The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Sasikala

Illamai kalangal

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#111 இசை மேடையில், இந்த வேளையில், சுபராகம் பொழியும்!
இளமை நெருக்கம், இருந்தும் தயக்கம்!
(இளமைக்காலங்கள், 1983 , ஜானகியுடன், வைரமுத்து பாடல்)

"I got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I got the month of May" - so goes the famous "My girl" song that has a number of versions, including one by Michael Jackson. Exactly the same feelings whenever / wherever I hear this song - a song too close to me personally! (Interestingly, there's a line in this lyric too - "நெஞ்சுக்குள்ளே தீ இருந்தும் மேனி எங்கும் பூ வசந்தம்", what a sweet way VM puts such inexplicable feelings!)

I cannot hear this song emanating out of a shop / bus / home / anywhere / any source and still continue with what activtiy I was doing prior. Everything has to stop until the song is over! The aaaaa-Ah-aa-Ah starting by SJ with the vocal harmony sends a chill thru out my body instantaneously and it lasts for a few seconds until I get into a trance. From which I can come out only when the song is over!

SPB, the perfect partner for SJ, thoroughly immerses himself as a bee would into a nectar-rich-blossom! The chorus adds to the spendor. And rAsA, oh what a sweet rAsA here! Right from the superb sound in the prelude that gets repeated after SJ sings the first line, he simply does to us what a most loved companion would do to the mate! (Details left to one's imagination )

Well, the disc came out months before the movie was made. I cannot say for sure whether it had Manivannan's name in it or R Sundarrajan but it was reported that the original director had some issues after the album got released and Manivannan was brought in. His job was to build a story "around the songs" that were already a big hit. He did a fairly decent job, even though the child singing 'eeramAna rOjAvE' was looking funny on screen.

That college riot scene was quite terrific and there was nothing like that seen before. It was the most impressive scene to the big group of students who watched the movie in a Trichy theater together. ("மாணவர் தலைவனை அடித்த ப்ரின்சீபால் ஒழிக" is still etched in my mind and was often quoted thru out college life & always out of context!). The Sendhil office comedy was quite good too!

On a personal front, if one asks me to choose between this & 'pAda vandhadhO gAnam' as the most fav, I'll struggle.

OTOH, the choice won't be that difficult when most other TFM duets get presented as competition

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isai mEdaiyil lyrics :

pallavi:

இசை மேடையில், இந்த வேளையில், சுபராகம் பொழியும்!
இளமை நெருக்கம், இருந்தும் தயக்கம்!

saraNam 1:

முத்தம் தரும் ஈரம் பதிந்திருக்கும்
முல்லை இளம் பூவெடுத்து முகம் துடைக்கும்
நெஞ்சுக்குள்ளே தீ இருந்தும் மேனியெங்கும் பூ வசந்தம்
கன்னிக்கரும்பு உன்னை எண்ணிச்சாறாகும்

saraNam 2:

கன்னிமகள் கூந்தல் கலைந்திருக்க
வந்து தொடும் உன் கைகள் வகிடெடுக்க
போதை கொண்டு பூ அழைக்க தேடிவந்து தேனெடுக்க
தங்கக் கொழுந்து தொட்டவுடன் பூவாக

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isai mEdaiyil youtube (quite ordinary though not too much irritating):

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App,
Terrific post and one of your best in this series for a well deserved song. I can just sing the song as you have provided the lyrics (and also feel the orchestration) to get what you have felt about this song. Sila IR paadalgal appadiye music'um koodave varum during our singing, as well as to unintentionally stop our singing (and hum the ludes) till the ludes finishes This song belong to that category.

One another important information you have shared which I never heard before. "His job was to build a story "around the songs" that were already a big hit." So since the songs were already composed (which is usual), but were already a hit, so they need to finalize a story based on the songs?

[rajeshkrv]

Music Director sharath & M.G.Sreekumar singing Amma endrazhaikatha uyirillaiye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=tsQ3FQK9N0c

[Sureshs65]

app,

Superb song. My wife's favorite as well. I generally use this song as an example of how Raja's aesthetics. The song is nominally based on ragam Kanada but Raja nowhere shows the ragam explicitly. No one will even think of ragam when this song is played. As you said, the lyrics of VM are terrific as well. I love the second charanam as lot. As you said, this song belongs to 'drop what you are doing and listen to it now' category.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

App anna

Eramana RojavE from the same movie also a very good song! Nice thaalattu pattu

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nanRi V_S & Sureshji!

Very memorable song which happened during my 'iLamaikkAlam'

App anna

Eramana RojavE from the same movie also a very good song! Nice thaalattu pattu

Nice song, but not a thAlAttu

Also, I struggle to put away from the mind the reference to Archimedes principle

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#112 தாழம்பூவே கண்ணுறங்கு
(இன்று நீ நாளை நான், 1983, ஜானகி & உமா ரமணனுடன் )

I don't think we catalogued any Sivakumar / SPB / IR number in the 80's so far. The actor who was in IR's debut movie and also later showed faces for the first IR/SPB number went dry for 3 years before he got them back. In a big hit movie directed by Major. Based on the story that appeared in a monthly paperback novel.

(IIRC, it was Kumudam publications' mAlai mathi that featured this story among its 'idhu varai veLi varAtha puthiya novel' series. IIDNRC, it was a Ranimuthu thingy. Those days I was so fond of mAlai mathi, it featured Sujatha classics such as 'ethaiyum oru muRai', 'marupadiyum Ganesh'. Also, I remember very well the 'araLippoo mEl Asai vaiththu' by Anuradha Ramanan, very interesting story, portions of which were used (suttufied?) for sindhu bhairavi by KB)

I think the actresses were Sulakshana as wife of hero and Lakshmi as her elder sis or OrppadiyA & wife / widow of a drunkard who cannot give her a child. So, she ends up committing adultery with the b-i-l to lead to a tragic end.

This is perhaps the song where all three (man, wife and the kid's periyammA) do thAlAttu to the baby. thAlAttu being IR's fav area, that too when his creative juices were overflowing, this song should have typically taken him seconds to compose. And what a glittering array of SJ numbers to go along in that album - pon vAnam panneer thoovuthu innEram solo & mottu vitta mullakkodi duet with SPS! Album memorable for SJ, where SPB also existed.

There seems to be another two songs in the album by SPB. Those don't immediately play in my mind when I see the names. Should give a listen and then decide whether those should be featured here or not in the coming days. For sure, these three (mottu vitta, pon vAnam & thAzham poovE) played regularly on radios / cassette players. Obviously, pon vAnam is the most popular of them all - to this day!