Blog - Pardon My Hindi

This is a great example I found last week of who owns what when talking about music.

I stumbled upon this Bollywood song called Pyar Hai Gunah from the film Paapi (1975.)
The composer on this song is Bappi Lahiri, who’s notorious for his “samples.” He was definitely listening to some Led Zeppelin in the early 70’s because the wailing cry throughout his song, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, is a total lift from Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song which was recorded in 1970.

After doing some research and confirming with wikipedia, I found out that the melody from Immigrant Song is reminiscent of Bali Ha’i, a tune from the 1949 Rodger and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
I guess Page and Plant were into show tunes

Check out all the clips below starting with………………

Song: Pyar Hai Gunah
Film: Pappi
Year: 1975
Composer: Bappi Lahiri

Song: Immigrant Song
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Album: III
Year: 1970

Song: Bali Ha’i
From the musical South Pacific.
Composers: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Year: 1949

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Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 4:54 am and is filed under USA, Dance, UK, India, Music.
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