{"id":54840,"date":"2020-12-22T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=54840"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:26:04","slug":"nimal-mendis-singer-and-songwriter-by-patrick-ranasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/nimal-mendis-singer-and-songwriter-by-patrick-ranasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimal Mendis singer and songwriter \u2013 by Patrick Ranasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 28px;\"><strong>Nimal Mendis singer and songwriter \u2013 by\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Patrick Ranasinghe<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54841 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nimal-Mendis-singer-and-songwriter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<wbr \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<b>Nimal Mendis singer\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080;\">and songwriter<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Moon over Asia\u00a0\u00a0 Harold Seneviratne Combo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HNhM7G8DmM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Nimal Mendis<\/strong>\u00a0(1934\u20132015) was a Sri Lankan\u00a0singer\u00a0and songwriter, and was one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to appear on the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_television\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_television&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmltsZhRPyYPZO4O7RqXH0wpuuEw\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">BBC television<\/a>\u00a0programme\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_of_the_Pops\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_of_the_Pops&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHjHdYjQyGMIWdSys5zEr3CCkrIA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><em>Top of the Pops<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1968). Mendis was a longstanding member of the Performing Rights Society and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society of Great Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mendis was discovered in the late 1950s by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Ceylon\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Ceylon&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFcTsECe3ivZ7vKdGgNAXbg1Ryrjw\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Radio Ceylon<\/a>, which dominated the airwaves in South Asia in the era. The station backed Mendis&#8217; songs from the outset, including &#8220;Kandyan Express&#8221;, turning them into hits in South Asia: so much so that listeners from all over the Indian sub-continent wrote in to Radio Ceylon requesting his songs.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nimal_Mendis#cite_note-1\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nimal_Mendis%23cite_note-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHoagpdPRRO4xuo3Of5zj6jGodIQ\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mendis had been involved with music from his early childhood, and has lived for many years in London travelling often to Sri Lanka. He has also lived at Le Paradis in the Charente, the South West of France, for five years with his wife Ranjani. Mendis was married to Ranjani for 33 years until her death in 2010, and has one son, Paulmarie, with whom Mendis ran Mediaeye Productions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mendis has 22 songs published in Britain and has written music for films in Sri Lanka. &#8220;Kiss Kiss Kiss&#8221; was Mendis&#8217;s first song that was recorded in Britain and sung by Mary Marshall on the Columbia label. &#8220;Kandyan Express&#8221;, &#8220;Cherry Blossom Tree&#8221;, &#8220;Oh My Lover&#8221;, &#8220;Butterfly in the Rain&#8221;, &#8220;Champagne Blues&#8221;, and &#8220;Goodnight Kisses &#8220;&#8216; were number-one hits in Sri Lanka in the late fifties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Kandyan Dance&#8221;, an instrumental, was his second piece in the West. Recorded by Friedel Berlipp and his Orchestra in Germany it went on to be number two on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Luxembourg_(English)\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Luxembourg_(English)&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG0kDq-vL936O_FySI0YL6-P5NV5g\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Radio Luxembourg<\/a>. It was also released in the United States.\u00a0<em>Black Pearls &amp; Green Diamonds<\/em>\u00a0has eight of Mendis&#8217;s songs on an LP for Decca by One Two and Three, a folk group in Britain. This album is now a\u00a0collector\u2019s\u00a0item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mendis appeared on the popular\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkB1aS4DYGzFuNFP3HvIDSYxwKpA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0television music programme\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_of_the_Pops\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_of_the_Pops&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHjHdYjQyGMIWdSys5zEr3CCkrIA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\"><em>Top of the Pops<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with his singing partner Sandra Edema in 1968 as guest artists with his song &#8220;Feel like a Clown&#8221;. The B-side of the record &#8220;Rainbow Land&#8221; was the A-side in the States and today (2013), it has become a collector&#8217;s item in the Psychedelic Rock community in the west. They were also featured with the song on\u00a0<em>Beat Club<\/em>\u00a0in Germany that year.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Wright\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Wright&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEY_HpRdUSMpiPzTUMCprCh4XGcYA\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Eugene Wright<\/a>, bass player with the original\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Brubeck\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Brubeck&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608733289087000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGGruCBDhI_wOuok1xMCFgaTldwdg\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\" data-mt-detrack-attachment-inspected=\"true\">Dave Brubeck<\/a>\u00a0Quartet, arranged and recorded five of Mendis&#8217;s songs with only him playing bass. He also arranged and produced one other song, &#8220;Singing Fish&#8221;, with electric guitar, bass, and piano. They were sung by Sandra Edema.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This Classic instrumental \u201cMoon over Asia\u201d was composed by Nimal Mendis for Harold Seneviratne Combo in 1958 when Nimal returned from UK to Sri Lanka. I remember well I was studying at St Peters Collage and livening down Milagiriya Avenue Bambalapitiya two houses down from Nimal\u2019s house remember all the musicians gathering at his house and jamming, practising and rehearsing among them were Cliff Foenander, Sandra Edema, Jay Brothers, Tissa Senevirarne, and Adrian Ferdinands.\u00a0 Some of the songs composed by him were \u201cButterfly in the rain\u201d \u201cLifelong Romance\u201d \u2018Way back when \u201cfor Cliff \u201cOh my lover\u201d for Sandra, \u201cCherry blossom tree\u201d and \u201cGoodnight Kisses\u201d for Jay Brothers and \u201cKandyan Express\u201d by the Kandyans. His first song composed and recorded in UK was \u201cKisses in the Dark\u201d vocal by Mary Marshall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Check the link below. Please Enjoy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Mary Marshall Nimal Mendis Kisses in the dark<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sz6Qm_d5pv0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Kandyan Express\u201d by the Kandyans\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zBAHemrcJqk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Moon over Asia\u00a0\u00a0 Harold Seneviratne Combo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HNhM7G8DmM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Oh my lover\u00a0 Sandra Edema<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EzoeasvCTDQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Cliff Founander Butterfly in the rain<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/765rLg4nq0E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Cliff Foenander &#8211; Way back when<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KWkxCpgivQ8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Cliff Foenander &#8211; Life long romance<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDKN29kmlpI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Jay Brothers Cherry Blossom tree<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VZRqfxM2Tl4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Jay Brothers\u00a0\u00a0 Goodnight Kisses<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSPgIgHEOm0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimal Mendis singer and songwriter \u2013 by\u00a0Patrick Ranasinghe \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nimal Mendis singer\u00a0and songwriter Moon over Asia\u00a0\u00a0 Harold Seneviratne Combo &nbsp; Nimal Mendis\u00a0(1934\u20132015) was a Sri Lankan\u00a0singer\u00a0and songwriter, and was one of a handful of Sri Lankan musicians to appear on the\u00a0BBC television\u00a0programme\u00a0Top of the Pops\u00a0(1968). 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