Hitting The Right Notes Hindi Cinema's Golden Music
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Foreword
Manek Premchand is not only one of India's finest musicologists of Indian film songs, but also an author with a delightfully graceful style.
I have been following his books right from his first venture, Yesterday's Melodies, Today's Memories, and have had the honour of writing Forewords for all of them. If you are a lover of Indian film music of the golden period, you must surely have read his three other books, too: Musical Moments from Hindi Films, Romancing the Song, and Talat Mahmood-The Velvet Voice (I hear this one has been nominated for the 2016 Award by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Indiana, USA for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research).
In this, his latest book, Hitting the Right Notes-Hindi Cinema's Golden Music, Manek Premchand has given a masterly over-view of the grand feast of golden music that our Indian film songs have bestowed upon us, from 1931 till almost now.
Manek's collection of songs featured is mind-boggling; almost like an encyclopaedia-and his style is as elegant as ever.
Keep it up, Manek. We now await your next magnum opus!
Introduction
The great author Irving Wallace is known for his bestsellers like The Man, The Plot, and The Seven Minutes, all works of fiction. But all these came after he was successful. Earlier, for twenty struggling years, to stay out of debt, he wrote for many journals what they advised him to write on. But he still devoted a fraction of his time to what he felt like writing, with no idea at all if it would ever be printed. This free time he called Sunday, because Sunday was the Lord's Day, when you could be yourself, without being anyone's slave. These writings were non-fiction stories that would later be brought out in a book c
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