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I was thinking for a long time to host my dream web site with all seventies' Telugu melodies and it has just materialized now. I am an avid listener of 70's and 80's Telugu melodies that haunt me all the time. When I was searching for a few of my favorite Telugu songs on the web (especially of Krishna and Sobhan Babu songs from 70's) in Sept 2005, to my dissatisfaction I could not find them and that's when I decided to host a site with my choice of list of Telugu melodies. My intention is to make these melodies available online to a few other like-minded Telugu people. Most of these songs take me back to my childhood days, when I used to listen to these songs on janranjani radio program and on those big mikes on guDi, pAla kEndram, and cinema canvassing rickshaws in our home place (Nuthalapadu, near Chirala). Some of these songs remind me of my fondest school memories of singing-competitions in our elementary and high schools and of watching the action movies (of NTR, Krishna, Sobhan Babu and Chiru) in our village and in the nearby villages like Parchuru, Pusapadu, Punuru and in Chirala and Chilakaluri Peta towns in the late 70's and the early & mid 80's. I would be happy if you too felt a little nostalgic about your childhood and school days and "vividha bhArati janaranjani" program while listening to some of these songs. For now, I am collecting only the songs from 70's, 80's and a few from early 90's. I would like to host some of 60's songs (Duets of Ghantasaala and P Suseela) as well in the near future. But I have no intention of hosting songs with "bhAshA uchhAraNa dOshAlu" on my site, as I am a hardcore Telugu bhAshAbhimAni and that's why you don't see any songs after mid-90's here (especially from the times when SP Balu slowed his songs down). Acknowledgements: First, I would like to thank my family (two little kids and my working wife) for paying a price on family time to my passion for Telugu melodies. I am grateful to AndhraKitchen.com for its initial help on my web site. My brother, Chitti Babu (Chilakaluri Peta) and my cousin, Ramesh Babu Vinnnakota (Guntur) took the cumbersome job of getting the audio songs recorded in Chirala/Chilakaluri Peta and then getting them converted to MP3 songs in Guntur. I am grateful to Surya Guduru (Vijayawada), who sent me some of the rare mp3 songs that my brother/cousin could not find. Interestingly, he too happens to be a staunch fan of the music director, Sathyam and this like-mindedness brought us together. I am fortunate to find a well-wisher like Surya as he contributed a lot to the site, in particular, to the discussion board. Actually, it is his idea to have a discussion board to discuss and share the knowledge on all melodious songs and the people (producers, directors, lyricists, music directors and singers) behind the creation of those wonderful songs. My friends, Suresh Mantrala (Foster City, CA) and Srivatsava Chimakurthi (Concord, CA) collected a few songs from their sources. My cousins (Rudranadha Babu Movva and Venkat Thimmisetti, Cupertino, CA) and my other friends (Rama Raju Dutta, Austin, TX; Venu Gopal Bhagavathula, Lowell, MA; Brahmanandam Gorti, Cupertino, CA; and Vijaya Kumar Vemuri, Fremont, CA) helped me in brain-storming the list of songs. My tODalluDu, Dr. Rama Krishna Baadugu (Lexington, KY), my best friend, Gyanmote (Fremont, CA) and my cousins, Viswanadh Bokkisam (Foster City, CA) and Bhaskar Bandikallu (Cupertino, CA) helped me with suggestions on the web page design. A few like-minded folks, Sadasiva Rao Varanasi (Bangalore), Surya Kondapalli (Hyderabad), Santha Ram (Bangalore) and Nanda Kishore Kamavaram (Bangalore) voluntarily sent me some rare .mp3 songs that I could not be able to collect myself hitherto. Without these folks' time and enthusiastic voluntary assistance, it could have been very difficult for me to come up with this site. If you have any good songs from 70's and 80's that match the wavelengh of the songs (or the songs with * on this site), you can kindly send me (either a list of songs or the actual .mp3/.rm files) at chimata.music@gmail.com and I would happily host those songs on my site. Thanks for visiting my web site and have fun listening to the songs on this site. Srinivasa Rao Chimata Fremont, CA |
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