Wishing the 1960 Batch - emails received

Chandran Ponnambalam

Thank you Philip. Premanila & our family join me in wishing you & yours  & all from the 1960 batch, a Merry Christmas & a Happy & Healthy New Year.

                                              Chandran Ponnambalam

Daya Jayasinghe

Thanks for your thoughts and wishes and the picture of a beautiful Batticaloa church and of course the music.

 We like to wish all a v happy XMAS and a safe and happy 2016 Daya and Malathi Jayasinghe


Leeda and Wijay

Hope you and family have a wonderful and Peaceful Christmas Season and a peaceful New Year.

Leeda and Wijay

Asoka Tinto	13:35 (3 hours ago)

Dear Philip,

Thank you and wish you and your wonderful family the same.. Happy Healthy 2016

Love and blessings

Sujaee

Dr. Mrs. Ganeshamoorthy	22 Dec (1 day ago)

Dear Philip
Thank you. We too wish you a Happy Christmas and peaceful New year. Thank you for x mas songs.
Love to from all of us
Jeya

Dr. Brahman Sivaprakasapillai <brahman_siva@yahoo.com>	8:15 PM (9 hours ago)
to Brahman, Vijayalakshmi

Wishing you and your family a very happy Holidays and a very healthy, happy and successful 2016

Vijayalaksmi and Brahman Sivaprakasapillai

Attached is a picture of our long term assets!

Attachments area

WEERASINGHE SOMARATNA

 Dear Philip
Thank you for your good wishes.
Wish you and your family a peaceful and healthy 2016.
                                                                Weera&Daphne

Sarojini Manikarajah	05:12 (2 hours ago)

Wishing all my batch mates A Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

Sarojini Manikarajah (nee Selvaratnam)

Sujiva Ratnaike	12:57 (18 hours ago)

Dear Philip,

Thank you Philip. Sorry we missed seeing you while we were in Sri Lanka. May be next year.

Wish you and yours   a happy festive season and above all Good Health in the year ahead .

Best Regards

Sujiva

Light and health

http://www.popsci.com/big-idea-lightbulbs-can-make-us-healthy

Newer antibiotics

http://www.popsci.com/big-idea-new-weapon-to-fight-superbugs

'The Star' of Bethlehem.

http://theconversation.com/what-can-science-tell-us-about-the-star-of-bethlehem-51773

Living a lie

Amy Cuddy digs into what our faces and bodies do when we tell a lie.Let me start with a question: How do you know if a person is lying? If you’re like most people, your first response will be something like “Liars don’t make eye contact.” In a survey of 2,520 adults in sixty-three countries, 70 p...

http://flip.it/ZqKd3

Christmas Day, 2015.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night With Lyrics - Kings College Choir

https://youtu.be/TvegJ3wRLFE

Cedarmont Kids - We Three Kings with lyrics

https://youtu.be/vI9S5Pecsco

Once in royal David's city with lyrics

https://youtu.be/DeDjYOQtbhc

Silent Night

https://youtu.be/9T4WB2zfmps?list=PL1OJ5F2uAZR1eCn79W7iIwVEdkCaOC0xT

Joy to the World

https://youtu.be/PNy2CEklxA4

The Little Drummer Boy - Boney M. (with lyrics)

https://youtu.be/GU1QmT7hbLE

WHEN A CHILD IS BORN (Lyrics) - JOSE MARI CHAN

https://youtu.be/tnc2i_EjYds

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics

https://youtu.be/htLc_HdZZqo

Today is Christmas Day. I thought of arranging a few of the Carols, which were popular in our younger days ( I am now 75) and  which are still popular. I have chosen video clips which all have lyrics with them. This is to make you all join  in the singing. Hope you have an enjoyable time, listening to the music and singing along.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas

Philip G V & Family

Mary's boy child - Oh, my Lord lyrics

https://youtu.be/6QskYr5xpNs

Mary's Boy Child - by Harry Belafonte

https://youtu.be/mkq4AlQyIkA

Vienna Boys Choir: Mary's boy child

https://youtu.be/tDxBX7c6Dbk

MARY'S BOY CHILD - ukulele performance of Christmas carol made famous by Harry Belafonte

https://youtu.be/y7m10j-X9gc

Mary's Boy Child

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Mary's Boy Child"
Song by Harry Belafonte from the album An Evening with Belafonte
Released	1956
Genre	Christmas
Writer	Jester Hairston
Language	English

"Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston.^[1] It is widely performed as a Christmas carol.

Contents

  [hide] 

·         1History

·         2Covers

·         3Translations

·         4Other uses

·         5References

History[edit]

The song had its genesis when Hairston was sharing a room with a friend. The friend asked him to write a song for a birthday party.^[2] Hairston wrote the song with a calypso rhythm because the people at the party would be mainly West Indians. The song's original title was "He Pone and Chocolate Tea", pone being a type of corn bread.^[2] It was never recorded in this form.

Some time later Walter Schumann, at the time conducting Schumann's Hollywood Choir, asked Hairston to write a new Christmas song for his choir. Hairston remembered the calypso rhythm from his old song and wrote new lyrics for it.^[2]

Harry Belafonte heard the song being performed by the choir and sought permission to record it.^[2] It was recorded in 1956 for his album An Evening with Belafonte. An edited version was subsequently released as a single,^[3] reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957.^[1] It was the first single to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.^[1] To date, Belafonte's version has sold over 1.19 million copes.^[4] In 1962. the full-length version was added to a re-issue of Belafonte's previously released album To Wish You a Merry Christmas.

The song was also recorded by Mahalia Jackson in 1956 but titled "Mary's Little Boy Child"