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Published: 11 September 2017

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Listen to the song 2 from Lal Chitthi from Girdharilal Vishwakrama collection

http://hindi-films-songs.com/main/glv-159.html

Soon after she sings kookatee hai Daalee Dalee, I hear a bird-like sound. She continues koyaliyaa kaalee. I believe it is just somebody whistling. In any case, this is the earliest song to have a bird sound.

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 Listen to Nag Mohini (1963)

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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: 23 April 2019

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Narsingh 757: Mid-50s