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All indications are that this song was sung by Khemchand Prakash himself. It appears that he was also the comic dancer on-screen. I do not know who the female is

Listen to 1938_Street-Singer_02_lo-khaa-lo-maiDam-khaanaa.mp3

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RMIM meet 2017, 1

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Here is another example of a tune used later. Listen to this and then, 'hamen to shaam-e-gham men kaaTanee hai zindagee apanee'.

Listen to 1939_Ghaazee-salaauddeen_08_kabhee-nekee-bhee-usake.mp3

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RMIM WestCoast 2017 04

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Continuing my quest for early instruments, in the following song 4 from Amar Jyoti (1936) I do not hear tabla, but a Daf-like instrument, what Raj Kapoor played in Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960),

Amar Jyoti

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Listen to Te Dil Kisko Doon (1963)

 

 

 

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