Re: favorite song
Sreenivas Paruchuri (sreeni@ktpsp1.uni-paderborn.de)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:08:54 +0200 (MET DST)
So, there was some activity last week, as I could see in web archives.
Also I see that the list membership went up (I mean direct subscribers,
keeping those web-readers aside). Can one hope better times?
Ms. Putcha wrote:
> > well remember one of those programs (presented either by GhanTasala
> > himself or by someone from the movie field; I was not old enough then to
Sudhakar wrote:
> This is interesting. Have any of the group members recorded (or inherited
> recordings) of the programs which featured G as the presenter?
Yes, Sudhakar! :-) Infact theres one programme just a few days prior to his
death. The words prior to his playing: "namO venkaTESaa ..." are from this
1974 programme.
> > have an exact recollection now) playing "MANASUNA MANASAI, BRATHUKUNA
> > BRATHUKAI", from "DR. CHAKRAVARTHY", as G's most favorite song.
> I was under the impression that 'Malliyalaara maalikalaara ... maunamugaa
> unnaaraa' was G's favorite. In fact, CinaarE, the author mentioned this
Sridhar wrote:
* which was G's particular favorite. the song was the morose and saddening
* "brathukantha baadhagaa, etc etc" Now, it is possible that G had many
* favorite songs. He did dominate telugu music for nearly three decades an
Its interesting that in various radio programmes and interviews G chose
different songs as his favourites. But as Ms. Putcha summarized in her last
post, all are in the same mould.
In one of the radio interviews I have he claims karuNaSree's "jeevitamantaa
kalayEnaa" as his all-time favourite.
Regards, --Sreenivas
P.S. coming to kaambhOji numbers, here are a few from Version 2.0 (any
volunteers in compiling the Version 3 ?).
rasika rAja maNirAjita sabhalO mahAkavi kALidAsu
(already quoted by Prabhakar gaaru)
The bit: raavO raavO .... in "girijaa kalyaaNam" yakshagaanam in "rahasyam".
(to refresh your memories :-) > ambaa paraaku in - naaTa,
avadharinchavayyaa in - Sree, raavO raavO in - kaambhOji, cheluvaaru mOmuna
in - aThaaNa, .........)
The verse: kalaDambOdhi from bhakta prahlaada is in - kaambhOji.
P.P.S. Raamanna gaaru quoted: mukkOTi dEvatalu ... here is complete
raagamaalika:
mukkOTi dEvatalu okkaTai naaru bAvAmaradaLLu
mukkOTi dEvatalu - kAmbhOji
aali yeDabaaTepuDu - yadukula kAmbhOji
nelloori seemalO - kaanaDa
yella lOkaalaku - gauree manOhari
gOpanna vale vagachu - maayA maaLava gauLa
baala prahlaaduni - naaTakuranji