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devotional songs. And most of them were also written by him. Out of all songs he composed, over 250 are sung by
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Ranganath's first stage song. Jayachandran himself sang those songs. So as a gratitude Ranganath called Jayachandran to sing for his first film song. When Ranganath didn't get other opportunities after his first film, he left Chennai, leaving his film dreams behind, and shifted to Kerala
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M. G. Devammal, both musicians. He wrote and composed music for a play by the
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Alappuzha (then Alleppey). He attached the place name to his name thus became Alleppey Ranganath.
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