This is a double-bill and hence technically cheating but sucks to you. I spent some time trying to figure out which of these very different versions of Hameer I should list, and in the end gave up and decided to post both in one go. The two gents can have a nice time arguing about it wherever they’re whooping it up in the afterlife. Hameer simply doesn’t get any better than this, but even within “best” there’s a lot of scope for variety.
Yeshwantbua Joshi: chameli phooli champA with the sam on the pancham. A serious, sustained masterclass of the Gwalior style.
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan: e miyAn maindara yAr, a beautiful Punjabi composition sung as, well, only BGAK could.
Coffee? Toffee? Coffee! Toffee!
Whatevs. Melody hai chocolatey.
Besur Betal 