Talat Mahmood sings a song of Rafi - Chal uR ja ray Panchhi (with some Rare Pix of Talat)

Chal uR ja ray Panchhi
was sung by Rafi Sahab
for Film Bhabhi.
A few days ago someone said to me that great singers never sing cover versions of other singers so i shudnt upload version songs. It was then i looked for version songs sung by Big singers and i was surprised to note big guns there viz. I uploaded Ghulam Ali's Version yesterday and today am presenting a rare version song sung by none other than the first Ghazal King of Indo-Pak Talat Mahmood and the original song of Film Bhabhi was sung by another Alltime Great Singer Muhammad Rafi :)
Leme quote you a brief history of this rare recording in the words of Khalid Mahmood (Son of Talat Mahmood and a good singer himself) He narrates, "During 50's HMV wanted to copy the West (where one hit English song was sung by many singers) and create VERSION RECORDINGS of popular Hindi songs. Since Talat Mahmood was the most popular singer in those days they persuaded him to do the first recording 'Chal ud ja re panchi' which Mohd Rafi had sung for film 'BHABHI'. Similarly, HMV wanted Rafi to sing a Mukesh hit and Hemant Kumar to record a Talat hit. But this idea of singing other singers songs was not going down very well with the singers and they got together to finally decide against going ahead with this VERSION RECORDINGS idea of HMV. Seeing the singers opposition, HMV decided to drop this idea of VERSION RECORDINGS entirely after that. But by this time 'Chal ud ja re panchi' sung by Talat was already in the market, releasing as 'Version Recording FT21027 Twin/Black Label 78 RPM'. That is how one can hear the 'BHABHI' film song "Chal udja re panchi" in the voices of both singers - Mohd Rafi (from the film) and Talat Mahmood (from the version recorded by HMV) !!!" I dun have much time for net else i wanna comment on the importance and various purposes of cover versions. May be on my next cover song upload I'll be able to say something about it. Enjoy the Song plz
Regards
Dr.Bukhari

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[Milahi1935]

I have been searching for the Rafi version on YouTube but could not find it. Could somebody put it on.

[lovehumanity]

@Milahi1935 its posted by so many if u search under Film Bhabhi

[Milahi1935]

Let the people decide which version is better by putting both versions in the movie. I have heard both rafi and talat and I would prefer the talat version.

[lovehumanity]

@Milahi1935 who the hell are people to judge? is it a public demand show or is it democracy? this is a serious judgement related to ART.. people can only like or dislike..popularity is not a standard.. judge wo karay jo Talat say baRa gawayya ho, ya jis say sara Talat aur sara Rafi suna ho ya jo classical ka itna ilm rakhta ho k Talat aur Rafi ki har taan ki depth ko samjhay.. Judge BaRay Ghulam Ali Khan karen to baat bhi hay..public sirf sunay aur wah wah karay..bus.

[kiranmoon09]

Thank u so so so much for posting this video, u dono Dr. sahab how m gr8ful to u... its amazing, i cant express my feelings... there are so many things from past v never knew but its possible only coz of gr8 people like u... plz keep on giving us these precious gifts ... god bless u and ur dedicated work....

[lovehumanity]

@kiranmoon09 am obliged by your sweet words of encouragement :-)

wish you all the happiness in life too :-)

[sairam239]

No comparison between an apple and an orange.Both touch the heart and bring tears in the eyes.We should be proud that we are blessed with such gems.They may not physically live with us any more but their voice shall never leave us up till our last breath.

[mazhar7089]

Great voice;

[MrNashans]

Both of them sang from their heart & became imortal ,but as tribute Talat sang this for the Great Mohd Rafi & in original Film it was sang by Mohd Rafi ...God bless both of them ////

[haylz48]

@Milahi1935 i will try for you,Rafi andTalat were blessed with voices that can never be found from any other artists.AMEEN

[roohiloan]

Both were superb and had their own class . We will never hear to such voices again . I did not know that Talat had also sung this song and hearing him now is simply mesmerizing .

[devohio]

We can't compare Rafi and Talat based on one song. There are thousands of Rafi songs in lower note that can't even be imagined in talat's voice...abhi na jao, tere mere sapne, din dhal jaye hain, uparwala jaankar anjaan hain, aise to na dekho, and so on..

[KDURRANI]

@asifsongs

Asif Talat Saheb can also sing in Pancham sur but he sounds great in middle scale as you mentioned . The composers for both legendry singers know what melody to be composed to suite their scales etc. Listen to Kaisi hassen aaj Sitaroon ke raat hay ( Talat and Rafi saheb duet)

[KDURRANI]

@Milahi1935

You are right this composition is much suited for Talat Saheb. Gentleman Ghazal singer with best Urdu pronunciation. Superb ghazal singer with his unique style. Too bad  Naushad Saheb did not get on well with him due to one small misunderstanding.

[69django]

Thanks for uploading this rare gem and also for the background information