{"id":85853,"date":"2022-06-27T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=85853"},"modified":"2022-06-28T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T02:02:33","slug":"gentleman-des-a-felicitation-by-max-gerreyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/gentleman-des-a-felicitation-by-max-gerreyn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentleman Des \u2013 A Felicitation \u2013 by Max Gerreyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 24px;\">Gentleman Des \u2013 A Felicitation \u2013 by\u00a0Max Gerreyn<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85856\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gentleman-Des-\u2013-A-Felicitation-\u2013-by-Max-Gerreyn.jpg\" alt=\"As much as it is a safe bet that a large percentage of our fellow Australians are familiar with the surname Kelly its much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate Sri Lankan Australians in Melbourne are even more aware and cognisant of &#96;Mr. Music\u2019 \u2013 Desmond Anthony Carl Kelly \u2013 to name him in full. I am privileged to claim greater familiarity and call him &#96;Dessa\u2019 since becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century. Indeed I can claim to even closer almost familial relationship with Dessa as I also began another cyber relationship - in the previous century - with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and younger brother Ian . The latter calls himself &#96;Mala Kelly\u2019 and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka a decade ago - that\u2019s a spot-on description for a true extrovert. He doesn\u2019t have the vocal timbre of Des but when it comes to singing bawdy Sinhala Baila &#96;young\u2019 Ian is uncontestable. Trust me...I do know what &#96;naughty as\u2019 is. To get more &#96;formal\u2019 and &#96;serious\u2019 (neither of which are preferred aspects of my personality) I wish to focus on the great musical nous and talents of Desmond Anthony. He\u2019s styled as the Editor-on-Chief of the excellent E-Lanka Newsite that keeps growing in readership on the back of its twice-weekly appearance. Recently even myself \u2013 of whom my many critics reckon has Van Gogh\u2019s ear for music \u2013 has been drawn into listening to the many videos of the Country Music that have been posted by Des on E-Lanka Des cherishes the Country stuff and says its music plays out the Story of Life and Love and will last for eternity \u2013 evidence for which he cites the stats that in the USA there are 248 radio stations that play ONLY Country! . Long before he was once Melbourne\u2019s top Sri Lankan singer-entertainer \u2013 songwriter \u2013 presenter Dessa was a young Housewife\u2019s Favourite in then Ceylon with his perennial hit Dream World and a slew of several other record sellers. Des strummed his strings and sang his rich baritone as a virtual teen-age member on the pay-list of all the Big Bands that were in action at all Colombo\u2019s top venues. .However I shall not dwell longer or wax more bull on Des the Performer - he has done his bit \u2013 lit up the stages and now in busy retirement still makes time to &#96;educate\u2019 musical novices like me take a livelier interest in his abiding passion \u2013 Good Old Country Music of the Des Kelly Genre. To illustrate this I have to appeal to the readers of this literary&#96;garbage\u2019 by me to open up the video-posts &#96;Kelly Klassics. &amp; Singalongs\u2019 links that appeared in the recent editions of ELanka and lend your ear (NOT the VanGogh one) to Des\u2019s choices of &#96;Jealous Kind\u2019 sung by Rita Coolidge ...&#96;Ravishing Ruby\u2019 by Tom Hall and a classic &#96;I\u2019ve Got You\u2019by singers Waylon Jennings &amp; Anita Carter. Until he enlightened me I did not realise that the HARMONY being sung to these recordings was taped and sung by Dessa himself......Good long suffering readers \u2013 we\u2019ve to hand it to Gentleman Des \u2013 the Lovely Bloke\u2019s a GENIUS...and long may he continue to be with us..\" width=\"210\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19876 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/max.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/>As much as it is a safe bet that a large\u00a0 percentage of our fellow Australians\u00a0 are familiar with the surname Kelly its\u00a0 much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate\u00a0 Sri Lankan\u00a0 Australians in Melbourne are even\u00a0 more aware\u00a0 and cognisant\u00a0 of `Mr. Music\u2019 \u2013 Desmond Anthony Carl Kelly \u2013 to name him in full.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 I am privileged to\u00a0 claim greater familiarity\u00a0 and call him `Dessa\u2019 since\u00a0 becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century.\u00a0 Indeed\u00a0 I can claim\u00a0 to even closer almost familial relationship with\u00a0 Dessa as\u00a0 I also\u00a0 began another cyber relationship\u00a0 &#8211; in the previous century &#8211; with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and\u00a0 younger brother Ian . The latter\u00a0 calls himself `Mala Kelly\u2019 and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka\u00a0 a decade ago\u00a0 &#8211; that\u2019s a spot-on description for a true extrovert. He doesn\u2019t have the vocal timbre of Des but when it comes to singing\u00a0 bawdy Sinhala Baila `young\u2019 Ian is uncontestable. Trust me&#8230;I do know what `naughty as\u2019 is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85855\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gentleman-Des-\u2013-A-Felicitation-\u2013-by-Max-Gerreyn2.jpg\" alt=\"As much as it is a safe bet that a large percentage of our fellow Australians are familiar with the surname Kelly its much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate Sri Lankan Australians in Melbourne are even more aware and cognisant of &#96;Mr. Music\u2019 \u2013 Desmond Anthony Carl Kelly \u2013 to name him in full. I am privileged to claim greater familiarity and call him &#96;Dessa\u2019 since becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century. Indeed I can claim to even closer almost familial relationship with Dessa as I also began another cyber relationship - in the previous century - with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and younger brother Ian . The latter calls himself &#96;Mala Kelly\u2019 and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka a decade ago - that\u2019s a spot-on description for a true extrovert. He doesn\u2019t have the vocal timbre of Des but when it comes to singing bawdy Sinhala Baila &#96;young\u2019 Ian is uncontestable. Trust me...I do know what &#96;naughty as\u2019 is. To get more &#96;formal\u2019 and &#96;serious\u2019 (neither of which are preferred aspects of my personality) I wish to focus on the great musical nous and talents of Desmond Anthony. He\u2019s styled as the Editor-on-Chief of the excellent E-Lanka Newsite that keeps growing in readership on the back of its twice-weekly appearance. Recently even myself \u2013 of whom my many critics reckon has Van Gogh\u2019s ear for music \u2013 has been drawn into listening to the many videos of the Country Music that have been posted by Des on E-Lanka Des cherishes the Country stuff and says its music plays out the Story of Life and Love and will last for eternity \u2013 evidence for which he cites the stats that in the USA there are 248 radio stations that play ONLY Country! . Long before he was once Melbourne\u2019s top Sri Lankan singer-entertainer \u2013 songwriter \u2013 presenter Dessa was a young Housewife\u2019s Favourite in then Ceylon with his perennial hit Dream World and a slew of several other record sellers. Des strummed his strings and sang his rich baritone as a virtual teen-age member on the pay-list of all the Big Bands that were in action at all Colombo\u2019s top venues. .However I shall not dwell longer or wax more bull on Des the Performer - he has done his bit \u2013 lit up the stages and now in busy retirement still makes time to &#96;educate\u2019 musical novices like me take a livelier interest in his abiding passion \u2013 Good Old Country Music of the Des Kelly Genre. To illustrate this I have to appeal to the readers of this literary&#96;garbage\u2019 by me to open up the video-posts &#96;Kelly Klassics. &amp; Singalongs\u2019 links that appeared in the recent editions of ELanka and lend your ear (NOT the VanGogh one) to Des\u2019s choices of &#96;Jealous Kind\u2019 sung by Rita Coolidge ...&#96;Ravishing Ruby\u2019 by Tom Hall and a classic &#96;I\u2019ve Got You\u2019by singers Waylon Jennings &amp; Anita Carter. Until he enlightened me I did not realise that the HARMONY being sung to these recordings was taped and sung by Dessa himself......Good long suffering readers \u2013 we\u2019ve to hand it to Gentleman Des \u2013 the Lovely Bloke\u2019s a GENIUS...and long may he continue to be with us..\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">To get more `formal\u2019 and `serious\u2019 (neither of which are preferred aspects of my\u00a0 personality)\u00a0 I wish to focus on the great\u00a0 musical nous and talents \u00a0of Desmond Anthony. He\u2019s styled as the Editor-in-Chief of the excellent E-Lanka Newssite that keeps growing\u00a0 in readership\u00a0 on the back of its twice-weekly appearance. Recently even myself \u2013\u00a0 of whom my many critics reckon has Van Gogh\u2019s ear for music \u2013 has been drawn\u00a0 into listening to the many videos of the Country Music that have been posted by Des on E-Lanka\u00a0 Des cherishes\u00a0 the\u00a0 Country stuff and says its music\u00a0 plays out the\u00a0 Story of Life and Love and will last for eternity \u2013 evidence for which\u00a0 he cites the stats that in the USA there\u00a0 are 248 radio stations that play ONLY Country! . Long before he was once Melbourne\u2019s top Sri Lankan singer-entertainer \u2013 songwriter \u2013 presenter\u00a0 Dessa was a young Housewife\u2019s Favourite\u00a0 in then\u00a0 Ceylon with his perennial hit Dream World and a slew of several\u00a0 other record sellers.\u00a0 Des strummed his\u00a0 strings and sang his rich baritone as a virtual teen-age member\u00a0 on the pay-list of all the Big Bands\u00a0 that were in action at all Colombo\u2019s top venues.\u00a0 .However I shall not dwell\u00a0 longer or wax more bull on Des the Performer\u00a0 &#8211; he has done his bit \u2013 lit up the stages\u00a0 and now\u00a0 in busy retirement\u00a0 still makes time to `educate\u2019\u00a0 musical novices like me\u00a0 take a livelier\u00a0 interest in his abiding passion \u2013 Good Old Country Music \u00a0of the Des Kelly Genre.\u00a0 To illustrate this I have to appeal to the readers of this literary`garbage\u2019 by me to\u00a0 open up the video-posts `Kelly Klassics. &amp; Singalongs\u2019 links that appeared in the recent editions of ELanka and lend your ear (NOT the VanGogh one) to Des\u2019s choices of `Jealous Kind\u2019\u00a0 sung by Rita Coolidge &#8230;`Ravishing Ruby\u2019 by Tom Hall and a classic `I\u2019ve Got You\u2019by\u00a0 singers\u00a0 Waylon Jennings &amp; Anita Carter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Until he\u00a0 enlightened me I did not realise that the HARMONY being sung to these\u00a0 recordings was taped and sung by Dessa himself&#8230;&#8230;Good long suffering readers \u2013 we\u2019ve to hand it to Gentleman Des \u2013 the Lovely Bloke\u2019s a GENIUS&#8230;and\u00a0 long may he continue to be with us..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85854\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gentleman-Des-\u2013-A-Felicitation-\u2013-by-Max-Gerreyn3.jpg\" alt=\"As much as it is a safe bet that a large percentage of our fellow Australians are familiar with the surname Kelly its much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate Sri Lankan Australians in Melbourne are even more aware and cognisant of &#96;Mr. Music\u2019 \u2013 Desmond Anthony Carl Kelly \u2013 to name him in full. I am privileged to claim greater familiarity and call him &#96;Dessa\u2019 since becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century. Indeed I can claim to even closer almost familial relationship with Dessa as I also began another cyber relationship - in the previous century - with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and younger brother Ian . The latter calls himself &#96;Mala Kelly\u2019 and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka a decade ago - that\u2019s a spot-on description for a true extrovert. He doesn\u2019t have the vocal timbre of Des but when it comes to singing bawdy Sinhala Baila &#96;young\u2019 Ian is uncontestable. Trust me...I do know what &#96;naughty as\u2019 is. To get more &#96;formal\u2019 and &#96;serious\u2019 (neither of which are preferred aspects of my personality) I wish to focus on the great musical nous and talents of Desmond Anthony. He\u2019s styled as the Editor-on-Chief of the excellent E-Lanka Newsite that keeps growing in readership on the back of its twice-weekly appearance. Recently even myself \u2013 of whom my many critics reckon has Van Gogh\u2019s ear for music \u2013 has been drawn into listening to the many videos of the Country Music that have been posted by Des on E-Lanka Des cherishes the Country stuff and says its music plays out the Story of Life and Love and will last for eternity \u2013 evidence for which he cites the stats that in the USA there are 248 radio stations that play ONLY Country! . Long before he was once Melbourne\u2019s top Sri Lankan singer-entertainer \u2013 songwriter \u2013 presenter Dessa was a young Housewife\u2019s Favourite in then Ceylon with his perennial hit Dream World and a slew of several other record sellers. Des strummed his strings and sang his rich baritone as a virtual teen-age member on the pay-list of all the Big Bands that were in action at all Colombo\u2019s top venues. .However I shall not dwell longer or wax more bull on Des the Performer - he has done his bit \u2013 lit up the stages and now in busy retirement still makes time to &#96;educate\u2019 musical novices like me take a livelier interest in his abiding passion \u2013 Good Old Country Music of the Des Kelly Genre. To illustrate this I have to appeal to the readers of this literary&#96;garbage\u2019 by me to open up the video-posts &#96;Kelly Klassics. &amp; Singalongs\u2019 links that appeared in the recent editions of ELanka and lend your ear (NOT the VanGogh one) to Des\u2019s choices of &#96;Jealous Kind\u2019 sung by Rita Coolidge ...&#96;Ravishing Ruby\u2019 by Tom Hall and a classic &#96;I\u2019ve Got You\u2019by singers Waylon Jennings &amp; Anita Carter. Until he enlightened me I did not realise that the HARMONY being sung to these recordings was taped and sung by Dessa himself......Good long suffering readers \u2013 we\u2019ve to hand it to Gentleman Des \u2013 the Lovely Bloke\u2019s a GENIUS...and long may he continue to be with us..\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85857\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Desmond-Anthony-Carl-Kelly2.png\" alt=\"Gentleman Des \u2013 A Felicitation \u2013 by Max Gerreyn\" width=\"405\" height=\"559\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2k_GjNpPWE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TDwDiEGxNqw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6DIEsw4rPB0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8mipjqdtc94\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-85858 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Desmond-Anthony-Carl-Kelly-e1643893971107.jpg\" alt=\"Gentleman Des \u2013 A Felicitation \u2013 by Max Gerreyn\" width=\"331\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentleman Des \u2013 A Felicitation \u2013 by\u00a0Max Gerreyn As much as it is a safe bet that a large\u00a0 percentage of our fellow Australians\u00a0 are familiar with the surname Kelly its\u00a0 much shorter odds that the entire population of expatriate\u00a0 Sri Lankan\u00a0 Australians in Melbourne are even\u00a0 more aware\u00a0 and cognisant\u00a0 of `Mr. Music\u2019 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5278],"tags":[41631,5279],"class_list":{"0":"post-85853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-max-gerreyn","9":"tag-desmond-anthony-carl-kelly","10":"tag-max-gerreyn","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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I am privileged to claim greater familiarity and call him `Dessa\u2019 since becoming a fond and firm cyber-friend with him from the beginning of the current century. Indeed I can claim to even closer almost familial relationship with Dessa as I also began another cyber relationship - in the previous century - with his younger more rumbustious, heavier and younger brother Ian . The latter calls himself `Mala Kelly\u2019 and for other s who have known him well before he self-exiled back to Mother Lanka a decade ago - that\u2019s a spot-on description for a true extrovert. He doesn\u2019t have the vocal timbre of Des but when it comes to singing bawdy Sinhala Baila `young\u2019 Ian is uncontestable. Trust me...I do know what `naughty as\u2019 is. To get more `formal\u2019 and `serious\u2019 (neither of which are preferred aspects of my personality) I wish to focus on the great musical nous and talents of Desmond Anthony. He\u2019s styled as the Editor-on-Chief of the excellent E-Lanka Newsite that keeps growing in readership on the back of its twice-weekly appearance. Recently even myself \u2013 of whom my many critics reckon has Van Gogh\u2019s ear for music \u2013 has been drawn into listening to the many videos of the Country Music that have been posted by Des on E-Lanka Des cherishes the Country stuff and says its music plays out the Story of Life and Love and will last for eternity \u2013 evidence for which he cites the stats that in the USA there are 248 radio stations that play ONLY Country! . Long before he was once Melbourne\u2019s top Sri Lankan singer-entertainer \u2013 songwriter \u2013 presenter Dessa was a young Housewife\u2019s Favourite in then Ceylon with his perennial hit Dream World and a slew of several other record sellers. 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