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Listen to this Parul Ghosh song (Number 09) 'ummeed unase kyaa thee' from
One can clearly hear her taking a breath in between singing. Same phenomenon can be heard in the early songs of Lata, Noor Jehan and Suraiya, for example. No breathing can be heard in the early 30s songs, try plenty of them on the website. Of course, it disappeared again starting with early fifties. It;s a puzzle!
The answer is that in the very early days, the songs were recorded at the same time as video and the mike was out of the frame, far away, so and breathing was faint like a whisper. When audio and video got separated, the singer could put his/her mouth very near the mike, so breathing is heard. I like the songs with breathing because it makes me feel that the singer is sitting very near me and singing only for me.
So, what happened? Somebody thought that the breathing was a bad thing and taught the singers to move their mouth away from the mike to breath in. I am not sure but usually Anil Biswas is credited/blamed for teaching Lata how to breath like this and everybody followed her.
Now you know!
Listen to Pyar Ka Bandhan (1963)
- Musing 22: Sargam in song, Bhootnath (1963)
- Musing 13: Film Tricks and Narsingh songs
- Musing 12: Jay's recent songs
- Musing 44: Tollywood in 1932, Shankar Sita Anusuya (1965)
- Musing 51, Long intro, Kunwari (1966)
- Musings 501-600
- Musing 189: Bandar-Bandariya Khel, Bharat 27 Lata Nashad
- Musing 73: Children singing, My Love (1970)
- Musing 91: Jal Tarang, Narsingh 694 Tunes
- Musing 402: Rafi 107, Early Radio Ceylon
- Musing 272: Bharat Vyas Singer, Rafi 12
- Musing 316: Saigal in Lahore, Rafi 54
- Musing 321: Kismet runs and runs, Rafi 58
- Musing 31: Percussion, Ye Dil Kisko Doon (1963)
- Musing 242: Another early parody, Roberto 92
