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For it's very first Super Bowl (American Football) commercial in February of 2024, Lindt Chocolates used the song Round and Round by Perry Como in the background with a Lindt Chocolate Ball bouncing thru lives of people enjoying the chocolate. More than the commercial, the ( Read more... )

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From the 1997 Indian Hindi language musical romance film Dil To Pagal Hai ( = The Heart is Crazy) (DTPH). Sung my Lata Mangeshkar and Kumar Sanu to the Lyrics penned by Anand Bakshi and Music composed by Uttam Singh.

I have seen this movie several times, but had never seen ( Read more... )

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One of the iconic tunes that the great Henry Mancini composed from the American private eye TV series Peter Gunn that aired from 1958 - 1961. PBS program Henry Mancini 100 at Hollywood Bowl reminded us all of this iconic song again.

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I was watching a program on Henry Mancini on TV (Henry Mancini 100 at Hollywood Bowl) that happened in California. They were playing his famous tunes and songs that he had either composed or conducted in Hollywood films in the second half of 20th century. He was an American ( Read more... )

Recently I watched four movies of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character portrayed by Margaret Rutherford - three in one month, and one recently. But all four movies ( 1961 Murder, She Said; 1963 Murder at the Gallop; 1964 Murder Most Foul; and 1965 Murder Ahoy!), had the same theme music.

It was created by Ron Goodwin which was played not only ( Read more... )

I cant believe the year has come to an end already. It gave me immense pleasure posting all the wonderful melodies that are my favorites too. It took a lot of searching and compiling before I could post any single song. Not to mention to keep track of already posted songs and movies so there would be no repition. (I might have had one or two ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the second of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

From the 1982 hit Telugu film Manchu Pallaki ( = Snow Palanquin), this lovely melody was Sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S. Janaki. Interesting to ( Read more... )

The countdown to 2016 started. So did the closure to my song-a-day blog theme for 2015. Keeping with the mood, here is the first of the three songs that were going to be part of my closing posts.

This 1980s hit song titled Happy New Year by Swedish pop group ABBA is a perfect ballad to start with. Sung by Agnetha Faltskog for their album Super ( Read more... )

This beautiful classical number was from the 1963 hit Hindi film Dil Hi To Hai ( = It's Only My/Your Heart) Sung by legendry singer Manna Dey. It is said that when Music composer Roshan recorded this song in Manna Dey's voice, the film makers were not happy. They wanted it to be re-recorded with Mohd. Rafi's voice. However, Roshan had refused to ( Read more... )

Interesting pairing of Chandramohan and Vijaya Nirmala in this 1968 hit Telugu movie Bangaru Pichuka ( = Golden Sparrow). I remember this song vaguely and took a while to find it. But finally nailed it. It’s a sweet melody Sung by S. P. Balasubrahmaniam. Music was composed by K. V. Mahadevan and Lyrics penned by Arudra.

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