A New MOG Feature: The Covers Game
-
Artist:Sharon Prabhakar, Bappi Lahiri
-
Album:It's The Time To Disco
-
Track:Mere Jaese Haseena
Sorry this is a day early, but checking out Dzendvokh's thrill-packed Bollywood post this morning gave me a perverse idea (not a perverted one, though I've had my fair share of those as well). It's a game based on cover versions, and it's pretty simple. As most of us know, pop songs are picked up by different cultures and repurposed in all kinds of unexpected ways - sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. (Yes, I believe it's a word.) I have a few such cover versions in my vaults, and I'm willing to wager that my breathtakingly eclectic MOG friends have a number if similar curios lurking in the corners of their music collections as well.So, to get the game started, I am posting a track from a Bollywood disco collection from several years back. The musical director is Bappi Lahiri, a guy who pretty much ruled the soundtrack world during the disco boom. This is a song from a 1981 film entitled "Armaan." I confess I haven't seen it, but it's apparently some sort of remake of "Casablanca." Which makes this song even more inexplicable.For 10 points, the question is: What is the original title of this song, and who were the original performers?
Comments (10)