• Desert island songs, scores, and participants

In this SurveykshaN, participants were asked to select up to 35 solos (solos with chorus included) sung by Lata during 1945-1953 for Hindi films, for a desert island scenario. This is the first survey in a planned five-part series that will cover rest of her singing career.

'ye zi.ndagii usii kii hai' from Anaarkali was selected by over 62% participants, making it the most chosen song of the survey. Mahal's 'aaegaa aaegaa aaegaa aaegaa aanewaalaa' was a close second with 60% selections. At the third place, was 'ye shaam kii tanhaaiyaa.N' (Aah) with about 54% votes.

Highlights

* Total number of solos by Lata during 1945-53: 687^#

* Number of songs selected by two or more participants: 223

* Number of songs getting only one vote each: ~100

* Songs selected by...
60% or more participants: 2
50% or more participants: 5
40% or more participants: 10
15% or more participants: 55
10% or more participants: 80
less than 5% participants: 204

* Year-wise selections among Top-50 spots
1948: 1 song
1949: 12
1950: 1
1951: 15
1952: 12
1953: 10

* Major MDs among Top-50 spots
Shankar-Jaikishan: 12 songs
C Ramchandra: 8 
Naushad: 5 
Anil Biswas: 4 
S D Burman: 4 
Khemchand Prakash: 3 
Sajjad Husain: 3 
Madan Mohan: 3 
Roshan: 2 
Shyam Sunder: 2 

* Major lyricists among Top-5o spots
Shailendra: 10 songs
Rajinder Krishan: 8 
Hasrat Jaipuri: 4
Shakeel Badayuni: 4
D N Madhok: 3
Sahir Ludhianvi: 3
Majrooh: 2
Naqshab: 2
P L Santoshi: 2   

#: According to Vishwas Nerurkar's 'गंधार स्वरयात्रा'

Participants (80)

Abhay, Abhay Jain, Abhay Phadnis, Aditya Pant, Afzal A. Khan, Ajay Deshpande, Ajay Divekar, Ajit Rajwade, Ali Rashid, Amarendra R Nargundkar, Anand K, Anil Hingorani, Anil Kala, Anup Pandey, Apoorv Moghe, Archisman Mozumder, Arun Sampath, Arun Verma, Arunabha Roy, Asif Alvi, Ati Ullah, Bachan, Balaji Murthy, Chetan Vinchhi, Deepak Soni, Dyuti Baxi, Guri, Hildebrand, Indra, Jay Subramanyam, Jaydeep, Jayesh Antani, K Vijay Kumar, Kanti Shah, Kedar, Ketan Dholakia, Krishna, M Ahmad, M V Devraj, M V Krishnan, Madhurima, Mahadevan Khantha, Malini Kanth, Medha, Mohan Dwivedi, Mukeshchandra D Mehta, Naresh Dabas, Naresh Khattar, Narsingh D Agnish, Pran Katariya, Prasanna, Puneet Jha, Qamaal Mustafa Sikander, Raaz, Rajesh Munshi, Rajnish Dogra, Ritu Chandra, Robin, Rpnawani, Sancho Chandran, Sandeep, Sathya Sekar, Satish Haldankar, Satyajit Rajurkar, Shalini Razdan, Shashi Hegde, Shekhar, Shrinivas Phoujadar, Srinivas Ganti, Subhas Ghosal, Subrat Mohanty, Suchishree Chatterjee, Sukesh Hoogan, Tabassum, UVR, Vibhendu, Vijay Bhaskar Dixit, Vinay, Vish Krishnan, Zafar

* Number of songs selected by each participant
Participants who selected 35 songs: 9 (11%)
Participants who selected 30 songs or more: 48 (60%)
Participants who selected 15 or fewer songs: 7 (9%)