The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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The rAjA enbAr song gets featured in the RK movie "athisaya piRavi" when Mr Yaman tries to find out an "equivalent-replacement-physical-body" for the "wrongly-killed-body-burnt" Rajinikanth, to send him back to earth.
(Cho is an assistant to Yaman and warns Rajini that this "rAjA-enbAr" physical body is no-good as the fellow is dying as an alcoholic )

App anna ,

this the most dumbest Rajni movie I have ever seen

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A_E, I'm eagerly waiting for your writeup (historical anecdotes, etc) on one of my favorites from the early IR+SPB combo - Oru veedu iru ullam

I heard the song for the first time after reading your post I wasn't familiar prior.

Actually, when looking around IR's discography / songs etc for my next song, only two more numbers came up for 1977. o mAmA from peN jenman (SPB/SJ) which I've never heard before and so decided not to write about. The only song that was radio-popular from peN jenman was 'chellappiLLai saravaNan'. I used to associate MSV with that number before coming to TFM-DF.

The other one is oru kAdhal nayakan from sAyndhAdammA sAyndhAdu which was well-known to me from radio days and will be #6 for today. This was another case of not-associating with IR during radio days but found out later.

So, the AES number is another one I'm coming to know as a IR-SPB song from 1977. However, due to my non-association-prior, I cannot write about it

Nevertheless, AES itself was quite a popular album during my school days.

My first experience with 'surAngani' was in a hospital function for leprosy awareness where students from many schools provided entertainment on stage. (I attended that to get a prize for katturaippOtti).

Two stylishly dressed town girls (one as male with moush, both with bell-bottom pants) danced for the song which was played from disk. I instantly loved the song and the whole crowd was delirious as well. I believe MV appears on screen as a stage performer in that movie for this song.

dEvan thiruchchabai malargaLE was a rage too with its very novel structure / sounds. Then there was the PS smoothie 'thEnil Adum rOjA' that had quite decent air time.

The hero was Jaishankar and the movie was discussed in the saradha_sn's Jaishankar thread in the TF classics section.

However, the SPB song was never in my radar and yes, it sounds like a typical 70's MSV number.

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The Jaishankar thread in TF Classics has this blog link for AES.

Don't miss this as it has a total package - story, pictures, youtube links to songs . I now recall the funny TMS version of kabhi-kabhi

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App anna

As your next IR + SPB combo, please write about another gem (Bharathi kannama ) , SPB's honey like voice and VJ's scintillating voice. Unfortunately this song was underrated against 'orE naal unnai naan nilavil' from the same movie. I equally love both

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ok, my chronology-driven-IR-SPB-pick for the day:

#6 ஒரு காதல் தேவதை
இரு கண்கள் பூமழை
இவள் ராஜ வம்சமோ
ரதி தேவி அம்சமோ
(சாய்ந்தாடம்மா சாய்ந்தாடு, 1977)

Very sweet number that instantly puts one in a carefree summer evening of 1977 !

This song has such a strong 'evening feel' written all over it and I'm reminded of a typical setting of playing ball-badminton from 4 PM-5.30 or so in the school and come home, wash and relaxedly listen to SLBC for the neengaL kEttavi. Though they used to announce lyricist & MD along with the requesters' names, I didn't pay much attention to MD during those initial Raja days. So, didn't associate IR for this song when it arrived. Listening to this today, one can appreciate that it has all the signature IR elements of 70's!

Ofcourse I'm not a big fan of SPB-PS combo for duets despite the fact that there are a ton of great numbers that I love despite this dislike. They sound like - to repeat what I posted earlier in the forum - akkA thambi

Googling shows that this movie was a Sivakumar-Sridevi starrer with Devaraj-Mohan (directors of annakkiLi). Otherwise, no first hand knowledge of this movie. One may want to also check out this MV-SJ number nenjukkuL poo manjam from this movie which has a jazzy prelude and possibly defined a template for some later-day IR songs

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Bharathi kannama... 'orE naal unnai naan nilavil' ...from the same movie. I equally love both

Param,
They're from different movies.

Bharathi kaNNammA is from MSV classic, ninaiththAlE inikkum. (not an IR song and hence cannot feature in this thread)

ore nAL unai nAn is from IR classic, iLamai oonjalAdukiRadhu, will definitely appear in its chronological order.

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ok, my chronology-driven-IR-SPB-pick for the day:

#6 ஒரு காதல் தேவதை
இரு கண்கள் பூமழை
இவள் ராஜ வம்சமோ
ரதி தேவி அம்சமோ
(சாய்ந்தடம்மா சாய்ந்தாடு, 1977)

wow thanks for bringing back my memories, a wonderful song indeed, like you said, though I am a big fan of PS, esp her 50's 60's song, but when ever she sings along with SPB , her voice sounds matured compared to SPB 's ever lasting youth full voice

There is another song , which begins along the same lines 'Oru Kadhal devathi boomyil vanthal' , the film was a Karthik+Revathy starrer (quite a nice movie) . The composition sounded so much like IR, I was to learn the MD for this song was Shankar Ganesh.

On a digression ending, I think Shankar Ganesh Followed by TR.Rajender provided some excellent melodies after IR in the 80's , followed by Vidyasagar from 90's till now

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Another Classic, was the first ever song by SPB for IR ?

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There are 2 songs in IR-SPB combo from same movie called Rosappoo Ravikkaikri (1978). IR decided to give these 2 rustic folk songs to SPB. Man... what a job he did.

1) Uchchi Vagunththeduthu - Who is the lyricits for this song? I just love it. I can not remember whether SPB has sung any other song like this (Folk, Sad) in Tamil. Most of these kind of songs in the later years went to IR himself.


2) Maaman Oru Naa Malliappoo (ofcourse SJ rocks too). Is there any other "A" joke song in Tamil like this?


On one side Raja was making all those beautiful mealodies, on the other side he delivers these "unpolished" rustic folk numbers. The golden age of TFM!!

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Maaman Oru Naa Malliappoo (ofcourse SJ rocks too).

It had SP Shailaja and not SJ