Van Shiplay

Van Shipley - (Romantic Airs) - S/MOCEC 4013 - Odeon - First Pressing - LP Record

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When I first began this series a year and a half ago (with Hrishikesh Mukherjee) I wrote: "...this series is an attempt to throw some light on the men and women behind the screen."  I began with a director and a music director, and went on to two lyricists. These are people who are still known to some extent because when you hear a song over the radio, they do announce the music director's and lyricist's name. When you see a film, you do know who the director is. It is very rarely that you know about the individual musicians who form the orchestra for film-music;  the subject of this post, however, is a man who was very well-known by his generation for his virtuosity with the Hawaiian guitar, the electric guitar, and the violin. But Internet searches had thrown up very little information about the man, or his music.

Mr Van Shipley was the result of a very funny incident. I must confess that I had no idea who Mr Van Shipley was, until after I was married. My brother-in-law's best friend was getting married, and I had been introduced to his fiancée by her nickname. My father, who had accompanied me to Bombay for the wedding reception there, was a bit taken aback - what sort of a name was that? So my brother-in-law explained that her real name was Audrey Van Shipley. He also threw in, quite off-handedly, that Audrey's father was 'some sort of a musician; he used to play in Hindi films.

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Van Shiplay 

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• Shoukhion Me Ghola Jae - (Prem Pujari)

• Tum Bin Javoon Kahan - (Pyar Ka Mousam)

• Mere Sapnon Ki Rani - (Aradhana)

• Pretty Pretty Priya - (Priya)

• Mere Naseeb Me Ae Dost - (Do Raaste)

• Ang Lag Ja Balma - (Mera Naam Joker)

• Beqarar Dil - (Door Ka Raahi)

• Main Hun Ganwaar - (Ganwaar)

• Chale Ja Chale Ja - (Jahan Pyar Miley)