*Updated with corrections pointed out by Bart Plantenga , author of some incredible book on Yodeling including Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World. -0- Kishore Kumar 's brother Anoop Kumar, who we basically know for the line ' O manu tera toh hua ab mera kya hoga ', used to own lots of Austrian music records. And from these records, Kishore Kumar picked up the art of Yodel singing, an art perfected in bathroom and then introduced by him to the world of Hindi film music. According to his biography 'Kishore Kumar: method in madness ' by Derek Bose, "Kishore was a fan of the Swiss singer Tex Norton [* Tex Morton, an Australian cowboy born in New Zealand who sang in the gene autry / Jimmie Rodgers style ] and the Australian Jimmy Rogers [* Jimmie Rodgers , perhaps the most American and one of the most famous yodelers in the world, famous for his blue yodels ] as well." Although most of these songs by Kishore Kumar are t
Where in India do you live? It's crazy how the Hindu right is becoming more paranoid and more terrorist-like with every passing minute.
ReplyDeleteI was visiting my mother in Ghaziabad for Shivratri holiday.
ReplyDeleteI never understood what they actually want from people..
ReplyDeleteThey want people to be more like a Lion or a Tiger or anything else ferocious Man like and they world like them to do less Mew Mew and more Grr Grr. When they first got together they looked around the world and realized everything powerful in the world: Western civilization, Islam, true Manly man, White man, Aryan man, real Hinduism, electric motor, the all knowing electric fan overhead the great minds in the Parliament house...they all go GrrGrr, so they decided it was time the Hindu nation too finds its original voice, unique voice, and that voice was GrrGrrr. Now they mostly spend their time telling the people of this 'could-have-been-great-if-we were-in-command' nation to stop mewing and speak in the one true primordial sound...GrrrGrrr.
ReplyDeleteDunn, that's really great. I was deeply disappointed that a discussion of Jayamalini brought me to a blog of Hindiantalk but the excellent of this remark slightly consoled me.
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