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Published: 20 September 2017

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I am sure everybody has heard many songs from the early recording period by Gauhar Jan and others. They used to say at the end, My name is Gauhar Jan. In the following song the actors actually announce that this is a song from a film and the names of characters. This is the first time I heard this kind of thing

Dialog and song announcement

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 Listen to Mera Qasoor Kya Hai (!964)

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Published: 19 September 2017

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If you have ever wondered where the very appealing tune of the famous song, vrindaaban kaa krishan kanhaiyaa, came from, see S Rajeshwar Rao describe it.

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Listen to Hercules (1964) 

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Published: 18 September 2017

Last Updated: 18 September 2017

Listen to song 3 of Chhaya (1936) from Jodhpurwale Girdharilal Vashwakarma here

rakhiyaa bandhaavo bhaiyaa

Not sure if this is the first ever, but surely the earliest rakhi song that I have heard.

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