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Illamai kalangal :lol2:Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
#111 இசை மேடையில், இந்த வேளையில், சுபராகம் பொழியும்!
இளமை நெருக்கம், இருந்தும் தயக்கம்!
(இளமைக்காலங்கள், 1983 , ஜானகியுடன், வைரமுத்து பாடல்)
"I got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I got the month of May" - so goes the famous "My girl" song that has a number of versions, including one by Michael Jackson. Exactly the same feelings whenever / wherever I hear this song - a song too close to me personally! (Interestingly, there's a line in this lyric too - "நெஞ்சுக்குள்ளே தீ இருந்தும் மேனி எங்கும் பூ வசந்தம்", what a sweet way VM puts such inexplicable feelings!)
I cannot hear this song emanating out of a shop / bus / home / anywhere / any source and still continue with what activtiy I was doing prior. Everything has to stop until the song is over! The aaaaa-Ah-aa-Ah starting by SJ with the vocal harmony sends a chill thru out my body instantaneously and it lasts for a few seconds until I get into a trance. From which I can come out only when the song is over!
SPB, the perfect partner for SJ, thoroughly immerses himself as a bee would into a nectar-rich-blossom! The chorus adds to the spendor. And rAsA, oh what a sweet rAsA here! Right from the superb sound in the prelude that gets repeated after SJ sings the first line, he simply does to us what a most loved companion would do to the mate! (Details left to one's imagination :wink:)
Well, the disc came out months before the movie was made. I cannot say for sure whether it had Manivannan's name in it or R Sundarrajan but it was reported that the original director had some issues after the album got released and Manivannan was brought in. His job was to build a story "around the songs" that were already a big hit. He did a fairly decent job, even though the child singing 'eeramAna rOjAvE' was looking funny on screen.
That college riot scene was quite terrific and there was nothing like that seen before. It was the most impressive scene to the big group of students who watched the movie in a Trichy theater together. ("மாணவர் தலைவனை அடித்த ப்ரின்சீபால் ஒழிக" is still etched in my mind and was often quoted thru out college life & always out of context!). The Sendhil office comedy was quite good too!
On a personal front, if one asks me to choose between this & 'pAda vandhadhO gAnam' as the most fav, I'll struggle.
OTOH, the choice won't be that difficult when most other TFM duets get presented as competition :-)
isai mEdaiyil lyrics :
pallavi:
இசை மேடையில், இந்த வேளையில், சுபராகம் பொழியும்!
இளமை நெருக்கம், இருந்தும் தயக்கம்!
saraNam 1:
முத்தம் தரும் ஈரம் பதிந்திருக்கும்
முல்லை இளம் பூவெடுத்து முகம் துடைக்கும்
நெஞ்சுக்குள்ளே தீ இருந்தும் மேனியெங்கும் பூ வசந்தம்
கன்னிக்கரும்பு உன்னை எண்ணிச்சாறாகும்
saraNam 2:
கன்னிமகள் கூந்தல் கலைந்திருக்க
வந்து தொடும் உன் கைகள் வகிடெடுக்க
போதை கொண்டு பூ அழைக்க தேடிவந்து தேனெடுக்க
தங்கக் கொழுந்து தொட்டவுடன் பூவாக
isai mEdaiyil youtube (quite ordinary though not too much irritating):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxXI84o7oM
App,
Terrific post and one of your best in this series for a well deserved song. :thumbsup: I can just sing the song as you have provided the lyrics (and also feel the orchestration) to get what you have felt about this song. Sila IR paadalgal appadiye music'um koodave varum during our singing, as well as to unintentionally stop our singing (and hum the ludes) till the ludes finishes :wink: This song belong to that category.
One another important information you have shared which I never heard before. "His job was to build a story "around the songs" that were already a big hit." :lol: So since the songs were already composed (which is usual), but were already a hit, so they need to finalize a story based on the songs? :smile:
Music Director sharath & M.G.Sreekumar singing Amma endrazhaikatha uyirillaiye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=tsQ3FQK9N0c
app,
Superb song. My wife's favorite as well. I generally use this song as an example of how Raja's aesthetics. The song is nominally based on ragam Kanada but Raja nowhere shows the ragam explicitly. No one will even think of ragam when this song is played. As you said, the lyrics of VM are terrific as well. I love the second charanam as lot. As you said, this song belongs to 'drop what you are doing and listen to it now' category.
App anna
Eramana RojavE from the same movie also a very good song! Nice thaalattu pattu :)
nanRi V_S & Sureshji!
Very memorable song which happened during my 'iLamaikkAlam' :-)
Nice song, but not a thAlAttu :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PARAMASHIVAN
Also, I struggle to put away from the mind the reference to Archimedes principle :lol:
#112 தாழம்பூவே கண்ணுறங்கு
(இன்று நீ நாளை நான், 1983, ஜானகி & உமா ரமணனுடன் )
I don't think we catalogued any Sivakumar / SPB / IR number in the 80's so far. The actor who was in IR's debut movie and also later showed faces for the first IR/SPB number went dry for 3 years before he got them back. In a big hit movie directed by Major. Based on the story that appeared in a monthly paperback novel.
(IIRC, it was Kumudam publications' mAlai mathi that featured this story among its 'idhu varai veLi varAtha puthiya novel' series. IIDNRC, it was a Ranimuthu thingy. Those days I was so fond of mAlai mathi, it featured Sujatha classics such as 'ethaiyum oru muRai', 'marupadiyum Ganesh'. Also, I remember very well the 'araLippoo mEl Asai vaiththu' by Anuradha Ramanan, very interesting story, portions of which were used (suttufied?) for sindhu bhairavi by KB)
I think the actresses were Sulakshana as wife of hero and Lakshmi as her elder sis or OrppadiyA & wife / widow of a drunkard who cannot give her a child. So, she ends up committing adultery with the b-i-l to lead to a tragic end.
This is perhaps the song where all three (man, wife and the kid's periyammA) do thAlAttu to the baby. thAlAttu being IR's fav area, that too when his creative juices were overflowing, this song should have typically taken him seconds to compose. And what a glittering array of SJ numbers to go along in that album - pon vAnam panneer thoovuthu innEram solo & mottu vitta mullakkodi duet with SPS! Album memorable for SJ, where SPB also existed.
There seems to be another two songs in the album by SPB. Those don't immediately play in my mind when I see the names. Should give a listen and then decide whether those should be featured here or not in the coming days. For sure, these three (mottu vitta, pon vAnam & thAzham poovE) played regularly on radios / cassette players. Obviously, pon vAnam is the most popular of them all - to this day!
app, a small doubt. you missed or ignored 'Vaa Ponmayile (Poonthalir)' song? Or I missed?
ingE irukku :Quote:
Originally Posted by San_K
#034 vA pon mayilE
Thanks, one of my most fav song :)
yw, San_K, catch me by collar if I have missed any important number between 1976 & 1982 -years that have been completed in this exercise.Quote:
Originally Posted by San_K
I'll hurry to include suchlike ones.
BTW, 1983 has a lot more gems to come...
Thanks App for picking up a superb song for afternoon. A song that would put you to sleep immediately. Don't want to listen now and go to sleep :wink:. Will reserve for tonight.
I didn't know the story of the film, but your one-liner said it beautifully. But somewhat the title makes us guess.:smile:
Yeah, V_S, mouli thing is confusing. I like him too.Crazy-AAA :shock: No wonder. So, we can safely say that this is first Kamal/Crazy venture? Albeit Kamal had about, what, 5 or 6 hillarious scenes, especially the last one :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by V_S
App anna
what does "OrppadiyA " mean ? :roll:
nInga EdhO rhyming word-ai nenachikittu EdAgUdamA kEkkaRIngannu nenaikkaREn.
It simply means wife of a female's husband's brother. avLo dhAn. Karpanaiya vaLarkAdhInga.
Appadi onnum illa, Naa tamil padikala, as I grew up in England, I never got a chance to learn tamil. That is why I still dont know the meaning of some tamil words :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Just fulling your leg, faramu.
I know :) ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
kAngEyam kALaikaLE from inRu nee nALai nAn, somewhat in the 'veththala veththala veththalaiyO' format is quite sweet but not a hit - not even on radio and I'll have to skip.
Same goes with vA puLLE nalla puLLE from the same movie, a duet with his sis, possibly reminding mAmEn oru nA malligappoo. I do remember hearing this song a few times but the number got totally overshadowed by the three biggies and calls for a skip button in this thread :-)
That was what happened to a lot of average / above average songs of rAsA during those glorious eighties. Since there was a downpour of great numbers / rocking patti-thotti hits, such numbers often didn't get any focus at all.
Which could be one of the reasons for IR to carefully (& cleverly) get such unnoticed numbers recycled in star movies later on :roll: This vA puLLE & kAngEyam sounds so similar to some hits from masAlA movies later on...
nee onnum paththini illa is another SPB / SJ / Samuel Grubb(?, sounds like his aNNE aNNE voice) song, that I'm hearing for the first time. This 1983 number too has to be skipped as it was quite unknown to me those days.
#113 சிரிச்சா கொல்லி மலைக்குயிலே
(ஜோதி , 1983 , சாயாவுடன்)
What a sweet song, with Chaya, a Kannada singer (thiraippAdal incorrectly states SPS). As one can see from this dhool link, this was Manivannan's first movie it seems. Obviously, not a popular movie but the song was quite popular on radio / buses and recording center fans. To me, the female voice sounds 'rombappAvam' - may be musically ok but otherwise no match to the lovely singing by SPB. Nice folksy tune with pleasant arrangements (which were going to be the mainstay during grAmarAjan days later on).
Sometime back we had a phenomenal interview on a TV show by Manivannan, calling himself a rAppichchai when it came to Maestro's melodies. It was quite an emotional and interesting analogy - but he also stated that while he was happy to live with those tunes discarded by other directors, rAsA always reserved for him something too!
Ofcourse, sirichchA has to be one of those numbers that rAsA kept aside, knowing that someday or other this fellow will make it to directordom! And what a terrific career he had as a director and later on as an actor! Obviously, he was not the best when it came to getting songs from IR but he did get one of the best ever BGM treats from IR - for nooRAvathu nAL!
app,
The 'Jyoti' song is a terrific one. I have this album with me and it is a freakout album with some fun songs of MV. I think this is the only SPB song in this album. It was a very late discovery for me and I think lot of people don't know about this song. (BTW, the same album also has 'Ethanai Konam Ethanai Paarvai' which has the lovely unreleased 'vidhaitha vidhai')
Superb and rare pick. Soft melody. Second interlude flute is a beauty. I too have credited SPS in my listing, corrected it :smile: The first time when he sings the word 'Siricha' I sounded like MV to me. There is one solo song 'Aasai madhanaa singaara vadhanaa', I think this one by SPS. It has some freak'ish guitar, tabla arrangements for fun folk song. Fast song which I used to listen and SPS would have sung beautifully, just like SJ.
nanRi Sureshji & V_S for the comments on the Jothi song!
Manivannan has a special place in my books - mainly thanks to his rAjavishwAsam but he also had a few outstanding products...
#114 கீதம், சங்கீதம், நீ தானே என் காதல் வேதம்
(கொக்கரக்கோ, 1983 , ஷைலஜாவுடன்)
There are two version of this song in the album - each with a different set of arrangements, this link has the Ekkam kind -solo- while the other one has arrangements similar to 'dEvan kOyil deepam onRu' along with female voice. Nothing is remembered today other than this popular song, which was a regular on buses & other places. Definitely a SPB special as he enjoys singing this with log of feelings. Possibly GA was the director and the heroine Ilavarasi (who acted as a school girl in vAzhvE mAyam but within a couple of years got promoted to heroine role...I think nAn pAdum pAdal where she did a side role came a little earlier).
This was perhaps the time when the "echo" label was at its top for vinyl records, almost monopolising IR's output. They even had a separate title card for a full screen-size, like 'indhappadaththin pAdalkaLai echo recordkaLil kELungaL' featuring their elephant logo. IIRC, it started with payaNangaL mudivathillai. We students even thought those days that it was Raja's own company...and he was making some decent money thru this channel, better than royalty etc...looks like it was not, going by the recent legal adi-dhadi :-(
Siricha....I recall it as one of the songs we recorded when it was played on radio. We always have an empty tape, with record/pause mode. When a good song starts, mom would yell, and one of us would run and un-pause it. In that way, we had cassettes of songs with the first few seconds missing :lol2:app, would this explain the presence of Ponni Nathi in Muthal Vasantham....come on folks...en mandaiyee vedichidum pola irukkee....Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
App,
Thanks for bringing back these forgotten melodies. Geetham Sangeetham is one song I mostly try to sing and fail, especially for those gamakams/sangathi's by SPB. The last humming 'aahhha' tried many times in vain, the way he curls back up and down, unbelievable. We can give everything for the chorus and violins, beautifully interlaced. 'Ennodu vanthaale pothum eppothum', is the best part for me. When SPB ends the song, with 'paadham unthan paadham', just for that feel, I am at his feet.
Me too learned recently that echo is a separate company not owned by Raja, mainly due to that legal issue.
What legal issue? If you guys don't mind sharing, thanks :smile:
grouch,
Please watch this video, This should clear your doubts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dOd6r7Kbg
Also please check this link.
http://www.sify.com/movies/ilayaraja...fqKEgeeda.html
I don't know much details, but I felt he should have done this way earlier, he waited too long.
Thanks V_S. Appreciate it. Youtube can't watch here, no sound. Will go home and watch. Thanks again.
Ah Geetham Sangeetham, what a song! Lovely Melody from the masters.
Thanks App anna for reminding me this song , and posting songs which I have never heard!
Many thanks again :)
As it typically happens during the weekends, I'm behind by a day. So, two songs are due today.
I'll have to make a small adjustment in the alphabetical order & post both songs from the same movie today (which was a phenomenally succesful one). Both duets by my fav pair.
And reserve one of the greatest songs by the same pair for tomorrow :-)
Raja was little bit early to the scene. When he came to the field, selling music directly to the "consumer" was not that popular. Only few rich and upper middle class people had record players. They also did not buy many records. With the arrival of Panasonic taper player in the early 80s lot of recording centers mushroomed in many cities. Now people were recording their favorite songs in a TDK 60min cassette or TDK 90 minute cassette and not buying the originals meant MDs, Singers and producers did not get any money.Quote:
Originally Posted by app_engine
The Indian cassette industry was revolutionized by T-Series Gulshan Kumar in early to mid 80s. To counter relatively expensive audio tapes which used to be marketed by reputed music companies (read HMV), GK brought out very cheaply made and low priced music cassettes. The cheaply made cassettes featured reproduced songs sung by clones like Anuradha Paudual and Kumar Sanu, not the originals. But later he started to get music rights for many Hindi movies. I remember buying many Hindi cassettes in 1980s/1990s for Rs.18 - Ashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, Saajan to name a few.
By early 1990 this cheap cassette came to Tamil industry also. I remember buying Guna for Rs.20+ with Raja logo. (This brand did not sustain long.... I think it is because of Pyramid and ARR). ARR was very lucky on this - well established cassette industry, satellite channels that took his music to all over India. By 1994 he was known well all over India.
In spite of given wonderful music I do not think Raja and his predecessors make much money from music sale.
Now that I'm 2 days behind and 3 songs are due today, let me work it out in alpha order itself.
Will post 3 songs today, all these three SPB-SJ duets were patti-thotti-city hits :-)
Oh super waiting for the feast ..
Already its in abundance with Shri Rama Rajyam