The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[app_engine]

அப்புறம், பரம், ரிலீஸ் டேட்டுக்கு என் சாக் ஆகுறீங்க?

ரஜினியோட பொல்லாதவனும் இதே நாளில் வெளி வந்தது தான் 1980 deepAvaLi releases...

[groucho070]

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Totally unaware of this song. And App, you bringing us back to your village,

[PARAMASHIVAN]

, I'm 100% sure the line written with the rhyme was 'தேவை பாவை பார்வை'. I wonder if SPB was singing from English transliteration and there was a typo - paavai and paaval could look similar and those supposed to correct could have been 'DUI' )

App anna

AFAIK, he does pronounce that as பாவை Will re visit the song again and confirm it, if that is true, this will be SPB's first ever pronounciation error

[app_engine]

And App, you bringing us back to your village,

As I've not been there for almost a decade, these songs are actually bringing me back there

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That 1977 flood is so much in my memory. Would like to recall one more "songs-to-sambavams" connection with that time period.

We were living in the high school campus (both parents worked there) and the house we were given was considered to be in moisture-risky condition with the possibility of walls caving in. So, each night we slept in another building, which shared a wall with the school hostel / mess. A couple of mess workers (cooks) were Ayyappa sAmees and will start their singing at 5 AM, waking us up.

So, whenever / wherever I hear the song 'ERukinRa malai thanilE Adi varum sAmi - ayyappa sAmee, aruL puri sAmi', I get instantaneous flood nightmare

We moved to a different house in a few months (which was the same building as my 1-5 grade school )

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[app_engine]

#54 ஜெர்மனியின் செந்தேன் மலரே
(உல்லாசப்பறவைகள், 1980 , ஜானகியுடன்)

With a sweet 45 second long prelude, a jubilant song in a lovely, lovely album! Another song that reinforced my conviction that SPB-SJ is the best duet pair ever for movie songs Both of them seem to thoroughly enjoy singing the song that continues all the way in the postlude. An evergreen melody combined with killer orchestration resulting in a winner song!

At this point of time, IR's mastery of using synthetic sounds in association with live instruments was impeccable. That's because, live sounds formed 90% of the score while the "new sounds" only showed up here and there for some curiosity, some thrill, to take care of the "situations that the director had thrown in" or simply as a product differentiator from competitors - i.e. more like special effects (and not exactly music), as we observe in the prelude of this song.
(Other examples -the bird sounds of pon mAlaippozhudhu or the comical sounding thingies in the beginning of the first interlude of madai thiRandhu to match Chandrsekar jumpings). The SJ solo 'azhagu Ayiram' of UP had more of such "special effects" and was lapped up by me when arrived. (The traditional sounding 'deiveega rAgam' and stunningly modern 'nAn unthan thAyaga vENdum' were big favourites too).

Germaniyin was the radio favourite, however, and had much more air time than all others combined, IMO. For a decade or so, I lost contact with this song before getting that red color inreco CD from Bangalore in the late 90's (or may be even later) which had this as the first track. ('germaniyin' had decent recording and so was 'ninaivO oru paRavai' but others were horrible - esp 'siru pon maNi asaiyum' and 'O nenjamE idhu un rAgamE').

I'm often reminded of the title music of this movie whenever I hear this song. It appeared on the ninaivellAm nithyA disk much later (along with a number of tik-tik-tik BGMs) and got copied on to one of my collegemate's cassette by a recording center - fantastic piece!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

#54 ஜெர்மனியின் செந்தேன் மலரே
(உல்லாசப்பறவைகள், 1980 , ஜானகியுடன்)

With a sweet 45 second long prelude, a jubilant song in a lovely, lovely album! Another song that reinforced my conviction that SPB-SJ is the best duet pair ever for movie songs Both of them seem to thoroughly enjoy singing the song that continues all the way in the postlude. An evergreen melody combined with killer orchestration resulting in a winner song!

Indeed a very Joyfull and youth full song ! 31 years ago they were singing and dancing in hamburg!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Rati Agnihorthri

[groucho070]

I refrained from Germaniyil for many years due to overdose. Abuse. By myself. In fact, it is not in my collection, and it's easy to access, but I refrained. I dare not click on your link, app, or I will get hooked again .

Having said that, I caught the clips couple of time on TV. Such youthfullness ably matched by Kamal and Rathi.

[Plum]

+1 Grouch.

But I have an additional problem - andha link-ai click paNNAmalEyE andha pAttu kaadhula repeat loop-la start to finish fullA oliparappAgi kittirukku.

[groucho070]

Same same.