A. L. Raghavan started his career in 1947 with 'Krishna Vijayam' (1950) and 'Sudarsanam' as Lord Krishna. He also acted on TV series, 'Aliaigal'. As a boy, he was introduced by Chidambaram Jayaraman and sang in a girl's voice for Kumari Kamala in the film
Vijayakumari.
Music composers he sang for Many music directors gave him memorable songs, including
C. R. Subburaman,
K. V. Mahadevan,
Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy,
S. M. Subbaiah Naidu, C. N. Pandurangan,
S. V. Venkatraman,
Ghantasala, H. R. Padmanabha Sastri,
S. Dakshinamurthi,
R. Sudarsanam,
T. R. Pappa,
Vedha,
Master Venu,
P. Adinarayana Rao,
G. K. Venkatesh,
V. Kumar,
Rajan–Nagendra,
Vijaya Bhaskar,
G. Devarajan,
M. S. Baburaj,
Veenai S. Balachander,
B. Gopalam, T. A. Kalyanam, K. G. Moorthy,
S. P. Kodandapani,
T. V. Raju and
M. S. Viswanathan.
Playback singers he sang with He had many solo songs but also sang with other singers. He sang immemorable duets mostly with
K. Jamuna Rani and
L. R. Eswari. Others are
P. Susheela,
Jikki,
S. Janaki,
M. S. Rajeswari,
A. P. Komala,
A. G. Rathnamala,
Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi,
P. Leela, K. Swarna, Kausalya, Renuka, Sarala, M. R. Vijaya,
Manorama, L. R. Anjali and
Swarnalatha. He also sang duets with male singers, most notably with
T. M. Soundararajan,
S. C. Krishnan, S. V. Ponnusamy,
P. B. Sreenivas,
J. P. Chandrababu,
Seerkazhi Govindarajan,
Thiruchi Loganathan, T. A. Mothi, Sai Baba,
Malaysia Vasudevan,
M. S. Viswanathan, K. Veeramani,
G. K. Venkatesh, Dharapuram Sundararajan,
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and
Sean Roldan. == Television ==