V. V. Sadagopan

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 28 Jan 2008, 23:43

Today, World Space Shruti played V. V. Sadagopan's songs by Ambujam Krishna (which were tuned by him). It happens to be his star birthday today.
I hear Shruti is going to air more of his music on his birthday on the 4th of February.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 29 Jan 2008, 00:18

Good News!
Will appreciate a recording be made available.

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 29 Jan 2008, 06:32

Ithink he should take the accolade for the most handsome singer of the past 100 years, followed by TNS,KASTURIRANGANetc.. in those days , every house which had a gramaphone, will surely have a plate(that was how a gramaphone record was called) of enta vedu gonthu. moreover this was sung by the girls of marriageable age for the BRIDE SEEING FUNCTION. GOBILALITHA

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 29 Jan 2008, 08:34

I AM sorry I forgot GNB IN THE HANDSOME SINGERS GROUP. . WHAT A BLUNDER.! gobilalitha

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 03 Feb 2008, 18:46

VVS's recording of Ambujam Krishna's compositions which he set to music (Gita Mala Vol.1) is being aired on Shruti tomorrow as I posted earlier. The timings are, 7 to 10 in the morning and again at midnight.

kannan1940 · Post by **kannan1940** » 13 Feb 2008, 10:21

Is it a fact that VVS in his last days, suddenly disappeared and never seen again even by his close relatives.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 13 Feb 2008, 22:53

Yes, he did disappear, though not in his last days. He has not been seen for many years. The general feeling is that it was a spiritual calling--a few people seem to have spotted him in places like Banares and the Himalayas years ago...

venkmal · Post by **venkmal** » 05 Mar 2008, 11:17

Sri Venugopala â€“ Darbar â€“ Kotteswara Iyer
Kanavendamo â€“ Surati â€“ Arunachala Kavi
Rama Bhajana - Rgamalika
Adharam Nee - Karaharapriya

can anyone please u/l the files again please. thx
vmal

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Mar 2008, 15:37

venkmal,
I think it is kANa vENum laksham kaNgaL of Arunachala Kavi you are asking for...

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 17 Oct 2008, 01:27

V.V.Sadagopan fans:

I stumbled upon this concert by VV Sadagopan : http://www.sendspace.com/file/24mmmk

It was aired on AIR Tirunelveli (also aired from Tiruchi). May be in the Sixties or Early seventies?

I am sure this will make Arasi quite happy that all of us get to enjoy this treasure.

raju54 · Post by **raju54** » 20 Oct 2008, 04:51

venkmal,
here are the tracks you requested. Recording quality is not so great.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4385 ... 2debf378bb

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 24 Jun 2009, 03:30

A real gem! Rare footage of a video clip of Sri VV Sadagopan from the film 'Madana kama rajan':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeykvqJcaBE

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 24 Jun 2009, 06:20

Thanks R-T; that's a rare treat!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 24 Jun 2009, 07:32

ragam_talam! That was a pleasant surprise! If only you can find kEgai vannat TOgai minna virittADum mayilE... in kalyANi from the same film!

CML,
You would know that the 'guruvin pudalvi' is Sundari Bai, also singing in her own voice as they all did in those days. Those who have seen and heard her in Vasan's Chandraleka would recognize that voice. Comedy was her forte. VVS was offered the lead in the film, but he decided to leave the cine world by then to begin a career in CM.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 24 Jun 2009, 19:54

I had seen the movie when it was released in the early forties! News to me that Vasan offered the lead in Chandralekha to VVS. it would have transformed the movie into a grand musical since Radha is non-musical. VVS would have become a glorious singing star in competition with MKT and PUC!

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 26 Jun 2009, 02:24

Arasi and cml one more clip for you! Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQQIeMH9g6o

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 26 Jun 2009, 03:14

Thanks again R-T. You just fulfilled arasi's (and mine too) requests!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 26 Jun 2009, 08:15

rAgam, tALam,
pallavi, anupallavi, caraNam, ciTTai svaram and all that to add to your name, if you wish! Thanks!
gITam, candam, nAdAnandam too, as the song goes

CML,
mayilODu oru kuyilum kETkudu!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 06 Jul 2009, 11:06

I had posted something with a link here. but the link does not work. Will come back with it later.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 06 Jul 2009, 11:26

Here is the link http://jaijoy.blogspot.com/2009/06/no-b ... n-art.html

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 06 Jul 2009, 17:40

Nice write-up! Thanks.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 06 Jul 2009, 21:05

Thank you Mohan. You helped out the dinosaur!
Jamuna was a baby when she came under the wings of her grandparents after the untimely death of her mother. Those were the heights of VVS's spiritual years and though she was very young at the time of his disappearance, his influence on her is immense. Though young, she is wise and is full of grace.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 06 Jul 2009, 21:44

arasi
Tell us the inside story of VVS's disappearance (if you can share!). How could he just abndon his tender family?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Jul 2009, 09:05

CML,
Wish I knew more! Since I have lived away from India for many years, the news came to me in bits. He was on his way to Chennai , traveling from Delhi.One of his daughters was getting engaged there. Old fans of his on the railway catering service said that they spoke to him at this Andhra Pradesh junction, the name of which I forget at the moment. When he did not arrive in Chennai, the family went in different directions to search for him.There were several reports: he got down from the train; went to a doctor. Was he sick? Did someone mug him because he was carrying cash and some jewelry for the occasion? Did he have amnesia? Or was it just that he decided at that moment to go on a spiritual quest? Where to? In the ensuing years, there were those who 'saw' him in the himalayas, here or there. Even my mother, when she went to VAraNAsi and GayA thought that she saw him from a distance (they were close) and that he spoke only in signs and was gone. Wishful thinking, perhaps. He would be ninety four now (we simply cannot think of him as not being with us). No, this is not denial. He had such a presence that to think of him as an absent person is hard--and that is what it is. He is one of those unforgettable people we come across only a few times in our lives, and I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with him as I was growing up...

gmohan · Post by **gmohan** » 07 Jul 2009, 09:52

From what I have heard the AP junction arasi is referring to is GUDUR

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 07 Jul 2009, 20:03

arasi
I have no intention of opening old wounds. But VVS is an unforgettable CM Icon; one who would have become one of the greatest in CM in the 20th century. His disappearance vies with that of the Netaji's which appears to have been solved now. If he were alive after the episode it would be impossible for him to remain incognito because of his enormous talents. Nice to know you got to spend a lot of time with him during your childhood. Do share some of your fond memories through this forum...

gmohan · Post by **gmohan** » 09 Jul 2009, 13:52

Here it is, enta vEDukontu

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mjiezrznnwk

ragam-talam · Post by **ragam-talam** » 09 Jul 2009, 17:45

mohan, thank you! That's a lovely rendition.

VVS's voice has that nice mix of GNB's 'ravai' and Musiri's 'softness'. And what saareeram!

I am sure he would have ruled the CM world if he had been around longer. I've heard from my elders that he was as much of a 'superstar' in his heydays as GNB was.

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 09 Jul 2009, 19:56

What a gAmbIryam in the rendition by VV Sadagopan

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 10 Jul 2009, 05:53

http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/03/04/stor ... 170300.htm

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 10 Jul 2009, 06:17

Thanks Mohan
it does appear that CDs of some of his concerts exist. Any idea how one can get them?

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 10 Jul 2009, 06:43

cmlover - refer to http://rasikas.org/forums/post3440.html#p3440

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 10 Jul 2009, 08:14

I think these are AIR concerts which he gave after he left the concert circuit and went to Delhi to teach at the university.
There is very little music from his short but dazzling career on the concert stage since the tape recorder boom came after that period. Teaching, research, editing the Music Journal and the Tyaga Bharati movement (music for children ) became his life after that.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 10 Jul 2009, 20:17

arasi
Is the 'Mellowed into a scholar with a vision ' really VVS in later years? My mind is frozen on the debonaire vision of the first piicture! Do you have any later pictures?

CRama · Post by **CRama** » 26 May 2011, 11:48

Today I chanced upon a casette of VVSadagopan given by a friend long time back. Of the 5-6 songs, the quality of a couple of songs needs to be improved which I will do today. If rasikas are interested, I will upload the same. I do not remember the songs- they are all ragamalikas probably, Bharathiar's which I have never heard before. Then vIllinai otha is there. These are all 78 rpm records released in 50s- What a majestic music.

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 26 May 2011, 17:21

Please do upload!

CRama · Post by **CRama** » 27 May 2011, 19:13

I am uploading six songs of Shri,.VV Sadagopan. Very majestic indeed. But I could not get Aadaram nee than and also Kamalakucha . If anybody have got these songs, kindly upload for me. I will be much thankful.
I find that some songs are already uploaded. But those links do not work now. If you can reupload them I will be very much obliged.
1. Nadamdi thirintha-Kambodi-http://www.sendspace.com/file/nmvime

2. Durbar-http://www.sendspace.com/file/xyfs2v

3. En endru ketpar illayo- http://www.sendspace.com/file/w1ux6r

4. Aanirai meykka- http://www.sendspace.com/file/pvvgfr

5. Enni enni manam punnaguthe- http://www.sendspace.com/file/7vsdi1

6. Villinai otha puruvam- http://www.sendspace.com/file/ueprxb

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 20 Nov 2011, 07:55

Found these links while browsing through vintageaudio54's you tube channel:

Villinai otha puruvam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cyGitXZaNk

Rama bhajanai Seithal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdtwwIMOw1U

Enta Veduko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-vs_uQif4Y

pvs · Post by **pvs** » 21 Nov 2011, 02:45

I think the Enta Veduko rendition is by Musiri Subramania Iyer and not VVS. The nasal, high pitch twang is unmistakably Musiri's patent!

CRama · Post by **CRama** » 21 Nov 2011, 17:23

That U tube version of Entavedu is certainly of VV Sadagopan. Not Musiri.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 21 Nov 2011, 20:39

Hadn't seen this thread for some time!
Thanks CRama and VK.

pvs,
It IS VVS!

I've mentioned this before, but for those who wonder about the sweet voice accompanying him in villinai otta puruvam vaLaittanai---it is his sister, veteran vocalist Jayalakshmi Santhanam!
And guess what, when the song made a debut in his concerts, it was in an all Bharathi concert at Ettayapuram, and he let an amateur niece of his sing just that one song with him at the end of the concert. She also sang the invocation to an august audience of Bharathi lovers--scholars, writers and musicians. That one moment of glory was enough to last a whole life time

pvs · Post by **pvs** » 21 Nov 2011, 21:39

Thanks, CRama and Arasi!
Just that the timbre of the voice in villinaiyotha (one of my most favourite renditions of any song, ever!) is different from the one in enta veduko. It could be my untrained ear...

satyabalu · Post by **satyabalu** » 21 Nov 2011, 22:32

*Wish to know the composer "Rama Bhajanai Seidal".

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 22 Nov 2011, 02:09

Kavi Kunjara Bharathi (Koteeswara Iyer's grandfather).

maduraimini · Post by **maduraimini** » 25 Nov 2011, 10:42

In his later years,VVS grew a beard and with his graying beard, he looked like the poet,Tagore. He also was scholarly like him. Thanks for the songs.

venkatakailasam · Post by **venkatakailasam** » 12 Feb 2012, 20:29

I am giving link to three of Shri VVS songs.. Both are Mixing done by me.

Enni enni manam punnakuthe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGUK70NL9k

Shri VV Sadagopan-Two Songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7dyLWCp ... re=related

1 yean endru ketpar Illayo

2.Aanirai meykka n^eepodhi* arumarundhu aavadhariyaay Pasuram

I was told by Smt arasi that except the pasuram, other two songs are VVS's Own composition..

Yesterday her platinum year has commenced-She had turned 75.

venkatakailasam

Pratyaksham Bala · Post by **Pratyaksham Bala** » 21 May 2012, 20:31

PLEASE CHECK THIS !!!....
http://arvindsdad.blogspot.in/2011/07/c ... gopan.html

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 11 Mar 2013, 20:42

CRama wrote:
But I could not get Aadaram nee than and also Kamalakucha . If anybody have got these songs, kindly upload for me. I will be much thankful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbDr6gYNY8

Also, Lakshminarayanan Sriram has mixed the song with the text of this article from Hindu http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/03/04/stor ... 170300.htm

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 11 Mar 2013, 20:57

Very well done! His voice which kept me spell-bound for ages is clearly captured.
We are lucky his creative spirits are still alive in his niece for our benefit!

CRama · Post by **CRama** » 12 Mar 2013, 09:59

Thanks a lot VK

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