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A Tribute to SPB

Topic started by bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on Mon Sep 20 02:03:20 EDT 2004.
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A good singer and a friend of mine, Raja Govindarajan, met S.P.B at Chennai a couple of months back. During their conversation, SPB mentioned that he doesn't remember/have a lot of old rare songs that he has sung and would love to recollect them and have them in his collection. Raja then told SPB about newtfmpage and Song Of The Day section and the discussions that take place there. He then offered to give SPB a set of old songs.

Fast Forward to today; I prepared a set of 41 songs, and a 90 page booklet on the songs. All these songs are old SOTDs and the booklet contained the discussions on these songs. SPB came to the Bay Area today for a concert at Hayward. I met him at the backstage before the concert with Udhaya. We gave him the CDs and the booklet and talked with him for a few minutes. SPB was very courteous and thanked me several times. I was surprised that he made time to to even see us and accept this, just half an hour before the concert. I told him that we have a lot of knowledgeable people and huge collection of his songs, so if he wanted more we could give him whatever information he wanted.

The booklet that I gave him is here: http://www.dhool.com/sotd/spb.pdf .

The 3 CDs that I gave him included 4-5 more songs that are not in this list, like 'vaa ponmayilE', 'malarE ennenna kOlam' and 'thErOttam'.

Hopefully, if SPB goes through the CDs and the text, he will be impressed with the selection and would get back to me or RajaG with his comments.

Update:

An Exclusive Interview with SPB!

See here for Parts I and II : http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/

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Responses:

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• From: Raghu (@ 193.129.245.198) on: Tue Sep 21 12:15:54 EDT 2004
  
  Sriram,
  
  Yes, BB has indeed done an Excellent Job, not many SPB fans could do this :)
  
  
• From: Senty (@ 165.112.8.52) on: Tue Sep 21 13:55:15 EDT 2004
  
  my questions
  
  1.How difficult was it for him to hide a emotion, he was going through and express a different emotion in the song that he was singing?.was there any instance where his emotional state enhanced or
  decreased his rendering in a song.
  
  2.How he dealt with Ego clashes at work?
  
  3.About carnatic music?.Is it still a forte that he hasn't conquered?
  
  4.Intresting incidents of competion with S.janaki?.
  
  5.who will be the next SPB Among the new singers?.
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 193.129.245.198) on: Wed Sep 22 05:50:09 EDT 2004
  
  Senty (@ 165.112.8.52),
  
  ok, let me try & answer few of your questions, If I may
  
  2.How he dealt with Ego clashes at work?
  
  I know who u mean, but we don't want any fights here :)
  
  5.who will be the next SPB Among the new singers?.
  
  No one :)
  
  
• From: senty (@ 128.231.88.3) on: Wed Sep 22 11:05:29 EDT 2004
  
  raghu
  the intent for question 2 was not a fight.it is preety much "what is the secret of his success".It is very hard for 2 south indians to get along at work.And it is bad if it involves 2 highly talented people.
  
  Iam sure it is because of his humility, forgiving and tolerant nature.He is a great example of some one being highly talented and humane.Thought it would be great lesson for youngsters to hear it straight from the horse's mouth.that's all.
  
  as far as 5) goes...
  you have forgotten me :)
  
  
• From: KITKAT (@ 216.58.44.2) on: Wed Sep 22 14:11:00 EDT 2004
  
  mmmmm. apparum enna aachu?
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 193.129.245.198) on: Thu Sep 23 06:43:49 EDT 2004
  
  SENTY,
  
  >>It is very hard for 2 south indians to get along at work.And it is bad if it involves 2 highly talented people.
  <<
  
  So true, that's y we are still a developing Country :((
  
  
  Have u had a look @ BB's work, it is a class of it's own !!!
  
  
• From: vijay (@ 61.247.246.232) on: Fri Sep 24 04:22:45 EDT 2004
  
  bb, did you have a chance to address the above questions to SPB? Expecting some interesting anecdotes/comments from SPB. Working styles of the big three in TFM and how SPB worked/communicated with each of them would be something that would interest many I believe. Some in-depth details from him or instances/examples with songs would be good if possible.
  
  I cannot view the PDF file right now but still congrats on the solid effort. I hope your meeting with SPB was really worth all the work
  
  
  
• From: tigger (@ 68.78.44.95) on: Fri Sep 24 23:37:20 EDT 2004
  
  bb,
  
  I tried listening to a few songs from your collection on dhool.com. The links for the few songs I tried are not working. Do you know why?
  
  I tried
  iravil irandu
  yaar thoorigai
  thirutheril varum silaiyo
  
  
• From: Jaggubhai (@ 195.92.67.79) on: Tue Sep 28 06:42:59 EDT 2004
  
  BB,
  
  Excellent work, keep it up. how come yyou have not responded to any of the recent posts??
  
  
• From: rajaG, Srikanth, bb, et al (@ 207.43.195.204) on: Tue Sep 28 10:42:47 EDT 2004
  
  I am responding to everybody on behalf of BB. We had a long conversation with SPB - very open, casual, and insightful. We have a "crude" recording (more than 300 MB) which we are trying to refine (not edit) so that we can present both the audio and the transcripts here. Please bear with us as we take care of this with due attention.
  
  Thanks for your patience.
  
  
• From: T (@ 12.33.141.41) on: Tue Sep 28 11:39:17 EDT 2004
  
  bb and the team,
  nice compilation...Its probably the best award/gift that a fan can give back to the artiste (a collection of his own creations)..
  Not every fan gets this opportunity.. Great work and keep it going.. I hope more singers/MDs approach you in future to get their hidden treasures which you guys had unearthed..
  
  
• From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.169) on: Tue Sep 28 11:42:56 EDT 2004
  
  Great news! Don't make us wait too long :)
  
  
• From: cho (@ 209.47.143.226) on: Tue Sep 28 12:22:13 EDT 2004
  
  bb, kudos to you, man!
  
  like Raghu pointed out, not many SPB fans could have done this... You have made all SPB fans so proud..
  
  to the team.... pl make the list of songs available on the net... if MP3's are too much to ask for, at least list out the songs.. are you guys including telugu songs as well? Sure that's another big ocean..
  
  
  
• From: cho (@ 209.47.143.226) on: Tue Sep 28 12:32:32 EDT 2004
  
  Raghu,
  
  'Unnai naan parthadhu' - this song was from movie pattikkattu raaja (starringkamal and sivakumar. MD: Shankar ganesh). It's really an amazing song by SPB.
  
  bb: I am not if these songs are in the list.. if not pl add them
  
  1. sorgam madhuvike - sattam en kaiyil
  2. azhagana pookkal - anbe odiva (?!)
  3. pattukannam thottu - kaakki sattai (Some may think that this is not a great song.. But I do. Just listen to it and am sure you will agree with me)
  4. nandha en nila (SPB & MSV's master piece)
  5. sangeetha jadhi mullai - kathal oviyam
  6. akkam pakkam parada - unnal mudiym thambi
  7. kanmaniye kadhal - 6-irundu 60-varai
  
  And a lot more... I hope that you have covered them all..
  
  
• From: T (@ 68.163.3.54) on: Tue Sep 28 20:46:34 EDT 2004
  
  cho,
  'During their conversation, SPB mentioned that he doesn't remember/have a lot of old rare songs that he has sung and would love to recollect them and have them in his collection'...
  
  Most of the songs you've mentioned are not old and rare.. These songs are easily available on the internet and any music store.. I guess bb is talking about the ones that are rare...
  
  
• From: Gyan (@ 68.75.54.10) on: Tue Sep 28 21:43:29 EDT 2004
  
  Cho
  
  Unnai Naan Parthadhu redeems S-G totally from obscurity, just this one song showed what class compositions they were capable of....
  
  Nandh en nila is VDakshinamorthy song..... as classic as Manmadha Leelaye Vendror, Pattum Naane, Aayiram Nilvaey Vaa
  
  Has anyone heard this forgottehn SPB duet: Nenjathil Poradum ..... i think it was Shyam
  
  
  
• From: Babu Krishnan (@ 151.198.9.50) on: Tue Sep 28 22:40:41 EDT 2004
  
  Some truly old and rare SPB gems are:-
  
  Mazhai tharumo en megam - Manidharil ithanai nirangalla
  Paduthal purandhaal urakkamillai - Vandikkaaran Magan
  Naalu pakkam vedarundu - Annan oru Koyil?
  Irandil ondru nee ennidam sollu - Raja
  Oorgolam pogindra killikoottam - Akkarai pachai
  Naan ennum pozhudhu - Azhiyadha kolangall
  
  
  
  
  
• From: bb (@ 24.6.251.57) on: Wed Sep 29 02:06:19 EDT 2004
  
  

  An Exclusive Interview with SPB!

  
  See here for Part I : http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/
  
  
• From: KITKAT (@ 69.156.177.186) on: Wed Sep 29 07:37:11 EDT 2004
  
  aaaaaaaaaa super, super. Nicely written transcript. Idhula kooda unga theramaiya kaattitinga bb. Great work.
  
  
• From: veera G. (@ 63.71.82.99) on: Wed Sep 29 09:36:13 EDT 2004
  
  excellent work BB. I really enjoyed the unconventional questions. SPB is probably one of the more outspoken personalities, and he has answered the questions in his own style...
  
  
• From: Senty (@ 128.231.88.3) on: Wed Sep 29 09:54:45 EDT 2004
  
  awesome... bb,rajaG and srikanth great job....
  yen paa eppadi wait panna vachi torture panringa.. :o).wish u guys could put everything today itself... thanxs again bb, for taking efforts in typing the whole interview :).
  questions guys.Did Dr.SPB visit newtfmpage ??
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Senty (@ 128.231.88.3) on: Wed Sep 29 09:55:15 EDT 2004
  
  hi and thanxs for asking my question also.....
  
  
• From: ashwin (@ 210.211.179.88) on: Wed Sep 29 10:13:31 EDT 2004
  
  Hi,
  the interview with spb is really diiferent.cant wait to read the second part.
  by the way can any one tell me where on the net i can hear the song "oorkolam pogindra kilikootta ellam" from akarai pachai?
  i have searched for it in vain.
  
  

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