Tuesday, April 28, 2015

email from Daya Panditha-Gunawardena

Dear Batchmates,
Having attended all of the previously held batch get togethers, which we really enjoyed, Ranjini and I will unfortunately have to miss the get together in June.  We visit Sri Lanka about 4 times a year for short periods and of course meet some of our batchmates who live in Sri Lanka.  

On this occasion our scheduled visit for family reasons is for the period 30 April and returning to the UK on 18 May but long term previous commitments in the month of June have sadly prevented us from returning to Sri Lanka and joining all of you at what should be a great get together.
Ranjini and I will at least be there in spirit and wish you all a great time. 
With very best wishes,

Ranjini and Daya Pandita-Gunawardena

Monday, April 27, 2015

The Seekers

Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-

The Seekers The Carnival Is Over (1967 In Colour Stereo)


The Seekers - A World of our Own (1965 - Stereo, enhanced video)



The Seekers-Waltzing Matilda 1994
https://youtu.be/ESebV4H5JuM


The Seekers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Australian music group. For other uses, see Seekers (disambiguation).
The Seekers
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The Seekers in 1965
Background information
OriginMelbourneVictoriaAustralia.
GenresEasy-listeningpopfolk
Years active1962–1968, 1975–1988, 1992–present
LabelsW&GWorldEMIColumbia,Capitol
Websitetheseekers50th.com
MembersAthol Guy
Keith Potger
Bruce Woodley
Judith Durham
Past membersKen Ray
Louisa Wisseling
Buddy England
Peter Robinson
Julie Anthony
Karen Knowles
The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourineAthol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitarbanjo and vocals; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals.
The group had Top 10 hits in the 1960s with "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "Morningtown Ride", "Someday, One Day" (written by Paul Simon), "Georgy Girl" (the title song of the film of the same name), and "The Carnival is Over" by Tom Springfield, the last being an adaptation of the Russian folk song "Stenka Razin". The Seekers have sung it at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including World Expo 88 and the Paralympics. It is still one of the top 50 best-selling singles in the UK. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as "concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock."
In 1968, they were named as joint "Australians of the Year" – the only group thus honoured. In July of that year, Durham left to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded. The band has reformed periodically, and in 1995 they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. "I'll Never Find Another You" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011. Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song "I Am Australian", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem. With "I'll Never Find Another You" and "Georgy Girl", the band also achieved success in the United States, but not nearly at the same level as in the rest of the world. As of 2004, the Seekers have sold over fifty million records worldwide.
The Seekers were individually honoured, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, as Officers of the Order of Australia recipients, in June, 2014.[1]

Age and memory

Statins May Affect Memory

HARVESTING BANANAS IN COSTA RICA

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Kumbaya -

What does 'kumbaya' in the song "Kumbaya, my Lord" mean?


"Kumbaya, my Lord" was first recorded by an out-of-work English professor, Robert Winslow Gordon, in 1927. Gordon went on a search for black spirituals and recorded a song "Come by Here, My Lord", sung by H. Wylie. The song was sung in Gullah on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort. Gullah is the creole language featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of Song of the South. "Come by here, my Lord" in Gullah is "Kum by (h)yuh, my lawd" (see our Gullah dictionary).
American missionaries took the song to Angola after its publication in the 1930s, where its origins were forgotten. In the late 1950s the song was rediscovered in Angola and returned to North American where it swept the campfire circuit as a beautiful and mysterious religious lyric. That is why the song is associated with Angola in many current printed versions.

In the US, however, the song was associated with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other campers sitting around a campfire in perfect harmony. The picture of a warm, cozy community without conflict associated itself with the song and especially that foreign-sounding word in its title, kumbaya. Since the word had no actual meaning in English, cynics eventually converted this harmless connotation into the actual English definition of the word. That definition now seems to be "naive, unrealistic optimism" to many of us (not me).

Please click on each of the web-links below with your speakers on :-

Soweto Gospel Choir - Khumbaya (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

The Seekers - Kumbaya

https://youtu.be/bYJMtn6IJeE

https://youtu.be/_6oN7Oz9o8g?list=PLXFBsO1-DialXkeFSII4TQTfTUuLapIeq


Lyrics


Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Oh Lord, kumbayah
Someone's sleeping, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's sleeping, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's sleeping, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Someone's dreaming, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's dreaming, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's dreaming, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbayah
Someone's crying, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Someone's laughing, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's laughing, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's laughing, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing, my Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Come by here, my Lord, kumbaya
Come by here, my Lord, kumbaya
Come by here, my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Kumbayah my Lord, kumbayah
Oh Lord, kumbayah

An Inspirational Short Film


Chellah Padmanathan

11:27 PM (6 hours ago)


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Although we don't realize there are beautiful people among us who are  close to God.