SPBSoloEulogyFromRajesh Part 6 of 6
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Devotional Albums
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Many albums mostly devotionals were sung by SPB. I cherry pick only four, 3 i put right now and 4th as part of conclusion. Unlike Film songs where I am sure I cherry picked the best of best.In devotional albums there is a chance there is a gaping hole in my selection .
#1980s#
Ayar Paadi Maaligayil | Kannadasan | SPB | MS Viswanathan |Devotional album |early or mid 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_GgbuZje4
<<I personally heard this lovely song may be in late 80s or early 90s . Brilliant Lullaby that cut across caste, creed and religion with Kannadasan lyrics>>
#1980s or 1990s#
Sri Srinivasa Gadhyam | ??? | SPB | ??? | Devotional album |1980s or 1990s???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpujgsQ ... u.be&t=438
<< Got zappped with this absolutely soul stirring uphill rendition of SPB in mid to late 1990s. There is a garland of raganames, talanames , rivers of india etc.I particularly adored the portion of spb rendering just the different raganames. I have kept the above youtube pointer just there. Giving run for money for every established classical music practioners. This is easily my favorite devotional. Not sure of authorship . Some say The lyrics were written by Sri Sriranga Suri(lyrics has hymns and also different names of ragas rivers etc, so it may be a case of multiple authorship) .I am guessing the music composer could have been Pughazhenthi who was assistant to KV Mahadevan. India Music heritage in music especially is unfathomable as it is way too deep, and only SPB can illustrate all that in one go >>
#1993#
Krishna JanardhAnA | R Vinayakam | SPB | Ramesh Vinayakam |Krishna Janardhana(album) | 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4G2A-ShxY
<< The talented Ramesh Vinayakam used his dad to write lyrics ..Tune is simple , lyrics is damn simple even many of you can write . SPB is distinct with his trademark melody just cutely tossing different names of krishna>>
Co Contributors
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As i began to write , i did send to few select groups the url so that I wanted to double check if I had missed quality (not all)spb solos . Indeed i missed a few and I thank the co-contributors who helped me to identify the missing list of SPB Solos. They are in alphabetical order
1.Rangesh Rajaram( From Chennai)
2.N.Sivasubramanian (From Singapore)
3. Sriram Srinivasan (From LosAngeles,USA.). IN my opinion No one sings as close to SPB as Sriram does , with me even including so many singers who have even sung in films. Sriram sings in professional circuit mostly in California , he does not externalize much. To me Sriram Srinivasan is the next vaarisu of SPB . Most of the time Sriram tinkers with one language of SPB songs and does in another . Sometimes Sriram even writes few lyrics and sings missing illayaraja-SPB/KJY songs in songs that has a telugu/kannada/malayalam but does not have a tamil version. At your leisure hear his sound cloud that gives extremely distinct SPB pointers.
Check
https://soundcloud.com/sriram-srinivasan-1
4.Tesla Ganesh (Chennai Unseen Friend, he is a Phenomenal guy). Tesla Ganesh is in youtube with madhurasudha moniker . He has not helped in the list but over a period of say few years certainly helped me find many angles in music which i was not even aware.
Missing List(Thanks to CoContributors)
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#1977#
vizhiyilE malarnthadhu UyirilE| Panju Arunachalam | SPB | Illayaraja | Bhuvana Oru Kelvi Kuri | 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckmeSTmc7P0
<<1977 did i see this movie or did i hear the song than no idea . But lovely song needs a url>>
#1979#
Namma Ooru Singari | Kannadasan | SPB | MS Viswanathan | NinaithaalE Inikkum | 1979
Engeyum Eppothum | Kannadasan | SPB | MS Viswanathan | NinaithaalE Inikkum | 1979
#1980#
NallathOr veenai Seithen | Mahakavi Bharathiyar | SPB | MS Viswanathan | VarumaiNiramSivappu | 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdsCcPw4hqQ
<<How can I miss not providing an Url for mahakavi bharathiyar>>
VaasamillA malarudhu | T Rajendar | SPB | T Rajendar | Oru Thalai Raagam | 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQOg5k79Gw
<<This song is special as it was taken in mayavaram. SPB as a musical personality just helps a new music composer/Director/Actor/Actress/Lyricist almost all debutants to establish with such staying power .This song has three stanzas. So providing url>>
#1981#
Raagangal Padinaaru | Kannadasan | SPB | MS Viswanathan | Thillu Mullu | 1981
#1982#
ammA AzhayagE | Vairamuthu | SPB | Illayaraja | kadhal Oviyam | 1982
Vanthanam En Vanthanam | GangaiAmaran | SPB | GangaiAmaran | Vaazhve Maayam | 1982
Neelavaana Odayiil | GangaiAmaran | SPB | GangaiAmaran | Vaazhve Maayam | 1982
Ilamai Itho Itho | Vaali | SPB | Illayaraja | Sakala kalA vallavan | 1982
Unakenna Mele Ninrai | Vaali | SPB | MS Viswanathan | Simla Special | 1982
kanAkaanum kangal mella| Vaali | SPB | MS Viswanathan | Agni Sakshi |1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBWERGtba5c
<<This extraordinary song kanakaanum kangal of SPB is stunning .I did not include in first pass because for a brief time the heroin saritha sings or rather speaks few lines in tamil. So i kind of disqualified it. Then I decided now i will take it back as solo and just quality it>>
#1983#
Naanaga Naanillai | Vaali | SPB | Illayaraja | Thoongathey Thambi Thoongathey| 1983
Devadai Ilam Devi | Gangai Amaran or Vairamuthu| SPB | Illayaraja | Aayiram Nilave Vaa | 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQPwBuJMrs
<<This got completely recast after the kannada song that had theatre that got remade as tamil stillness with cemetry .SPB feel to bring silence and energy with musical orchestration is brilliant. The song was a rage for many in school and college culturals then.Needs a url>>
#1985#
Venmegam Vinnil | Pulamaipithan | SPB | Illayaraja | Naan Sigappu Manithan| 1985
Nama Singaari Saraku | Vaali | SPB | Illayaraja | kaaki sattai| 1985
#1986#
IlamChOlai PoothathammA | Vairamuthu | SPB | Illayaraja | Unakkaagave Vaazhgiren | 1986
Vera VEla Odumaa | Gangai Amaran | SPB | Illayaraja | Unakkaagave Vaazhgiren | 1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRm6v-9CenI
<<This song i only discovered only after SPB death. A typical SPB typecast song that shows his trademark vocal flair. Pushing the url as very likely most of you may have missed it>>
#1987#
Nitham Nitham Yen Kannodu | Pulamaipithan | SPB | MS Viswanathan | Kootu Puzhukkal | 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVK5FMmzCto
<<I knew this song only after I wrote this eulogy .Lots of MSV songs , some times MSV has the habit of making some hero/heroin speaking(for eg KAna KAnum from Agni Sakshi) or some times music director joins for few lines. But this song MSV sings like ghazal and thank god significantly gives the whole song to SPB . They Say in one hour MSV creates 5 different tunes and singers also forget which tune to sing.>>
#1988#
Ponmaankuyil SingAramAi | SA Rajkumar (also lyricist) | SPB | SA Rajkumar | Manasukkul Mathappu |1988
SPB Solos that followed as remakes From other Great singer Solos
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I just added this section just for the sake of adding some kind of SPBish novelty and angle .I am interested in telling to the world that even SPB who is a human can slightly fall behind other great singers in very very few occassion . SPB always created one singular interest for many like me . That interest was how does spb sing songs sung by other popular singers that have come from other language remakes, how spb sings one language vs other . This research is usually a core area done by Sriram Srinivasan ,check his spb hacking in his soundcloud url that i mentioned.
#1978#
andAla mulAku bangAru Chilaka (Telugu song of Tamil Senthazham Poovil ) | Rajashri | SPB | Illayaraja | Mullu Puvvu(Telugu dub of MullumMalarum ) | 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdg0z9aPgc
<<andAlu mulAku bangAru Chilaka is the SPB telugu version for the immensely popular Yesudas tamil version SenthAzham Poovil. I found out just after writing SPB death. SPB is brilliant, nearly giving a tough fight to Yesudas. This to me is near par to KJ Yesudas>>
#1981#
Konda gAla TirigE (Telugu version of Kodai kaala KaatrE) | ??? | SPB | Illayaraja| Madhura Geetham (Telugu Dub of Panneer Pushpangal) | 1981
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdzeBrlWZA
<<The thamizh song Kodai Kaala Kaatre Of malaysia vasudevan is a great one . I thought SPB telugu version will be better . No luck, malaysia vasudevan did beat spb>>
#1987#
Chanda mamA (Telugu song of Tamil Raja Raja Cholan Naan )| ??? | SPB | Illayaraja | Rendu Thokkala Petti (telugu dub of tamil Rettai vaal kuruvi) | 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m5VFScccIs
<<The Tamil song RajaRajaChozhan is the Jesudas solo was one my favourite . The telugu Version is sung By SPB. Recording quality is bad. SPB did not match that well with Yesudas>>
This is just to illustrate for greats like SPB few misses can happen after all we are humans.
PreConclusion:
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In music outside of classical say in film music from student days, My increasing order of adulation was for KJ Jesudas, S Janaki ,SPB and Illayaraja.If time permits may be in next few years as these living legends are going to be blessing us i feel like contributing writeups for each of these 3 giants .Their music will live for 2000 more years for sure .
At this point of time i really feel like immediately collating a rough draft in next few months about S janaki . S Janaki is musically as prolific as SPB. For every listener as we grow up ,generally male voices are so distinct and Sub consciously I(not sure on we) registered without ambiguity male voices .But for female voices it is so difficult to disambiguate in early years and even when you pickup sufficient disambiguation skills , the experience of tieing up singer and song is not firm. I hope to quickly refresh my mind to start first with S Janaki by disambiguating with other female singers which is the biggest hurdle to cross.I sincerely wish to write for S Janaki, that way we also in general appreciate female singers of greatest merit.
Conclusion with Last Devotional song
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#1970s??# - 4th devotional
<<On September 26th ,2020 SPB was buried and not cremated in thamaraipakkam. I am told SPB belongs to LingadhAri Telugu Brahmins who take the Shiva Panchakshari Deeksha. They follow burial instead of cremation. His own Lingashtakam will be the best farewell>>
Lingashtakam(in sanskrit) | ??? | SPB | ????? | Devotional Album| read some where album was from late 1970s???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z4oRinK3E
Lingashtakam(in tamil) | ??? | SPB | ????? | Devotional Album | read some where album was from late 1970s???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETjCe7U-K4
I and SPB both reside in the same zipcode in madras . I have only seen SPB once in 1983 to 1986 madras timeframe at a distance of about 50 feet in a public awards function .SPB then got a regional award in valluvarkottam. I have passed his home recently since madras became chennai may be 1000 times but never met him at all since 50 feet one time look.I have also not attended any of his live concerts.
Om shanthi to greatest Film Music singer and God of Melody SPB (Born June 04 1946 in Konetammapeta , Nellore District,AndhraPradesh, India - Died Sept 25 2020, Madras(Chennai), TamilNadu, India ).
This post is a deepest gratitude to mahAvidwan Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, son of SP Sambamurthy and SakunthalammA .
- Rajesh , November 01st,2020
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SPBSoloEulogyFromRajesh Part 6 of 6 - By Rajesh
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SPBSolo in devotional albums | Co Contributors with Missed Solos | SPB remakes of other singer solos | Conclusion - (All 4 just 4 mins read)
www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=367420#p367420
- Rajesh , November 01st,2020
---- Will make one collated post ,2 to 4 weeks later .Take your time and hear. Done with SPBSoloEulogyFromRajesh ----