Thread by @sunandavashisht

The film was ordinary, but Madan Mohan & Lata didi were together to create magic. Film sank.Songs will live forever.The story goes that #LataMangeshkar wept while recording this song. Check the first alaap,you will know why.Ahir Bhairav sung to perfection.

Generations will come and go but nobody will ever know how #LataMangeshkar sang this beauty in Maand. Jaidev made this incredibly difficult composition only for Didi. Dadra taal makes it even more complex and then every stanza has different tune.

And then Didi experimented with Maand again. This time she was 62 years old. Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Gulzar and Lata Didi created Lekin- a monument to Indian music. Kesariya Balam- don’t forget didi could do this in 1991. She had started singing in 1942

Pathos was Didi’s middle name. Nobody did pathos better than her. Virah ras was Lata Mangeshkar and Vice versa. C Ramachandra knew this. So he created virah ras for her that even pucca classical musicians found difficult to sing.

Some songs seem simple. They are composed simply of course but when Didi sang no song was ‘simple’. We have all sung this along with her but who can get the emotion and expression right except Didi.

Raj Kapoor and Lata didi were a formidable team. Right from Barsaat to Ram Teri Ganga maili, RK and Lata were inseparable. Who else could sing dream sequence like a dream except didi

Unlike what people think Didi didn’t survive for 5 decades on her extraordinary talent alone.She knew when sound changed and a new era was ushered which was every decade. So she transformed herself every decade. Check this from Madhumati in 1958.

Compare Aaja re pardesi (1958) to Uthaye ja unke sitam in 1949, and you will know how Lata Didi transformed herself every decade. Perfection remained, class remained, decency remained, sound changed.

ईश्वर सत्य है, सत्य ही शिव है, शिव ही सुन्दर है I don’t know what had possessed Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo when they composed this exquisite beauty in king of Raags - Darbari Kanada and then where did Didi take it with her singing.. .

The year was 1954. Love was meant to be eternal like Lataji’s voice. It never ended. This is how you whispered love. Quietly, slowly and forever. Aa Neel Gagan tale, pyar hum karein. - Didi and Hemant Kumar. What could go wrong.

1972 - Amar Prem - Did RD reserve his best for Didi .. Asha ji certainly thought so and said that in jest but it must be remembered that Didi sang RD’s first song and his last song. This song however is in a league of its own

I will end this thread with a song about which I have often said that if Didi had only sung this one song she would still be the greatest singers ever. Such is this beauty composed in gorgeous Raag Jaijaiwanti by Shankar Jaikishen. Pay attention to taans