Song : Pon enpadho
Composer : Ramanujam
Singer : SPB
Performed by : Murali Venkatraman
Probably around 4 years back, when Napster was obsolete and there was hardly any way to get a hand on some forgotten great numbers, I was chatting with Rajaraman - the admin of tfmpage on Yahoo Messenger. There used to be some space in the tfmpage server (about 8 MB) which we both would use to transact songs (Just 1 song could be present in the server at any time). We used to dig a lot of golden oldies. RR was a big fan of golden oldies and used to collect these from obscure sources ( Well..Saravanan of dhool is the absolute master in this regard..nevertheless there were other souls like Mano, RR who knew a big fraction of the Walking Encyclopaedia that is Saravanan). He uploaded this song for me one day and I was caught in a trance because it was probably after 20 years that I was hearing that song. I remembered the song coming through Srilankan radio when I used to be in 6th Grade. I savoured the song every bit and also decided to sing sometime.
The greatness of SPB, as I have seen, is in giving life to compositions of even lesser known composers. This song was sung by him for Ramanujam and I took a liking for this song even as a child. It is relatively obscure but with google pretty much creeping into every crevice of the world, nothing seems impossible to get. It is a beautiful melody embellished to perfection by SPB. I have given a shot at it.
Listen to the original here
SPB yin kuralai Pon enpadho ? Poo enpadho ?
Thanks to Aravind for modifying the original file to soften the rendition.
Introduction and Announcements
New Original !
Aankhon ko - आँखों को
Murali,
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorites of SPB oldies. Kalakiteeeenga. Good song selection and a very good job. Keep it up!!
hey murali,
ReplyDeletesimply superb!!!!!!!!! a good work by you... innum eppadi nalla virunthu kudungoo... you hav a gr8 voice murali...plzz give us some more such nice songs... really d songs sung by you r a gr8 treat to our ears... the show must go on & on...keep rocking buddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Murali, that was such a beautiful song..very nicely sung too.
ReplyDeletedo keep unearthing such golden oldies.
Beautiful song!!
ReplyDeleteYou have sung it really well. Esp the parts Kanninbadho, poocharame, idazh rasame- very nice brighas.
In few places tho' brighas can be more defined- like thudikindra'dhu',
rasikindra'dhu'.
Thanks for digging out such a lovely song.
Awesome song man, very nicely sung, perfect emotions... keep up the good work
ReplyDeletethank you ppl.
ReplyDeletehey murali !!!this song is really good have not heard this song..but as usual u have sung so wel!!
ReplyDeleteHey Murali sama super song..have not heard this song actually..good.. send more songs!
ReplyDeleteNice one...hearing this after such a long time..brought back memories of SPB hay days .. what a lovely song!. Thanks for rendering it. Would have been great with music. My only review points are: you sung it a bit slow and in a couple of places I felt the notes were slightly 'different' in the second last line of the charanams. The other constructive comment I would like to make is whether you can open your voice more in the higher registers and just let it rip!?. Or may be the scale you took is a tad high?. In any case overall great job and you have a very pleasant voice...I can think of no other word to describe your voice...very very soothing and pleasant. Cheers!.
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