22 December 2010 0 Comments

356/365 Songs: Walking in the air – Theme from the Snowman

356/365 Songs: Walking in the air – Theme from the Snowman

Today’s song is the theme from the 1982 film The Snowman based on the children’s book Raymond Briggs. It was written by Howard Blake and sung by Peter Auty in the film, but popularised by Aled Jones in a single which reached number 5 in the UK charts at Christmas 1985. It has been parodied, [...]

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1 November 2010 1 Comment

305/365 Songs: SOS – Abba

305/365 Songs: SOS – Abba

Today’s song – the first song of my penultimate month on 365songs – is Abba’s SOS from the 1975 Abba album. It is one of the group’s best-known songs and reached #6 in the UK charts on its release in September 1975. It was #1 in Australia, Belgium, West Germany, New Zealand and South Africa! [...]

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14 October 2010 1 Comment

287/365 Songs: I still believe – Miss Saigon

287/365 Songs: I still believe – Miss Saigon

This song is for my friend and colleague Lisa Steven who celebrated her birthday yesterday and who requested something from Miss Saigon for her special day. I hope she didn’t mind waiting a day given the events in Chile! I Still Believe is from the 1989 musical Miss Saigon written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain [...]

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2 March 2010 0 Comments

61/365 Songs: Bésame mucho

61/365 Songs: Bésame mucho

Wales yesterday and Mexico today… Bésame mucho was written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez. For those of you who like singing along to my performances, here are the lyrics with a translation below. It somehow sounds so much better in Spanish, especially with that imperfect subjunctive in the second line!
Bésame, bésame mucho,
Como si [...]

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