Binaca Geet Mala: Top 15 songs in the annual countdown from 1952 till 1993

[JK]

Can someone please supply this information. I have been advised of
possible leads but nothing has come of it. I will be most grateful
for help in this matter.

Thanks in advance

Jai

[Srinivas Ganti]

"JK" <JaiKu...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c00b55b8.01112...@posting.google.com...

> Can someone please supply this information. I have been advised of
> possible leads but nothing has come of it. I will be most grateful
> for help in this matter.

I had posted the countdowns from 1958 till 1965. The no.1 songs from 1953 to
1993 have also been posted. A simple search on google will give you all
these
posts.

One possible source for the other years wud be the Geetmala countdown tapes.

sg.

[JK]

"Srinivas Ganti" <gant...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<9u3qko$61fa8$1...@ID-75004.news.dfncis.de>...

I had posted the countdowns from 1958 till 1965. The no.1 songs from
1953 to
1993 have also been posted. A simple search on google will give you
all
these posts.

One possible source for the other years wud be the Geetmala countdown
tapes.
sg.

SG,

Thanks for your posting.

I have seen your posting on the countdown from 1958 till 1965. I have
also seen the list for no.1 songs from 1953 till 1993, but it only
states the top song of the year and doesn't include the top 15 songs
in each year.

I have searched Google and other search engines and e-mailed many
people but have had no joy. The Geet Mala tapes is a good idea except
I cannot find them anywhere. I have tried all the Indian music shops
and online stores.

I hope someone out there has the answers.

JK

[SKalra902]

There is a 6-volume12-CD set of Binaca Geet Mala which you can proabbly get
from HMV or any other CD dealers.

Vol. 1 is titled Hit Parade - The Early Years (1949-1954).
Happy listenings.

Satish Kalra

[SKalra902]

>
>There is a 6-volume12-CD set of Binaca Geet Mala which you can proabbly get
>from HMV or any other CD dealers.
>
>Vol. 1 is titled Hit Parade - The Early Years (1949-1954).
>Happy listenings.
>
>Satish Kalra

Sorry I hit the Send button too fast. Will be following up soon.

Happy listenings.

Satish Kalra

[SKalra902]

I ad umpteen problems yesterday with my ISP. I wrote up messages twice, fairly
long ones and each time I got disonnected from the newsgroup. :(( And since
I also lost the article which I was following up on, the subject line may have
changed too, as I had to re-type it.

So here I am.

The 12-CD set was released in six volumes. The titles and No. of songs are as
follows.

1. Hit Parade - Vol. I The Early Years (1949 - 1954) Total of 19 songs

2. Geretmala Hit Parade Vol. 2 (Hits of 1955). Total of 24 songs.

3. Geretmala Hit Parade Vol. 3 (Hits of 1956). Total of 40 songs.

4. Geretmala Hit Parade Vol. 4 (Hits of 1957). Total of 25 songs.

5. Geretmala Hit Parade Vol. 5 (Hits of 1958). Total of 30 songs.

6. Geretmala Hit Parade Vol. 6 (Hits of 1959). Total of 21 songs.

Volume 6 also has clips of interviews with C. Ramchandra, Bharat Vyas, S. N.
Tripathi, and Jaikishan.

The CDs are actually copied from cassettes (on a couple of CDs, you can hear
A.Sayani actually say that "..ab aap cassette kii duusrii side par aa gaye
hain...", and some of the CDs have only one 'track' for the entire duration of
the CD). In one of the two cassettes that I had prior to buying the CD set, I
remember Ameen Sayani mentioning that they planned to release a total of 50
cassettess of the Geetmala Hit Parade. I have tried my best to get them, but
in vain. Maybe in India, they can be specail ordered from HMV/RPG/Saregama. I
doubt that material from 50 cassettes can be accommodated on jsut 12 CDs. I
would also appreciate information on the availability of this 50-tapes set.

Please also note that Volume I is ttitled Hit Parade, while the rest are
Geetmala Hit Parade. The reason is that only in the second half of 1954,
Binaca Geetmala adopted the hit songs countdown format.

Mr. Ravi Krishna had also written up a rather comprehensive post on the Binaca
Geetmala hit songs about three or four years back, listing the top songs of
each year right into the 90's. Maybe a search on Google might help, too, for
that post.
.
Happy listenings.

Satish Kalra

[JK]

Satish

Thanks for your posting. This is helpful info. I have made enquires
about obtaining the 50 Cassesttes but no seems to have them.

Surely there must be someone out there who can help. I have even
e-mailed Ameen Sayani but have not received a reply!

[iindp...@gmail.com]

Jai, We at Indpaedia.com have already posted from 1952 to the 1979. We hope that by the end of May 2015 we would have uploaded the lists of all Binaca? Cibaca Geet malas: indeed, from the 1930s till early 2015, we are compiling annual lists of Hindi/ Urdu song hits for each year and in the process of posting them

[iindp...@gmail.com]

Why is my reply not loading?
PD

[iindp...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 3:09:07 PM UTC+5:30, JK wrote:

If my reply loads, I will even give you exact links

[iindp...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 3:09:07 PM UTC+5:30, JK wrote:

Here is a sample link
http://www.indpaedia.com/ind/index.php/Binaca_Geet_Mala_1966:_greatest_hits

Why just 15, we are trying to give all credits for the top 40-odd songs of each year from 1940 onwards, including the Binaca Years

N

[iindp...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 3:09:07 PM UTC+5:30, JK wrote:

This means that we are also in the process of uploading the names and credits of the 'chhaon' songs. For the pre-Bianaca years we have tried to see what songs HMV has re-issued the most

[iindp...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 3:09:07 PM UTC+5:30, JK wrote:

For some reason that link above is taking about 6 seconds to load (vs 1 o2 seconds)
Let me give you another link
http://www.indpaedia.com/ind/index.php/Binaca_Geet_Mala_1974:_greatest_hits
We have uploaded BGM lists only till 1974 so far. The rest are being formatted

[hol...@gmail.com]

Why indpaedia.com link is not woking now?