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Highest pitch employed by Lata - Lata Mangeshkar Songs
I was listening to the intermittent humming by Lata in the song - Woh Ik Nigah Kya Mili - from Half Ticket. I was wondering if there is any other song where she has gone higher. As far as I can figure, she was spanning the entire upper octave in that song. But I’ve heard (hearsay!) that Lata can go 4 octaves like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Saahib etc.
Can some expert on this forum evaluate, please?
Many thanks
Songs of Lata Mangeshkar in1940s and 1950s
Some details of the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in 1940s and 1950s……She usually used to have KAALI-2 pitch, from here itself she could easily go upto TAAR-TAAR SAPTAK!!!!
I could remember a few songs, where Lata Mangeshkar did go to the TAAR-TAAR SAPTAK….in KAALI-2
1. Taqdeer ka shikwa kaun kare…..Poonam-1952….MD : Shankar Jaikishen
2. Woh raat din woh shaam ki ujdi huwin……Saiyya-1951….MD Sajjad
3. Jahan mein aayi diwali bade charag jale….Taaj-1956…..MD Hemantda
4. Bazoobandh khul-khul jaayein bedardi…..Bazoobandh-1954..MD Mohd Shafi
5. Teer khate jayenge ansoo bahate jayenge…Diwana-1952…MD Naushad
6. Qismet bananewale jara saamne to aa……Pardes-1950…..MD Ghulam Mohd
7. Aa gaye dil mein tum meri mehfil mein tum…Nazneen-1951 MD Ghulam Mohd
Actually, Naushad, Roshan, SD Burman, Anilda, C Ramchandra were never inclined for high pitch songs….Roshan was very particular on this aspect!
Shankar especially was ”obsessive” for this…..Sajjad Hussein, too was very much fond of this…..Ghulam Mohd too had some high-pitched songs…..
Thanks, everybody, for responding. Indeed, the songs mentioned by you (and especially in some SJ songs like O Basanti) are scaled steeply. However, the song Ik Nigah seems to have started in Madhyama Shruti (i.e. Shadjam at the place of Madhyam of C-scale) and then she seems to have gone ‘beyond’ the pancham of the taar saptak.
I don’t have a synth at hand now, or I’d find out where exactly the highest note hits, but can someone please try and figure it out for all of us?
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This post was written by Hindi Songs on November 12, 2009
