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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.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

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 the complete interview: http://www.newtfmpage.com/my/spb/

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• From: Senty (@ 128.231.88.3) on: Fri Oct 1 10:03:32 EDT 2004
  
  RajaG, bb, srikanth and Udhaya thanxs for the wonderful interview. really enjoyed it..
  i was thinking the interview will be coming for another 2,3 days.. :(. evvalao shorta irrukuthu, konjam nalla thedi parungappa, ethavathu question/answer type panna maranthurukka poringa :o).When are u guys uploading the audio ??
  
  
  
• From: Sarath (@ 207.242.144.6) on: Fri Oct 1 10:04:13 EDT 2004
  
  It was abs terrific job done by you guys.....great interview. the only thing i was missing is His thoghts on IR and His experiences with IR. jus oru aathangam.pls dont mistake me!
  
  
• From: Senty (@ 128.231.88.3) on: Fri Oct 1 10:09:12 EDT 2004
  
  hi bb,
  This idea of people in newtfmpage posting the questions that they want to ask and you guys picking the best one and asking the musician sounds great.. can we extend this to some other accessible musicians like Vani j, MSV etc etc.??
  
  
• From: sriram (@ 24.206.115.122) on: Fri Oct 1 10:12:46 EDT 2004
  
  padikkum bodhu enakke romba emotional-a irundhadhu. neenga eppadi dhaan composed-a avarukku questions ketteengalo?:)
  thanks a lot guys.
  
  
• From: Babu (@ 167.68.0.66) on: Fri Oct 1 10:46:08 EDT 2004
  
  Great interview with great questions. SPB's humble nature is evident throughout. Thanks to everyone involved.
  
  
• From: Gyan (@ 68.75.54.10) on: Fri Oct 1 12:06:58 EDT 2004
  
  ..................."Balaji: Do you have any plans of redoing 70s classics with better orchestration and sound recording? Neraiya pAttu engaLukku kedaikka kooda maattEnguthu. ungaLukku kudutha paattilEyE neraiya we've searched in obscure recording shops for years to get these songs. So, those kind of songs, like "nitham nitham en kaNNOdu inbak kanaa". May be you can redo these songs now with a better orchestra and sound quality. This is a suggestion from us.
  
  SPB: That idea is there. In all languages andhap pAttukkaL kedukkAma adhE instruments vachu appadiyE paNNaNum. May be I cannot get my co-singers, especially the older ones may not be in their mettle now. Still I can get somebody who can do a good job. I am bent upon doing those things.
  
  kaNdippA paNrEn naan...................""
  
  interesting development below for interesting question:
  
  Latest Piece of Work
  The place: Spectral Harmony Studio, Andheri Mumbai; dates from 30th July to 12th August, 2004.
  
  The occasion: Pyarelalji and Pascal Heni working together
  
  Old Bollywood hits are being recorded all over again. Is this really news? Or is it a sickening phenomenon that’s sadly taking place all over? Why is Pyarelalji out of all people part and parcel of a project of this kind?
  
  Pascal Heni, a young and talented French boy is singing the songs! He has an excellent voice and any amazing sense of pitch and feelings. The accent has a slight French fragrance of course, but in general is extremely pleasant. The idea of doing a project of this kind is Pascal’s very own and he has come along with his own producer and engineer who will carry and congregate the multi track recording back in France. The potential market they are probably looking at is Europe including France.
  
  
  Pascal has selected the songs on his own and the selection has not been influenced in anyway by Pyarelalji. In fact only two songs are Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s. The rest are Shanker-Jaikishen, Salil Choudhary, Kalyanji-Anandji and others. The female parts are being sung by Sunidhi Chauhan, Jaspinder Narula and others.
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 192.76.80.74) on: Fri Oct 1 12:59:06 EDT 2004
  
  aaha...what a splendid "get-together" that was.
  
  Kudos to RajaG, Udhaya, bb and all those contributed to the questions.
  
  I wish you all physically present with him and taking his interview, we would have got a video version of it.
  
  I hope in near future you would get yet another chance to do this.
  
  thaviththa vaaikku thanneerum, pasiththa vayirukku uNavum tharaadhavargaLai pOl audio clips-ai vENdum enRE upload paNNaadha bb-kku naan saabam idugirEn :)
  
  
• From: e (@ 136.2.1.153) on: Fri Oct 1 13:09:09 EDT 2004
  
  Kupps, didn't you aee Srikanth's posting?:-)
  
  
• From: e (@ 136.2.1.153) on: Fri Oct 1 13:11:59 EDT 2004
  
  `AkkappoRuththavan, ARappoRukkakkoodAdhO?'
  
  
• From: Kupps (@ 192.76.80.74) on: Fri Oct 1 13:34:57 EDT 2004
  
  e,
  
  Srik's post paathEn. irundhaalum bb-ya edhaavadhu solla vEndaama adhaan :)
  
  
• From: Musicfan (@ 134.244.170.168) on: Fri Oct 1 14:10:09 EDT 2004
  
  Sarath
  
  I too felt that. His experience would IR would have made this interview a complete one, as he would have song 40% of songs under IR...
  
  
• From: Sai (@ 168.38.103.168) on: Fri Oct 1 15:23:58 EDT 2004
  
  Just no wards to express...
  Thanks to bb RajaG and the team...
  
  
• From: Da Vinci (@ 128.113.109.238) on: Fri Oct 1 16:14:50 EDT 2004
  
  “What I miss now is, nAnga musicians ellArum sErndhu live-A record paNNumbOthu, we could see some people's faces while playing also that used to give so much of radiance. ellAm mudichadhukku appuram, in that small mixer room 30-35 people will crowd in and listen to the number. Everybody will be watching the music director. avanga avanga solo varumbOthu improvise paNNinathO, Tabla Prasad oru virukkA oNNu adichadhO, maththavanga enna feel paNNuvaanga-nnu paathuttiruppAnga. sirichuttiruppAnga. romba nallA irukkum…”
  
  A nice interview. Thanks to the TFM Webpage team.
  
  I liked the above passage. Any good musician would feel that loss, for music invariably carries with it cherishing personal associations and interactions that breathed life in it to a great extent.
  
  
• From: OISG (@ 195.229.241.186) on: Sat Oct 2 02:32:15 EDT 2004
  
  bb,rajaG and team
  
  Sincere & Good homework on the questions.You have asked everything,every die-hard fan would love ask the great man.Thank you.
  
  As regards SPB's answers.....honest,simple,elegant and precise.May the almighty bless this already-blessed.
  
  
• From: Jaiganesh (@ 203.200.201.2) on: Sat Oct 2 06:45:19 EDT 2004
  
  Thanks for the team to first compile the songs and then conduct this wonderful interview with this wonderful Singer. The questions were very carefully chosen and the answers SPB gave shows his sincerity. Thanks SPB for such a wonderful interview. Just reading through interview definitely made me feel heavy in my heart. I hope all MDs read this interview and stop the crap work they are doing RIGHT NOW!!! Bring back the melody and let good singers emerge out of digital shadows!!!
  Thanks,
  Jaiganesh.
  
  
• From: isaiosai (@ 12.10.219.39) on: Sat Oct 2 13:59:53 EDT 2004
  
  Although I had always believed that SPB and SJ shared a great rapport based on the way they sang together, it was really nice to read SPB speak so high of SJ.
  
  bb and Team, very good interview. mikka nandri.
  
  
• From: Nisha (@ 66.185.84.78) on: Sat Oct 2 15:56:04 EDT 2004
  
  Wow,
  Excellent Interview!
  Thanks for the information.
  
  
• From: raja m (@ 24.44.135.165) on: Sun Oct 3 12:31:14 EDT 2004
  
  bb and all:
  
  Insightful interview and questions, kudos to all involved. Hope to read many more in the future.
  bb - you are doing a great job - just in case you felt you weren't appreciated enough :-))
  
  
• From: SK (@ 66.57.14.197) on: Sun Oct 3 13:33:02 EDT 2004
  
  An ecxellent presentation by bb! Thanks a lot!
  Irundhaalum, IIR-ai patthi thani kELvi illaadhadhu konjam uRutthalaathaan irundhadhu!
  GRET JOB,anyways!!!
  
  
• From: SK (@ 66.57.14.197) on: Sun Oct 3 13:33:54 EDT 2004
  
  excellent,, not ecxellent!! typo!
  
  
• From: Srini (@ 219.108.37.75) on: Sun Oct 3 13:47:24 EDT 2004
  
  Simply Superb! First if the kind. Thanks guyz.
  
  
• From: Srini (@ 219.108.37.75) on: Sun Oct 3 13:47:31 EDT 2004
  
  Simply Superb! First of the kind. Thanks guyz.
  
  
• From: Prabhudas (@ 143.104.179.93) on: Sun Oct 3 15:28:24 EDT 2004
  
  bb,
  Great, just finished reading the entire interview.
  Thanks to u, udaya, RajaG and others. Fantastic...is it possible to have the audio of the conversation posted on this forum, as u know, many love his interviews and stage concerts for merely the way how interactive he is.
  Kudos again... and all the questions were really very very nice. And hopefully the team will initiate some sort of felicitation to many other MDs ( underrecognized and other musicians) thro' evergreen SPB.
  
  Prabhudas
  
  

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