Namaste! This weeks list. Movie: tenAli rAmakRshNa Year: 1956 Music: viSwanAthan - rAmmUrti Banner: vikram productions Lyricist: samudrAla rAghavAchAri (samudrAla Sr.) *ring: NTR, ANR, Bhanumati, Sandhya, Jamuna, nAgayya and .... 1. chEsEdi EmiTo chEseyyi sUTigA vEseyyi pAgA (gA: ghanTasAla) 2. harE rAm harErAm ... ganDupilli mEnu marachi banDa nidura (gA: ghanTasAla, nAgayya) 3. ganjAyi tAgi turakala sanjAtam chEta kallusavigonnAva? (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 4. ranjanacheDi pAnDavulu viraTukolvupalairakaTa (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 5. ....vaTabAbA puvvaTa jAbilli valvabuvvaTa (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 6. mEkatOkaku mEka tOka mEkatOkA mEkatOka (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 7. teliyanivanni tappulani sabhAntaramunan palukarAdu Ori (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 8. narasimhakrishNarAyala karamaruDagu diiptivelayu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 9. mAkoladi jAnapadulaku nii ... ThiviyabbunE (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) Movie: koDuku kODalu Year: ??? Music: ??? Banner: ??? *ring: ANR, SVR, vAnisri, gummadi, santakumari(???), laxmi, rAjabAbu, suryakantam. 10. niikEm telusu nimmakAya pulusu nAvadda sagadu (gA: ghanTasAla, susiila) (ra: ???) 11. chEyi chEyi tagilindi hAyi hAyigAvundi (gA: ghanTasAla, susiila) (ra: ???) 12. goppOLLa chinnadi guvvale vunnadi konDamiidi (gA: ghanTasAla) (ra: ???) 13. nuvvU nEnu EkamainAmu yiddaramu manamiddaramu (gA: ghanTasAla, susiila) (ra: ???) Movie: satyahariSchandra Year: 1965 Music: penDyAla nAgEswara rAvu Banner: vijayA productions private limited. Lyricist: pingaLi nAgEndrarAvu *ring: NTR, S. varalaxmi, rElangi, mukkAmala, ramaNareDDi, nAgayya, rAjanAla, mikkilinEni, girija, rAjababu and ... 14. adigO bhAnuprabhal chimmuchu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 15. vamSamunu nilupukonuTake vivAhamanuchu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 16. nAnAdEva dhanambulanu .. mANyambulanu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 17. kulamulO Emundira sOdara matamulO yEmundirA (gA: ghanTasAla, bRndam) (G singing for rAjanAla) 18. eeSwarA jagadeeSwara Emi karmamu paTTera (gA: ghanTasAla) (G singing for ramaNAreDDi) 19. vidhivipareetam vidhiviDDuram vidhivilAsamana yidEkadA (gA: ghanTasAla) (What a philosophical song!) 20. namO bhUtanAdha namOdEvadEva (gA: ghanTasAla, P. liila, S. varalaxmi) 21. navvulakaina EnADu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 22. tAlikaTTina chEta taruni kanThamu (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 23. satyambu pAlimpa sarvarAjyamunu viiDi AlubiDDalatODa (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) 24. vandEsurAnAmsArAmsa sudESam (padyam) (gA: ghanTasAla) Movie: nirdOshi Year: 1951 Music: ghanTasAla Banner: ??? *ring: 25. swAgatam! swAgatam kavi sAmRAjyamE (gA: ghanTasAla, sundaramma) (ra: K. G. Sarma) In addition to the above song there is another song: 26. singAri chekumuki ravvA EmanTunnadi rangEli mAva (gA: ghanTasAla) (ra: ???) This song is also sung by G in the New York Concert (1969/70). I have a book which says that this song is from nirdOshi, but does not specify if it is from old nirdOshi or from the new one. The lyric style indicate it is the old one. But, I need help to classify. -----------------******------------------ Songs Counter (as of Vol. 2): 58 Songs (from films): 56 Songs (with film names unknown): 1 Songs (from concerts): 1 Songs (private songs): 0 In addition to the songs that I have listed for bhakta jayadEva, I got three more from the film server. (dayaganumA jagadiiSa, bhalirA puNyamaTTana nAdE, padmAvati charaNa charaNa. All written by samudrAla Sr. ) Thanks Sridhar for yAramita vanamAlina, sung by G alone in the movie. I am also adding "yaramita vanamAlina" under songs (from concerts). Thanks Sri kandadai gAru for the three songs from bhakta tukAram. Pelli chEsi chudu: In this movie there is a reference to G. Doraiswamy who enters the house of G. varalaxmi listens to the fag end of the song "pelli chEsukuni" being sung by NTR and questions who is singing. G. varalaxmi replies back, "recordlE mavayya, ghanTasAla record." This movie is released in early 1952. As every one is aware they used to take considerable time to make a movie. When a writer is using a singers name in his dialogues, I some how feel that by then G songs are popular. Sreenivas once mentioned that G might not have sung more than 30 or 40 songs before 1950. I some how cannot agree with this. G must have been popular by the time the dialogues of this movie are written. One or two songs cannot make him popular as he is popularizing "light music," not classical music, and that too in early 50's, when light music is still in its infancy in telugu language. ____________*******__________ Regards, -rAja