Soon after this sponsorship-recess, Sri Krishna and Sailaja sang an old classic, "himagiri sogasulu" from pAnDava vanavAsam movie. I should say Sri Krishna did a fairly good job in singing such a difficult classic.

Then Sri Krishna asked the audiences as to how many of them liked "rains" and how many did not. He assured them that whoever didn't like the rains hitherto would start liking after listening to this song. Chitra and Sri Krishna together sang "innALLaku gurtochhAnA vAnA" from varsham movie.

Balu sang this ever-green vibrant song, "kurrALLOy.. kurrALLu" song from andamaina anubhavam movie by pumping all his energy into the song. This song received the most thundering applause from the audiences. He then said that with this song we commemorated Athreya as well.

He then inroduced the sound engineer (who was not on the dais), Asif Mohammad to the audiences and thanked him for his wonderful job. He then thanked all the Telugu people for letting him sing for the last 42 years (including singing for the 4th generation) - "talli tanDrulu kani penchitE, meerantA vini penchAru".

The final song in the concert was "antaryAmi.. alasiti, solasiti" song sung by Balu from annamayya movie. Balu and all his team thanked the audiences.

List of all Songs in the concert:
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1. vandEmAtam song (National song --> All four singers
2. Om namaSSivAya song from sAgara sangamam --> Sailaja
3. antA rAma mayaam song from Sri Ramadaadu --> Balu (Sailaja & Sri Krishna as chorus)
4. pADalEnu pallavainA.. bhAsha rAni dAnanu song from sindhu bhairavi --> Chitra
5. yamahO nagari.. Culacutta puri song from chUDAlani undi --> Sri Krishna
6. yE SwAsa lO chEritE song from nEnunnAnu --> Chitra
7. bangAru kODi peTTa song from gharAnA moguDu --> Balu and Chitra (Sailaja & Sri Krishna as chorus)
8. priyatamA.. nannu palakarinchu praNayamA song from jagadEka veeruDu-atilOka sundari --> Balu and Sailaja
9. nAmpalli Station kADa rAjA lingO song from erra mallelu --> Sailaja
10. jallantA kavvinta kAvAlilE song from geetAnjali --> Chitra
11. telusA manasA.. song from criminal --> Balu and Chitra
12. uppongE gOdAvari song from gOdAvari --> Balu (Sailaja & Sri Krishna as chorus)
13. yamunA teeram.. sandhyA rAgam song from gOdAvari --> Sri Krishna and Chitra
14. vEdam.. aNuvaNuvuna nAdam song from sAgara sangamam --> Balu and Sailaja
15. mounam gAnE edagamani song from nA Autograph --> Chitra
16. balapam paTTi bhAma vaLLO song from bobbili rAjA --> Balu and Chitra
17. mAtRu dEvObhava anna sUkti song from pAnDu rangaDu --> Balu (Sailaja & Sri Krishna as chorus)
18. Jalsa Title song from Jalsa --> Sri Krishna
19. manasA.. tuLLipaDakE song from SreevAriki prEma lEkha --> Sailaja
20. abba nee teeyani debba song from jagadEka veeruDu-atilOka sundari --> Balu and Chitra (Sailaja & Sri Krishna as chorus)
21. O priyA.. priyA song from geetAnjali --> Balu and Chitra
22. paDDAnanDi prEmalO mari song from Student # 1 --> Sri Krishna and Chitra
23. ennO rAtrulostAyi kAni song from dharmakshEtram --> Balu and Chitra
24. himagiri sogasulu song from pAnDava vanavAsam --> Sri Krishna and Chitra
25. innALLaku gurtochhAnA vAnA song from varsham --> Sri Krishna and Chitra
26. kurrALLOy.. kurrALLu song from andamaina anubhavam --> Balu
27. antaryAmi.. alasiti, solasiti song from annamayya --> Balu
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The show exactly ended at 9: 00 PM. I met Balu and the Orchestra team at Swagath Indian Restaurant, Fremont CA. I had a more than 30 minute liesure chat with Balu on all 70's melodies and it was my dream-come-true. He was pleased to know about me and my passion on his old songs and he wondered why I did not meet him during the last concert (Sept, 2006) itself. We had a very good chat on music directors such as mAma, Puhalendi, Sathyam, Ramesh Naidu, Rajan-Nagendra, Chakravarthi and JV Raghavulu. When I reminded him such songs as "suprabhAta sundrari neevu", "okE kulam, okE matam", "ee kOvela neekai velisindi", "nEla meeda jAbili", "toli sandhyaku tUrupu erupu", "chUSAnE Olammee", "kalalOni UrvaSi", "praNaya rAga vAhini", "pADAlanE unnadi", "andarAni chandamAma nAkenduku?" etc etc and they certainly raked up all his nostalgic memories and he fondly went over those songs. It is still an unquenched thirst for me.. I felt like sitting with Balu for hours and hours to discuss and know all his comments on all his wonderful 70's/80's songs.

Srinivasa Rao Chimata