Hi all,
Thanks to Amala for starting this thread.
At one time, Dev Anand had SD Burman to compose songs for him and Sahir to come up with lyrics. Raj Kapoor had the duo of Shankar-Jaikishen with lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri. And Dilip Kumar had the combination of Nausad and Sakhil. Those were the days of great music and lyrics.
I fell in love with Hindi songs during my school days with Bobby, Yaadon Ki Baraaat which were released then and went back to older film songs.
Madan Mohan, Jaidev, Ravi, Khayyam are great composers too.
My favourite of Lata is from Mughal-e-Azam Mohe pangat pe nandlal chhed gayo re. I have never heard a more sweeter song from Lata that this. I cant explain why. There are more songs which I hope to share soon. Keep coming up with songs friends.