The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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Dint IR say this on record about this song - "Indha paattu nee paadina aLavukku Baluvaala mudiyalai"

App, naan innum thanga magan-E mudikkalai.. Will get here soon

Does IR specifically mention this song (in the Guna cassette)? I don't recall... My guess was he meant 'rAjA kaiya vachchA adhu wrongAppOnadhillE'

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Nerd,

You're right

I listened to that here . IR specifically mentions 'kavithAyalam' padam, which is enakkuL oruvan and not apoorva sahOdhararkaL.

So, groucho, IR had certified that KH version is better than SPB version-nga

[Sureshs65]

Reg the Kodai Kaala Katre, my take on Malaysia's singing. (What I wrote as a tribute to Malaysia when he passed away.)
http://sureshs65music.blogspot.com/2...-malaysia.html

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Reg the Kodai Kaala Katre, my take on Malaysia's singing. (What I wrote as a tribute to Malaysia when he passed away.)
http://sureshs65music.blogspot.com/2...-malaysia.html

Nice to read your article again

I'm posting this link to the MV thread in current section

[Plum]

Suresh, awesome write-up(and you know I don't say that often). How did I miss it?

[Sureshs65]

Thanks app for the comment and posting it in the relevant forum. I rarely step out of Raja thread

Plum: I am honored Seriously. I think I posted this when you were mostly off tfmpage. I guess it is to app's credit that he pulled you back in

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#149 எங்கே எந்தன் காதலி
(எனக்குள் ஒருவன், 1984 )

This song can possibly compete to be in the top-10 by way of length among IR songs. (> 7 min).

Had it arrived during the 78 rpm record time period, it would have occupied both sides of the disk and still struggled to fit in. One remembers songs like 'pOdachchonnA pOttukkuREn', 'avaL paRandhu pOnAlE', 'jegam pughazhum puNya kadhai' kind of songs from that era where one had to flip the disk to play the second part of the song. Even radio stations did that (I didn't get it - after all, they had those big spool tapes where these could be recorded and replayed...looks like they only played the disks direct or stored on spools without editing / removing the flipping). There were players that had mechanism to automatically flip the disks. I'm not sure if the radio stations had one like that.

It was also not unusual to listen to 'keeRal'led repeats on radio those days and someone manually pushing the needle to escape from the endless 'malarum, malarum, malarum' from the 'thottu vidaththottu vidaththodarum' song

With this song, however, there's some +ve to the length. i.e. from my personal POV. After the initial sweetness and grand orch for the engE endhan kAdhali, I lose interest midway - during all those audience interactions etc - but love the later part of the song after almost 5 minutes when the 'ennaippOlappAda yArumillai' portion comes up!

There were not many fans for this song @ hostel but I loved it and so were a few HCIRFs. With the movie's dismal show, not many cared for the song as time went by. At the time of release, however, this got played here and there including radio.

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#150 மேகம் கொட்டட்டும் ஆட்டம் உண்டு
மின்னல் வெட்டட்டும் பாட்டும் உண்டு
(எனக்குள் ஒருவன், 1984 )

Fast forward by a couple of years to 1986. Campus interview job. Bachelor life. After the formalities with first salary to ammA & such things completed, after a few months, buying the first music player with one's own money! And a Sony EF60 cassette to the recording center at Palakkad! I wanted to make sure that my first "recording center" cassette to have my most favourtie songs (as of date). Had a huge list in prep, knowing that all my fav disks may not be in that Palakkad recording center.

After going through the lists available, scrutinizing / sorting / adding / deleting etc, the final list was done (that mostly had "more recent" ones because I was still young and not like the old fogie today who is mostly limited to 70s/80s stuff). MTK was hot and the cassette started with kuzhaloodhum. The second song? The one on top of this post

Oh, how much I loved this song! How many times I would have rew-ed and listened to this on headphone! (Well, with that particular walkman that didn't have a rewind button, it was flip / FF). It was such a pleasure to listen to this song on headphone @ high vol, closing one's eyes and thoroughly getting immersed in the isai veLLam! IR at his best, building that terrific start after the brief thunders. What a way to end the prelude, terrific drum work and once SPB starts, the bass score is simply awesome! The solo violin on the interlude...one can keep talking about this song non-stop!

The best way to enjoy this song, however, is to dance with it after playing it on a huge loud system! Try it!

(BTW, check out the youtube # of views for this song v/s others from the same movie. Huge, huge difference!)

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I'll have to place a smallie for today after this huge 'mEgham kottattum' (BTW, Plum, that is copyright my 5 year old - horsie / birdie / doggie etc. I get reminded of my chithee's MA litt text books - Chaucer / Spencer kind of poets where the spelling used to be similar. Fairy Queen used to read Fairie Queene )...

[app_engine]

BTW, on mEgham kottattum, I'm not with IR. SPB version was the only one I recorded and enjoyed.

KH version was tolerated when involuntarily showered upon, thanks to the terrific orchestration. I'm not a fan of his voice for this particular song.