Asha Bhosle - Best of Asha Bosle: The Golden Voice of Bollywood

Bhosle is estimated to have recorded anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000 songs in her career as one of India's leading soundtrack singers. So it's hard to judge whether a disc containing a mere 14 of those is either representative of her work or a sampling of her very best tracks. Assuming that it does come anywhere near those goals, it's a good introduction to, or survey of, the output of the woman who is probably India's most popular "playback" singer. There's little documentation as to the precise years most of the cuts were done, other than that they are mainly from the 1960s and 1970s. Read More