Edwina has become very dear to me over the past year as well, and she is an utter hoot, the kind of girl who even back in those days would (and did) bum a beedi from a group of hijiras on a late night commuter train and smoke it with them. Search the Internet Movie Database for Joy Mukherjee aa.nchal me.n sajaa lenaa kaliyaa.n, zulfo.n me.n sitaare bhar lenaa 42 aa.Nkho.n se jo utarii hai dil me. The listing by Song Titles contains all the songs. Today I want to introduce you to his sister Edwina, who specialized in the fantastic western swing-ballroom-twist types of dance numbers that I so love, and who epitomizes that most expressive Hindi word bindaas. In other words, there might be songs in the ISB that should have been in this list, but are not, because of missing information. His wife Lorna’s father was a bandleader in the early days (his band was called Fats Benny), and Ted, his siblings, in-laws and close friends populate the bands and dance floors in so many songs beloved from that era. Through him, I have discovered the amazing extent to which he and his circle of friends and family contributed to films of the 50s and 60s. My little obsession with-and posts about-the fantastic filmi band Ted Lyons & His Cubs has reaped some nice rewards I never expected, the best of which is that in the past year I have become friends with Ted personally.
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