The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#16 சின்னப்புறாவொன்று வண்ணக்கனாவினில்
(அன்பே சங்கீதா, 1979 )

The year when we started hearing a lot of S P Shailaja stuff. She has done humming in this song (possibly a reminder of the yesteryear V-R songs where LRE used to do some haunting humming).

SPB simply excels in this emotional song. He has good company - the sweet piano prelude and some guitar / strings stuffed stunning interludes.

A regular song in SLBC evening nEyar viruppams, this song too reminds me of a pleasant summer evening vacation day in the grand parents' home, enjoying that sweet Philips transistor radio What a care-free life with story books, library visits, evening walk, stories by grandpa etc! In addition there were some "summer-vacation-only" friends with whom one played trader game, cards and read comics books for hours and hours. chinnappurA onRu, accompanied by some radio noise can evoke all that nostalgia in me! I love my "birthplace / grandparents' home", O so much! (alas they're no more and I don't have the same sentiments even though my chithi still lives in that town).

I believe this song has Mr Coconut on screen (per tfmpage old posts) and I don't have the courage to watch the youtube, even for fun

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Yes app. It does have coconut in the song. Too much over emotion!!! But then there have been so many songs butchered thus ....

[PARAMASHIVAN]

And faramu, that was Pramila not Sripriya

thanks Flau, intha padam paathu oru pathu varushum irkum, paattu mathiriam thaan gynabaham irruku!

3. The mimicry in kadavuL amaithu vaitha mEdai was done by Sadan, a MsV troupe regular.

I thought it was done by a guy called Sai

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I believe this song has Mr Coconut on screen (per tfmpage old posts) and I don't have the courage to watch the youtube, even for fun

Yes it has Coconut Srinivasan, I have seen the video and it spoils the song big time!

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I'm behind by one day, so will post two songs today

#17 & #18 will be from the same movie (actually, that movie has one more for tomorrow as well).

Will be posting these in course of today.

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#17 அப்பனே அப்பனே
(அன்னை ஓர் ஆலயம், 1979)

What a joy ride of a song!

A trumpet / guitar delight, sung with full of energy and emotion by SPB and supported by PS!

This is an interesting movie for the animal-based-movie specialist, Devar films, who did a few movies with Rajinikanth and Kamal and IR was an unusual choice for some of them (their regulars were initially KVM and later their intro, the S-G duo).

This was the first IR movie for this company and he followed up with anbukku nAn adimai & Ram Latchuman. dhamathin thalaivan came after many years. Essentially, they had IR when he was fast upcoming but switched to cheaper ones when he became #1. (DT was possibly done due to the insistence of hero / director and an exception.) A careful, calculative prod house indeed when choosing technicians.

Well, IR did full justice to their movies when called upon and SPB / PS were the main choices. We got a few top SPB-PS hits from IR for this prod house. Devar-IR-SJ combo is a rarity (i.e. if at all it exists). (Please note, that prod house wasn't averse to using SJ as she featured regularly in their movies with S-G music, "tooth paste irukku, brush irukku, ezhunthiru mAmA")

It looks like the requirement for this movie was to take a leaf out of MGR's nalla nEram (in heroism and other format) and IR needed to fit in the elephant theme in a similar mode. Well, IR met and exceeded the expectations in a triumphant manner

Personally, I didn't know who the MD was when the song arrived but later found out. However, what was very clear to me when I heard the song for the first time was it was an 'elephant song' There was no doubt about it!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

[ "tooth paste irukku, brush irukku, ezhunthiru mAmA")

Ithu Ranga padathil irunthu thaanE , MD Shankar Ganesh ah

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#17 அப்பனே அப்பனே
(அன்னை ஓர் ஆலயம், 1979)

What a joy ride of a song!

A trumpet / guitar delight, sung with full of energy and emotion by SPB and supported by PS!

This is an interesting movie for the animal-based-movie specialist, Devar films, who did a few movies with Rajinikanth and Kamal and IR was an unusual choice for some of them (their regulars were initially KVM and later their intro, the S-G duo).

This was the first IR movie for this company and he followed up with anbukku nAn adimai & Ram Latchuman. dhamathin thalaivan came after many years. Essentially, they had IR when he was fast upcoming but switched to cheaper ones when he became #1. (DT was possibly done due to the insistence of hero / director and an exception.) A careful, calculative prod house indeed when choosing technicians.

Well, IR did full justice to their movies when called upon and SPB / PS were the main choices. We got a few top SPB-PS hits from IR for this prod house. Devar-IR-SJ combo is a rarity (i.e. if at all it exists). (Please note, that prod house wasn't averse to using SJ as she featured regularly in their movies with S-G music, "tooth paste irukku, brush irukku, ezhunthiru mAmA")

It looks like the requirement for this movie was to take a leaf out of MGR's nalla nEram (in heroism and other format) and IR needed to fit in the elephant theme in a similar mode. Well, IR met and exceeded the expectations in a triumphant manner

Personally, I didn't know who the MD was when the song arrived but later found out. However, what was very clear to me when I heard the song for the first time was it was an 'elephant song' There was no doubt about it!

app, pinna pillayaar appane song devar films'ls pulikuttiya vechaa paaduvaanga?
whenever i try humming this song, and after the interlude land in the charanam of 'ennammaa kannu...'

but this song/movie was one of my fav too... for the look thalaivar sits on the bonnet of the jeep with a gun..

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Ithu Ranga padathil irunthu thaanE , MD Shankar Ganesh ah

இதுல ஷாக் ஆக என்ன இருக்குங்க?
ராசா முதல்ல ஜானகியை குழந்தைக்குரலில் 'கண்ணா நீ எங்கே' பாட வச்சார் (ருசி கண்ட பூனை). அதுக்கப்புறம் நிறைய வந்தாச்சு...
(உ-ம்)
கங்கை அமரன் - டாடி டாடி (மௌன கீதங்கள்)
சங்கர்-கணேஷ் - டூத் பேஸ்ட் இருக்கு (ரங்கா)

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app, pinna pillayaar appane song devar films'ls pulikuttiya vechaa paaduvaanga?
whenever i try humming this song, and after the interlude land in the charanam of 'ennammaa kannu...'

but this song/movie was one of my fav too... for the look thalaivar sits on the bonnet of the jeep with a gun..

Well, what I meant was like, this was not a 'Devarin Dheivam' kind of song

In other words, it was not sung to Ganesh but to a literal elephant, thanks to the trumphet sounds that mimic an elephant trumpeting!