Vinyl ("LP" record) covers speak about IR (Pictures & Details) - Thamizh

Can't believe this is my 600th post in this new forum    

It appears to me like we started only a few days back... regardless of when we began, I was definitely posting at a maddening pace. Well, the holidays cooled it down a bit and the pace is picking up again

OK, while I don't have enough time to invest for a post for the IR-PS thread, at the minimum let me try to add an interesting album pic for this small landmark

Johny!

Interestingly, the LP cover has nenjathaik kiLLAthE, as a bonus! It also has something called a "chasing track", an instrumental - though the film's name is not mentioned for this track, it can't be from NK...must be from Johny. If someone has the actual disk, please let us know what BGM is that.

So, one stone two mangoes...

Another interesting thing about this cover is crediting Jency for the 'oru iniya manadhu isaiyai aNaiththuch chellum' song. I've always thought that the track was by Sujatha. (Or at least there were two versions, one by Jency and another by Sujatha). This album cover does not show any Sujatha version. SJ'kku one, SPS'kku one but Jency'kku mattum two songsA? idikkudhu rAsA sArE!

I gave a more careful listen to the song from thiraippAdal just now and it does sound like Jency now (especially the ra / Ra are agmark Jency)
(thiraippAdal maintains Sujatha, however)...

(note - it's "snow reeta" and not "seno rita" )

Pics are here:





Both movies were directed by Mahendran in the same year (as most of us know) and were both commercial and critical successes! Excellently supported by rAsA!

'nenjathaikkiLLAthE' also won NA for Ashok Kumar for oLippadhivu I think...in addition, the movie was a silver jubilee runner / trend setter etc...

Johny couldn't be called a trend-setter at that time and wasn't even thought about as a mega hit those days, i.e. in comparison to the other adi-dhadi movies of him during the same time period, (e.g. murattukkALai / billA etc)...some "style-fans" were even upset those days with his different authoring of the dual roles, despite Rajini being very stylish but not gimmicky. However, the movie won over many in subsequent years and can now be considered to attaining classic status in the minds of many. Sridevi - sollavE vENAm, one of her career best roles!

(oru small personal note - I didn't watch Johny when arrived. It was in 1983 June that I watched the movie, when my 3rd sem exams were on...In the middle of sem exams, I watched the movie both 6 PM & 10 PM shows in college audi on a Saturday No wonder that was my poor-most performance in any exams First time I got 59 in a paper and the only case of hitting below 70 I think! pinna enna, moththamE oru semesterla padikkaRadhu 15 days only for all 6 papers, adhulayum oru nAL pOchchu )

app_engine wrote:Interestingly, the LP cover has nenjathaik kiLLAthE, as a bonus! It also has something called a "chasing track", an instrumental - though the film's name is not mentioned for this track, it can't be from NK...must be from Johny. If someone has the actual disk, please let us know what BGM is that.

I found it in some site, just now. Not downloaded it yet. It is from Johnny.
http://www.ziddu.com/download/13068926/Chasingmusic.mp3.html

V_S wrote:I found it in some site, just now. Not downloaded it yet. It is from Johnny.
http://www.ziddu.com/download/13068926/Chasingmusic.mp3.html

nanRi, V_Sji!

It's exactly the BGM what I expected to be...However, I don't think the whole length of this track is together in the movie, it comes in bits and pieces I think...possibly put together as a track...

#Even all the mp3 version of Senorita calls it Snow Rita, now I know what the origin is.

#Uravenum is by Gangai Amaran. Pleasantly surprised. Big fan of the pallavi/anupallavi lines

app_engine wrote:Cover(s) of another historic album from an IRF POV, considering the fact that it has those two fantastic SPB-SJ "STEREO" duets (engengO sellum en eNNangaL & dEvadhai oru dEvadhai).

OTOH, these covers should make traditional NTFs run for cover

Slight bump in an awesome thread. I hate, hate, hate, hate this movie. NT, why? Why???

Another I V Sasi movie from 1980 - kALi...it seems he was quite busy both in MF & TF during this time period.

There're two links in the musicalaya site for this movie...but one of the covers don't even list any songs. They have pictures of Rajini & Seema chEchi (riding a motorcycle) ; here are those two pictures :





However, the second link has the cover with all the songs listed. (We're quite familiar with this cover, from my old post in the "anything found in the net about IR" thread. It has both kALi & guru movie songs included...two IV Sasi movies, one with Kamal and another with Rajini ; it has the funny "ghuru" spelling for the KH-SD movie).

Here are those two pictures, repeated for making this thread the one-stop-shop for all record cover pics:






'adi Adu poongodiyE' is such a lovely MV number from kALi!

Wizzy has recently posted the youtube of 'nee illAtha pOthu' in another thread. What a lovely song from the movie 'iLamaikkOlam'!

Wait a minute - the vinyl cover says it was 'iLamai kOlam' with no 'ikku'

The album has two wonderful KJY numbers that most of us are very familiar with - the semi classical 'sreedEvi en vAzhvil aruL seyya vA' and the rocky themmAngu 'vachcha pArvai theerAdhadee'!

It was possibly the launch vehicle of the villain of Sivaji the boss...(also note the picture of KBR in the album cover, for kadhai-vasanam )

Look at the covers now:

If not for the sweet 'kAlangaL, mazhakkAlangaL', none would have possibly cared for a movie called 'idhayaththil Or idam' - not now, but even at the time of the movie's arrival.

Most knew such a movie existed only by listening to this song on radio...(IOKS broadcasted this pretty regularly, especially in the evening 5.30 neengaL kEttavai program).

Funny to see the disk cover where S P Shailaja's name was originally printed against this song and later correction made it S Janaki

A couple of years back, there was this doubt in one of the hub threads about whether Nivas was actually credited as the director for kallukkuL eeram. (I stood by memory that he was the director as per posters those days and BR was credited with 'direction mERpArvai' only...in addition to playing the protagonist on screen)

Those were days when youtube didn't have the whole movie & it wasn't that easy to locate this movie on the net...(IIRC, Nerd or another prominent hubber had to search out the DVD in their collection to verify the titles).

Though such question can easily be answered nowadays as there're plenty of net resources to confirm such, it's nice to have a pic in our own thread to verify such trivia

So, here is the KE album cover that clearly credits the oLippadhivALar as the director as well...(and what lovely songs IR had gifted this movie with )





BTW, if there's a vinyl record that can be called a "star on screen", that has to be this one

After all, the 'siRu pon maNi' song from this created thunderous response when gettting played from a music shop in the movie 'subramaniyapuram'! Calculating from its release time, a quarter century later - a phenomenal feat by any standards!

This must be one very interesting (i.e. unique) disk cover featuring IR.

Because, it also features four other MDs!

kaNNil theriyum kathaikaL - that had 5 MD's, each one doing a portion of the movie (and not working together). Also, each one doing one song!

The disk cover clearly states that 'nAnoru ponnOviyam kaNdEn ethirE' was done by IR, with SPB-SJ-PS the singers! (Well, even if it credits incorrectly, we know who alone can compose such a number    ) It can also be used to correct fellows who claim IR to be the composer of 'nAn onna nenachchEn' song (SPB-VJ-Jikki) One of the biggest hit songs for S-G during that time period!

Nice to see all the MD's posing for a picture together...for the sake of the movie's producer possibly, the 'pAppA pAppA katha kELu, kAkkA nariyin katha kELu' singer A L Raghavan!

Considering the fact that (annakkiLi) Devaraj-Mohan were the directors of this movie, that IR had agreed to do only a portion proves he wasn't ego-driven

Another Rajinikanth movie - nAn pOtta savAl.

The MV song 'sugam sugamE, thodath thodath thAnE' was quite popular those days. (Duet with VJ).

The famous AVM movie that featured Rajinikanth as "kALaiyan" comes next...

murattukkALai, that had the famous 'podhuvAka emmanasu thangam' song.

Also has two SJ sweeties, 'pudhu vaNNangaL konjidum sOlai' & 'endhappoovilum vAsam uNdu'. The fourth number (that possibly featured Sumalatha on screen) is the SPS number 'mAmEn machchAN', one of my all-time favourites!

Front cover, featuring Rajini with a different hairstyle:



The back cover, featuring IR / PA / SPM :

Karumbu Vil was another movie with IR as the main star attraction  (hero Sudhakar)...

Both KJY & Jency versions of 'meen kodiththEril' were very popular those days!

Also popular was the MV-SJ number 'malarkaLilE ArAdhanai'...

Front cover (is that Y Vijaya?)



Back cover:

Now, a landmark album

The first TF of the IR-BM combo!

moodupani!

This was advertised those days as the 100th movie of IR. There seems to be two versions of the vinyl (and two sets of covers available from this website)...One has the UR song 'AsaippoNNE ArirO' and the other doesn't feature it.

IIRC, Shobha was already married to BM...

Look at these covers that feaure Shobha:





And the listing of songs from each of the disk version...

app_engine wrote:Another Rajinikanth movie - nAn pOtta savAl.

The MV song 'sugam sugamE, thodath thodath thAnE' was quite popular those days. (Duet with VJ).

Only two songs listed? May be there is another disk. This film has 5 songs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naan_Potta_Savaal

stocked up most of the cds from Inreco records @ the recent expo, was looking around for Telugu stuff from Aditya music, tad disappointed that they sold only 90s tamil collections

Awesome thread, I am going to use these as 'album art' with my Squeezebox music server. One day, when the gods are kind to me, a bigger print out of these will adorn the walls as posters in my dream Home Theater. Thanks folks.

Time for a landmark 1980 deepavaLi album.

One of the most path-breaking in TFM & one of the best of IR himself

I won't hesitate to call this album an IR-peak! We can debate as to whether this was Everest or not but peak of such proportions nevertheless! (Like Himalayas, rAsA has many peaks and IMHO, another peak had recently been unveiled, NEPV in 2012...again, may not be Everest but way above Doddabetta kinds)!

BTW, pAvam BR, he suffered his first disaster as a director with this nizhalgaL. (We've already seen the covers of his first four silver jubilees and the fifth NMP which was above-average. His mERpArvai one, kallukkuL eeram was a flop but he wasn't the "official" director. So, nizhalgaL was his first flop).

Four gems (idhu oru ponmAlaippozhudhu, madai thiRandhu, poongathavE, dhooraththil nAn kaNda), four lyricists (VM, Valee, GA, PA), four singers (SPB, SJ, DC, UR), four main actors featured in songs on-screen (nizhalgaL Ravi, Rohini, Rajasekar who co-directed pAlaivanachchOlai and co-cinematographed oru thalai rAgam & Chandrasekar)...

Here are the covers:

nenjathaikkiLLAthE got posted earlier in this thread (as a dual movie combo disk with Johny)...but that website also has another set of pictures for the movie.

Those don't even list the songs or any other details, just the pics of Hasini / Mahendran and rAsA...

edhukkum irukkattum...

This must be another very rare disk cover - remembered today only for a couple of IR songs! (I'm shocked that someone even preserved this kind of records, must be veRiththanamAna TFM fans)

orE muththam (just one kissu )

With two lovely songs - 'rAjAppoNNu adi vAdiyammA' by PJ & 'pAvaiyarkaL mAn pOlE' by SPB-SJ...

Superb thread app with all rare images of many unheard movies. All are Collectors item for sure and I'm already religiously updating my album artwork. Thanks App

rajkumarc wrote:all rare images of many unheard movies.

You're welcome, rajkumarc!

The nanRi should actually be redirected to "musicalaya.net", who are hosting all these LP covers!

They do have a lot more in Telugu which I can't read but I'm sure there're a number of IR albums

We don't want to lose these images (just in case that site disappears due to some copyright issues or otherwise) and collecting 'em here.

While throwing them into the frog image hosting site (used by this forum), I'm also having the jpg's stored in a local machine...will zip them and throw into the net cloud when done (mediafire, may be).

Rest of the 1980 album covers available there continued...

The movie that kumudam described in degree of comparison as "slow, dead slow, poottAtha poottukkaL" comes next.

Directed by Mahendran & SJ the only singer credited

thiraippAdal link for the album here:

http://www.thiraipaadal.com/album.php?ALBID=ALBIRR00511&lang=en

Perhaps the only album that I know of where SJ is the sole singer for all (four) songs (with some kuzhuvinar support)...I love the songs and 'Anandham Anandham nee thandhadhu' being the top pick!

'magiLampoovE unnaippArththEn mayangippOnEn' is such a lovely song and I know this 'puthiya adimaikaL' movie only from that song, when it got announced in radio.

Never even seen a poster of this or know any other details about it...

Now, we have this vinyl cover

SJ's 'nAn dEvadhai' was a big fav with me those days. It sounded a little bit RDB-ish but with enough elements to identify itself as an IR song.

soolam, another relatively unknown movie's disk cover: