Bhajans [196-; HMV; 7EPE 1268]

no image for this either, sry. fwiw, this is pretty real, pretty early, pretty rare as far as these things go. the first two are super cool. this is seriously the least amount of info i can find about any of these albums so far. this dude, Bhimsen (Bheemsen) Joshi, would go on to become nationally renowned for devotional recordings such as these, although this appears pretty early.

Some discrepancy exists as that site, a wonderful reference, lists the release date as 1962, however the label on the record identifies "Recording First Published 1965." so idk. kannada religious music from the early days of 45s right here, regardless.


Side 1:
Enna Paliso Karunakara - Bheemsen Joshi
Karunakar Nee Nembuyuvadyatako - Bheemsen Joshi

Side 2:
Sada Enna Haridayadalli - Bhimsen Joshi
Bhagvada Lakshmi - Bheemsen Joshi


the bottom of side 2 contains:

(Music: V. Nagiah)
SM. Jayavanthi Devi

7TJW 178


...your guess is as good as mine

Hemareddy Mallamma [1973; Columbia; 45-GE. 18009]

still workin on that scanner

Side 1:

Naa Ninna Manadaasi (Part - 1) - Sul. Rajalakshmi

Side 2:

Naa Ninna Manadaasi (Part - 2) - Sul. Rajalakshmi

Music: Diwakar

Lyric: Vijayanarasimha

G.R. Films

Columbia

45-GE. 18009

bollysite

As much as I love everything that came out of Mumbai, my heart really lives in Karnataka. I couldn't find really anything about any of the players involved with making the movie or the recordings but the sounds really hit that magical place right between classical style and popular playback awesomeness (the vocals in part-1 especially). This record was really hit when I got it but I think the music shines through. If you hear too many digital artifacts please let me know, I really pushed it trying to clean it up.

This track is from the same movie but is not on this pressing. The makeup in this is really, really cool but check out the 2:30 mark for one of the better breakdowns you can find in playback music.

Shree Purandara Daasaru [1967, Angel Records - EMI, TAE 5069]

Side 1:

Lambhothara - Balamuralikrishna, Prema, Sarojini, Sarojna

Aparathi Nanalla - P.B. Srinivos

Side 2:

Chandra Chooda - Balamuralikrishna

Sakala Graha Bala - P.B. Srinivos

Side 3:

Badawarolige - Thaney & Jagava

Kandu Kandu - M. Balamuralikrishna

Side 4:

Jagathotharana - M. Balamuralikrishna

Hadithare & Rama Nama - Prema, Sarojini & Sarojna

Music Direction - C.N. Panduranga

Lyrics - Purandaradoss

Shree Hamsa Chitra

Angel Records - EMI

TAE 5069

somewhat early, downtempo, sparse Karnatic film music. Not my favorite but these represent some of the rarer pressings in this collection.