Monday, October 6, 2003		Web Jingle

"Meri yaad mein tum na aansoo bahana," said Talat
Amit Puri

BORN in Lucknow on February 24, 1924, Talat Mahmood started on music early. He received formal training at Marris Music College. Talat started singing ghazals of Ghalib, Dagh, Mir and Jigar on All India Radio, Lucknow, at the young age of 16. His first major break came in 1941 when he recorded ‘Sab din ek samaan nahin tha, ban jaoonga kya se kya main, iska to kuch dhyan nahin tha’ for HMV.

Talat went to Mumbai in 1949 where people were already aware of his talent. He recorded the song "Ae dil mujhe aisi jagha le chal jahan koi na ho," composed by Anil Biswas and the song was picturised on the Dilip Kumar. There was no looking back after that.

Apart from singing, Talat also acted in 13 films. He received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India, apart from the Maharashtra State Government Film Award, the Ashirwad Award, the Lata Mangeshkar Puraskar, the Alami Urdu Conference Award, The Bombay Film Critics Award and the EMI Lifetime Achievement Disc. On May 9, 1998, this legendary singer left this world.

www.talatmahmood.com

This is a site dedicated to Talat and is maintained by his son Khalid Mahmood. The main sections of the site are "Talat the singer", the "star", "down the memory lane", "fact file", "Talat the legend", a "song list", and "listen to audio". Though the site gives good information on the star and many of his photos are available, but links in the audio section were not working at the time they were checked.

www.indianmelody.com/talatmahmood.htm

"Meri yaad mein tum na", "Jayen to jayen kahan", "Jalte hain jiske liye", "Teri aankh ke ansoon", "Tasveer banata hoon", "Andhe jahan ke andhe raaste", "Dil-e-nadan tujhe hua", "Milte hi aankhen dil hua" and "Aye mere dil kahin aur chal" are some of his hit songs available on the site for listening online.

www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/03030P

More than 80 songs are available for listening online on this page. The site also has a good collection of other songs as well. Generally all the links the songs are working, but the songs can’t be downloaded from here.