The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Those who watched the movie please tell whether the story happens in Idukki area (elephant, hills, forest, tea estate, river side - the movie's setup and the song lines strongly suggests such an area).

App anna

AFAIK, the song was picturised along river bank

[PARAMASHIVAN]

They are so and so

Rakesh anna

SG was a very good MD, esp when it comes Melodies, few songs of SG + SPB chart busters

1) Aval oru menaghai - Natchathiram
2) Naa unna ninaichen nee enna ninaichE
3) Oru kadhal devathai boomiku vanthal - Some Karthik + Revathy Movie
4) All Neeya Songs ! (BTW, Was neeya songs inspired from the Hindi version???)

[groucho070]

Raghu, I look at the whole package, not one or two good songs. On the list, I like only Aval oru menagai. In fact, I like their work in the two MGR films they scored, though they sounded awful lot like MSV. They tend to absorb the best MD of the time and give their mediocre version. Their background score are noises. Massive noises, as per my mention of the title scenes.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Genesis,

Yes SPB + TRR combo produced some awsome songs indeed

1) Oru pon maanai naan kaana thagathimi thOm
2) Naanum unthan urvai naadi vantha paravai - Listen to the Mirudungam, uduku and veena towards the end , absolutley awsome, similar to IR's Kadhal oviyum's Sangeetha jaathi mulai song! SPB simple excels in both songs!
3) MoongilE paatisaithu
4) Ithu kuzhandhai paadum thaalatu
5) vasantham paadi vara
6) Vasamila malarithu
7) Indira logathu sundari rathiri - love this song, horrible pictuerisation though

[KV]

Plum thanks for the quick dope on RDB. I dont see the films on Thiraipaadal though.

Continuing the S-G digression, I’m with you on that assessment, Grouch. After I heard the Jagjit Singh original of Megame Megame, I pretty much lost faith in S-G’s originality.
My favorite of theirs is Rendu Kannam from Sivappu Malli. But then, I feel it would only be a matter of time before someone points to me its true source!

Just curious, what's TR's record like in this regard? Any blatant lifts in the handful of passable songs he has given?

[tvsankar]

Genesis,

Yes SPB + TRR combo produced some awsome songs indeed

1) Oru pon maanai naan kaana thagathimi thOm
2) Naanum unthan urvai naadi vantha paravai - Listen to the Mirudungam, uduku and veena towards the end , absolutley awsome, similar to IR's Kadhal oviyum's Sangeetha jaathi mulai song! SPB simple excels in both songs!
3) MoongilE paatisaithu
4) Ithu kuzhandhai paadum thaalatu
5) vasantham paadi vara
6) Vasamila malarithu
7) Indira logathu sundari rathiri - love this song, horrible pictuerisation though

add 2 more songs.. neraiya iruku.. SPB TRR combo...
1. Malai enai vaatudhae
2. Dhinam dhinam un mugam

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Usha akka

Dhinum Dhinum un mugum, good song for dancing ! Amma soluvanga naa chinna paiyan irukumbothu intha paatu pota thaan naa sOru saapiduvanam

Just love the way SPB says hei hei

[tvsankar]

oh. Nice.. nalla paiyan pola irukae neenga.. hehehe..
SPB's singing style in this song. something Great.. TRR paatuku Uyir kodutha SPB.....

[Plum]

KV, I am not the person to go to for online links. Have no idea where you can find those albums.

And TR was said to be ghosted by L Vaidyanathan for many of his ventures. I guess TR used to come up with melodies, and polishing, tinkering, orchestration etc were taken care of by assistants. Infact, there was a dispute with AA Raj for Oru Thalai Ragam itself on who is to be credited for the music.

While on that, SPB himself has said that his music making process was to hum the tune and let assistants take care of the ludes and BGM

[venkkiram]

டி.ஆரை பற்றி சமீபத்தில் கேள்விப்பட்டது. இசை உருவாக்கத்தில் Plum சொன்னமாதிரி L.V, சிவமணி என நிறைய இளைஞர்கள்.இதில் சிறுவர் ரஹ்மானும் உண்டு. வெவ்வேறு விதமான இசைகளை டி.ஆருக்கு வாசித்தால் "அந்த ரெண்டாவதா ஒண்ணு வாசிச்சிங்களே! அதையே வச்சிக்கலாம்"ம்ம்பாரம். எப்படி எல்லோரும் சிரிப்பைக் கட்டுப்படுத்திக் கொண்டு கவனமா இசையமைச்சாங்க என்பதே ஆச்சர்யமான விஷயம்.