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Comedian Singers

Topic started by pg (@ client-116-45.bellatlantic.net) on Sun Sep 21 11:45:49 EDT 1997.
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• From: pg (@ client-116-45.bellatlantic.net) on: Sun Sep 21 11:59:41 EDT 1997
  
  There were two great singers who have been neglected in TFM till now. They were unique singers not fitting into any category of singers :
  
  N.S.Krishnan and J.P.Chandrababu.
  
  NSK was mainly a comedian singer with almost all of his songs are humorous singers. I enjoy NSK's songs very much.
  
  But I love JPC. He is a truly great singer. Unlike NSK, JPC also has sung playback for other actors (for Sivaji in Kalyanam panniym Brammachari. Has he sung playback for anybody else ?) Nobody can bring out the pathos like he did in piRakkum podhum aLuhindrai
  iRakkum podhum aLuhindrai
  oru nALEnum kavalai illamal sirikka maRandhai mAnidane
  
  What a song ! (Note his singing or azhuhindrai as aLuhindrai. His pronounciation is faulty but that does not diminish the pathos in his singing)
  
  From that he can jump over to a totally wild Rock Rock Rock
  Rock 'n' Roll
  Shake Shake Shake
  Shake 'n' Roll
  English dance yee yo yee yo
  China dance yee yo yee yo
  ...
  
  He probably has sung less than a hundred songs in his career but most of his songs are great fun.
  
  Like
  
  • kunkuma poove konju puRave
    
  • pamparak kaNNaLe - maNamagan thevai (a superb comedy *ing Sivaji, TRR, Bhanumathi (another great singer we have missed)
    
  • sirippu varudhu sirippu varudhu
    
  • thadukkathe ennai thadukkathe
    
  • puthiyulla manidharellam
    
  • jolly life jolly life (JPC singing for Sivaji Ganesan)
    
  
  I love JPC's singing.
  
  Is JPC a Tamilian or a Andhraite. His name sounds like a Telugu name.
  
  
• From: Ramki (@ pm315-31.dialip.mich.net) on: Sun Sep 21 13:55:05 EDT 1997
  
  what abt 'onnumme puriyalae ulagathile'(kumaravijayam??).A great song rendered
  with full life by JPC
  
  
• From: Gokul (@ ww-tk02.proxy.aol.com) on: Sun Sep 21 16:18:46 EDT 1997
  
  Yeah..some of their songs are OK (Onnume puriyale olagthiley.. and Bambara kannale kaathal sangathi sonnale.. What a karpanai here.. Bambara Kannanle.. wow Anyway who wrote this song) but their voices were real bad..
  
  
• From: Gopal (@ host-207-53-0-155.atl.bellsouth.net) on: Sun Sep 21 17:07:44 EDT 1997
  
  My favorites are
  
  1. Pirakkumbothum
  2. OnnumE PuriyalE
  3. Naan oru muttalunga
  
  
• From: Kanchana (@ ww-to02.proxy.aol.com) on: Sun Sep 21 17:22:33 EDT 1997
  
  Let's not forget the following:
  porandhaalum aambaLayaa porakka koodaadhu
  kaadal enbadhu edhu varai with PBS.
  
  JPC sang in bass in an era where that was not the fashion
  
  
• From: Ravi (@ greed.cs.umass.edu) on: Sun Sep 21 18:05:04 EDT 1997
  
  pg: neenga list pOdumpOthu include begin list and end list tags also: <ul> and </ul>. This will indent your list and not confuse it with top level list of responses. I have changed it here to show you how it looks.. The caveat though is closing the list becomes very imp. i.e. </ul>
  
  
• From: Kannan (@ 130.160.32.68) on: Sun Sep 21 19:03:01 EDT 1997
  
  from 'pen'
  santhoshamaahavE ulahaththai kaanavE ...
  kalyaanam kalyaanam...
  
  
• From: Sathiya Keerthi (@ panorama.nus.edu.sg) on: Sun Sep 21 20:11:10 EDT 1997
  
  Kanchana:
  
  porandhaalum aambaLaiyaa .. is with LRE.
  
  
• From: Aravind (@ 202.42.152.9) on: Mon Sep 22 02:11:37 EDT 1997
  
  unakkaaga ellaam unakkaaga - puthayal
  
  ilangkai nakaraththilE nI iruppathai naan aRinthaal
  inthu mahaa samuththiraththai ingkirunthE thaaNdiduvEn
  
  Chandrababu dhooLmaa!!!
  
  
• From: anthakAla_prapudEvA! (@ bones.deneb.com) on: Mon Sep 22 03:47:04 EDT 1997
  
  "kanmani pappa manithan pirnaththau
  kurangilirunthuthAn endru sonnathu thappA"
  (padam ??? (with Baby Rani) MD is MSV)
  
  Also Mahadevi had one good song by JPC(???)
  
  The famous story about JPC..He came to know about
  his newly wedded wife is IN LOVE with someother guy
  and he let her go and helped them settled down.
  
  The infamous story is about his drinking habbit and
  how much trouble ha gave to Kannadasan who produced
  Kavalai illAtha Manithan with JPC as hero.
  (from Kannadasan's suyasarithai)
  
  enakkup piditha another comedian singer: KAMAL
  
  
  
  
• From: Rajaraman (@ 192.122.135.224) on: Mon Sep 22 04:50:59 EDT 1997
  
  Ramki
  
  I think onnume puriyale is from kumaara raajaa.
  
  
• From: Ravy (@ eagle.vapower.com) on: Mon Sep 22 07:36:38 EDT 1997
  
  He is the one who started that 'falling flat on his face' style. You could see that in Mahadevi (Bones, that song is still eluding my memory). Later Nagesh perfected it.
  
  
• From: Kanchana (@ ww-pa01.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Sep 22 09:15:27 EDT 1997
  
  One more:
  sondhamum illae bandhamum illae (movie unknown)
  
  
• From: Ramki (@ ucc216.lab.cc.wmich.edu) on: Mon Sep 22 09:41:40 EDT 1997
  
  
  Rajaraman u r rite.
  
  What abt 'kaadhal enbadhu edhu varai'(padhakanikkai)?
  
  
• From: Kanchana (@ ww-tp01.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Sep 22 20:00:16 EDT 1997
  
  JPC sang as part of a group song in a 70's Sivaji-Jayalalitha starrer "Needhi". His lines went something like:
  muthamizhin selvan vaazhga
  mukkulathoar maindhan vaazhga
  ............
  vaazhiyavae vaazhiyavae pallaaNdu
  paadungaLaen paadungaLaen pallaaNdu
  Most probably his last song?
  
  
• From: olli_pAchA_rasigan (@ bones.deneb.com) on: Tue Sep 23 02:19:27 EDT 1997
  
  RavY:
  Mahadevi song is (music: VR):
  thanthanA pAttu pAdanum thunthanA thALam pOdanum
  
  I remembered the movie of the song
  kanmani pappa manithan piRanthathu kurangil.
  It is "thattungaL thiRakkappadum" - written &
  directed by JPC himself.
  
  Kanjana:
  "oru sonthamum illE pandhamum illE sonna idathil
  amarnthu kolgirAr" is from "Hallo Mr Jamindar"
  sung by GK Venki for MR Radha - a barber.
  (it has arumaiyAna samuthAya sinthaik karuthukkaL)
  
  Topic:
  From Patha Kanikai (VR)
  thaniyA thavikira vayasu intha
  
  From A.Kattali (VR):
  sirippu varuthu siripu varuthu (listed)
  (NSK also has a song about diff kind of sirippu - ????)
  
  From puthaiyal (VR):
  hallo my dear rami engamma unakku mami
  
  From maragatham (KVM ??):
  kungumap poovE konjum purAvE (listed)
  
  From nadodi mannan (SMS):
  thadukkAthE ennai thadukkAthE
  
  From sagothari (GR ??):
  nAn oru muttAlUnga (listed)
  
  
  
  
• From: pg (@ igw2.merck.com) on: Fri Sep 26 11:27:37 EDT 1997
  
  My List of Chandrababu's songs
  
  1. konjam thaLLikanum - kadavuLai kaNden
  2. puthiyuLLa manidharellam - annai
  3. kavalai illadha manidhan - kavalai illadha manidhan
  4. kunguma poove konju puRAve - maragadham (with Jamuna Rani)
  5. piRakkum podhum azhukindRan - kavalai illadha manidhan
  6. poRandhalum AmbiLaiya poRakka koodAdhu - policekaran magaL (with LR Eswari)
  7. naan oru muttALunga - sahodari
  8. eppo vachikkalAm - pandhapAsam
  9. rock rock rock - padhi bhakti (with Tiruchi Loganathan)
  10. thAngAdhamma thAngAdhu samsAram thAngAdhu - senthAmarai
  11. pambarak kaNNaLe - maNamagan thevai
  12. nee Adinal - pANdi thevan (with Jikki)
  13. kaNmani pappa - thattungaL thiRakkappadum
  14. sirippu varudhu sirippu varidhu - ANdavan kattaLai
  15. ayyo machan mannAru - sri vaLLi
  16. ondrai kaNNu doriya - vAliba virundhu (with Jamuna Rani)
  17. thadukkadhe ennai thadukkadhe - mannadhi mannan (with Jamnua Rani)
  18. jigu jigu jigu - kAthavarAyan (with Jikki)
  19. unakkaga ellam unakkaga - ?
  20. pudichAlum pudhchA puLiyankombA pudicha - ?
  21. kalyAnam kalyAnam - ?
  22. kovA mAmpazhame malkovA mAmpazhame - mAman magaL
  23. gopiyar soozhave - ?
  24. jolly life jolly life - kalyAnam paNNiyum brahmachari (playback for Sivaji)
  
  
• From: Kannan (@ 130.160.32.71) on: Fri Sep 26 17:21:14 EDT 1997
  
  kalyaaNam kalyaaNam - peN
  
  
• From: RV Subramanyan (@ 1cust32.max14.san-francisco.ca.ms.uu.net) on: Sun Nov 2 05:45:16 EST 1997
  
  Chandrababu did sing playback from one more person - Veenai S. Balachander in "Penn". The song is "Ullasamagave Ulagatthai Alave". Most of the persons who posted something about this song had got it wrong. It is actually a wonderful song.
  
  
  How come nobody talks about NSK ? My favorite is "Vignanathai Valakkap Porandi" in ???. He also has one in Chandralekha, I think. "Ainilo Pakkiriyama". People who crib about all kind of meaningless words in todays songs should hear this one. They would probably throw a fit!
  
  
• From: prinstan marianayagam (@ ) on: Sun Jan 6 22:57:32 EST 2002
  
  why tfm is not posting jp chandrababus songs in this tfm page. why tfm neglecting jp chandrababu
  
  
• From: Alexander (@ 158.36.159.221) on: Fri Jan 18 12:03:48 EST 2002
  
  Hi, I love the songs of J.P. Chandrababu since I got to know them by luck, just listening to cassetes I didn't know anything about. I've got so amased about this song: Kavalai IllAtha Manithan. Thou, I dont understand Tamil language, and wondwer how the text goes and what it means. And who produced it? Can anybody help me? Thanks!
  Alexander
  
  
• From: Cruz (@ 12.83.23.7) on: Fri Mar 22 15:13:24 EST 2002
  
  In response to someone asking if Chandra babu was tamilian or telugu just wanted to clarify that he is a tamilian from south Tamilnadu,Tuticorin to be exact.He was a comedian siger who sang some very happy and merry songs.He is also know to be philosophical in his songs and was way ahead for his time.Some of his ideas did not see the light of day due to his ecenricity and drinking problems.
  
  
• From: Aijith (@ 61.11.82.45) on: Fri Jul 26 09:13:43 EDT 2002
  
  hello Uncle plz Download songs chandra Babu Songs
  only hitz songs plz uncle
  
  I like very much chandra Babu songs plz uncle download Songs
  
  
• From: rao from uk (@ 62.254.0.8) on: Sat Jan 4 14:53:30 EST 2003
  
  for me he is simpply an extremally talented singer, actor, dancer and comidian
  and the nearest current equivalent is kamal
  
  
• From: Sachi Sri Kantha (@ 130.54.114.6) on: Sat Jun 14 01:32:59 EDT 2003
  
  As a rejoinder to the response from Cruz, I wish to note, that Chandra Babu before he entered the Tamil movie world, had schooling in Colombo, Ceylon; probably at St.Josephs College. His father was affiliated to a Tamil newspaper establishment in Colombo during the British colonial period.
  Quite a number of Tamilians (including journalists and musicians) from the southern regions of Tamil Nadu - Ramanathapuram, Kanniyakumari districts) found employment in the capital of colonial Ceylon. And I believe Chandra Babu's father was also one who found his way to Colombo. It's a pity that Chandra Babu's bio data is spotty.
  
  
• From: Sachi Sri Kantha (@ 130.54.114.6) on: Tue Jun 17 01:44:57 EDT 2003
  
  A little more information to my previous submission. When I checked the entry in my 1974 diary, I had noted on March 9 [1974] Saturday as follows:
  
  "In the morning, from Thinakaran (Tamil newspaper from Colombo), I learnt that comedian actor J.P.Chandra Babu, aged 42, had died yesterday. Feel very sad. Cannot believe that Babu who sang, 'Onnume Puriyale Ulagathile - Ennamo Nadakuthu - Marmamai Irukuthu' had departed."
  
  Chandra Babu died to young at 42. What a wasted talent. His year of birth would be either 1932 or 1933. I'm back-calculating to see when he would have had his schooling in Colombo. It should be in the first half of 1940s. Thanks.
  
  

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