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Published: 11 October 2017

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Just in case people think that use of English words in songs is a new phenomenon. I take you back all the way to the theater days. Her is a song written by the famous playwright Agha Hashr Kashmiri for the drama Silver King:

kyon chhipaayee laa de bhaee Khaalis whiskey
rang ho jis men Miss kee
aur lazzat ho jis men Kiss kee

which loosely translates as

O brother, bring it, why have you hidden pure whiskey
which has the color of a Miss
and which has the bliss of a kiss

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 Listen to Badrinath (1967)

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Published: 10 October 2017

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This is the earliest song in which I can hear temple bells clearly. Of course, it is a pooja scene. The song is number 3a from here

Rajput Ramani song

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 Listen to Toofan Men Pyar Kahan (1966)

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Published: 09 October 2017

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Even though the British rulers allowed kissing and nudity in films, the society at large was not in favor of mingling of boys and girls and thought that it would be fatal! A news item from the Indian Express, Madras Edition, 1933

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 Listen to Thakur Jarnail Singh (1966)