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There is only one earlier song with the word 'rumjhum' before this famous one from Tansen (1943), song number 4 here

http://hindi-films-songs.com/tansen.html

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Rafi 47

 

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So, June 26 was Gauhar Jan's birthday. The grand lie that she was the first Indian recording artist was repeated, again, ad nauseum. She absolutely was not the 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd, etc. The most authentic work, based on archival records, is the book, The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings 1899-1908, by Michael Kinnear sets the record straight. One can see from the first two pages of the 78 discography that the earliest recordings were done in London in 1899 and she was nowhere near it.

The recordist. F Gaisberg, then came to Calcutta in 1902 and did many more. Here are the next two pages. Gauhar Jan shows up on the last page.. Even discounting the London recordings, one can see that she is not even in the first 5.

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Rafi 46

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The word has been used just once before in the title; I do not have that song. Here is the next one, the first song here

http://hindi-films-songs.com/kanwar-videos/k-anwar-parakh.html

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Rafi 45

 

 

  1. Musing 306: PKNair on HFGK, Rafi 44
  2. Musing 305: Khwaja Ajmeri, Rafi 43
  3. Musing 304: Rivalry in the Theater Era, Rafi 42
  4. Musing 303, But, Rafi 41
  5. Musing 302: Rafi in Trinidad, Rafi 40
  6. Musings 201-300
  7. Musing 301: I Love You, Rafi 39
  8. Musing 300: Hindi singers in Telugu, Rafi 38
  9. Musing 299: Coachvaan, Rafi 37
  10. Musing 298: Nutan offers advice, Rafi 36
  11. Musing 297: bhojan ke nazaare, Rafi 35
  12. Msuing 296: Jhande Khan, Rafi 34
  13. Musing 295: chuTakee, Rafi 33
  14. Musing 294: Raj Kapoor and his mother, Rafi 32
  15. Musing 293: Rakhi song, Rafi 31
  16. Musing 291: Revised hichakee, Rafi 29
  17. Musing 290: hichakiyaaN, Rafi 28
  18. Musing 289: A S Gyani, Rafi 27
  19. Musing 288: jan gaN man, Rafi 26
  20. Musing 287: Kala Bazar in 1946, Rafi 25

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