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Hey!! Remember those late night shows on Doordarshan somewhere from mid
to late 80s, Movies and there were series of English songs..Ring a
bell? popular among College students in their time and to us it was
School Nights but somehow thru big brothers and sisters, we got the
Music Mania heat too. Western Music was new and Fantastic! learned about
Billboard Countdown show n lot of amazing hits of that time. One
among them was this song by Various artists called "We are the World" got popular around the town in English medium schools then.
There was no chance that we couldn't get hang of it :) always singing in
Chorus for competitions or talent shows, it just felt Good. So guess it was quite
a HIT, might have been played in no. of convent or Bishop Schools of
the country at Christmas time to bring Peace and Harmony.
There were many other popular songs that did well in India like Summer of 69 or Just beat it!... Another brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd and so forth.
Many
of them thought, Billboard hits was similar to the "Chitrahaar"
program as in English nos, it was a series of English songs with ratings and unlike Bollywood
movie songs here there were no continuous Hollywood movie soundtracks but just a few. In the West
from decades together the concept was of an Independent Music Album of
an Artist or a Band produced by the Record Co'es and after many years by
mid 90s, this type of concept was introduced in the Indian Music industry too.
The Indi-pop culture came up and it did pretty Good in the market, I recall of the early artists like Baba Sehgal, Suchitra Krishnamurthy or Apache Indian(UK artist) who did some albums in India.
Funny fact: For sometime, people thought Billboard hits had got to do something with Hoardings of ads that we see all over the cities :)
Billboard is
a Music chart that shows the top 100 songs from around the world.
Actually its a Magazine all about Music News from the Music Industry and
the frequency of hits were determined every week. It showed the top 100
charts of the week and the most popular were called as HOT 100 singles and again there are other titles like top Billboard 200
and so on. Just found out from the web that it is one of the the
oldest trade magazines in the world. The First Issue by the United
States was started way back in 1894...Wow!
Thinking about the show, I
remember one of the Host, a girl named "Kennedy" who presented
the Billboard in a very cool manner, made it very interesting by giving us some
funny facts about the Artists and also talking about their achievements
which was inspiring to us. I couldn't find her in any of the present
programs as I was curious to know - what was she upto now? Yeaah some lost memories still diggin' for it!
Friends, if you
have watched this show on the good old doordarshan channel, do you have
any memories? I guess we fairly got to know about a lot of international
artists from the 80s, their Albums and great songs. At that time my
most fav nos were of Madonna "Papa Don't preach", Bangles "Walk like an Egyptian", Cyndi lauper "Girls just wanna have fun", George Michael "Wake me up before you go go", Bruce Springsteen
"Born in the USA", Bon Jovi
" Blaze of Glory" and other famous artists like Phil Collins, Michael
Jackson, Tina turner, Elton John, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston...n
also if you remember from the 70s till 90s there were many Great Rock
bands from the US, UK Australian and Canadian countries and I assume in India the US and UK Bands were more popular to name a few in Rock bands are Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Rolling Stones, U2, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin..and in Pop there were ABBA, Genesis, Bee Gees, Beach boys,
The Beatles and the list could go on, I better stop :)
So
all this info we got to know better from this particular show
"Billboard hits" aired on Doordarshan for a very short period of time
which rocked our world for sometime and then it was cancelled for
certain reasons which I do not know. Anyways if you're lucky you could
find your favorite Music videos on Youtube.
Please follow this Playlist if you would like to enjoy some of the Billboard Hits of 80s!
Here's a collection of some videos, hope it refreshes your memory.
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Seconds glimpse of Soap drama back in the Days!!
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Exclusive: "Mind Your Language" 1977 a British Comedy Sitcom.
Watch the Pilot Episode, right here ;) its called "THE FIRST LESSON".
This may have not been aired on DD national channel in the 70s or 80s but I must tell ya, its pretty entertaining. I am sure you guys would love it the plot is based on the Foreign students who join the Adult School in UK England i believe, to learn "English as a Foreign Language" this is the course they are "Unrolled for" as one of the student puts it to the school's pompous and tight-fisted Principal, Ms Courtney, when the student is looking to find the Classroom (what he means is Enrolled for) Mr Brown who's the English teacher learns himself the trouble and humor in different cultures from the students as he is teaching them. I love this sitcom enjoyed watchin' very episode n its really hilarious to listen to the students when they innocently mis-interpret things or mis-pronounce words while they are learning. Watch n Enjoy:)">
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WATCH Your Favorite SITCOMS aired on DOORDARSHAN in 1980s/1990s below. E n j o y :)
WATCH Your Favorite SITCOMS aired on DOORDARSHAN in 1980s/1990s below. E n j o y :)
wow! ur posts are very comprehensive :-) keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteHey Thanks for Sharing Info, I just want to know name of movie which was shown Doodarshan in 1994-95-96 i don't exactly remember year however movie was about vehicles. comedy movie i have ever seen. please if possible could you find the the name of the movie?
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