Pick of the week: 1 Mar to 5 Aug 2006

Nice pick up Ramki. ( and also to NeelD). can u provide more details abt the film?

yvs: I remember seeing Sivaji & Thyagarajan in the posters. I havent seen this movie and have no further information.

I too think its sivaji. KRV is the heroine (i think)

Picks #192

http://tfmpage.com/stream/songs/gangai_gosp.rm

Song: gangai karaiyil viLaindha kavidhai
Film: Geetha oru shenbaga poo
Singers: Vani Jairam, Jolly Abraham
Lyrics: kaNNadhasan
Music: MSViswanathan

Jolly abraham was one of MSV finds. MSV mainly used him for KJY kind of songs. I think around late 70s early- 80s,KJY and MSV were not in talking terms. MSV tried using JA or JC for KJY type of songs.
IMO JA does not have a good voice and he did a very bad imitation of KJY.
Some of his songs were popular though
'adiyenai paarama', 'malai rani mundhanai', 'reena meena','oru nadigai paarkum naadagam','iravil irandu paravaigaL' etc.
He vanished from The TFM scene for a long time.
IR gave him 2 songs in the 90s.
He sang 'oru chinna manikuyilu'(with bhava)-katta panchayathu and
adadaa azhagaana puLLimaane- Mayabazaar 1997

I read somewhere that he is Jency's cousin. He has released many christian devotional songs both in tamil and Malayalam.

Who were the actors in GOSP? Jaiganesh, sumithra??

Ramki, is it true that JA resurfaced as Unni Menon? Or, was it someone else? What I know for sure is that Unni Menon had already been in TFM in some other name in early 80's.

Ramki:

Garuda Sowkiyama is by Sivaji + Sujatha (not KRV). There is a TMS + PS duet starting with "Sandana malarin sundara vadivil".

Jolly Abraham had given 2 more hits. Both with PS.

1. Rekha Rekha.. vaana villin kolam undhan jaalam (kaatrukkenna vEli; MD: Sivaji Raaja)
2. Aasai uLLa maappiLaikku thoodhu sella naan irukEn (needhikku mun Neeya Naanaa; MD: MSV)

Rajdes, definitely Unni Menon is not an reincarnation of JA. He has much better voice that JA :-)

//Dig
rajdes, UM sang "pon maane kobam" under the name of "Vijay" in the film "Oru kaidhiyin Dairy"
JA has never been my favourite. Another JA with SJ duet song under MSV baton is "oduvadhu oru manadhu" from a late 70's movie "Ganga yamuna saraswathi" [But Iam not too sure about the movie name ...]

thumburu, thanks - now I remember. I used to think that Vijay was Vijay Yesudoss :-)

sn23 :-). Good spot.

Ramki -

What a find! I had not heard this song in many moons, and what pournami it is to this day! An unmistakable MSV composition, sung with great involvement by VJ and JA. What is truly interesting for me is that MSV had tapped into VJs work with OP Nayyar in this duet - the humming bits of VJs entry and thereafter are typical of an OPN ditty.
I hope to hear Abinaya Sundari Aadugiraal in these parts some day! :-)

Thanks for this treaure (which one can easily extend to most of the picks here) - and, yes, I will treasure it!

Naaz

PS: The other big hit from JA (MSV) with BSS is Adiye Ennai Paaramma - from Vankaththukkuriya Kaadhaliyae. Another inventive compostion by MSV which featured VJ/JA was Ennai Vittu Pirintha Kaadhalan Innum Veedu Vandhu Seravillai from Silk Silk Silk. It is remarkable how MSVs later (complex) tunes never got the attention they deserved!
Ramki - Ithu Nooravathu Post! :-)