8 March 2010 1 Comment

67/365 Songs: Empty chairs at empty tables – Les Misérables

67/365 Songs: Empty chairs at empty tables – Les Misérables

The previous songs from Les Misérables which I’ve included in my 365songs selection (I dreamed a dream, On my own and Bring him home) seem to have gone down very well, and there are plenty more to come! Today’s song, Empty chairs at empty tables, is sung by Marius about his friends who have not [...]

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5 March 2010 1 Comment

64/365 Songs: When you believe – Prince of Egypt

64/365 Songs: When you believe – Prince of Egypt

This is my version of the original song taken from the film The Prince of Egypt. The song was later reworked by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston without the “Hebrew chorus”, but it was the full version which we used to do back in the Mearns Castle Senior Choir (= “Glee Club” before Glee Clubs [...]

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23 February 2010 0 Comments

54/365: Insieme, Unite Europe – Toto Cotugno

54/365: Insieme, Unite Europe – Toto Cotugno

Today I’m in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, accompanying a group of students who will be taking part in a debate with young people from across Europe. I first took part in this ten years ago when I was invited to join the group as one of the members of staff and since then I’ve [...]

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17 February 2010 0 Comments

365 Songs: Lift the wings – Riverdance

365 Songs: Lift the wings – Riverdance

Today’s song is a bit different: Lift the wings is from the full stage version of Riverdance, first performed at Dublin’s Point Theatre in 1995, following the successful Riverdance interval act at the previous year’s Eurovision Song Contest. As a song, Lift the wings is not particularly well-known, but I’ve always really liked it and [...]

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14 February 2010 1 Comment

365 Songs: Everything I do – Bryan Adams

365 Songs: Everything I do – Bryan Adams

I promised cheesy romantic slush today, and here it is, in the form of the song Everything I do (I do it for you) from the film Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Why this song today? Well, this was the film Catriona and I went to see on our first date…  eighteen and a half [...]

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10 February 2010 2 Comments

365 Songs: You’re still the one – Shania Twain

365 Songs: You’re still the one – Shania Twain

A bit of Shania Twain today with the song You’re still the one, and I’m back playing today after the thumb incident! This song was nominated for four Grammy awards in 1999, and won two: Best Country Song and Best Female Vocal Country Performance, and it’s no.66 on the Billboard All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs!

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7 February 2010 0 Comments

365 Songs: Seasons of Love – Rent

365 Songs: Seasons of Love – Rent

How do you measure a year? In daylights, in midnights, in sunsets or in cups of coffee? This is probably the best known song from the musical Rent, and was one of the many songs we used to do with the choir when I taught at Mearns Castle. It probably needs a bit more than [...]

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28 January 2010 2 Comments

365 Songs – Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton

365 Songs – Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton

Apologies for this song coming a bit late today – I hear that certain people in Canada like to breakfast listening to my music (you know who you are…) – but it’s been a really busy day!
Today’s song is the Eric Clapton ballad, Tears in Heaven. It’s such a sad, but beautiful song, [...]

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10 January 2010 2 Comments

365 songs – Fields of Gold – Sting / Eva Cassidy

365 songs – Fields of Gold – Sting / Eva Cassidy

Today’s song is the beautiful Fields of Gold, written by Sting, although my performance is much more in the style of Eva Cassidy’s version. The last time I played this song was in the Café Rohan in Strasbourg when we were there in November with East Dunbartonshire. On that occasion the song was sung by [...]

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