Yesudas's first song in Tamil films was in the film Bommai and the song was Neeyum Bommai.
Yesudas has sung in a Bengali film named Kabita and guess who it
starred ? None other than Kamal Haasan !!
Yesudas has sung very few songs for Amitabh Bachchan. The songs are in
the film Alaap which has a wonderful song Koi Gaata Main So Jaata
The song Kalai Vaaniye in Sindhu Bhairavi sung by Yesudas is sung
COMPLETELY in Aarohanam (ie only ascending order of swaras)
Yesudas-RD Burman, what a combination that would have been !! Unfortunately,
for music lovers, they've come together only once for the film Alag Alag.
Most of Yesudas's Hindi songs have been under Ravindra Jain music direction or some with even Bappi Lahiri !
However, there have been some wonderful numbers with Salil Choudhry too,
like Ni Sa Ga Ma Pa & Jaan-e-man Jaan-e-man with Asha.
The song Kanne Kalaimaane in Moondram Pirai picturised on Kamal
was written by Kavingyar Kannadasan and it was his LAST offering to the
world of films. He passed away the next morning (?)
Y.G.Mahendra, on hearing the song Sundari Neeyum from Michael Madana
Kama Rajan congratulated Yesudas on singing such a wonderful song. Yesudas
humbly replied, "Its a wonderful song indeed, but the credit should go to
Kamal, for he sung it". Needless to say, YG Mahendra was stumped !
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