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Published: 30 November 2017

Last Updated: 30 November 2017

Very few people know that G N Joshi, an employee of the HMV since 1938 was responsible for persuading many famous classical music gurus to have their music recorded. His book Down Melody Lane is full of anecdotes. In one instance he details how HMV cheated a new record company called Young India by recording their music as version music and packaging very similarly. Gulshan Kumar did the same to them years later!

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Listen to Narsingh 707

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Published: 16 October 2017

Last Updated: 16 October 2017

Early sound effects in the background or for songs were produced manually by using all kinds of props. Everybody knows about the sound of horse running produced by coconut shells. Realistic sounds such as footsteps, doorbell, phone ringing could be produced by using the real thing. For thunderstorms they used a gadget called thunder-sheet, a metallic sheet suspended by wires and moved back and forth. Here is the earliest example I have in my collection (Laal-e-Yaman song Number 8)

Laal-e-Yaman Song 8

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 Listen to Parivar (1967)

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Published: 09 June 2021

Last Updated: 14 June 2021

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professor toofaanii publishers is very pleased to announce their eighteenth book.

For the first time like in Forever, it is in HINDI.

It is based on the world-famous blog of Shishir Krishna Sharma. The English version was published in January 2020.

It is paperback, 212 pages, 6"x9", black and white with color cover. First 20 pages may be read below.

In India it is available on POTHI, as usual.

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For some reason Amazon does not print books in Hindi! (Hindi lovers, protest!!!). So, you may but it from BLURB

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First 20 pages may be read here

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