INDIES TOP 536 BOLLYWOOD SINGERS OF ALL TIME !
"Acting is in btwn lines, Singing is in btwn Words"
Hereby presenting the much awaited Indies All-Time Greatest Bollywood Singers compile !
Most in Top 10 with a song collection in the ten thousands to several thousands range each, thru the eras, barring a few of pre-independence yore.
Thus hitting upon the perfect mix of substance, style, old traditional classical, semi-traditional transitional, & new world razmatazz !
To posterity & beyond !
LATA MANGESHKAR & 1. KUNDAN LAL SAIGAL - JOINT NO. 1 !
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MOHAMMAD RAFI
KISHORE KUMAR
MUKESH
MANNA DEY
ASHA BHOSLE
SUMAN KALYANPUR
SHAMSHAD BEGUM
TALAT MEHMOOD
HEMANT KUMAR
MAHENDRA KAPOOR
SULAKSHANA PANDIT
ZOHRABAI AMBALAWALI
REWA SHANKAR
HEMALATA
NOORJEHAN
JAGJIT SINGH
SALMA AGHA
S.JANAKI
CHITHRA
SURESH WADKAR
VINODINI DIXIT
KANAN DEVI
BHUPEN HAZARIKA
MANHAR UDHAS
RAFIQ GHAZNAVI
DHANIRAM
NASEEM AKHTAR
SADHANA SARGAM
ASHIQ HUSSAIN
SUBIR SEN
ANWAR
MADAN MAHENDRA
ANUPAMA DESHPANDE
HARIHARAN
SUDHA MALHOTRA
PARUL GHOSH
BINAPANI MUKHERJEE
KHURSHEED
AARTI MUKHERJEE
BINOTA CHAKRABORTY
RUNA LAILA
MAYA DEVI
GHULAM ALI
TARABAI
GYAN DUTT
IMDAD HUSSAIN
MASTER MADAN
TALAT AZIZ
SUJATHA MOHAN
FRENI
PRAMODINI DESAI
RAMDULARI
RATIKUMAR VYAS
KAUSHALYA
SHAILESH MUKHERJEE
POORNIMA
ANURADHA SRIRAM
SUNEETA RAO
BHUPENDRA SINGH
KAMALA JHARIA
MOHAN ADVANI
MAYA BANERJEE
KAUMUDI MUNSHI
CHANDRANI MUKHERJEE
UMA SHASHI
R.P. SHARMA
RADHA
USHA MANGESHKAR
ANDREW KISHORE
JASPAL SINGH
S.P. BALASUBRAMANIAM
NAZIA HASSAN
SULOCHANA KADAM
ZEENAT BEGUM
ROBIN MAJUMDAR
SAROJ BORKAR
AMIRBAI KARNATAKI
TOCHI
SRIMATI GHOSH
BAPPI LAHIRI
SANDHYA MUKHERJEE
SARASWATI RANE
SHANTI DEVI
RADHARANI
MADHAV KALE
MADHUBALA JHAVERI
MADHURA SHANTARAM
LALITA DEULKAR
JUTHIKA ROY
VANMALA
MASUD PARVEZ
NITIN MUKESH
WAHIDAN BAI
SHYAMA HEMADY
PUSHPA PAGDHARE
MOHD FAROOQUI
JIKKI
YASHWANT BHATT
PANKAJ MULLICK
SUHASINI KOLHAPURE
RENUKA DEVI
AMAR
ASHOK KUMAR
MASTER MOHAMMAD
CHITALKAR
BALWANT SINGH
SUSHEELA RANI
RANU MUKHERJEE
DWIJEN MUKHERJEE
BELA MUKHERJEE
H. FARUQUI
K.C. DEY
RAMYA IYER
MASTER VASANT
MISTER SHEIKH
FIDA HUSSAIN
KALYANI DAS
SUMATI
SUHAS
SUNANDA KAMAT
SNEHPRABHA PRADHAN
MISS KALYANI
PUTUL CHATTERJEE
NAZIRA
RAVINDRA SATHE
MUMTAZ
NALINI MULGANVKAR
RAM PUNJWANI
SUMAN PUROHIT
PARO DEVI
MADHUSUDAN
NARGIS BANO
SUNILA DAS GUPTA
SUPRAVA SARKAR
P.B.SRINIVAS
VIMAL SARDESAI
RAJ KAPOOR
MUNIR ALAM
KAMAL DAS
MOHANA
RATNA MALKANI
SRINATH TRIPATHI
LEELA MEHTA
SURINDER KAUR
DEEDAR PARDESI
QADIR FAREEDI
MISS GULAB
INDIRA MANCHANDA
BRIJMALA
VASANTI M.
M. SHARIF QAWWAL
CHANCHAL KUMARI
SNEHAL BHATKAR
SANTRAM
SHYAM SUNDAR
SHYAM KUMAR
KANTI LAL
CHANDRASHEKHAR GADGIL
ANIKA RIZVI
RAJNI
KARAN DEWAN
BHARTI
SHAMIM
ABU BAKAR
AFZAL HUSSAIN
GAUHAR SULTANA
BALAKRAM
SHYAMA SHARMA
CHAUBEY MAHARAJ
SHRADDHA PANDIT
KAMLA SISTA
SARDAR AKHTAR
MASTER GOPAL
DILRAJ KAUR
SARDAR MANSUR
TARABAI LUCKNAWI
S.L.PURI
DHUMI KHAN
BECHU DUTT
ANIMA DASGUPTA
BIMLA KUMARI
AMROZIYA BEGUM
NARAYAN
SHANTI SHARMA
PADMA DEVI
PANDIT WAMANRAO
KAMAL DASGUPTA
SUPRAVA GHOSH
MISS IQBAL
HASHMAT
MEERA
SHYAMLAL MITRA
GOHAR MAMAJWALA
RAMA SHUKUL
SITARA DEVI
BHOLA SHRESHTA
ISHWARLAL
MEEENAKSHI
BEGUM AKHTAR
GIRISH
JAGMOHAN
SABITA BANERJEE
PANDIT KRISHNARAO CHONKAR
RAJKUMARI
NASEEM AKHTAR
RAM SAIGAL
BEENA KUMARI
GOVIND GOPAL
MASTER SONIK
SRINIVAS
FEROZA BEGUM
KUSUM MANTRI
KARIMDAD KHAN
MUMTAZ ALI
SHANTA THAKUR
SATYA CHOWDHURY
HAMIDA BANO
BABY ALKA
USHA TIMOTHY
RAMA DEVI
SHOBHA BADRINATH
BADRINATH VYAS
RAMCHANDRA PAL
P KRISHNA GOYAL
BIBBO
KAMAL BAROT
GANDHARI
PRATAP
LEELA CHITNIS
LEELA CHANDRAGIRI
RAFIQ AHMED
VISHNUPANT PAGNIS
PANDIT JASRAJ
MISS KAMLA
ILA ARUN
MEENA MANGESHKAR
NEENU MAJUMDAR
RASHIDA KHATOON
K. SUNDARAMMA
RANIBALA
MISS MOTI
PATANJAL
NARENDRA CHANCHAL
ANJALI DEVI
MOLINA DEVI
SHAMO
SHARDA
PADMA BANERJEE
A.R.OJHA
ARUN
VEENA KUMARI
PRITAM
VIJAY BENEDICT
SITARABAI KANPURI
YASHWANT BALAKRISHNA JOSHI
RAMOLA
SATISH BATRA
RADHARANI BOMBAYWALI
ANGUR BALA
BELA SAVER
MISS ROSE
C.S. RAGI
SUPRITI GHOSH
KHAYYAM
HUSN BANU
AKBAR KHAN DURRANI PESHAWARI
MALKA AMIR JAAN
USTAD AMIR KHAN
ANURADHA
ANEES KHATOON
MASTER AVINASH
MUKHTAR BEGUM
REHMAT BANO
ARUN KUMAR
SATISH
ARUN KUMAR MUKHERJI
REHMAT BAI
HEERA KUMARI
GEETA DUTT
MENKA BAI
KISHORE SAHU
PARSHURAM
IQBAL BIBI
VATSALA KUMTHEKAR
ZUBEIDA KHANUM
VIJAY KUMAR
BABY VIMAL
LAXMI ROY
JAGJIT KAUR
RAJA GUL
NOOR MOHD CHARLIE
KRISHNA KALLE
JATIN PANDIT
ASHIMA BANERJEE
INDUBALA DEVI
APARESH LAHIRI
SUSHIL SAHU
SHAKTI T
AZIZ NAZAN
RAJAN-SAJAN
SAPAN CHAKRABORTY
PANDYA
JANI BABU
PREMPAL
GHULAM MOHAMMED
BULO C. RANI
BHUSHAN MEHTA
LAXMI SHANKAR
KUSUM MANTRI
PANKAJ UDHAS
K.P.SEN
MUKHERJEE
SURAIYA
JAMUNA RANI
JAYWANT KULKARNI
MEENAKSHI SHIRODKAR
RAVINDRA JAIN
ANIL BISWAS
KUSUM MANTRI
AMIT KUMAR
USHA KHANNA
SHAILENDRA SINGH
ANAND KUMAR
C. PAPON
M.G. SHREEKUMAR
VISHNILAL
SURESH (chal chal re naujawan)
MUMTAZ BEGUM
SARLA DEVI
VIDYANATH SETH
G.M.DURRANI
PUSHPA HANS
LALITA RAO
RAMOLA
FAKIR MOHAMMED
NALINI JAYWANT
YUSUF EFENDI
PARVATI KHAN
S.D. BATISH
S. BALBIR
MEENA KAPOOR
B.N.BALI
SALMA
KANTA KUMARI
ARUN BAKSHI
SAPNA MUKHERJEE
P.BHANUMATI
SHANKAR DASGUPTA
DILSHAD BEGUM
UMRAO ZIA
S.N.TRIPATHI
MINU PURUSHOTTAM
PINAKIN SHAH
ISHU
ASHA POSLEY
GULSHAN SOOFI
SHANTI KUMAR DESAI
JAHANARA KAJJAN
SONA CHATTERJEE
BHIMSEN JOSHI
ISMAIL AZAD QAWWAL
IQBAL SIDDIQUI
HARISH BHARDWAJ
NIRMALA DEVI
MARUTI RAO
DILSHAD BEGUM
CHITRAGUPT
RAM MARATHE
PARESH BANERJEE
USHA BALSAWAR
SHAUKAT
MANAS MUKHERJEE
SUNDARA BAI
AFZAL LAHORI
VITTHAL
MANSOOR
SAVITA
PEENAZ MASANI
LAISH RAM MEMA
BHARAT VYAS
SHEELA SHIRODKAR
SHEELA
GOHAR MAMAJIWALA
MOHANTARA
LEELA SAWANT
MANJU
RAM PYARI
SAGARIKA MUKHERJEE
KRISHNA GANGULY
SHARDA GANGULY
SHANKAR - SHAMBHU
RAZIA BEGUM
SIDDHESHWAR MUKHERJEE
DEV KUMAR
IKHLAQ AHMED
KESARI
SHEELA MITRA
AMRITLAL
YAKUB
KUMAR (jeevan naiyya, 1946)
USTAD AMANAT ALI
FIROZE DASTUR
PARVEZ KAPADIA
SUDHIR PHADKE
SHANTA KUNWAR
MUNAWWAR SULTANA
UTPALA SEN
MITHU MIYAN
SHABNAM
VASANTRAO DESHPANDE
SHOBHA JOSHI
ASHIMA BANERJEE
GHULAM HAIDER
IRA NIGAM
MENKA
SUNDAR
ROHINI ROY
SHYAMA BAI
PEARU MASTER
MASTER DEEN
AHINDRA CHOUDHARY
SUMATI TRILOKEKAR
K. DEEP
SHAMINDER
VANMALA
SHEETAL GHOSH
LALITA PARULKAR
UMAKANT
MRINAL GHOSH
SADHANA BOSE
NEENA B.S.
B.S.NANAJI
SHANTA APTE
LEELA WARSI
AKHTARIBAI FAIZABADI
MANIK VERMA
S. MOHINDER
MANMOHAN SINGH
ZAHOOR RAJA
SURESH RAJVANSHI
POORNA SETH
BABY TARA
MUBARAK BEGUM
T.A.MOTI
ZAWAR HUSSAIN
ANIMA GHOSH
AMBAR KUMAR
ERUCH TARAPORE
NARESH BHATTACHARYA
SUDHA KARMASE
NARAIN DUTT
RATTANBAI
SURINDER KOHLI
MIR ALI
BANDE HASAN QAWWAL
VINOD
MINAAL WAGH
SHARMA
NIAMAT ALI
RANGNATH JADHAV QAWWAL
SAROJ WELINGKAR
G.M.SAJAN
GOVIND KURWALIKAR
MALA BEGUM
MINATI SARKAR
MOTI
MALTI PANDEY
SHEIKH ADAM
CHAUDHARY
SADAT KHAN
SUNIL KUMAR
SHRIDHAR PARSEKAR
KRISHNA RAO
HEERA SAWANT
VIMAL VAKADE
ASHITA BOSE
HARIMATI
AZIZ HINDI
MEENA KUMARI
AGHA
FAIZBAI
PROTIMA DASGUPTA
RAMESH GUPTA
JAYASHREE
VASANT DESAI
MOTILAL
SURESH BABU MANE
SARDAR MANSOOR
MAZHAR KHAN
MULIA
PATGAONKAR
POPATLAL
DURGESH KUMARI
SABITA DEVI
N. M. ADHIKARI
BABY SUMAN
HARISH
LEELA DESAI
JYOTI
SHANTA HUBLIKAR
SHAHU MODAK
DURGA KHOTE
NASEEM BANU
SARITA DEVI
WAHEEDAN BAI
MADHURI
ASHRAF KHAN
VIMLA
SHARDA PANDIT (eg baghban 1938)
E.G.PADGAONKAR
SADIQ ALI
AHMED DILAWAR
ALAUDDIN NAVEED
RENU
MEENAKSHI
REKHA MALLICK
BINOTA BOSE
MAJI
SARITA KHARWAL
RANJANA
BABY SHAKUNTALA
SHAUKAT ALI
BABY ANU
KAVI PRADEEP
SUNITA DEVI
SARASWATI DEVI
CHANDRAPRABHA
MASTER NISSAR
ZILLOO
.LALLUBHAI NAYAK
P.F.PITHAWALA
RANJIT RAI
SUSHILA
PREM ADIB
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Top 10 Valentine’s Day Songs
Valentine’s Day is a special occasion for couples to express their love and appreciation for each other. Music is a wonderful way to enhance the romantic atmosphere of the day.
Saregama has brought you a great collection of Valentine’s Day songs that will make your special day even more memorable. Here’s a list of the top 10 Valentine’s Day songs to download from Saregama.
“Tere Bina Zindagi Se” by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar: This timeless classic is sure to get your heart racing with its sweet lyrics and romantic melody.
“Karvaten Badalte Rahe” by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar: This beautiful song reminds you of the special bond between lovers and how much they miss each other.
“Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Song” by Kumar Sanu: The song depicts the feelings that go through the mind of a young lover who sees his love for the first time.
“Pehla Nasha” by Sadhana Sargam and Udit Narayan: This beautiful duet will have you daydreaming about about your first love.
“Agar Tum Mil Jao” by Shreya Ghoshal: This classic song from the hit movie of the same name will bring you back to that time.
“Tu Mile Dil Khile” by Stebin Ben and Asees Kaur: This song will make you want to spend eternity with your special someone.
“Chura Liya Hai Tumne” by Asha Bhosle and Mohd. Rafi: This melodious duet will make you feel the love between two people.
“Dil Kya Kare” by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar: This classic song is sure to make you feel like you’re in a romantic Bollywood movie.
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Secret Radio | 7.24.21, 8.7.21 & etc.
“Better, Better, Back” Secret Radio | 7.24.21, 8.7.21 & etc. | Hear it here.
- Mort Garson - “Plantasia”
1. Jean-Pierre Djeukam - “Africa Iyo” - “Cameroon Garage Funk”
The main musician I think of from Cameroon is Beti-Beti, and this is a whole different thing. Endless props to Analog Africa for providing fiery track after track. This is the sweat from their newest collection!
2. Eyedress - “Jealous”
Paige hears something in this and when I unfocus my eyes I do too. (Literal?) high school skate kids gettin in their shallow feels. I will admit that the chorus “time-time” is killer.
3. Nahid Akthar & Tafo - “Takra We Gutt Bhar Le” (I think)
Nahid Akthar’s voice is so completely bewitching that the amazing arrangements almost sneak by. Tafo is the producer of this track I believe, and the narrative structure of the music is just so confident and encompassing. But then also: man, that VOICE. She’s right up there with Ros Serey Sothea in expressiveness and character.
4. Oruã - “Escola das Roas” - “Sem Bênção / Sem Crença”
My thanks to you, Marc, for pointing this band to us. I have fallen in love with this particular recording, it just gets more thoroughly better with every listen. Calvin Johnson mentioned this band in a recent K newsletter — they’re a Brazilian band who corresponded with Doug Martsch as mutual fans until at some point Doug decided his own band needed replacing and he brought them out as Built to Spill and also as Oruã. This track also has shades of Sonic Youth’s “Master-Dik,” one of my all-time ultra faves. It really hits me in the ’90s, and I rilly want to see how some of this music is performed live.
5. Jacques Dutronc - “Le Responsable”
I’m so thankful to have Jacques Dutronc in my life. His rock songs knock me into gear like nothing else — and the whole band has its own very specific flavor. It kicks!
6. Sleepy Kitty - “Alceste in Silverlake”
At very long last, there is a new Sleepy Kitty album on the way! It’s in line at the record plant as I type this. And this is a song from the perspective of a musician-seeking drummer in LA, crossed with the most brutally honest man in all of France.
7. Sakuran Zensen - “錯乱前戦 ロッキンロール” (I Wanna Rock & Roll)
We only knew one song by this band (that we’ve played here) because the video was rad, but I looked to see what else was there and this song is just freakin great with me. The chords are really cool and his vocal delivery is just so over the top it’s impossible not to love. And the guitar solo is basically a full-on tonefest, which I appreciate more than a bunch of flying fingers. The video helps fill in the picture nicely too, I think, though I like the song while not looking at it even more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPCqT3e89SU
- Mort Garson - “Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos”
8. Clothilde - “Fallait pas ècraser la queue du chat”
All hail the French instinct for chamber music instruments as pop instruments, and then as a kind of technicolor weirdness. The orchestration of this song is a work of art in itself, and that doesn’t even account for her self-harmonizing melody. If you haven’t already, picture a brunette bob and deep mascara.
9. Public Service Broadcasting - “Spitfire”
I can’t remember now how I found this music, though I think it might’ve been from Josh’s playlist? This is from 2012, but they have a new album coming out almost exactly a month from now. In Bound Stems Tim and I got really into interlacing snatches of other people’s words into the music we were making, and this is very congruent with that interest. I feel like this song passes tests as it goes.
10. Shocking Blue - “Send Me a Postcard”
I first heard of this band when I was learning everything I could about Nirvana, and I’d heard both versions of “Love Buzz” and knew they were both great, but we only recently caught this track. It’s the bridge between “White Rabbit” and “Territorial Pissings.”
11. Metak - “Tetrapak”
Our favorite Croatian band! Everything about this song is delightful. I feel like if this song was in English I’d probably cringe at the lyrics, but in this format I can only hear how much fun the song is to play. I am one-quarter Croatian, which means I can’t understand any of the lyrics either but I do see little ghosts of myself in the pictures of the band somehow. It’s weird.
12. Katerine - “Louxor J’adore”
-Anything I could say about this song is eclipsed by this excerpt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD7QuV6f_MA
The performance to the cemetery knocks me out
13. Erkin Koray - “Seni Her Gördügümde”
Whenever we’re listening to Anatolian psych, the songs with the most creative ideas and satisfying riffs and great vocal passages are always Erkin Koray. The four-piece arrangements are so good, and then he doesn’t hesitate to step up with his guitar to narrate a passage. Also, I really like how Turkish rock sounds so Indian and also Arabic and also French.
14. WITCH - “Chifundo”
Zambian prog rock! I haven’t heard anything like this track anywhere else in Africa yet. The thing is, this version of prog includes the exact flavor that Yes totally lacks, and thus I really love listening to this track in a way most prog rock doesn’t hit me. The time switches and the lead part over the top are just so smooth!
15. Ezra Furman - “Psalm 151”
We’ve been listening to a lot of Ezra Furman’s music lately, and it’s only getting better and more engrossing with every listen. We toured with Ezra Furman’s band about 5 years ago and every night was a pleasure. They’re finishing up a new album, which makes this a great time to listen to the others. This entire album, “Transangelic Exodus,” is a masterpiece as far as we’re concerned, and I find myself thinking the whole time too about Tim Sandusky’s production. Tim’s such a home town for us, and to hear his full attention on this album is just such a pleasure.
16. Ralph Stanley - “White Light, White Heat”
It was one of my favorite musical influence moments ever when my dad’s bluegrass band, The Prozac Mtn Boys, played VU’s “What Goes On.” Knowing that there is a recording of one of my dad’s true banjo heroes playing “White Light White Heat” is just an endless blessing. And actually hearing it is even better.
17. Kim Jung Mi - “Ganadaramabasa”
I know basically nothing about this track except that she’s Korean and this is from 1973. She’s got a real Diana Ross thing going on, and her band has a real Supremes vibe too… but it doesn’t sound like one of their songs.
18. Penny Penny - “Yogo Yogo”
We just got this record recently, and based on this track I wouldn’t’ve necessarily pictured the remarkable-looking guy who actually made this music. This is from the album “Shaka Bundu.” I’m sure it’s been cranked up and sent through some great house remixes — how could this not be? — but I like how this tempo operates at its own pace. It’s so truly and thoroughly ’80s, very 20th century. In the 21st century this tempo is practically cerebral.
19. Baris Manço - “Binboganin Kizi”
More Anatolian action. It’s really interesting to me how Turkish stuff was always associated with psych music but I didn’t really know how except for the opium thing, and I now understand that it’s in the chord relationships, well, and a lot of the vocal melody and delivery. In that way, Turkish rock pretty much defines what psych music sounds like. Wow. And check out that keyboard solo, so next level!
20. The Velvet Underground - “Countess from Hong Kong”
People are always asking Beatles or Stones and the answer is Velvet Underground. (And the Beatles, and the Stones.) They were just operating along a different balance beam than those other guys — performing different tricks for a different audience. While the Beatles were defining pop music, the VU were destroying it… but then later, they reveal their deep affinity for Western music, even as they never drop in to the blues-centric reading of it. It’s truly punk. I guess they are to punk what the Beatles are to pop — the definition of pop is whatever flows to or from the Beatles; punk is whatever flows to or from the Velvet Underground. Certainly more than any single band in 1976 or 7 or whatever.
21. Bella Bellow - “Denyigban”
The piano phrase that kicks this song off is surprisingly close to the opening of Bound Stems’ “Appreciation Night.” We got that phrase from the demo mode of Radz’s keyboard, and it’s surreal to hear a high-overlap version in a song from Togo. Her voice is so clean in tone and pitch, and what’s strangest to me is that I register the instrumentation in an almost Disney mode — but then realize that’s because Disney will draw on Caribbean and African elements at times as they establish characters and settings. Such an elegant song though!
22. Rail Band - “Mouodilo”
One of the first insights that got us into WBFF was the realization that James Brown had even more fundamental influence on the music of the world than the Beatles did — certainly in Africa. Hearing how his delivery interrelates with so many bands from all across Africa is such a revelation. This track just keeps winding around you til you can’t hardly live without it.
- Asha Bhosle - “Salma Jarir Jhalak”
All I know about this is that it’s in Bangla and it’s from a movie.
23. Unknown - “Chemirocha” - from “Love Is Love”
Several years ago, when African records looked interesting but we literally didn’t know anything about them, we bought a record called Love Is Love, in part because it was a beautiful cover and in part because the music seemed mysterious and full of possibility. Now, when I go to look for it online, I see no sign — I think it’s just a really small pressing from a… pirate group, I guess one could say? But really I think just hardcore music lovers. Anyway, it has this song “Chemirocha” on it, and there’s a story about this song that is really probably just best to link to because it’s so amazing. I guarantee you will find the information in this article worth your read:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chemirocha-how-an-american-country-singer-became-a-kenyan-star
24. Sparks - “Do-Re-Mi”
We’ve known about Sparks, but we’re late to a close listen. We’ve been listening a lot in anticipation of — not the band bio pic but “Annette,” the new film by Carax, one of our favorite directors ever. For that matter: make sure to watch “Holy Motors” by Carax. It’s probably best if you watch “Lovers on a Bridge” before that, but if you have to go straight to “Holy Motors,” dive right in. It’s amazing.
Meanwhile: This take on the Mary Poppins classic is TOO MUCH — I can’t stop smiling at the end, when the bells start tolling over the crashing drums and crescendoing vocal waves as their third finale fades away. How can anyone make this song, the very definition of not-rock, rock so fully?
- Mort Garson - “Ode to an African Violet”
25. Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost - “She Brought Me to the Wire”
I will forever be glad that we not only landed in a city where we could find out about the person and the works of Bob Reuter, but that we got to know and work with him. Bob Reuter was one of the definitions of St. Louis to us, and when he passed, so did some of that city. But also, he left music and photos and stories in Eleven and chapbooks that I truly hope last forever. He was the hard-living romantic that you hope lives in the heart of every hard-luck case… and in his one instance, it was true. Bless your soul, Bob Reuter.
photos by Bob Reuter from The Pageant and El Leñador
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