- M.S.Vishwanathan has composed music in Hindi for films like Barah Ghante (1975),Bachche Mere Sathi (1972),Pyaara Tarana (1982).Many of the Tamil movies were also dubbed into Hindi and for the dubbed versions he was the music composer.But unlike the kind of numero uno position he enjoyed in South India from 1959-1996, he did very less work in Hindi and though songs were melodious, media attention and publicity for those songs was negligible as those Hindi films for which he composed music flopped. The songs like Aandhi Ke Sang Toofan sung by Ambar Kumar,Jaaneman Tujhpe Hai Aaya Dil sung by Krishna Kalle,Loot Le Le Tu sung by Chetan and Pushpa Pagdhare are some of the songs composed by him which became famous at the time of its release.The duets of Vani Jayram-SPB like Meri Akhiyan Me and Dil Mein Dard were also popular.
- Viswanathan introduced Jayachandran, the Malayalam singer to the Tamil films in Manippayal(1973) with the song Thanga-chimizhpol and used him for many more films in the 70s.
- He mainly teamed up with the well-known Tamil poet and lyricist Kannadasan in the 1960s and 1970s and also with Vaali from late 1960's. Viswanathan continued to belt out hit songs from 1965 till 1996.
- The duo Vishwanathan and Ramamoorthy considered C.R.Subbaraman as their mentor and have said their other inspirations include music of T.R.Papa and S.V.Venkatraman. The Duo composed for over 100 films from 1952-1965.
- M.S.Viswanathan has also scored music for many non-film albums and for political campaigns.
- M.S.Viswanathan's achievements range from introducing fresher melodies with changing trends, style and orchestration approaches to incorporating various genres of what is now called world music into Indian cinema music.
- MSV is the inspiration for music directors Shankar Ganesh, Ilayaraaja, Deva, V. Kumar, A.R.Rahman, Vidyasagar, Gangai Amaran, Bharathwaj, Yuvan Shankar Raja and others.
- Viswanathan during the late 70s and 80s chose mainly the young, up and coming singers, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, and Vani Jayaram giving the careers of these singers a much needed boost.
- MSV was known as a master of playing 3 instruments -harmonium, keyboard and piano by the age of 13 whereas Ramamoorthy was known as master in playing violin by his age of 14.
- He reigned supreme in Tamil films from 1965 to 1985 and films with his music released consecutively every year from 1950-1996. He sang under his own composition over 500 songs and in addition sang 200 songs composed by other music directors Ramamoorthy composed for only 19 films on his own after the break up in 1965 till 1986.
- He has done playback singing for 500 songs composed by himself and has sung over 200 songs of composed by music directors like V. Kumar, Sankar Ganesh, Ilaiyaraaja, Gangai Amaran, Deva, Bharathwaj, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja.
- M.S.Viswanathan on his own composed music more than 1100 films from 1965 till 2013 including 78 Malayalam films,15 in Hindi, 15 Kannada films and 50 Malayasia films and 29 in Telugu.
- Ramamoorthy was older than Viswanathan by seven years, but placing of their names as ''Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy'' was agreed upon by both parties on the advice of N.S. Krishnan, who thereafter got the duo their first chance to score ''Panam'' a 1953 film produced by A.L.Seenivasan and directed by Krishnan himself.
- M.S.Vishwanathan has composed music in Hindi for films like Barah Ghante (1975),Bachche Mere Sathi (1972),Aakhri Nishaan(1974),Jesus(1976), Hum Tumko Dekh Lenge(1978), Pyaara Tarana (1982), Zulm Ki Zanjeer(1984).
- From the 1970s directors like S.P.Muthuraman, Major Sundarrajan, N.S.Manian, Bhagyaraj, R. Krishnamurthy, D.Yoganand, C.V. Rajendran, P.Madhavan, K.S. Prakash Rao, R.C.Shakti, I.V. Sasi, Vietnam Veetu Sundaram, M.S.Gopinath, Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuril, Amirtham frequently worked with Vishwanathan and later from the 1980s to the early 1990s new directors like Visu, S.A.Chandrashekar, Mouli, Major Sundarrajan, A.Jaganathan, Komal Swaminathan,Amirtham, R.C.Shakti collaborated with Viswanathan regularly. In the 1990s directors like Lakshmi, K.Raghunath collaborated with him.
- His major works over the past five decades have been in Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema and Andhra Pradesh films and has composed few songs in Kannada and Hindi films too.
- Humming, Chorus, Whistling were all incorporated swiftly in the songs composed by M.S.V without usage of advanced technology way back in the 1950s to the 1970s. MSV continued to upgrade his music with new trends like western music and disco from the early 1970s till the 1990s and blended them with Indian classical tunes.
- He is considered responsible for making singers like R.Balasaraswathi in the early 1960s and then in making Vani Jayram, S.Janaki, A.L. Raghavan, Yesudas, S.P.Balasubramaniyam a popular name since the late 1960s.
- MSV had composed over 7500 songs which includes Feature Films, Music Albums, Devotional Songs, TV shows, Advertisements, etc.,.
- M. S. Viswanathan was the first composer to reach the milestone of composing more than 1200 movies in his career from 1945 to 2015.
- M. S. Viswanathan was the first composer to compose for music for 5 Indian languages which are Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films.
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