Shrinivas Khale was an employee of Akashwani Mumbai Centre. He was assigned the clerical work in the library of radio tapes. He used to issue and receive recorded tapes. He was a musician par excellence. He composed a tune for a children’s song Tap tap padti angaavarti parajaktachi phoole written by Mangesh Padgaonkar at the instance of Mai Warekar. Later he composed a tune for Shukratara mand waara written by Mangesh Padgoankar . The original song was a solo but was made a duet as per the request of Khale himself. It has become a very famous bhavgeet in  Marathi. Padgaonkar also joined Mumbai Centre of Akashvani later and Khale became his colleague.Padgaonkar never liked a musician of Khale’s caliber doing the clerical work. Khale then got an offer from HMV ( now Sa Re Ga Ma ) to work as a recording officer.He was to get the authority to select the songs to be recorded. His talents would be utilized in this position. The salary was thrice the salary he got at the radio centre. He was to get the authority to select music director for the song. He could himself compose the tune if necessary. This in fact was the beginning of a  new chapter in Khale’s life.