The Jetliners - Foot Tapper

The Fabulous sounds of the original Sri Lankan Pop Group - The Jetliners. Features Indra Raj (Closest sound to Hank B in my opinion), Felix Fernando - One of the best bassmen I have heard, and who I styled my bass work from, the rip roaring rhythm of Anton Gunawijeya. Sadly persussionist extra orinary, Harris Jurangpathy couldn't make it on this toue (Feb 2003) Enjoy and post your comments - good bad or indifferent!!

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• Jetliners
• Sri
• Lankan
• Band
• Felix
• Fernando
• Anton
• Gunawijeya
• Indra
• Raj

[gehanlal]

Only the Best from the Respledent Island. You are lucky to have a Mum from a great country!!!!! Cherish her!

[PeteyPetePete]

Hey everyone! My father has the ORIGINAL Record of this Band "Live at The Taj Mahal". Does anyone know if it has been re-released on C.D.? We have looked on iTunes but haven't found too much yet. Any Help would be appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

[gehanlal]

Hey Pete,

The Jets did not release any material on CD. They have of course since split up, and there Manager and Sound Wizard Tony Fernando (Husband of Mignonne) has also past away. Perhaps EMI may consider once they put their entire catalogue out on line.

[jetttxyz]

What memories!!

I never saw the Jetliners; but heard them on Radio Ceylon when I was a kid living in Goa.

I think they were also on the Binaca Hit Parade with a DJ called Vijay Correa

Many thanks for the vids.

[gehanlal]

Good memory!! Yes The Jets used to be played frequently on Radio Ceylon's Overseas transmissions, and my brothers & I used to sometimes tune into that frequency. Yes Binaca were the sponsors of the Hit Parade in those years and VJ was the DJ who used to sign of saying its VC from VC and played Vaya Condios, as his closing track!!!

Thanks for the comments

Gehan

now in Sydney Australia!

[SFCSILVA]

I was just a teenager when I used to go to Coconut Grove at Galle Face Hotel. Hank Marvin eat your heart out. We have got talent, rhythem and groove.

[gehanlal]

What is even more amazing, and speaks volumes about the talent of these guys, they had not played together for over 30 years, before this reunion, and yet the sounds certainly took us all back to those Coconut Grove Days. thanks for your coments SFC.

Gehan

Sydney

Australia

[MeMelodyMama]

@PeteyPetePete well, I have no no record or CD but they're in my head, I've heard them live at the Taj Mahal (that's the hotel in Bombay, not the monument in Agra!) and danced to their music at the erstwhile Blow Up discotheque in the Taj in the late 60's/early 70's

[hiramvn]

jayaweva !

[jetliner11]

at last i can see them playing my kind of music after so long. i always love to see them during late 60's and early 70's in Colombo, what a great dance band with perfect talent and the Mignonne is simply the best .thanks for the videos.jet.

[gungrey1]

Nice playing. Other good Shadows bands on youtube I found,are. The Marvingers

The Shadowmen from Australia.

[eddiesarda]

Thanks Great sounding band,I grew up in Guyana (British) and loved their music,I now live in New YORK,there is a Loyal fan club in Toronto Canada,they get together so often to play live bands of the shadows,(Shadows fan club of Toronto)thanks again

[ivan11449]

who does nt

[kganes]

Would not have believed it if i had not seen and listened to it myself.. my mother is from sri lanka and i still have relatives there. fantastic.. will look ou for some more videos. tnx