{"id":3829,"date":"2011-08-10T07:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:55:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T11:55:27","slug":"78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-insouciant-virtuosity-of-master-vasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/78-rpm-records-of-indian-music-the-insouciant-virtuosity-of-master-vasant\/","title":{"rendered":"78 rpm Records of Indian Music: The Insouciant Virtuosity of Master Vasant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a lot is known about Master Vasant of Surat. His full name was Vasant Amrut, and like many of the vocalists from those days, he was affiliated with the film industry:<\/p>\n

In 1931, the Indian Art Production, Bombay, produced a film titled Farebi Jaal (Trapped) directed by M. Bhavnani.Though the name of the music director was not given but Master Vasant has been credited for the lyrics. Of the six songs in this film, Durga Khote and Master Vasant sang three each. [Ref: Hindi film geet kosh, vol.1, (1931-40), by Harminder Singh Hamraaz, 1988, page 15]. Around 1930, Master Vasant Amrut (of Surat) had cut two records: HMV P 13474 and P 13542. Gramophone Company released these records on black label in February 1931 and November 1931 respectively. Of these four songs, three are identical in the list of the songs of this film. It appears that these records were directly used in the film. It is not clear on whom the songs sung by Master Vasant Amrut were picturised. Thus, Master Vasant Amrut of Surat, could then be the first playback singer of Hindi film songs. <\/em><\/p>\n

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His singing is straightforward Gwalior gayaki \u2014 but done with nonchalance, aplomb and incredible virtuosity. What a delight.<\/p>\n

Raga Nat Bihag – “Jhan jhan jhan paayal baaje”
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Raga Patdeep – “Dhan dhan baaje”
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Raga Purvi – “Bhaj mangal Shyaam” <\/p>\n

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Raga Durga – “Phul rahi belariyaa” <\/p>\n

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Ghazal – “Usne kahaa hasti hai teri”
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Misra Ghazal – “Ham hai bande ishq ke” <\/p>\n

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Not a lot is known about Master Vasant of Surat. His full name was Vasant Amrut, and like many of the vocalists from those days, he was affiliated with the film industry: In 1931, the Indian Art Production, Bombay, produced a film titled Farebi Jaal (Trapped) directed by M. Bhavnani.Though the name of the music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,9,638],"tags":[946,210],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","category-vocalists","tag-78-rpm-discs","tag-genius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}