Then my favorite of Pat Boone https://youtu.be/v4s2AMKPHnE Ofcourse Elvis I less liked; Tony Brent is similar who eat half the words. KR IRS 24825
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chittanandam V R <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 05:57 Subject: Fwd: English Songs To: *OLD ENGLISH SONGS* 'This is an information note about a unique programme of old English songs, both film and non-film. It will be held at Tag Centre, Chennai on the morning of Sunday, August 31, 2025, and is being organized by Mr R T Chari.' The above is a message received by me. Below is what Mr.R.T.Chari writes about English songs. I think what Chari says happened sixty years ago. Chittanandam *I saw some 350 films* (matinee shows) in four years while studying electrical engineering at the College of Engineering, Guindy. Some 60 of these films were in English, which we saw at theatres like Minerva, Wellingdon, Globe, Odeon or Casino. On two days a week in college, the last two periods used to be tutorials. No lectures. They were usually handled by young lecturers, who were fresh graduates and our friends. We would tell them that we would do the tutorials at home. They would allow us to leave college early. We then made a beeline to a cinema house. Some half a dozen of us formed a gang and after the film show, we went to Buhari hotel for cutlet and tea -- and music at the jukebox. To get a song from the box, you just had to slip in a 25 paise coin. (A cutlet would cost 50 paise, a cup of tea 25 paise.) We first listened to the songs that other Buhari customers had paid for, then asked for our choice. I think the jukebox carried some 60 songs mostly non film songs. No place other than Buhari could give you so many English songs. Pat Boone, Elvis Presley and Tony Brent were my favourite singers. So enamoured was I of their songs that I became a bathroom singer. And when we met as a gang, we sang them together. My movie and music experiences made my college years the golden period of my life! After I got a job and lived as a bachelor in Vadalur, I bought a gramophone and many records. Sometimes I listened to my favourite songs all night. The songs brought back happy memories. Those days, English songs were my first preference. It’s later that my tryst with Carnatic music began. All other music then almost got banished from my emotional radar -- including English songs. But in the evening of my life, I think more and more about the English songs that captivated me during my youth. *-- R.T.Chari* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopoYcgeR%3D-r2Nac70uncM8GY1%3DyDEKHeDmH5QCanrLESQ%40mail.gmail.com.
