The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#74 காவிரியே, காவிரியே
(அர்ச்சனைப்பூக்கள், 1982 , ஜானகியுடன்)

Can't place a date on this movie, so decided to go with the alphabetical thingy. As mentioned above, the first line is directly related to the city close to kallaNai, mukkombu, koLLidam & kAviri The city where I spent 4+ extremely interesting years. 4 things made life so thrilling - obviously one being Raja's music (and anyone who listened to his output during 1982-1985 -those were fresh juice then, now aged wine - can testify to this fact), second the totally new set of friends in college hostel / Trichy and the life-perpectives that they influenced me to build up, third the countless books / periodicals / material that was opened out for me to read (Sujatha being one of them, at his peak) and fourth -countless other new people (including some whom one would have "met" only once in a bus journey).

Well, this song, is like one of those countless new people. Was there on the recordings of my Thanjavur hostelmate. And heard many times on radio. And on other occasions on buses.

Sweet melody, strongly influenced by the stronger rAgA leanings that IR started doing in 80's. Sweet melodic interludes, using his most favoured instruments. (The santoor sound reminds one of trees on riverbanks). And the tablA, which I'll love even if IR uses unchanged in another 1000 songs!