it aint over till papa sings

I am rediscovering some awesome songs from yesteryears. My friend had classified the best songs of the 50’s and the 70’s and the 80’s. Why are the 60’s missing? I have no clue. I just took what I got and loved them.
One of them I set as my alarm. Jispa as you know is my problem in the morning for waking up and every now and then I have to figure out a way to wake her up. A few days back I was the lion and the novelty lasted exactly two days. Soon enough she was back to sleeping in for ten minutes before she wakes up.
I hate waking up kids with a diktat. GET UP NOW! Shutting of the fan and other irritating tricks. My poor mother obviously had three of us and I don’t really blame her lack of patience and creativity.
Since I have no such excuse I try all the funny stuff, so that I can get her to wake up with a smile. For me waking her is a fun thing. I look forward to it. Everyday new story, new blackmail, new masti, new talking points. Whatever… the only thing is that I have one rule. No doing aaaaaaaaaaaa. If she does that I stop and walk. Inadvertently every few days I get one of those wails. I pretend to walk away. She then stops me and says that it wasn’t an aaaaaaaaaa. It was an aaaa only. Then I come back and restart my travail.
Today I kept the phone (alarm on it) next to her and let kishore kumar (vocals) to do the needful. It was a grand success. I sang along with him and sure enough the smile came out and the process started. It did not get any shorter but it surely was a creative innovation for today.
The song was selected for its impact in the first 10 seconds. My phone plays only the first 30 seconds of the song clip as the alarm. And hence the song must start with a bang and have the music continue nice and loud in the first 30 seconds. The song in question – the funny classic from chalti ka naam gaadi – hum the who thi aur…
Let me see if I get the right video on you tube. Ya.. Sure enough. Its here. The video start a bit early here. Imagine it starting from the 6th second. Don’t miss the whistle in the 8th second and pomp pomp of the horn in the 10th second, and the vocals of kishore kumar doing the taarararara in the 13th second. And then finally the yaneyaneyaneyane in the 18th second. And then the song moving beautifully into a tune by the 20th second. Thank you Kishore and SD, it’s a perfect wake up song.
Jispa surely enjoyed the song and I sang along with kishore especially on the above mentioned parts.
It’s a classic across all ages and fifty years on it continues to entertain an 8 year old in the same way it made their then audience dance. Jispa was later asking ‘is this from dada, dadi’s era. “Ya. they probably heard it when they were of your age.”