{"id":86553,"date":"2022-02-14T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=86553"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:29:30","slug":"ernest-c-kelaart-the-smiling-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ernest-c-kelaart-the-smiling-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernest C Kelaart: The Smiling Executioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Ernest C Kelaart: The Smiling Executioner<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">An ideal story to be heralded by my version of Defying Gravity that I recorded with Waylon Jennings, many moons ago. Also, I am very proud to say that THIS smiling Executioner Ernie Kelaart served in the Royal Ceylon Navy with me, and everything they say about him is so true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There was nothing it seems, in sports, that Ernie wasn&#8217;t a Champion at. He was also a Champion guy,, loved and respected by everyone who knew him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Born in 1922 and passed on in 2008, Ernest Kelaart, we\/salute you. Rest in peace, my friend, and God bless you.<\/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=\"text-align: center;\">Desmond Kelly.<br \/>\n(Editor-in-Chief) e&#8217;Lanka.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Ernest C Kelaart: The Smiling Executioner-<span style=\"color: #800080;\">BY DENNIS DE ROSAYRO<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The writer has touched on the period 1953 to 1986, when Ernest C Kelaart was a National and International player from 1955 to 1964 and premier Division player for the Burgher Recreation Club (BRC) from 1954 to 1978 and Heath &amp; Company up to 1986, thus having played with and against these great players. He also goes back to 1947 to remember with gratitude, those legends who paved the way for us to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Oozing with talent, Ernie Kelaart excelled in the Centre Half position but could have performed with equal versatility in any other position, barring of course, Goal Keeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">His dazzling stick work and uncanny anticipation was the hallmark of his game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I would call him a smiling executioner when finishing a move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/sites\/default\/files\/u30\/pg21-4_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>He was a star performer both at cricket and hockey in the 1940s up to 1958, when he had to play for the Ceylon Navy. He captained both the cricket and hockey teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As a leading all-rounder at the Burgher Recreation Club, he played for Ceylon in 1949 versus Pakistan and West Indies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 1952, he was one of the four selected to represent a Combined Team of Ceylon\/India\/ Pakistan\/Australia versus Donald Carr\u2019s MCC team. The others being FC de Saram (captain), CI Gunasekera and Ben Navaratne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Incidentally, MCC lost by an innings and 259 runs. He also played in the unofficial Test. He was a middle order batsman and an off-break bowler of considerable skill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 1953, he toured Madras with the Ceylon team which beat Madras HA for the Gopalan Trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Ernie emigrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1963 with his wife Barbara and family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Ernest (Ernie) C. Kelaart (born 1922) (Centre Half) (Burgher Recreation Club and Combined Services)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1947 vs Afghanistan<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1947 vs India<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1948 vs Indian Olympic team<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(captain)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1953 Ceylon H.A. tour of Madras and Bangalore (vice captain)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1955 vs Madras HA<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">1956 vs Mysore HA<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Next: Hugh Aldons<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-2 col-md-2 col-lg-2 pull-right padding-right-zero text-right\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"promoted\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"promoted-inside\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"region region-promoted\">\n<div id=\"block-block-90\" class=\"block block-block clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest C Kelaart: The Smiling Executioner An ideal story to be heralded by my version of Defying Gravity that I recorded with Waylon Jennings, many moons ago. 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