This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
La Paloma
"La Paloma" is
a popular Spanish song that has been produced and reinterpreted in
diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140
years. The song was composed and written by the Spanish composer from the Basque region Sebastián Iradier (later Yradier) after he visited Cuba in 1861. Iradier may have composed "La
Paloma" around 1863, just two years before he died in Spain in obscurity,
never to learn how popular his song would become.
"La Paloma" belongs
to a genre of songs called "Habaneras," a musical style developed in
19th-century Spain that is still today very much present in the form of folk
songs and formal compositions, particularly in the Northern Basque Region and
East Coast (Catalonia and Valencia) regions of the country. Like all
"Habaneras," its characteristic and distinct rhythm reflects the
fusion of the local Cuban songs that the Spanish sailors of the time brought
back with them from their travels to the island, with the rhythm structure of
the flamenco “tanguillo gaditano” (original from Cádiz, Andalusia). Very
quickly "La Paloma" became popular outside of Spain, particularly in
Mexico, and soon spread around the world. In many places, including
Afghanistan, Hawaii, the Philippines, Germany, Romania, Zanzibar, and Goa it gained the status of a quasi-folk
song. Over the years the popularity of "La Paloma" has
surged and receded periodically, but never subsided. It may be considered one
of the first universal popular hits and has appealed to artists of diverse
musical backgrounds.[1] There are more than one thousand versions
of this song, and that together with "Yesterday" by the Beatles, is
one of the most recorded songs in the history of music.
Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-
Victoria de los Angeles, "La Paloma" (de
Iradier)
Nana Mouskouri & Julio Iglesias - La Paloma - In
live
André Rieu in Mexico. La Paloma.
Sri Lanka Roadtrip 2015 - GoPro
By carrying a small camera with a 'Fish-eye lens' attached to one's body, an amazing record of life around you as a series of photos or videos, could be made. Here is one effort. Please click on the web-link below:-
https://youtu.be/1Xn4Neni-kw
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Sentimental journey.
Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians' strike. When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Dayas vocalist, had a hit record with the song,[1] Day's first #1 hit, in 1945. The song's release coincided with the end of WWII in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.[1] The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36769, with the flip side "Twilight Time".[2] The record first reached the Billboard charts on March 29, 1945 and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.[3] The song actually reached the charts after the later-recorded "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time".
About
this same time, the Merry Macs had
a recording following Brown and Day which featured a bouncy arrangement where
the group modulates (or augments) the verse eight times in the last half of the
song. A vocal feat for any group attempting to record a song in one take
without the benefit of tape editing in that era of modern recording.
The
song later became something of a standard with jazz artists and was recorded,
among others, by Buck Clayton with Woody Herman and
by Ben Sidran. Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song in
1961. Rosemary Clooney issued an album Sentimental
Journey (2001)
which included the song.
Doris Day- Sentimental Journey
https://youtu.be/BgRgExUMEis
Doris Day & Les Brown - rare 1985 reunion video of "Sentimental Journey"
The Platters - Sentimental Journey (1963)
Ken Griffin –
Sentimental journey
Mike Reed plays "Sentimental Journey" on the
Hammond Organ
Lyrics
The song describes someone about to take a train to a place they have a great emotional attachment for. It describes their mounting anticipation and they wonder why they ever roamed away.
Doris Day – Sentimental Journey Lyrics
Gonna take a sentimental
journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that "All aboard"
Seven, that's the time we leave, at seven
I'll be waitin' up for heaven
Countin' every mile of railroad track
That takes me back
Never thought my heart could be so 'yearny'
Why did I decide to roam?
Gotta take that sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home,
Sentimental journey!
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
Got my bag, got my reservation
Spent each dime I could afford
Like a child in wild anticipation
Long to hear that "All aboard"
Seven, that's the time we leave, at seven
I'll be waitin' up for heaven
Countin' every mile of railroad track
That takes me back
Never thought my heart could be so 'yearny'
Why did I decide to roam?
Gotta take that sentimental journey
Sentimental journey home,
Sentimental journey!
Songwriters: PRIMA,
LOUIS/BUTERA, SAM /
Sentimental Journey lyrics © Sony/ATV Music
Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.PS
A very popular LP record by Ken Griffin, played in the Medical Students Common room, Kynsey road, Colombo, in the early 1960s.
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