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Monday, August 20, 2007

Pon enpadho

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.
By Murali Venkatraman at 9:10 AM
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9 comments:

  1. Aravind G9:35 AM

    Murali,

    This is one of my favorites of SPB oldies. Kalakiteeeenga. Good song selection and a very good job. Keep it up!!

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  2. Ramya4:01 PM

    hey murali,

    simply 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. rosh5:02 PM

    Murali, that was such a beautiful song..very nicely sung too.
    do keep unearthing such golden oldies.

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  4. Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam6:12 PM

    Beautiful song!!
    You 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.

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  5. Dhiraj10:35 AM

    Awesome song man, very nicely sung, perfect emotions... keep up the good work

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  6. Murali Venkatraman3:40 AM

    thank you ppl.

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  7. Iyers7:29 PM

    hey murali !!!this song is really good have not heard this song..but as usual u have sung so wel!!

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  8. Iyers7:31 PM

    Hey Murali sama super song..have not heard this song actually..good.. send more songs!

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  9. Melodychest7:54 PM

    Nice 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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