Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

Continuing on the topic of one song providing the inspiration for many others - The next song in this series is RD’s take on his own song. The original was Tumi Kote Jo Dure sung by RD and Asha from the album Phire Elam . Lyrics were by Swapan Chakraborty. The album was released around Pooja time.   The song opens with keyboards folllowed by trumpets (or is it the Flugel Horn?) played softly by Kishor Sodha . Bass guitar plays in the background throughout the song complemented by synth’s. Just we are enjoying the soft melodies RD enters the scene on a high pitch with Tumi Koto Je... bringing out the angst of a heart broken soul searching his beloved. Listen to the M1 music where the bass guitar fills in the sound with trumpets. You can feel RD enjoying his singing. Put on your headphones and listen as you read this. This Bengali song is similar in flow as the opening bars of   the 1975 hit “ Shine You Crazy Diamond ” by Pink Floyd . The tune however...

The next song in the series one Song Many Versions is Tum Meri Zindagi Mein from Bombay To Goa . The story as told by Dinesh Shailendra is that Shailendra had written two songs for Guru Dutt’s Raaz . This film never saw the daylight as it was shelved midway. (Guru Dutt suspected that his assistant Niranjan who was directing the film was not doing it right!) Pancham re-recorded this song for Bombay To Goa. However, this song was credited to Rajinder Krishna (who penned the lyrics of other songs for that film). Shailendra protested and threatened action after which the song was removed from the film. This way the song again never saw the daylight! https://youtu.be/PN0rH8dLn28 Here is another version of the same song from Bombay To Goa. https://youtu.be/HuKJwYm5T_U The original song was Terry’s Theme from Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952) and won the Oscar for the best dramatic score in 1973 Mantovani adapted the tune to create this version Sal...