![]() ![]() Otherwise, the plethora of choices that confronted me when it came to Shamshad-Rafi, Shamshad-Geeta, Shamshad-Lata, or Shamshad-Asha duets were more than enough to fill a dozen posts by themselves. In my previous post, I winnowed the list down by sticking to one song per composer this time, I’m sticking to one song per co-artiste. She seems to have sung duets with *every* male singer of the era, and while she sang the most number of duets with Mohammed Rafi, she has also sung with every other female singer spanning two decades from Zohrabai Ambalewali and Amirbai Karnataki to Noorjehan, Suraiyya, Lata, Asha, Geeta, Rajkumari… the list goes on. This is the same issue that cropped up when I was listing her duets. ![]() I listed 15 of them in my previous post on Shamshad but I had many, many more. It was also interesting to note that she seemed to have sung for every music director of note, and many who were relatively unknown. Until, research threw up the interesting fact that she had sung the most number of songs for C Ramchandra, and not Nayyar Saab. Like many others, I’d also brought into the story that OP Nayyar and Naushad were the two music directors who used her voice the most. When I first began to research the songs of Shamshad Begum in order to do a post, I reckoned it would be very easy – after all, I knew her popular songs and since I had grown up listening to her, most of her songs were at least familiar to my ears.
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