The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Listen to the wonderful 'vAnil oru theepAvaLi' from the thiraippadal link in my post.

There should be youtubes available as well, Sridevi in jeans / sun glasses walking on a beach

Thanks , I cant seem to find any Videos on you tube

[PARAMASHIVAN]

#76 இளைய நிலா பொழிகிறதே
இதயம் வரை நனைகிறதே
(பயணங்கள் முடிவதில்லை, 1982 , வைரமுத்து பாடல், ஆர்.சுந்தர்ராஜன் இயக்கம் )

Amazing song, SPB does a smooth "ride" without any effort, The guitar work is brilliant! This was the song I wanted to sing in 1997 Ganakuyil (in London) , as this song was "very" popular!, in the end I had to sing "vaa Vennila" , but cant complain, as that song fetched me the first prize

[jaiganes]

Awesome posts, AWE & Jai! While one chooses to drench us in nostalgia, the other brings showers of poetry on us! I’m thoroughly enjoying this rain!

As Jai rightly said, the bass guitar in Kaviriye is special stuff. I’m a mad fan of this song’s prelude… the conversation between the bass and santoor is spellbinding!

Moonrampirai is my Numero Uno favorite of all IR albums. Emotional opulence, technical sophistication and popular appeal, packaged into a blend of perfection!
The source for this madness/devotion/obsession over the album is a ‘soundtrack’ tape that my father had as part of his collection. (a solid collection of various genres, composers and artists).
I chanced upon this tape around the time I was passing out of school and moving to pre-university. PU classes used to be from 0730-1130 and I would be back home by 1200 or 1300. With both, mum and dad working, it used to be only grandmom and I at home, till evening. I would, almost daily, very religiously, carry the old, compact, Sanyo single-speaker taperecorder and some of my favorite tapes and lock myself in a room. After that, for hours it would just be music and me, undisturbed; relaxation and tranquility of the highest order. I can, even now, vividly recall several dialogs from the film and the music pieces accompanying them. Momentary silence and then a gradual passage of violins to musically paint the scenic landscape of Ooty, the loopy, naughty, enticing pieces of bass guitar portraying Silikku’s longing and melancholy… every scene is a slice of poetry, visually and musically.
Even after I got my computer and mp3 collection, I had very safely kept the tape with me for many years and would often go off on a ‘trip’ listening to it. Alas, the tape recorder threw up some trouble some months back and my tapes now lie in a corner, dust gathering over them and my memories.

I still remember the inexplicable wave that caught me when i heard Poonthaliraada in "hits of 80s" collection in a casette tape player in my uncle's house. I was probably 9 years old. The devastation was total. The memory is so vivid, that Raja impregnated my memory so deeply. It is impossible to take him out of my conscience now. So deep has been his impact, that rest of the music I have heard since those days are just sediments on top of that memory.

[Nerd]

Moonraam Pirai and PayanangaL Mudivathillai in the same year? (I am sure there are many) Whoa! Great posts app. Thank you so much.

Random, uninteresting, irrelevant tidbit: Gaiety, Rukmani (friend of mine owns it) and Kalai Arangam are still there in Trichy. The first two play re-re-release films.

[app_engine]

Thanks , I cant seem to find any Videos on you tube

Here it is - the opening song from moonRAm piRai :

[app_engine]

Moonraam Pirai and PayanangaL Mudivathillai in the same year? (I am sure there are many) Whoa! Great posts app. Thank you so much.

Random, uninteresting, irrelevant tidbit: Gaiety, Rukmani (friend of mine owns it) and Kalai Arangam are still there in Trichy. The first two play re-re-release films.

yw

Interesting to know that those oldies are still alive

BTW, 82 was a watershed year musically, add ninaivellAm nithyA, kAdhal Oviyum among many others...

[groucho070]

I am not surprised that Raghu doesn't know about the song/sequence. Could be outside of India the song never made it at all at that time. In fact, the scene was not on TV when I first watched it as a kid.

[Plum]

(The santoor sound reminds one of trees on riverbanks).

adhE! adhE! I got to know this song only recently so I have no idea how it is picturised though the lyrics give a clue. The predominant image with the initial santoor pieces is one of a river flowing freely into a falls - and with the birds chirping etc, the imagery invoked is quiet as app mentioned - riverbank, trees, monkeys jumping across, birds chirping. It does vividly create the imagery, doesnt it?

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Here it is - the opening song from moonRAm piRai :

Wow Amazing Song! Thanks App anna

[PARAMASHIVAN]

I am not surprised that Raghu doesn't know about the song/sequence. Could be outside of India the song never made it at all at that time. In fact, the scene was not on TV when I first watched it as a kid.

No No, I remember the song! , I watched the movie about 15 years ago, when VHS was around! it is just that it was not played on TV/ Radio much like "Kanne kalai maanE" !