image source: Wikipedia “RAMONA, I HEAR THE MISSION-BELLS ABOVE RAMONA, THEY’RE RINGING OUT THEIR SONG OF LOVE I’LL.PRESS YOU, CARESS YOU AND BLESS THE DAY YOU TAUGHT ME TO CARE I’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT RAMBLING ROSE YOU WEAR IN YOUR HAIR RAMONA, WHEN DAY IS DONE YOU’LL HEAR MY CALL RAMONA, WE’LL MEET BESIDE THE WATERFALL I’LL DREAD THE DAWN, WHEN I AWAKE, TO FIND YOU GONE RAMONA, I NEED YOU, I DO” A.beautiful “old song”, written in 1928 by L.Wolfe Gilbert with music by Mabel Wayne. Above is only the “chorus” as was recorded initially by Jim Reeves & later by Rudy & Riem de Wolfe, for the “Philips Lable”. I did not have the honour of meeting Jim, personally, but I did.meet “The Blue Diamonds”, Rudy & Riem de Wolfe when they came to Ceylon, shortly before I left for Australia. They were great guys, both of them, ...

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GOODBYE, ENGLAND’S ROSE by Desmond Kelly “the Star of eLanka” Image source: Best Women They say “time flies”, but who will ever forget Princess Di, the “Princess of the People”who died as the result of a car smash-up, exactly twenty years ago.I write this “story” for readers of ELanka and also for my readers of The Lanka Times, in Melbourne who, perhaps missed an excellent “Sunday-Night” Special, which I have just watched. It was shown on Channel 7, advertising & all, but I did HAVE to watch it because it WAS about Princess Diana, indeed, one of the most beautiful of English Roses who ever grew, not just in England, but anywhere else in the whole wide World. Sir Elton John, played piano and sang his dedication to the Princess, with the above “title” replacing the “hit” of 1973, “Candle in the wind” which, strangely, was another “dedication” to Marilyn ...

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