The Little Drummer Boy - A Christmas favourite

The little drummer boy – Sung by Charlotte Church

Click on the web-link at the bottom and sing along with the words in red. You can copy and paste the words onto a Word File and then sing along.

This is the story of a poor boy who wanted to impress a visiting King by giving all he had. The last to perform, dressed in rags, with lack of support, he played his drums letting his soul and spirit create the symphony. The animals heard it, stopped and then honored him with their wagging tails. The people remained hushed and humbled, and the King bowed deeply when the boy finished his performance. The boy was summoned by thje King & was allowed to enter the palace of the King.

Little Drummer Boy

James Pierpont. publ.1857

Come they told me pa rum pum pum pum

A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum

Our finest gifts we bring pa rum pum pum pum

That’s fit to give our King pa rum pum pum pum

rum pum pum pum rum pum pum pum

So to honor Him pa rum pum pum pum,

When we come.

Baby Jesus pa rum pum pum pum

I am a poor boy too,pa rum pum pum pum

I have no gift to bring pa rum pum pum pum

That's fit to give our King pa rum pum pum pum

rum pum pum pum rum pum pum pum

Shall I play for you! pa rum pum pum

On my drum.

Mary nodded pa rum pum pum pum

The ox and lamb kept time pa rum pum pum pum

I played my drum for Him pa rum pum pum

I played my best for Him pa rum pum pum pum

rum pum pum pum rum pum pum pum

Then He smiled at me pa rum pum pum pum

Me and my drum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHYnOTJ_uk&feature=related

A Merry Christmas

Click on web-address below to see and HEAR a good Christmas card. Turn up your speakers.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2007134554829&source=jl999

'Blackberry' - The One Ronnie.

The One Ronnie discussing a 'Blackberry'.
Click on the following:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p00ctlvg/the_one_ronnie_clips_blackberry_sketch/

Merry Christmas

Hello Batchmates,

It would be a 'White Christmas' for quite a lot of you.

I have selected an appropriate song - it's history and its performance - on youtube link.

There are two versions the web-addresses of which I have shown below.

Please click on each of the 'youtube' links at the bottom of the words, separately.

The first link is a beautiful version with the words to sing along with.

I am sure all of you would sing along keeping in pace with the words.

Imagine that you are singing it along with your batchmates.

The second version is even better but there are no words which I am sure you will

know now by heart.

Here is wishing all of you a Merry Christmas.

Philip G V

White Christmas !

The song White Christmas is undoubtedly the most famous and popular of all the Christmas songs. The music and lyrics for White Christmas were written by Irving Berlin in 1942 and originally featured in the movie Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby. The lyrics of White Christmas struck a chord with the soldiers fighting in the Second World War and their families who were waiting for them back home. The song and recording of White Christmas by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers was so popular that it was later reprised in the movie called after its name - White Christmas. The film White Christmas once again starred Bing Crosby together with Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HrAy5xqzOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgaTRFbIlg&feature=related

Press the replay button on each link after the first download, to listen to an uninterrupted performance.

Names of Jewish scientists we came to know at the Medical Faculty 1960 to 1965.

The contribution of Jews to medical knowledge.

1. Freidrich Gustav Henle - Grandson of the Rabbi Feurth Germany. Loop of Henle, Henle’s membrane, Henle’s warts, Henle’s fissures, Henle’s sphincter etc.

2. Kaposi – sarcoma.

3. Unna’s – disease ( Seborrhic eczema)

4. Schamberg’s disease (Progressive pigmentary skin eruptions).

5. Lassars paste – Early substitute for Cortisone.

6. Wassermann – German Jew – Sero-diagnosis of Syphilis.

7. Ellie Metchnikof – Russian Jewish bacteriologist – Calomel in the early treatment of Syphilis. Nobel Prize.

8. Ernest Chain – Russian Jew (Isolating Penicillin). Nobel prize

9. Hans Krebs – German Jew - The Krebs enzyme cycle.

10. Otto Loewi – German Jew – Role of Acetyl Choline. Nobel prize.

11. Otto Meyerhoff - German Jew – Consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid leading to fatigue. Nobel prize.

12. Konrad Bloch – German Jew – Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Nobel prize.

13. Selman Waksman – Russian Jew – Invented the term antibiotic. Isolated Streptomycin. Nobel prize.

14. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine – Russian Jew – Anti-Cholera vaccine

15. Tadeus Reichstein – Polish Jew – Hormones of the adrenal cortex, synthesis of Vitamin C. Nobel prize.

16. Jonas Salk – American Jew – First vaccine against Polio.

17. Albert Sabin – Polish Jew – Oral Polio vaccine.

18. Sigmund Freud – Moravian Jew – Psychoanalysis.

Albert Sabin gave us a lecture in the New Anatomy lecture theatre in ?1964

Food for thought

What have we learned in 2,065 years?


"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero - 55 BC

So,

Evidently,

nothing……………….

Movies in the 1960s

Jews in the US entertainment industry – A story of how immigrants made waves.

‘…the big five, MGM, Paramount, Warner brothers, RKO and Twentieth Century Fox, all of which were owned and controlled by Jews. And of the not-so-little three – Universal, Colombia and United artists – two were in Jewish hands. …

As the Scottish director John Grierson, observed after a stay in Hollywood: ‘After a few years in the place, your foreskin falls away’.

‘… Hollywood, the place as it was said, where ‘the son-in-law also rises’ was the last redoubt of nepotism,…’

‘… any Jewish actor or actress hoping to be built up as a star had to be processed and turned into an all-American boy or girl before they could be exposed to the public….

Marian Levee had to become Paulette Goddard.

Bernard Schwartz had to become Tony Curtis

Judy Tuvim, Judy Holliday. ..

Danny Kaminsky, Danny Kaye

Joseph Levitch, Jerry Lewis

Shirley Shrift, Shelley Winters

Lee Jacob, Lee J Cobb

Dustin Hofmann.

Barbara Streisland.

From the paperback ‘The Jews’ by Chaim Bermant,

Sphere Books Ltd, London,

Published in 1977.

How many hours of fun and laughter they gave us in the 1960s, when there were no TVs. Here is a hurrah to all of them.

Philip G V