I could have said “radio songs,” but what I had in mind was specifically the kind of scene that stars just one singer on the radio. There might be an orchestra behind him or her, and it might even be a duet with someone singing to the radio (as in one case here), but the there is still only one singer whose voice is being broadcast by radio (often making other people fall in love). And there have been some magnificent songs fitting that description! In fact, I like these so much that I’ve posted most of them before, and one, which appeared in my very last post, has been on this blog a few times. But isn’t it great to see them all together? Plus, there are one or two “new” ones…
Dances on the Footpath 
Brilliant idea for a post, what a collection of songs.
Thank you, Bawa!
Curiously, I spotted this beauty of a song newly posted in Ajayuv’s YouTube site the day after I did the post here. As you can tell, this scene was filmed at least a decade later than anything I’ve posted (the songs in my post range from 1938 to ’59), but I certainly would have considered it,and it wouldn’t even have ruined the color scheme.
Hi Richard,
I also have one for you that shouldn’t ruin the colour scheme :)
One of my favourites from the movie Anuradha (1960) with fantastic music by Ravi Shankar –
Thank you, Jamal. Yes, the music is very good! But it doesn’t actually show a singer in the radio studio; it just shows the radio – which isn’t exactly what I had in mind. On the other hand, I guess it fits the rules as I wrote them above, and I am glad to have it. :)
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P.S. I wrote an earlier version of this post (which was up for a few minutes) that more clearly described the scene that I had in mind as “one singer in front of a radio microphone” (or something like that), but I changed the wording because I felt that the Noor Jehan clip from Koel didn’t exactly fit that description, either.
Nice collection, Richard. Allow me to add one more – Woh Hum Na They Woh Tum Na They.
Thank you Soumya. Yes, that one certainly fits well.
This was a very popular technique so long as radio was the popular (in fact, sole) medium for broadcasting films songs.
Here are three songs that come to my mind:
Tum Jo Hamare Meet Na Hote – Aashiq- Mukesh – Shanker Jaikishan –
Ek Tha Bachpan – Aashirwad – Lata Mangeshkar – Vasant Desai –
(this clip has the background of the main song).
Aap Aaye To Dil-e- Nashad Aaya – Gumrah – Mahendra Kapoor – Ravi –
I have one more to add to this great list;
Ab To Hai Tumse, Har Khushi Apani – Lata Mangeshkar – Abhimaan – S D Burman –
Thank you, Ashok! By the way, you say it’s a great list, but maybe it wasn’t until you added four more songs! It should not be a surprise that I recognized the two black-and-white songs but not the color ones. :) I do not know why the song from Ashiq did not occur to me, except that, when I think of the songs from that film, “Jhanan Jhan Jhnake Apni Payal” overshadows everything else. But all the songs in that film are good – and so are the songs on this list – which is my list doubled if you include all the comments at the time that I’m writing this comment – which is great!