Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Jhumroo

Friends,
Thought i would change the mood from an emotional 'Maa' to a crazy 'Jhumroo'. As you all know Kishore Kumar was the pioneer of yoddling in the bollywood music industry. He was an expert at yoddling and this song proves exactly that. Genius that he was Kishore wrote the lyrics of this song and also composed it. Most probably other music directors did not give him the opportunity to go berserk with his yoddling skills and so he composed this on his own. Although a fun song to sing it is a very tough song specially in the way Kishore effortlessly uses falsetto time and again and then quickly switches to his normal voice. I have made an honest attempt. Hope you can have a listen at your convenience.


Song: Jhumroo
Original Singer: Kishore Kumar
Movie: Jhumroo (1961)
Music Director: Kishore Kumar
Lyrics: Kishore Kumar
Sung By:
Soumitra







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18 comments:

Rahul said...

WOW....WOW.....WOW...

Soumitra, mere bhai, kya gaya hai tumne....start ka yoddling is very soothing to ears, just like KishoreDa....and u switched the voices between falsetos and ur voice very professionally.....loved it man so much....WOW, "kuckooooooooooor" and "mini mini" was my favourite in the song.....

I second you in saying that its sounds easy on the ears but is very tough to sing.....but it seems that u recorded the "kuckooooooooooor" and "mini mini" once and used them in the whole song.....maybe im not right....but even then, its fantastic cos first time gane me bhi woh bahut difficult hai....

All in all a very pleasant treat....may god bless u always and bless u much more in ur singing....

Regards,
AJ

Soumitra said...

AJ - Thanx very much for your kind comments...actually i sang the song in one go :) Glad it sounds the same in both occassions :)

Rahul said...

Yaar, I am still in a pleasant shock with your song...listening it again and again...And One go me gaya hai tumne....unbelievable performance dude....keep rocking...

All the bloggers thesedays are posting tough songs and singing with ease....im impressed....hope I can live upto the same standards as you guys.....

Srividya Kasturi said...

Soumitra, wonderful performance,mazaa aa gaya!

Yoddling was great! Glad to listen to ur voice after a long time:)

Keep singing often!

Shubho said...

You have improved leaps and bounds, both in your renditions as well as sound quality as well as recording and mixing. Great job done with this song.
Keep it up.

Asim Ghosh said...

Loved it.....great job, and that too in one shot. Bravo!

Soumitra said...

Vidya - Thanx...good to know you liked it :) will try and sing more :)
Shubho - Thanx for visiting..glad you see improvements in all aspects :)
Asim - Thanx :)

Vishal Khaparde said...

Simply brilliant rendition ! Great job on the yodeling..it's amazing how you followed it to a tee ! Mixing was nice ! :-)

Cheers,
-Vishal

N V Krishnan said...

Soumitra…

Wowowow…What a really gifted singer you are. Yodeling all know is very difficult..which you have done toooooo well. Comes so naturally to you. As in acrobatics where after the feat the landing is very important, here in yodeling also landing note need to be very perfect. In this case they all were unbelievably perfect. :)

Congrats…There were slight off pitch notes in some places… May be you need to work on your notes

Overall Wonderful and brilliant…

N V K

Vidyu said...

That was neat! Loved it! :)
yoddling was superrr! :) u rocked this one too! :)

Deblina said...

Superb singing Soumitra !!


Deblina

Anonymous said...

Soumitra, I am listening to your for the first time, a very professional performance, I would say. Singing this whole song at one go is a challenging task and you had a great flow!

Harshan said...

Soumitra ..excellent singing ...with the yodelling being the best part.

Great job with this song ...and great energy throughout.

How about chala jata hoon ....for a farmahish ..

Looking forward to more of these.

Anonymous said...

Brilliant singing Soumitra! You are better than the singers on K for Kishore!

Best wishes,
Ananya Sharma

Sowmya said...

Amazing Singing soumitra..Very professional singing.

Enjoyed it thoroughly ! :)

Nandita M said...

Really wonderful singing by you. Already heard 60% of the songs on your blog (will hear the rest soon as well) and thoroughly enjoyed listening! Hope you update your blog soon :)).

Soumitra said...

Vishal , NVK, Vidyu , Deblina, Pranathi, Ananya, Sowmya and Nandita - Thanx a lot for taking out the time to listen and better still put in a comment..you all made my day :)

SUMI said...

God, that's impressive! you got the yodeling and everything down!
good job!
:)