Back in the eighties I recorded these songs from radio, and I’ve looked for more info about them ever since. If anybody recognizes them, please give a holler.

The first track even has the disc jockey saying the artist’s name: he announces “The best of Anand Janotar” – my fancyful spelling – and I wrote down the title phonetically as “Samhel samhel ke”, which is probably all wrong.

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Update: a little Googling & guessing gave me this: “Main Yun Hi Guzar Deta, Shab-e-Gham Sambhal Sambhal Ke”, with singer Anup Jalota. (full song text)

The next one sounds like “Milli a charmilli” – or sharmilee? and Google’s helpful “Did you mean [correct spelling]” wasn’t able to help me there. Sounds like a fun song though – and a tad more rowdy than the ghazal :-), so if anybody can give me a hint, I’d love to hear it.

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Update: so that one is Beliya Chameli, sung by Arun Amin; thanks Sangeet commenter! Will see if I can find more of this.