Shyam’s music ruled melody waves in Kerala during 70’s. In fact, Mid 70’s thru Mid 80’s was Golden period in his musical journey. He singled out S Janaki to render female melodies in most of his musicals in any language he composed including Malayalam,Tamil,Telugu. Right from Manyasri Viswamithra movie, she rendered beautiful solos and duets in his music . “Mainakam” can be termed as one of best from their combination. We included few hits from this combination in prior compilations. This exclusive compilation of Solos from SJ-Shyam team is a sincere tribute to Shyam sir for his contributions to Malayalam Film music !! Included 3 songs of SJ in music of Jithin Shyam sir also ..

Enjoy these melodies and stay tuned for songs of SJ in different combinations….!

In addition to regular romantic and pathos songs, S Janaki became obvious choice for Dasara PadagaLu & Devotional songs in Kannada movies. SJ became ultimate choice for cabaret songs also from mid 70’s. Haunting melodies like Tangaliyalli are another variety of songs where she remained unmatched.
          On a whole Kannada music industry explored every single talent of S Janaki! Enjoy her melodies in a variety of songs here and stay tuned for many more ..

S Janaki got to sing duets with numerous female singers like Jikki, P Susheela, vani Jairam, S P Shailaja, Ambili etc.. in Malayalam. It was P Leela & B Vasantha who gave most memorable female-female duets along with her. Songs like Kannonu thurakku deepangaLe(With P Leela) , Kannil Meenadum(With B Vasantha) never fail to drive us nostalgic. Duet with Shanta P Nair from Murippennu (Kadavathu Thoni) is one of her personal favourite! Enjoy songs in these combinations and stay tuned for more!!

S Janaki had beautiful duets with Kamukara Purushotham, AM Rajah, P B Sreenivas during late 50’s and early 60’s. K J Yesudas is the singer to share maximum number of duets with her right from 60’s. He is followed by P Jayachandran. She had equally melodious duets with singers of next generation like Unni Menon, M G Sreekumar who shared initial hits of their respective careers with her. In addition to these regular singers in Malayalam movies, she had beautiful melodies with S P Balasubrahmanyam, M Balamurali krishna etc…
Music directors experimented in several duets with her as only female singer and two Legendary male singers sharing mike with her. “Raghuvara nannu brovara” from “Ente Mohangal Poovaninju” is a classic example for the same. Music Directors like M S Viswanathan, V Dakshinamurthy, Raveendran, Johnson etc .. not only reserved their compositions to SJ but also shared duets with her. Enjoy songs in these rare combinations and stay tuned for more !!

         S Janaki – P Suseela Duets are lesser in number in Kannada compared to Telugu & Tamil. But songs like “Aase HeLuvase” , “Nee Nadiva Hadiyalli” were extremely popular. SJ shared duets with A P Komala, P Leela, Renuka etc .. during 60’s and early 70’s. But It was Bangalore Lata in 60’s and Vani Jairam in 70’s and 80’s who were best pair with SJ in female duets. Duets like Chandramukhi Pranasakhi(With B’lore Lata) & Teredide Mane (With Vani Jairam) stood test of time and remained as All Time Hits.
       SJ continued to deliver hits with singers of next generation like SP Sailaja, K S Chitra, ManjuLa Gururaj, B R Chaya and others.. Enjoy these melodies and stay tuned for many more !

          P B Srinivas was standard voice for Raj Kumar through out 60’s until Raj Kumar started singing for himself from Mid 70’s. Not only for Raj Kumar but PBS was voice for all other heroes also. SPB became standard voice of heroes from 70’s. KJY also had memorable hits during this period. Mano was well encouraged by Hamalekha during 90’s and then there were other Legendary singers who shared their own success in Kannada cinema. SJ got to sing with almost all of them. This is first in series of her Melodies with rare combinations (other than PBS,SPB,Raj Kumar, KJY).
          This compilation has two songs of SJ with Legendary Balamurali Krishna. If he sang Alaapana and She sang complete song in Ranga Baaro, the reverse happened in Nanna Hrudaya Veena meeti. Enjoy such rare classics and stay tuned for more.

           SJ was part of musical camp of SPB right from his first movie as music director. With exception of few movies, she played a major role in his Musicals. Similarly, When SJ composed music for Mouna Poratam, She opted for SPB as only male playback in her music and he took care of back Ground scores as well.
           SPB won Nandi Award as Music Director for Mayuri where SJ had Lion share of songs and when this movie was remade in Hindi, Only one tune of SPB was retained in Hindi and SJ won Sur Singar Award for the same. This is just an example for Musical collaboration between Balu-Janaki. It is very difficult to study musical Journey of either one of them without involving the other ..
This compilation brings out variety of songs in their combination for various music directors from 70’s to 90’s.

            Ravivaramke andani song is equally (if not more) popular in Telugu as in Kannada (Ravi Varamana Kunchada). Similarly, Sundaramo Sumadhuramo had beautiful lyrics penned by Veturi (though for a dubbed movie). Nee Kannulalona is “Aagaya Gangai” in Tamil which had one of finest performances by SJ. There are few other songs from Erra Gulabilu, Tiger, Prema Sagaram etc .. which had their melodious counter parts in Tamil and Kannada.
           Another Interesting song in this compilation is Vidya Sagar’s “Okate Korika”. He re-used tune of his Tamil classic SPB-SJ duet Malare Mounama . When Karna was dubbed in Telugu, Telugu version (Palike Mounama) was sung by Mano-Janaki . Thus, Same tune is repeated in Telugu twice. He used same tune as “Olave Mounave” in Kannada and it was SPB-SJ again.

Enjoy these Melodies & Stay Tuned for more songs with interesting trivia in upcoming compilations!!

This compilation covers different moods of Balu-Janaki duets in direction of veterans. These songs might have been picturised on Hero-heroine or Character artists, One common thing in all these songs is enthusiasm and team work of Balu Janaki that they make even such rare songs memorable . Enjoy these songs and stay tunes for more !!

Rao Bala Saraswathi , P Leela , Jikki ,Jamuna Rani played a major role in South Indian file music during 40’s and 50’s . Though their songs were reduced in number from 60’s ,they always remained as famous as they were during their peak period .

They were succeeded by P Susheela , S Janaki , L R Easwari in 60’s. Later on Vani Jairam , S P Saiaja shared their own share of hits from 70’s and then Chitra entered in late 80’s followed by Swarnalatha, Sujatha and others.Singers like Bhanumati , S Varalakshmi ,A P Komala, B Vasantha, Banagalore Lata , Sarojini , Swarnalatha (Senior),Renuka ,K Rani and others gave memorable hits in Telugu Cinema .

Every singer had their unique identity in History of South Indian film music and gave such songs which cannot be forgotten forever. SJ shared mike with almost all of them.Listen to songs in these rare combinations and stay tuned for more.

S Janaki shared beautiful songs with Balamurali krishna in all 4 south Indian Languages along with few private albums. she not only sang few comedy based songs with Madhavapeddi Satyam, Pithapuram nageswara rao but she also shared mike with this famous singing pair together occasionally. Am Rajah, Jayadev, Chittaranjan, Raghunath panigrahi and others also shared few notable duets with SJ.

Her first song with Mhd.Rafi was for a Hindi movie “Ramayan” where she got to share just few lines with her favorite most singer. Talla Pellama was first Telugu movie where she got to sing a duet with him and Aradhana was a complete musical with vocals of Mhd Rafi and SJ all the way.

V Ramakrishna was the bridge in Telugu Music between Ghantasala Era and SPB era. SJ got to share some beautiful melodies with him. Similarly KJ Yesudas played a brief but important role in Telugu music. He was voice behind songs of actor Mohan babu and several background and emotional songs. He got to sing few but memorable duets in Telugu. SJ had her own share among them.

G Anand, Madhavapeddi Ramesh , Nandamuri Raja , KBK Mohan Raju gave playback occasionally during the peak period of SPB. SJ sang duets with all of them. Not only with singers, she shared mike with music directors like B.Gopalam, Chakravarty, Ilayaraja, Vandemataram Srinivas, Sri also. Actors like Rao Gopal Rao,Allu Rama Lingayya, Raja Babu had super hit songs in their own voice along with S Janaki. Enjoy all such rare songs and stay tunes for many more !!