Odds and ends

Detecting Prostate cancer

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7122045/Doctors-trial-new-ten-minute-MRI-scan-check-prostate-cancer.html

Placebo and nocebo effects

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7119115/DR-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-not-statins-giving-aches-pains-nocebo-effect.html

Grieving elephants 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7120979/Grieving-elephants-carry-body-dead-calf-heart-breaking-video-footage.html

Let him go let him tarry

            https://youtu.be/0zWP2ZZEPvI?list=PLpARHivMaD08vQaUbENFZ2MdL_MIIJwP0

Now Bridget was a colleen with an independent air
And Bridget had a sweetheart who was gay and debonair
He would woo her, court her, jilt her nearly ev'ry other day
Till finally Miss Bridget was heard at last to say

Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim
He doesn't care for me, nor I don't care for him
He can go and get another that I hope he will enjoy
For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy

Then he wrote to her a letter sayin' he was rather bad
She sent him back an answer sayin' she was very glad
Then he wrote to her another sayin' he was well and strong
But she cared no more about him than the ground he walked upon

He can go to his old mother and set her mind at ease
For she's an old, old woman, and very hard to please
She can say that I am flighty as she has always done
'Cause I don't want to marry her great big ugly son

Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim
He doesn't care for me, nor I don't care for him
He can go and get another that I hope he will enjoy
For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy

Let him go, let him go
Let him go, let him tarry, let him stay
He can go and get another that I hope he will enjoy
For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy

The years rolled on and left poor Bridget high upon the shelf
And often in the evenin' when she's sittin' by herself
She remembers that young fellow, so debonair and gay
And wishes oh, so often, he'd never heard her say

Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim
He doesn't care for me, nor I don't care for him

Let him go, let him go
Let him go, let him tarry, let him stay
He can go and get another that I hope he will enjoy
For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy

Ruby Murray & Irish ballads.

Ruby Murray ~ Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry

https://youtu.be/xN9xWZw8m1E

Ruby Murray - When Irish Eyes Are Smiling {with Lyrics}

https://youtu.be/LN6tpk6JDL0

Ruby Murray - Galway Bay

https://youtu.be/xGf9HljxRAU

From Wikipedia

Child star[edit]

Ruby Florence Murray was born on the Donegall Road in south Belfast, Northern Ireland.^[4] Her voice's distinctive sound was partly the result of an operation on her throat in early childhood.^[5] She toured as a child singer and first appeared ontelevision at the age of 12, having been spotted by producer Richard Afton.^[1] Owing to laws governing children performing, Murray had to delay her start in the entertainment industry.^[1] She returned to Belfast and full-time education until she was 14.

Chart success[edit]

Again spotted by Afton, Murray was signed to Columbia and her first single, "Heartbeat", reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1954.^[3] Afton had offered her the position of resident singer on the BBC's Quite Contrary televisionshow, to replace Joan Regan.^[6] "Softly, Softly", her second single, reached number one in early 1955.^[3] That same year Murray set a pop-chart record by having five hits in the Top Twenty in one week, a feat unmatched for many years.^[1][2]

The 1950s was a busy period for Murray, during which she had her own television show, starred at the London Palladiumwith Norman Wisdom, appeared in a Royal Command Performance (1955),^[7] and toured the world.^[1] In a period of 52 weeks, starting in 1955, Murray constantly had at least one single in the UK charts — this at a time when only a Top 20 was listed.

Murray appeared with Frankie Howerd and Dennis Price, in her only film role, as "Ruby" in a 1956 farce, A Touch of the Sun.^[1] A couple of hits followed later in the decade; "Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye", a No. 10 hit in 1959, was her final appearance in the charts.^[1] EMI put together a compilation album of her hits on CD in 1989, including songs that regularly featured in her act; "Mr. Wonderful", "Scarlet Ribbons" and "It's the Irish in Me".^[1] They updated this with the release of EMI Presents The Magic Of Ruby Murray in 1997 and a triple album, Anthology — The Golden Anniversary Collection, in 2005, the 50th anniversary of her peak successes on the charts.^[1]

The name "Ruby Murray" lives on in rhyming slang, quite often in Only Fools And Horses, as the rhyme for "curry".^[8]

A play about Murray's life, Ruby, written by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones, opened at the Group Theatre in Belfast in April 2000.^[1]

Personal life[edit]

In 1957, while working in Blackpool, Murray met Bernie Burgess, a member of a successful Television and Recording Vocal Quartet The 4 Jones Boys. Shortly afterwards she left Northern Ireland to marry him and live with him in England.^[1] Burgess contrary to press reports didn't become her manager, his role was that of a supporting husband. The couple included a song and dance segment in Ruby's act during the 1960s. After their marriage failed in 1974, she was granted a divorce in 1976. She married an old friend, Ray Lamar, in 1993 and lived in Torquay, Devon. She had two children from her marriage to Burgess.^[1]

Although her days as a major star gradually diminished, Murray continued performing until close to the end of her life. She died of liver cancer, aged 61, in December 1996 in Torquay after a long struggle with alcoholism.^[1]

Spending her last couple of years in Aspreys Nursing Home, she often delighted her carers with a song and was visited by her special friend, Max Bygraves.

Ruby Murray, Songs of the 1960s.

Ruby Murray was a favorite singer of Irish songs in the early 1960s. We had an LP record by her in the Male Common Room next to the Canteen at the Medical Faculty, Colombo. Here are some songs of those years. Click on each of the blue underlined links to hear them. Hope you enjoy listening to them.

When Irish eyes are smiling -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN6tpk6JDL0

With Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSRnFy-7Hc

Danny boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ezdXDLz2KM

Galway Bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGf9HljxRAU

Let him go let him tarry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWP2ZZEPvI

When I grow too old to dream

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

And not to forget Cockles and Mussels which gave me a clue to what Molly Malone died of -Typhoid -('She died of a fever and no one could save her', there was no Chloramphenicol those days) after consuming uncooked the unsold Cockles and Mussels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXEWB3x9LU

A sing-along of Cockles and Mussells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNdU6bGE5E

In Dublin’s Fair city

1. In dublin's fair city, where girls are so pretty
   I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
   She wheeled a wheel-barrow, through streets broad and narrow
   Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh
   
   Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
   Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh
2. She was a fishmonger, and sure 'twas no wonder
   For so were her father and mother before
   And they both wheeled their barrow,
   through streets broad and narrow
   Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh
   
   Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
   Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh
3. She died of a fever, and no one could save her
   And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
   But her ghost wheels her barrow,
   through streets broad and narrow
   Crying: cockles and Mussels a-live, a-live oh
   
   Alive, a-live oh, a-live a-live oh
   Crying,. cockles and mussels a-live, a-live oh