The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[PARAMASHIVAN]

chummaa puttu puttu vekkireenga...
SG socks podra kadhaya patthi oru rumour sutthuchae adha patthi konjam brush'unga..

Socks illa, he always wear Gloves, I have seen his Interview on Jeya TV!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Folks, Can we get back on track pls

[SoftSword]

Ofcourse, ARR was not after numbers. However, once he took the cream (big prod houses, stars, directors), the second grade MDs like Deva, SAR, Sirpi, Vidyasagar took away the other market.

IR became a niche player within a matter of a couple years after the arrival of ARR, IIRC. Some old faithfuls as Fazil / BM did a few movies with him before they became irrelevant in the market. Sethu helped a bit but IR's practical relevance as a commercially sought-after MD has gone after the arrival of ARR-Deva-SAR in the market, as a combined force.

We know the trend post-2000 when technology helped the newcomers a lot. One can compose for a film - good sounding music - sitting in a small apartment with no necessity of a big orchestra.

So we have Harris / Vijay Antony / YSR / GVP / VS doing most of the above-average-bud movies (top ones going to ARR) while low-bud can be done by anyone with a few gadgets and there're 100 of them today

app, i guess IR's come back was KM well before Sethu... followed by Kannukkul Nilavu too...
i still listen to KN, only that nilavu paattu has some strange clap sounds which always puts me off.

and in the last category u hav put, VS doesn deserve to be there i supposed, he is way better especially with his melodies i believe.

[SoftSword]

No knowledge of that

Please relate

relate? am i digging... IR era patthi dhane pesarom...
anyway, not intentional, apdiyae vandhuruchu

[raj_musing]

Params,

MSV was quite active through out 80's, often composing for big stars and directors (Rajini / Kamal / Sivaji / K Balachandar / K Balaji)

S-G had their share of successes (Devar films / remake of Bappi Lahiri stuff in TF / Rama Narayanan kind of low bud movies / partnering with Bagyaraj for a couple of films - one with Bagyaraj named as MD)

Gangai Amaran was composing quite a bit till he started spending more time in direction (vAzhvE mAyam, sattam kinds)

Late 80's saw AVM productions heavily promote Chandrabose (manithan, for e.g.)

TR of course - mostly for his own but occasionally did movies of other directors (kiLinjalkaL, pookkaLai paRikkadheerkaL)

Composers from other lang fields - Shyam, Rajan Nagendra, L-P, Bappi Lahiri, Hamsaleka, even RDB - these were here and there.

Our KVM, who was busy with Telugu field, did one or two every now and then.

Then there were some onesies twosies kind of MD's - V S Narasimhan, Sivaji Raja, Manoj-Gyan - such were always coming and going

A composer by the name MBS(M B srinivasan) from TN ...Has he contributed to tamil music in the 80's?...just curious to know??

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Softie ,
This is not the thread for 'Just' IR discussions ,but 'IR+SPB songs discussions'.

[app_engine]

SS,
I mentioned Fazil sticking to IR

Ofcourse, V-S can be placed in a separate category from the tech-whiz-kids but I think his capability to doing melody is over rated. His focus area is to take an old hit and tweak

His celebrated SPB-SJ number (malarE mounamA) was found to be a "slowed down" version of an old S-G number

[SoftSword]

param, digg aarambichadhae neenga dhaan...
anyway.. continue guys, sorry for contributing to the digg..

[PARAMASHIVAN]

#17 அப்பனே அப்பனே
(அன்னை ஓர் ஆலயம், 1979)

Appn anneh

Nathiyoram song from this movie , by SPB+PS is lovely one !

[app_engine]

A composer by the name MBS(M B srinivasan) from TN ...Has he contributed to tamil music in the 80's?...just curious to know??

By the time IR was big in the market, MBS was practically full-time on "sErndhisai" stuff, mostly for AIR-DD kinds, I think.

He was still doing a few Malayalam movies, Fazil's "maNivaththooril 1000 sivarAthrikaL" (Mammootty / Suhasini, "muththE,mhoom muththE, mhoohoom") was by him IIRC...