Nehr wale pul…it was/is so popular! Pretty simple lyrics, the tune is not that simple to sing if you are not Noor Jehan, and it is really really catchy!
Thanks for the blog link, I shall certainly read it up.
And you may listen to one the very few audio recordings available of her (I have a total of 5 songs, rather 4 and half, as 1 is incomplete) to see what the writer was on about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DifkPwXM5wY
There was some really good music in the 40 s and 30s, hope you keep digging it up from youtube for us.
Nehr wale pul…it was/is so popular! Pretty simple lyrics, the tune is not that simple to sing if you are not Noor Jehan, and it is really really catchy!
Thanks for the blog link, I shall certainly read it up.
The second one, for a moment I thought you meant Bibi Nooran: this was one heck of a woman who died quite young…read this newspaper article
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010203/windows/stamped.htm
And you may listen to one the very few audio recordings available of her (I have a total of 5 songs, rather 4 and half, as 1 is incomplete) to see what the writer was on about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DifkPwXM5wY
There was some really good music in the 40 s and 30s, hope you keep digging it up from youtube for us.
Thank you, Bawa; the Bibi Nooran audio clip is very good. Hope you’ll keep sending gems my way as well!