The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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#90 கூவுங்கள் சேவல்களே
(தனிகாட்டு ராஜா, 1982 )

The weakest area of SPB-IR combo, IMHO.

majestic muzhakkams. Where TMS with either MSV or KVM simply ruled during MGR days.

Both our men try hard (IR with his trumpets and other wind instruments along with strings and percussion work, SPB with high-pitched energy) but it didn't make the impact on me like, say, 'adhO andhappaRavai pOla' Not even the impact of 'podhuvAka emmanasu thangam' by IR/MV combo. And, as usual, my taste sync-ed with the taste of 80's TN-ers and this song didn't make it that big. Had some air-time, loud speaker time etc but not to the proportions of how a Rajini-SPB-IR song should have reached.

Well, if placed in a right setting, this may have made its impact. (For e.g. prior to 2011 TN elections, I happened to watch a program on Jaya TV where there was interaction with public / news clippings etc showing people's anger against the rulers, suddenly there jumped in a SPB song with unmistakable IR orch - so fitting to the situation and had me in pullarips - but it started in the middle of the saraNam and so took me a couple of seconds to figure out that it was a song dissed by me at the time of its arrival Gandhi dEsamE - a similar SPB-IR muzhakkam that failed to strike a chord in me when it came but worked big time with the reality visuals on Jaya TV).

Who knows, when placed in an appropriate setting, 'koovungaL sEvalkaLE' may hit me like 'adhO andhappaRavai pOla '