Kannalae Meyya Meyya

Inna

Sollama Thaane...indha manasu thavikkuthu

Indha kadal valarudhu.

Sandhanam Poosa manjal nilavum...
Vandhanam endru nenjil ulaavum...


Nilambari ketkalaam...
Mannikka meghangal...vairangal vin meelgal

SPB and S.Janaki...
Thudikkum Karangal

Velli kolusu mani, velaana kannu mani
...Thoongama senjathu_enna

Nice slow number, an agreeable duet.

05-05-05

Aadal paadal kaadhal enbathu/ Veettukku Veedu Vasappadi

(To Download)
Dhool.com's SOTD #440 (needs realplayer)

Aadal paadal kaadal enbathu. I was playing a 15 0 chess game on FICS when the song came on. I was listening to Tamil.FM. I couldn't wait for the game to get over, cause I was afraid the song would elude me.
So right there, in the middle of the game, while my opponent was thinking, I opened this page and jotted it down.

Later, I looked up the song, and then I knew why it had resonated with me so well.

The movie came out in 1979, the same year that my dad got transferred to Madras. I had lived in Orissa for 4 years at that point. Madras was the city of my dreams, and in 1979, it was as if a floodgate had been opened. (I stayed in Chennai until I left for the US, 11 years later.)

Anyway, VVV was a movie that I saw with quite a few of my cousins. They'd all come to my house in Ashok Nagar, and then we walked to Vijaya and saw it and walked back in the night. (I must have seen dozens of movies with my cousins, but this one I remember vividly.)

Listen to the song. Pay attention to how S.Janaki starts off with that hum. Great song.

As it turned out, I won that chess game. Maybe I welcome these sorts of interruptions more often. Total concentration hasn't paid off yet.

Kaalidaasan...Kannadasan
Kavithai nee neringi vaa
[lyric scraps]
Enimaithaan
Kavithai nee
adi antham...engeyum
melum kezhum...abhinayam puriyaa
samayam thaan...amainthathe.


Soft and smooth, just what I wanted for a Saturday morning.

Enthan padalgalil nee nilambari
Unnai paramalae manam thoongathadi

Vasantham ennum oru paavai

Was listening to Tamil.FM and this one took me by surprise.

kadambari

vandu
amm am maa
poiga unda
Deem thana deem thana deem thanaaa....

Sindum

Not as smooth as I would like it...but it's a cool number nevertheless.

Need to record.

Aathaadi Paavadi

Heard this song today after ages. I had completely forgotten about it, but it all came back.
One more of those haunting IR solos!

Sure enough, it has been selected as a SOTD. Here's the link. (The TFM discussion is fascinating, as it unfailingly is.)

http://www.dhool.com/sotd2/272.html

And here you can listen to the song itself.