Talat Mahmood – In A Blue Mood – 3AEX 5224 – (Condition 85-90%) – Angel First Pressing – LP Record

Talat received Padma Bhushan in 1992, in recognition of his profound artistic contributions in the spheres of cinematic and ghazal music. he had a unique, elegant and profoundly artistic style of singing. Talat was a very gifted singer in every sense. He was particularly famous for singing soft and sombre semi-classical and non-classical ghazals, but the film songs sung by him are also considered critically flawless and outstanding. Although Talat’s typical genre was   Ghazal, but he was an astoundingly brilliant film singer who sung innumerable fantastic film songs. Romantic and tragic were the moods, he liked most and it was him who helped a great deal in shaping the style and method of modern ghazal singing. He can honestly be described as the real founder of modern semi-classical and non-classical ghazal. During the 1950s and 60s, Talat used to be the first choice of the high-brow literary and artistic community of Indian sub-continent, especially Urdu-speaking community. Even, his cancelled   songs were immensely popular among them. No other singer had such intellectually high-class and learned audience at the time. Talat’s voice has often been described as the softest male voice of Indian sub-continent, not only this, but his voice is also considered among the most soulful male voices ever heard in the Indian sub-continent.

It is often said that Talat Mehmood is the name of a very valuable acquired taste, once one developed it, he would never seize to love and cherish it, and would grow fonder and fonder of it for the rest of his life. Talat’s lovably artistic singing keeps evoking in him a better and better aesthetic sense and the faculty of recognizing beauty, even in its subtlest forms, it makes him capable of extracting aesthetic pleasure, even in its most unfamiliar disguises, as he listens to him over a period of time.