Lily Marlene

Lily Marlene was a popular song among all parties in the conflict during the Second World War. The original was German. There are English, Spanish, Italian and Russian versions. It is a beautiful and catchy melody. Click on each of the following web-sites to hear different versions. I hope you enjoy listening to them. This was popular during our Medical Student days in the early 1960s.

Philip G V

Karaoke German – Spanish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkHPdRLeiD4&feature=related

First recording Melody only

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIBKFVU25s&feature=related

Lale Anderson – First recording German.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL0KniirXHM&feature=related

English soldiers version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0P_m7SZBvQ&feature=related

Later English version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDun3fVUcy4&feature=related

Another Christmas song composed in the 1950s

Two versions of 'Away in a manger'. Click on each of the links below separately.

Away in a manger – Celtic woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJb6uOF05Q&feature=related

Karaoke version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y91yNsdrE4&feature=related

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