Besame Mucho.

"Bésame Mucho" (Kiss me a lot) is a song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez.^[1]

It is one of the most famous boleros, and was recognized in 1999 as the most sung and recorded Mexican and Latin American song in the world. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.^[2]

According to Velázquez herself, she wrote this song even though she had never been kissed yet at the time and kissing, as she heard, was considered a sin.^[3][4]

^{She was inspired by the piano piece "Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor" from the 1911 suite Goyescas by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, which he later also included as Aria of the Nightingale in his 1916 opera of the same name (Wikipedia)}

Please click on each web-link below with speakers on :-

https://youtu.be/83lnl6hOmUw - Besame mucho-Andrea Bocelli with Spanish lyrics, subtitles and English translation

https://youtu.be/Pqgj-Ch4LtE

https://youtu.be/MGaO1oJON88 - Placido Domingo

https://youtu.be/nWUdavQGvPY - Dean Martin

https://youtu.be/j68vN_5ia0w - Guitar

Mike Reed plays "Besame Mucho" on the Hammond Organ

https://youtu.be/5eXtduBn334

"Besame Mucho"

Besame besame mucho
Each time I cling to your kiss I hear music divine
Besame besame mucho
Hold me my darling and say that you'll always be mine

This joy is something new my arms enfolding you, never knew this thrill before
Whoever thought I'd be holding you close to me whispering you I adore
Dearest one if you should leave me
Each little dream would take wing and my life would be through
Besame besame mucho
Love me forever and make all my dreams come true
Besame besame mucho
Love me forever and make all my dreams come true.

1960 Medical Entrants Colombo, get together on 13th June 2015 at Negombo, Sri Lanka.

All those intending to attend the 1960 entrants Batch get together, on 13th June 2015 at Negombo, Sri Lanka, are kindly requested, to send their names and the number of extras attending, for us to inform the hotel early. 

This includes those who have booked for stay at the Jetwing Hotels.

Memorial Service for late Prof Tissa Kappagoda.

email from Sena & Sarojini

Dear Philip

Please share with our batch mates.



Memorial Service for late Prof. Tissa Kappagoda

I watched the 2 hrs 22 minutes long video recording sent to us by Philip with emotion and mixed feelings of sadness and joy. He would be missed by the family and his colleagues, patients and work mates but the memories of his achievements and dedicated services would remain cherished for a long time.


The memorial service was so meticulously conducted in open air location and the organisers were fortunate to have such glorious sunny weather .

The younger daughter Shanthi appeared so calm and steady and emotionally strong to maintain her M.C. role with such dignity and humility.

Following a brief welcome speech by her on behalf of the family, a large no of speakers addressed the large gathering to share their memorable events and experiences they could recollect about Tissa.
They were so varied from medical and academic colleagues, work mates, support staff, patients and families, research assistants/ students and few more.


His elder brother Nihal spoke on behalf of the Kappagoda family whilst a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk conducted a very brief but salient religious service appreciated by the large gathering of local community.


The speeches were heart warming, emotional and moving but covered most of his amazing qualities as an excellent and dedicated clinician, research worker and a tough mentor, workaholic, academic brilliance, being a wonderful husband and a loving father, author of several publications and above all humble, friendly and a much loved human being.


Tissa deserved all the praise and he would have appreciated in silence but with great admiration. The family would have been greatly comforted with such an amazing flash back of his exceptional life and career progress as narrated by such a varied admirers.


Iam glad that I watched the video in full and felt proud to have been a batch mate of such repute and fame.

Thank you Philip for sharing.

May he attain the ever lasting bliss of Nibbhana.


Nana

C.S.Nanayakkara

Listen to this Sri Lankan child Star

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APE LANKAWE PODI LAMAYEK....with a fabulous range and power of voice..

 

 

 

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Beauty of Sri Lanka.

Click on the web-link below and study the photos in a relaxed mood.

http://traveltriangle.com/blog/19-photos-that-will-inspire-you-to-explore-sri-lanka-right-now/

The Dean Martin Roasts - Meet the big names of the 1960s.

 - Bob Hope (Man of the Hour) 

Original Air Date - October 31, 1974

https://youtu.be/mNg-NYcRnYE

That’s Amore - A real classic of the 1960s.

Dean Martin

Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894–1967), and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 1899–1966). They were married in 1914. His father, who was a barber, was originally from Montesilvano, in Abruzzo, and his maternal grandparents' origins are believed to be also from Abruzzo even if it is not clearly known. Martin had an older brother named William Alfonso Crocetti (1916-1968).^{[citation needed]}Martin's first language was an Abruzzese dialect of Italian, and he did not speak English until he started school at the age of 5. He attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville where he was bullied for his broken English, he later took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager. Martin then dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought he was smarter than his teachers.^[3] He bootlegged liquor, served as a speakeasy croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill and boxed as a welterweight.

At 15 he was a boxer who billed himself as "Kid Crochet". His prizefighting earned him a broken nose (later straightened), a scarred lip, many broken knuckles (a result of not being able to afford tape used to wrap boxers' hands), and a bruised body. Of his 12 bouts, he said: "I won all but 11."^[4] For a time, he roomed with Sonny King, who, like Martin, was starting in show business and had little money. It is said that Martin and King held bare-knuckle matches in their apartment, fighting until one was knocked out; people paid to watch. Martin knocked out King in the first round of an amateur boxing match.^[5]

Martin gave up boxing to work as a roulette stickman and croupier in an illegal casino behind a tobacco shop, where he had started as a stock boy. At the same time he sang with local bands, calling himself "Dino Martini" (after the Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nino Martini). He got his break working for the Ernie McKay Orchestra. He sang in a crooning style influenced by Harry Mills (of the Mills Brothers), among others. In the early 1940s, he started singing for bandleader Sammy Watkins, who suggested he change his name to Dean Martin.

Click on each of the web-links below with speakers on:-

https://youtu.be/1AieUk2AH4w

With Sophia Loren

https://youtu.be/8QWwiopP3mo

https://youtu.be/-jbqyPzbjOQ

That's Amore Lyrics

In Napoli where love is king
When boy meets girl
Here's what they sing

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
When the world seems to shine
Like you've had too much wine, that's amore

Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing, "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay
Tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool
Just like a pasta e fasuli, that's amore
When you dance down the street
With a cloud at your feet, you're in love

When you walk in a dream
But you know, you're not dreaming signore
Scusa me, but you see
Back in old Napoli, that's amore

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie, that's amore
That's amore
When the world seems to shine
Like you've had too much wine, that's amore
That's amore

Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling
Ting-a-ling-a-ling and you'll sing, "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay
Tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella
Lucky fella

When the stars make you drool
Just like a pasta e fasuli, that's amore
That's amore
When you dance down the street
With a cloud at your feet, you're in love

When you walk in a dream
But you know, you're not dreaming signore
Scusa me, but you see
Back in old Napoli, that's amore
That's amore

Songwriters
BROOKS, JACK / WARREN, HARRY

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Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, FOUR JAYS MUSIC PUB