was

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 June 2016 21:13 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WD4E2jXTfI&list=RD8WD4E2jXTfI

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 July 2016 22:56 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMppeXU7Fl4

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:38 (seven years ago)

Ooh , that voice, those rhythms, and the orchestra

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:20 (seven years ago)

wonderful

― niels, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 16:36 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

A duet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOAj-4sPdw&feature=youtu.be

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 June 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

Awesome!

― brimstead, Saturday, 15 June 2019 19:03 (six years ago)

two years pass...

RIP Lata Mangeshkar. End of an era. And what an incredible era — she sang for nearly eight decades. Thousands of songs. The legend, the eternal voice of Bollywood https://t.co/oOmp8Lq34M
— Geeta Dayal (@geetadayal) February 6, 2022

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 February 2022 10:03 (four years ago)

aw man

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 February 2022 15:42 (four years ago)

RIP, what an incomparably legendary career.

I'm not seeing it myself, but my partner says she died from Covid :(

― rob, Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:03 (four years ago)

Ugh. RIP.

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:03 (four years ago)

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