The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

[raajarasigan]

I liked Susheela's singing.. yarukkum pidikkalaya
good choice for this one, rather than usual janaki..

naan than irukkEnla...

[groucho070]

As for blaming IR for this: shanmugasundaram in Kizhakku Vaasal after slapping kushboo's mother for Kushboo's indiscretions: "unnai epdimA nAn adippEn? Eppddi adippEn"(naa thazhu thazhuththal)

[Plum]

Rajkumar - varuga varuga, good choice . Ungal mano premaiyai(or indifference) madhikkaROm. Aadharavukku nandri. Mano pErai solli rendu SPB pAttukku naduvula theevira saNdai undAkkinAn pArunga - angE dhAn nikkaRAn thamizhan

[Devaraagam]

There's a duet in CPN (SPB-SJ - starts 'mayilAdum') but not very familiar to me (may not be a hit song)...so, skip.

Vanmaiyaga kandikiren..this is the top number in CPN and hit too..(can say average hit). you can give anything to SPB they way he rendered this song. equivalent to muthumani of CG not less than that.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Mano - mannikka mudiyAdha karumbuLLi in IR's career

Grave mistake by IR

The man has what I call the tongue-tied problem - I have the same problem. adhAvadhu, nAkku nEELAdhu.(Tied to inner mouth). idhanAla, sila vArthaigaL theLivA ucharikka mudiyAdhu. Manokku andha medical condition irukkA illaiyA theriyalai - but andha symptoms mattum theLviA irukku.

yes I have noticed that, may be that is why his voice sounds bad, if that is medical condition then I do feel sorry for him. When I spoke to him(while he was in London) his speech was not crystal clear!

FAramu, ivLO menaketturukkEn, innoru id create paNNi innoru vote pottudunga

ullEn aiya

[PARAMASHIVAN]

konjam imagine paNNi pArthEn(kEttEn) - Ghantasala singing "iLamai idhO idhO"...

Imgaine "edaku mudakana saraku (Kalaignan), arE Oranga sree lanka (SG)" In Ghantasla style/Voice

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Ingga Mano fan yAru? I think that SPB is the greatest ever, far greater than even the great TMS. But Mano was harmless, compared to, say, Hariharan who's blandness in non-ARR songs are stuff of the legend. Even HH/IR, I can't listen to. If Mano/IR song were terrible, blame IR for not whipping Mano for doing a terrible job and abandoning him for some other second grades. But that's for you guys, most of us are very happy with those songs, as, I believe, the maestro himself. Go suck citrus fruit of your choice

GaryHaran is a pain as well under IR , he is only good for ARR, But at least he does not try and imitate any one!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Mano is the supreme leader of this gang.

Very true, dont forget Arunmozhi and to some extent Beejay's uncle as well!

[app_engine]

jaiganes & Devaraagam,

poRuththaruLka

From the time I listened to this number yesterday, the song keeps playing in my head and I should say, quite addictive! By not posting about this, I don't mean to take anything away from the greatness of the song!

From the beginning, I'm guided by some ground-rules for this project. Rather, "definitions to classify a song as hit". As we all know, things can get very subjective in the case of some songs, while certain others are unquestionably big hits.

So, my simple rules to qualify a hit were like this :

a) Songs that need no reference or that automatically play in mind when I read the title get included (e.g. 'iLamai idhO idhO' of SKV)

b) Movies / songs that are listed in thiraippAdal / rAkkammA but do not sound familiar should be given JUST ONE LISTEN. And if the song sounds very familiar / plays back from memory etc, it gets included (this is my own way of qualifying a "hit"...e.g. 'manjappodi thEykkayilE' of sheNbagamE sheNbagamE)

It's true that my familiarity is excellent between 76-86 but progressively decays in later part of 80's (Palakkad effect). It becomes drastic in the 90's (kudumbappoRuppu effect).

Which is why there'll be an "app-missed-list" that will be posted about after I end this series, which will possibly happen by end of May.

So, I'm trying to be responsible and sticking to the project guidelines.

There'll always be "post-launch-enhancements" Already, A_S is tracking the missed ones. In addition, I'll be e-mailing an excel sheet of the list already posted, possibly with embedded links, at the end of the series. That'll be available to any-who-asks-for. That way, it'll be easier to add more hits.

In addition, we'll have ongoing special posts from V_Sji (on both posted ones and possibly the missed ones)

So, my serial numbering is not the end of the world

[app_engine]

to some extent Beejay's uncle as well!

pAvam, avaraiyellAm En thittuReenga?

He possibly sang a max of 10 songs or so under IR in the whole career but made a living by dubbing for Mohan for all his silver jubilee hits! Movies that perhaps had the biggest hits of SPB in the early 80's.

Even some of those numbers possibly got into the cassette by SPB telling rAsA 'dEi, indha track singing arumaiyA irukku - pAvam, appadiyE vitRalAm' (This is my guess, for the 'dEvan kOyil deepam onRu' song...however, I hardly hear the SNS version as SJ's version thoroughly killed the male one).