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Published: 30 November 2017

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Very few people know that G N Joshi, an employee of the HMV since 1938 was responsible for persuading many famous classical music gurus to have their music recorded. His book Down Melody Lane is full of anecdotes. In one instance he details how HMV cheated a new record company called Young India by recording their music as version music and packaging very similarly. Gulshan Kumar did the same to them years later!

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Published: 29 November 2017

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In a color film of the 60s, Mehmood keeps singing a line, yaa ilaahee miT na jaandee dadre-dil'. Here is original song that he was mispronouncing for comedic effect.

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Published: 28 November 2017

Last Updated: 28 November 2017

Everybody knows that the record companies cannot be trusted completely with respect to the information printed on the record. For example., for the famous song 'aayegaa 3 aane waalaa' sung by Lata, the record label says Kamini, the role played by Madhubala. One might think that for non-film records, they would be truthful. Not so, as V A K Ranga Rao declares:

He wrote this in a letter to the Editor of The Record News,  a publication (1991-2010) of the Society of Indian Record Collectors. This magazine is full of very valuable and interesting info about Indian records from the very beginning. The whole set can be read on my website.

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