Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Ramki, super song. Kai yeduthu IR-ai kumbidaNum. Appidiye ungaLaiyum thAn :-)

What an imagination in IR's composition. Nadhaswaram musical bits are spread on the music feast served by PS & UR. PS had enough of feathers and star accolades in her singing career, but in my view, UR did her best in this song.

Your comment "The confidence of a leader in PS voice and obedience of a sishyan in UR's adds more flavor and aunthenticity to this wonderfully crafted song" is excellent. But if I remember correct the childhood friends (Shankar and Saritha) sing this song and both of them are shishyas only.

The mesmarising line in this song "en kanavum ninaivum isaiyE, isai irundhAl maraNam yedhu". When UR repeats this line, enakku mei silirkkum :-)

Vazhga thamizh... vaLarga nam TFMPage :-)

Thanks very much for the song Ramki.
I have seen this song only once on DD on black & white tv as a kid.But the song & song sequence remains deeply etched in my memory due to its inimai & the content.
Recently in Ilayaraja's one man show in Madras he sang this song with Bhavatharini.
IR & daughter in place of PS/UR respectively.
Bhavatharini was no match for IR and he was playfully bullying her & making her sing the lines again & again.She never did it perfectly even till the end. :)
Madhu , for boys the voice is quite squeaky or girlish until it breaks in adolosence.One more example of PS singing for a boy is 'kannizhandha pillaiku'

mahesh : yeah ... I know.. but I never imagined that this song is for a boy.. thats all !

Nice songs Ramki
(Alaiy Alaiy and Amudhe ..).

Not able to make a connection, is it songs starting with the letter 'A' this week?

Bala

a great song.. Thamizhukku idhai vida oru nalla paatu kidaikaadhu PS & UR azhutham thiruthamaga paaduvathu innum azhagu

Bhavatharini?:)..Thank god she was just a baby during the peak years of IR :)

Pick #333

http://tfmpage.com/stream/pow06/ponnana_iv.rm

Song: ponnana uLLam unnodu irukka
Movie: iru veedugaL
Singer: BVasantha
Lyrics: ?
MD: Vkumar

There are not many solos by BVasantha. Her humming songs will easily outnumber the songs that has her singing some lyrics.
Thanks to NeelD for sending this rare song. He also sent me another solo of her from the film 'shri chamundeswari'.

Any other solos?

The following link says IV had Ravichandran and Sowkar.
Any more details?Anyone?


http://tfmpage.com/forum/9713.20880.03.21.22.html

wow !

I think I am hearing this after many years...
they used to air it often in "thirai amudham" of vividh bharathi.. in the afternoon...

"Amudhe Thamizhe" is easily one of my fave IR songs... not just of that time period, but in ALL of Raja's 30 years of MDing. Almost needless to say, I can't tell you how expert the orchestration sounds in the song, esp. the nagaswaram.

I think this song inspired Raveendran Mash to compose "Pularkaala Sundara..." in the Mallu film 'Oru May Maasa Pulariyil,' released 6 years later, although I couldn't say for sure. :)

It's true mahesh. I've watch the program. She never followed her father until the end of the song. Even, both Yuvan and karthik couldn't sang Chinnak kannan alzaikkiran in Andrum Indrum Endrum, Jaya TV show. YYYYYYY??????

Thanks for the nice and beautiful songs. First time i'm listening ponnana uLLam.