90 Comments on More on GNB

kiran on Sat, 17th Dec 2005 10:11 am


You did a great job.
Kiran

S.K on Sat, 17th Dec 2005 6:13 pm


Thanks, Kiran!

Goutam Iyer on Sat, 17th Dec 2005 11:18 pm


Excellent job kiran….looking 4 more of any rare rendations of GNB from yu….keep up the good job man.

Krishnaprasath on Sun, 18th Dec 2005 8:23 am


Great posting and thanks for sharing the works of GNB. Looking forward for more.

S.Sivaraman on Sat, 31st Dec 2005 3:30 am


i really thank you for extending such rare pieces. i am greatly obliged and delighted. Thank you very much once again.

S.K on Sat, 31st Dec 2005 3:34 am


Thank you Goutam Iyer, Krishnaprasath and S.Sivaraman.

I’ll try and put more of GNB’s music very soon.

Happy New Year!

S.K

S.Sivaraman on Sat, 31st Dec 2005 4:22 am


The link is not proper. we are unable to down load the full concert zip file. please do something

S.K on Sat, 31st Dec 2005 4:31 am


Mr. Sivaraman,

Are you refering to this link on the GNB site, which is part of the Sangeethapriya.org site?

I tried it just now and the download works like a breeze.
I used a d/l accelerator.

But if you still have difficulties, pl give a shout. I’ll make an alternative arrangement for you.

Cheers

S.K

Srinivasan on Sat, 31st Dec 2005 11:41 am


hi – Appreciate your efforts
Wish you folks a very happy new year
Regards
Srinivasan

muralikrishna on Sun, 1st Jan 2006 2:34 pm


I am delighted.
A really praiseworthy job.
Congrats.
Muralikrishna

S.K on Sun, 1st Jan 2006 5:24 pm


Thanks, thanks Srinivasan and Muralikrishna for your kind words.

And I wish to warmly reciprocate your greetings!

Cheers!

S.K

bhaskar on Mon, 2nd Jan 2006 1:01 am


Excellent job. Real feast to the ears.

Girish Jamadagni on Mon, 2nd Jan 2006 5:42 am


S.K,

Great job. Please keep it up. Looking forward to more such gems.

Especially the record quality of the Surutti Krithi is excellent.

I have some difficulty in downloading the Mysore concert. Will try again.

Thanks – Girish jamadagni

Sunil M B on Tue, 3rd Jan 2006 1:57 am


Dear S.K.,
Great job.Please keep it going.
Do let me know if I can be of any help to you.

Regards
Sunil

S.K on Tue, 3rd Jan 2006 4:02 am


Thanks, Sunil, for your kind offer.

My ISP at home (company LAN) has put in restrictions for uploading. That is why I am not able to provide a download link to Girish for the Mysore concert zip file. If you happen to be at Chennai and and possess broadband, You may like to help me in uploading from a CD. Alternately, you may try and d/l individual songs from the GNB site, compress them and upload the .zip file to file repositories like http://www.yousendit.com/

And @Girish, could you pl tell me the exact nature of the problem. And thanks for your kind words.

@Bhaskar, it is very nice of you to compliment my effort.

Happy New Year!

Cheers!

S.K

k v chellappa on Thu, 5th Jan 2006 1:12 am


A wonderful service in the cause of carnatic music and its lovers.

shamini gayatri krishnan on Thu, 5th Jan 2006 2:50 am


thanks a lot for sharing gnb sir’s concert and info with other rasikas.
happy new year and may god bless you with the best always

Sivakumar T on Thu, 5th Jan 2006 4:26 am


I believe that you have done a good job and of course a great service to the carnatic music and its lovers.

Kaumaaram Sivakumar T

Dr.Ram Mohan on Mon, 9th Jan 2006 11:05 pm


It has been really a happy new year because I was able to download GNB’s songs from ur site. Thanx. Wish you a happy 2006 and beyond so that u may give us more GNB!!!

Mrs Janakipattabiraman on Mon, 16th Jan 2006 9:16 pm


Dear SK
I enjoy your sangeethapriya site. As a rasika I am a frequent visitor to this site to listen the music collections.

The collections of GNB, somu, KVN and udayalur kalyanaraman are superb.
wish you happy new year and i wish you all wishes in your endevours.
yours
Pattabiraman,
janaki pattabiraman
Ramya Pattabiraman

D Aravamudan on Wed, 1st Feb 2006 4:24 am


Hats off to you Dear SK.

A real praiseworthy job and great service to our evergreen Karnatak Music….

Pls keep up the good work..

Rgds…..amudan

Dr.P.Ramakrishnan on Wed, 1st Mar 2006 12:16 am


Sir,
It is wonderful worth millions of dollars.When I listen I feel these recordings
should be preserved and passed on to generations to follow.Your broadmindedness to share your happiness with others by listening
to these rare pieces needs to be appreciated.
God bless you.

S.K on Wed, 1st Mar 2006 12:22 am


Shri. K.V.Chellappa
Ms. Shamini Gayathri Krishnan
Shri. Sivakumar.T
Dr. Ram Mohan
Ms. Janaki Pattabiraman, Pattabiraman and Ramya Pattabiraman
Shri. D.Aravamudhan
Dr. P.Ramakrishnan

Thanks for your kind words.

They make my efforts worth it.

I’ll podcast more of GNB in the forthcoming posts.

Regards

S.K

V.Seshadri on Sun, 2nd Apr 2006 4:10 pm


GNB is my favourite singer-He is par excellence a step above the rest. His inimtable style coupled with his rich voice has no equal or parallel
What you have achieved here,bringing his wealth to the general admirers of GNB music is unrivalled-It is a revelation! I got to this by a fluke.
Please keep it up and ggood luck

Anantharamu.T.N. on Sun, 11th Jun 2006 10:21 pm


DEAR sir,
Done a very very good job.
thanks a lot.

RAJAGOPALAN on Thu, 15th Jun 2006 6:30 am


You,shyam and many other such great souls
make me feel life is all not that bad…
and it is worth living long…

Rajagopalan

Parameshwar Natarajan on Mon, 26th Jun 2006 10:42 pm


I have a good collection of concerts of vintage artists including GNB. How do I put them on this site for rasikas to download?

S.K on Mon, 26th Jun 2006 11:16 pm


Thanks for your offer, Mr. Natarajan.

If you could give me more details about your location, the size of your collection, the format, bitrate of encryption (if it is in MP3 format) etc, I can arrange for their uploading on the site.

I await your reply.

Regards

S.K

sreekeshava on Sat, 1st Jul 2006 11:13 pm


Collections are superb.
Excellent work done by putting GNB’s collections in One place like this.

But the Mysore(GNB-Chowdiah-Palani-1957) concert link is having some problem with zip file.
I downloaded the zip file.
It downloaded successfully.
After downloading the zip file, it is not opening properly. its giving some error.

Ramanathan on Sun, 2nd Jul 2006 12:17 am


Dear SK,

Thanks for the Sangeethapriya site. You are doing a great service to Carnatic Music. Thanks to you, though living in a place like Indonesia, we are able to enjoy Carnatic Music Concerts.

Regards

Ramanathan.

Ramakrishnan on Thu, 27th Jul 2006 6:41 am


This is a wonderful collection of the great musical genious. Thanks for the service that you did. You deserve a great appreciation for uploading these wonderful masterpieces.
But the edukula khamboji is not complete.

Thanks once again.

Regards,
Vijay.

kumar on Thu, 24th Aug 2006 8:10 pm


gr8888 work.music field needs you

Nagesh Nallappa on Thu, 7th Sep 2006 11:22 pm


A yomen service to carnatic lovers and specially to GNB fans!

Grateful indeed.

Arun on Fri, 8th Sep 2006 2:10 pm


Nice songs. Always it is so refreshing to listen to GNB. I was very impressed with the clarity of the recordings.

M.KANNAN on Thu, 14th Sep 2006 8:51 am


VERY INTERESTING SITE. I RECOMMENDED MY FRIENDS TO VISIT THIS SITE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GNB

Hareesh on Thu, 14th Sep 2006 9:05 pm


Thank you for providing carnatic music lovers like me to have this wonderful feast by great master GNB and expecting more from you.

sriram b on Mon, 18th Sep 2006 3:22 am


Thanks for sharing the wealth!
-Sriram

Ramsubramnian. K.S. on Sat, 30th Sep 2006 10:26 pm


This is a great job. Carnatic lovers like you are the key to preserve the masterpieces of traditonal architects of Carnatic classics.
ALL the best.
Regards,
Ram.

Venkatramani on Mon, 2nd Oct 2006 4:37 am


The names of accompanists for the caption”Here is a concert”:
Lalgudi Jayaraman -Palani Subbudu
This concert was at Shree Shanmukananda Hall Bombay in the late fifties.

Radhakrishnan on Tue, 3rd Oct 2006 9:47 am


Good work!
Please keep it up.

KR Raghunathan on Sat, 14th Oct 2006 4:01 pm


Ingenious attempt. I was dying to get real music on web and one of my friends told me about this. I am immensely pleased and hats of to you for the yeomn service you are doing to the music lovers.
God bless you.
Raghu, Delhi (at present in Sydney)

Chandrasekharan on Mon, 16th Oct 2006 6:30 pm


U have done a great job. I have no words to thank u

Chandra

vasudha on Thu, 19th Oct 2006 4:24 pm


excellent work from you.

chandramouligs on Wed, 13th Dec 2006 3:36 am


really very good work!!!!
It is commendable that you have taken pains to digitize and upload

K.Balaji on Sun, 31st Dec 2006 8:52 am


Its really a wonderful job. I was so happy about the rare renditions of GNB. Is the Song THIKKU THERIYADHA KATTIL by GNB available?

WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

Kalyani on Thu, 4th Jan 2007 10:10 am


Wonderful..

Keep up the gr8 job.

.V. Rajaraman on Fri, 5th Jan 2007 8:17 pm


Dear sir,
It is wonderful collection. Have you got Brochavaeveroora in kamas

sivaram on Sun, 7th Jan 2007 7:21 am


A source of constant joy!
Thank you!

S.Viswanathan on Thu, 11th Jan 2007 9:16 am


Hi

It is really great and enjoyable, Looking for more like this. Thanks

Dr.K.H.Nagabhushan on Mon, 12th Mar 2007 9:48 pm


Really commendable job
I feel because of such people like you only the calassical carnatic music has not become extinct & still alive
regards

lakshmi shankar on Thu, 15th Mar 2007 6:55 am



excellent !!!

Excellent collection of GNB. thank u very much on Wed, 4th Apr 2007 12:47 am




Excellent collection of GNB. thank u very much on Wed, 4th Apr 2007 12:48 am



siva kumar

k sundaram on Thu, 3rd May 2007 10:06 am


Dear Kiran,
I heard GNB concert in this. It is too good. I am an ardent lover of GNB concert. Most of my time I used to listen his concerts only. I prefer listening concert type rather than selected songs in audio cassette. If you have many more like what you have given here, please upload for people like. Regards,
K SUNDARAM

k sundaram on Thu, 3rd May 2007 10:07 am


Dear Kiran,
I heard GNB concert in this. It is too good. I am an ardent lover of GNB concert. Most of my time I used to listen his concerts only. I prefer listening concert type rather than selected songs in audio cassette. If you have many more like what you have given here, please upload for people like. iT IS A GREAT TREAT
Regards,
K SUNDARAM

Dr. T M S Nedungadi on Fri, 11th May 2007 1:17 am



Dear Sir,
I chanced aupion the site just aweek ago. It was a revelation indeed.Your efforts and especially the broadminded unselfish non commercial (in today’s moolah oriented world!)mentalty has no parellel. May God Bless you. Correct me if I am wrong; were yoou in Nairobi by any chance during 1979-80/81? Rgrds
Dr.TMS Ndungadi

S.K on Sun, 13th May 2007 2:02 am


Dear Dr. Nedungadi,

Yet to get an opportunity to visit Nairobi, capital of Kinshasa (aka Congo), Right?

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards

S.K

gurumurthy venkatesan on Sun, 13th May 2007 10:47 am


When I heard the song radha samedha krishna, it was scintilitating. excellently sung and recorded. I listened to the song 10 times continuously. very good. keep it up.

Dr. T M S Nedungadi on Wed, 16th May 2007 10:28 am


Dar Sk
The GNB piece with a train chugging along in the background reminded me of one Mr KRISHNAN who was in Kenya ( with Nairobi as its Capital )who was kind enough to give me a copy of the same concert on an audio CD which I preserve even today!! Hence the Query
I got it somewhere in 1980 when I worked as a consultant Surgeon in one of the Dist Hospitals in Kenya.I still have this cassete preserved.Hence the doubt Nice to know about the divers spread of GNB fans. Regards
Dr TMS Nedungadi

kenya
whose
Capital

Murali on Tue, 22nd May 2007 3:06 am


Delighted to know that there are so many GNB fans. I have a few GNB collection in MP3 format at 128kbps. How to upload to your site, so that all our friends can listen and enjoy?

sridhar on Tue, 22nd May 2007 9:31 am


GNB is my all time favourite. What is the reason for his death at such a young age?

S.K on Tue, 22nd May 2007 5:08 pm


Sridhar,

GNB had a cardiac problem. He was out of action for about 10 years. But after he resumed singing, his ardent rasikas expected the same old verve from him. Hence he overstretched his limits. He then migrated from Chennai (aka Madras) to Trivandrum and became Principal pf Swathi Thirunal Music college. He got another attach there which he could not survive.

55 was very much an young age for a singer.

Thank God we have quite a few of his recordings, though not from his younger days, which were full of vigour and vitality.

Regards

S.K

Prasanna on Sun, 3rd Jun 2007 2:46 am


Dear S.K,

Thank you for the wonderful collections. Your site has given me a great opportunity to listen to many a great songs.:mrgreen:
Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
Keep up the Great Work !!!!

Best Regards,
Prasanna

Mahadevan on Wed, 13th Jun 2007 6:59 pm


There is a nattakkurinji RTP by GNB where the pallavi is “Nee Mahima Koniyada Tharama?”. i have searched the net for it – only a partial version is available at SAWF.org.Could you please send me a link to the whole concert if you have it ?
Thanks
-Maha

M.R.Venkataraman on Mon, 18th Jun 2007 2:13 am


You have aroused my memories of mytwenties hearing the Great Master. Now in my sixtees after hearing your contribution he is really a greatest Master. My pranams to you Sir

S Srinivasa sarma on Tue, 26th Jun 2007 4:32 am


my dear friend
this is remarkable. 0nly today i went thru this and found Aragimbave, rAdA samEdA etc.
you deserve our special thanks. luvs/rgds-guruvayoorappa- sarma

g.raju on Wed, 4th Jul 2007 3:12 am


excellent sir, live long. nice to hear such wonderful songs . thanks a lot.

g.raju chennai

kannan on Fri, 24th Aug 2007 10:39 pm


S.K I do not have words to express my gratitude to u. I am an ardent fan of Chembai. Madurai Mani Iyer and GNB. After going thru the GNB collection of urs I am thrilled to the core. Once again my heartfelt thanks and kudos for the effort put in.

S.K on Sat, 25th Aug 2007 12:54 am


A zillion thanks to all those who have recorded their comments. I am really overwhelmed by the appreciation I have received from you for my tiny little effort!

May your tribe grow!

S.K

S.K on Fri, 26th Oct 2007 2:32 pm


I have just added two more songs of GNB in my latest post.

Click on the link “Weblog” on top navigation bar.

Enjoy!

S.K

Padma Lakshmi on Fri, 7th Dec 2007 5:19 am


Hi there…I found your site via Yahoo! when i was searching for lakshmi shankar, and this post regarding More on GNB really sounds very interesting to me.. Thanks.

yknaidu on Thu, 22nd May 2008 7:55 pm


excelent job

your protecting indian culture

cmkay7 on Tue, 15th Jul 2008 1:11 am


GNB is unforgettable phenomena. It is purely due to God’s grace alone one would have a chance of hearing his voice.

k.pkuppuswamy on Thu, 24th Jul 2008 10:50 pm


it is a wonderfull work for collecting the most valuble songs of G.N.B.thanks a lot for your contribution to carnatic musuic lovers

ravishankar on Sun, 27th Jul 2008 1:40 am


the zip file when i download and try to open it is giving an error. can u help

Vaidyalingam K on Wed, 30th Jul 2008 2:12 am


Hello Mr.Kiran! I am 67 years old. Used to hear Shri GNB in Shanmukananda auditorim in 70s. Many thanks for you.

M.Uma Maheswar Rao, on Wed, 20th Aug 2008 5:00 pm


Dear Sir,
Thank for your great work on GNB. Kindly collect his Saveri raga’s Patnam Subhramanyam Iyer Kruti ‘ Yetu Nmina O Manasa’. Mostly available with AIR.

Kindly let me know the GNB family.

thanking you,
Yours
Uma Maheswar Rao

kesavamhurthy on Thu, 18th Sep 2008 9:45 am


Thank you for extending a great chance of enjoying the matchless GNB. Wish to hear his Swaminatha paripalama, Brochevarerura, Samajavaragamana, Tjikkutheriyatha kattil etc

Pragadeeshwaran on Sun, 12th Oct 2008 10:12 pm


Dear Mr.S.K

Thanks for such a great job done by you..It’s really amazing to hear the songs of GNB the great.

Just FYI.. the links for Ariyakudi Sri Ramanuja Iyengar is not working in the sangeethapriya web link..Pls help me to hear his songs by providing the links.

Thanks

M.Ramaswamy on Sun, 4th Jan 2009 8:18 pm


Dear Mr S.K,
Many thanks for the great service to the rasikas.I visited your site for the first time today and heard couple of songs.The experience was enjoyable.Please keep it up.

venu on Tue, 6th Jan 2009 8:56 am


Dear S.K.
GNB the three letters was one of the greatest carnatic musician of his time.Handsome and versatile GNB was responsible for creating a lot of rasikas.He was also an actor and teamed up with the only one MS in Sakunthaai which saw the duo appear on the screen and singing melodiously to please the music lovers.Incidentally today is the Centenary of GNB and I am very happy to get your introduction Please include me in your playing XI.One point I am stressing here is that for my identification I am a FANATIC of legendary Madurai Mani Iyer.MMI& GNB were very great friends

A.Ramaswamy on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 7:55 pm


Dear SK,

Yhanks for the site ienjoyed the music of great GNB

I have attended many performance o GNB during 40s I never had occassion to listen to his music afterwards as i had to take up a job in the railways (M&SM RLY) now at my fag end of my life ichnced to
listen to rasikapriya.I was thrilled with his TODI alapana. Kindly post some more of his kutcheris Thanks Kausik1922 Boston area

A.Ramaswamy on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 7:56 pm


Dear SK,

Thanks for the site ienjoyed the music of great GNB

I have attended many performance o GNB during 40s I never had occassion to listen to his music afterwards as i had to take up a job in the railways (M&SM RLY) now at my fag end of my life ichnced to
listen to rasikapriya.I was thrilled with his TODI alapana. Kindly post some more of his kutcheris Thanks Kausik1922 Boston area

A.Ramaswamy on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 7:58 pm


I need some more collection of his

Kausik1922

S.K on Thu, 15th Jan 2009 8:07 pm


Dear Shri. Ramaswami,

Thanks for your kind visit.

Though I’d like to offer more concerts of GNB from my collection, I’m unable to do so since GNB’s sons have requested us not to provide his music for download since they intend to monetise it.

But if you dig deep into http://www.sangeethapriya.org/, you may find some more concerts.

Having said that, considering your age and the privilege you had to listen to the great master live (which we never had a chance), I can arrange to send a few songs personally to you, if you can mention your preferences specifically to me addressed to skichu [at] gmail dot com.

Pranam

S.K

Kaamajakaaya on Tue, 10th Feb 2009 3:38 am


Hi there, I found your blog via Google while searching for first aid for a heart attack and your post looks very interesting for me.

N Narayan on Sat, 14th Feb 2009 7:01 am


Dear SK Sir,

At the onset i would like to thank you for the yeomen service which you are doing for carnatic music lovers .I am visiting this website for the first time and i must tell you that the your collection is amazing . I thank you once again for the same . One request if you you could add Thaamadamein swamy from Raaga THodi i would be extremely greatful

I am in office completing my work and simultaneously listening to GNB sir’s performance .

Many thanks & Regards

Narayan

M. Srinivas Dixit on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 8:21 pm


I like GNB music very much I have collected many songs from Sangeethapriya. I request you to give me GNB songs through mail nediafire. 1. Gnamosagarada, Samayamutelisi, Sevikkavendum, Upacharam Bhairavi, Vinayakunivalenu -madyamavati, Kapi ragam your song is very good Radha mukha Kamala Lyrics I have.

Yagnaroopaya on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:53 pm


Hi. I read a few of your other posts and wanted to know if you would be interested in exchanging blogroll links?

M.RAMASWAMY IYER on Sat, 9th May 2009 5:42 am


Dear Mr S.K,
A lot of thanks for the precious service to the music rasikas. I am also a fan of Sri.GNB. I visited your site today and heard Sri.GNB’S songs. I am highly appreciating your hardwork. I am praying to Lord Sri Padmanabha to shower his blessings to you and your family with good health and longliveness.

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