Sung by Kishore for Bharat Bhushan, and by Rafi for Shashi Kapoor, both the versions have their own fan club.
As the fellow RD fan Shantanu Bhattacharya said:
For me there was a major cognitive (musical?) dissonance in the most famous Pyar Ka Mausam song -Tum Bin Jaun Kahan. As it turned out, the Rafi version was picturized on Shashi Kapoor and the Kishore version, qualitatively better in my view, was picturised on Bharat Bhushan! The dissonance was at 2 levels: a) Bharat Bhushan yodelling was faintly ridiculous, and b) Rafi had sung some of his most accomplished classical and semiclassical numbers for Bharat Bhushan in films like Baiju Bawra! Personally I think that Shashi being the star - he must have forced the director to use Rafi for him, because at the time, Rafi was considered the better and more famous singer.
In fact 1969 is an interesting year for Rafi & Kishore & their fans. The year started with Rafi being the preferred singer for almost all the lead stars of that time. Pyar ka Mausam was released in April 1969 and hence this conjucture could be quite right about Rafi being preferred for Shashi Kapoor, despite Kishore's yodelling not suiting Bharat Bhushan. However, by the time 1969 ended, the things had suddenly changed, due to release of Aradhana - which catapulted Kishore to a different league altogether - and he never looked back.
Here is another version though, not available on the record easily, but is used in the movie to begin the process of reuniting. Devoid of all but a couple of instruments, in this version one can focus on the tune itself. Listen to this song with no other distraction around, and you can feel Kishore infusing his soul in this version:
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