MGR film songs are always popular

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In response to Nammaooru:

I agree with you that Sivaji's films also had
excellent music; but this was because he acted
mostly under excellent directors and they made
sure that great tunes were made by the MDs.
If you take old movies acted by Sivaji under
vague directors, e.g., Anjal Petti 520 or some
such movies, there were no good songs in
them; and look at what happened in the movies
of Sivaji after 1978 or so: all were cheap makes
by vague producers and directors and no good
songs. On the other hand, even the last movie
of MGR (was it M.Meetta Su. Pandian) had
great hits. MGR made sure that all his movies
had great songs. Of course there are exceptions
(can we list a few?), but that happened because
MGR had agreed to act for some producer, but did
not have time to follow-up the music creation.
I fully agree with Rajaraman that MGR had a
very good taste for music.