Vinyl I am listening to...

[reubensm]

Sure Murali, let me check my catalogue tonight and shall get back to you. It may be difficult as back in those days, lots of cassettes came out which were non-standard compilations. The usual trick was for cassette companies (and pirates) to put 3 or 4 hit songs with some ordinary ones in best-hits casssettes and sell them. Let me check though. Thanks.

Searched through my vinyl library, don't have this particular album, however I do have these songs on various LPs.

 

[murali_n]

Hi rueben,

Can you give details of the other 2 songs, name of the band etc,

Thanks for the info,

N.Murali

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Well, in our part of the world there were only 3 bands known by the common man through the mid-to-late 70s and very early 80s. In order of popularity, there were:

1) Boney M
2) ABBA
3) Osibisa

People were so crazy after Osibisa, we also had about 7 or 8 Osibisa tapes at home. Not sure what happened to them.

Very true Reuben.
Thanks to Ceylon Radio station for making English Music very popular during 1970s and 80s. We used to get to know Billboard top 10 only through them and Sun Magazine.
We could clearly receive Radio Ceylon at my ancestral home in KK District.
Big sized "SUN" magazine came as help with published lyrics of top pop song of the month and of-course blow-ups to dress the walls.

Osibisa became very popular even in Villages down south after their 1981 India visit. Kokarako, Ragupathi ragava, ojahe ojah, Dance for the music etc were very pouplar.
Boney-M's Rusputin was a widely used dance number at our school during annual celebrations.
During Boney-M's first India visit, I still remember a two pages wide color AD "The Hindu" had released with a still from Oceans of Fantasy and 10000 light years. I preserved it for many years and finally termites enjoyed it.....

 

[reubensm]

Fantastic, I have the very same memories. remember the Osibisa visit to India. Also when Boney M performed in India, they actually were interviewed on Doordarshan and even performed on Doordarshan. Distinctly remember that. Yes, remember the Sun magazine (those posters were lovely, remember having one of Michael Jackson) and of course, Radio Ceylon. Also Illustrated Weekly carried a lot of features on bands, especially when Glam Metal band Europe played in India, in 1986. I used to be a daily morning listener to Radio Ceylon until about 1995.

Very true Reuben.
Thanks to Ceylon Radio station for making English Music very popular during 1970s and 80s. We used to get to know Billboard top 10 only through them and Sun Magazine.
We could clearly receive Radio Ceylon at my ancestral home in KK District.
Big sized "SUN" magazine came as help with published lyrics of top pop song of the month and of-course blow-ups to dress the walls.

Osibisa became very popular even in Villages down south after their 1981 India visit. Kokarako, Ragupathi ragava, ojahe ojah, Dance for the music etc were very pouplar.
Boney-M's Rusputin was a widely used dance number at our school during annual celebrations.
During Boney-M's first India visit, I still remember a two pages wide color AD "The Hindu" had released with a still from Oceans of Fantasy and 10000 light years. I preserved it for many years and finally termites enjoyed it.....

 

[reubensm]

Hi rueben,

Can you give details of the other 2 songs, name of the band etc,

Thanks for the info,

N.Murali

Sure, here goes:

1) You sexy thing - Hot Chocolate
2) Hey fatty Boom Boom - Carl Malcolm
3) Summer time blues - The Beach Boys
4) One and One is Two - The Strangers

 

[vnmathur57]

I watched Osibisa concert in Calcutta. It was my first encounter with the live western music concert by any internationally famous band. The sound (20,000 watts, they announced), lights, fireworks.. everything was mind boggling. After that I watched some more like, Ritchie Heavens, Boomtown Rats etc. But Osibisa was great, in those days.

 

[souravin]

Weekend start with

Mela LP. A Ring Odeon groove, heavy shellac and pure baritone output. Mannay Dey's Dekho Re hua is my favorite.

 

[Traveler]

Andrew Powell and the Philarmonia Orchestra plays Alan Parsons Project

 

[jls001]

Andrew Powell and the Philarmonia Orchestra plays Alan Parsons Project

Very interesting record. I'm sure it must be grand in the best tradition of Orchestras.

 

[reubensm]

Sat through the entire 10 LPs on the Reader's Digest box set titled "Festival Of International Hits" from the 1960s. I was lucky to acquire this box set in un-touched condition, none of the LPs were ever played. Its just that the cardboard box was in tatters from many years of storage. This is a British pressing in full stereo. Fantastic to listen to it. Each LP is dedicated to a theme, for example, international hits of the 60s, mexican hits, latin american hits, italian hits, hit movie themes, etc. Fantastic imagery.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

LISTENING TO not so very common Hindi LPs

1. A 1966 3AEX 5085 KALYANJI ANANDJI ANGEL RECORD

2. A 1964 HMV LP PRESSED IN GREAT BRITAIN- MODERN INDIAN FILM MUSIC CLP 1823

3.A 1967 3AEX 5112 SHANKAR JAIKISHAN TITLE SONGS

 

[reubensm]

When I was listening to the box set, one of the records had soundtracks from detective and thriller TV series from the 1960s like U.N.C.L.E, etc. The fast paced rock n roll music with a lot of trumpets reminded me of Kalyanji Anandji's background scoring in action pot boilers of the 1970s. The background scores of the original 1977 Don is an example. It is said that the background score of the Don scene where Amitabh runs beside a train, being chased by the cops, inspired Farhan Akthar to do the remake.

 

[dgstar2012]

Today's evening went with lovely songs from R D Burman Sir.

1. Barsaat Ki Ek Raat

2. The Train





Regards,

 

[shafic]

ReUM PUM,PUM PUM, PUM PUM PUM!!

In my childhood days we would visit a Cinema Theatre (Poornakala,Tirunelveli Jn,TN) often.I would make it a point to reach early so as not to miss the CURTAIN raising music. In the dark cinema hall, the curtain rim lights could be seen as it rose and SOUL filling music filled the hall.That experience was beyond the description.The sound quality was amazing (may be Altec A7).
I did not know the name of the piece that was being played. Even after years passed that lovely rhythm remained and stayed in my mind.I kept searching for it, asking people by singing the TITLE rhythm.After many years i heard a remix version in a music class near my new shop on the day of the inauguration.
I literally ran and copied in my pen drive.Also came to know it is called HOT BUTTER POPCORN.
Last week i got some LPs from a person and i found that LP which i was searching from a LOOOONG time.Here is the pic.

Please share any such memories fellow FMs have.

 

[reubensm]

similar memories, as a small kid, dad used to take us to a cinema theatre called Sree Visakh in Trivandrum (as they used to show English movies). I remember the curtain rising for the matinee show. The music they used to play was a song with a catchy tune but the record was damaged and the arm used to get stuck and repeat lines till someone came and corrected it. Many years later I came to know that the song was Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees when I found it on my Saturday Night Fever LP.

 

[peace_sells]

This box set belongs to my friend. Took it from him for a week. Listening to Genesis after a long time! This reissue really sounds fantastic!

 

[dgstar2012]

This evening listened to one of the best musical songs ever created by R.D Burman Sir.

Harjaee - R D. Burman




Goodnight!!!

 

[ANILKUMAR]

similar memories, as a small kid, dad used to take us to a cinema theatre called Sree Visakh in Trivandrum (as they used to show English movies). I remember the curtain rising for the matinee show. The music they used to play was a song with a catchy tune but the record was damaged and the arm used to get stuck and repeat lines till someone came and corrected it. Many years later I came to know that the song was Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees when I found it on my Saturday Night Fever LP.

True.
Not sure if it was Ajantha or New theater in Trivandrum , around 1978 they used to play Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine-"we are the robots" song during curtain raising and also sometime during slide advertisements. We used to feel very proud as we had the same LP @ home.
-Anil

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Re: PUM PUM,PUM PUM, PUM PUM PUM!!

HOT BUTTER POPCORN.

Popcorn was my favorite too . We had a EP with Popcorn song on one side and "At The Movies" on the other side.
-Anil.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Another favorite of mine from Childhood days- "Baby elephant walk" - a theme from Hatari.

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Many Indian music directors have used this theme in many comic situations.....need not say what....