Today’s song is a 1933 jazz standard from the film of the same name. It was written by Johnny Green and Eward Heyman.
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After yesterday’s Come fly with me and the talk of Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album of exotic songs, I thought I’d play another travel-related theme today, and it’s one of the most-requested songs from when I used to play in hotels. New York, New York was written in 1977 by John Kander and Frank Ebb and [...]
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Today’s song dates from 1925 and has been performed by a variety of performers including Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald.
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This song is for everyone who spent half of today trying to get through to the ticket lines or developing repetitive strain injuries by refreshing the Ticketmaster website trying to get hold of a Take That ticket for their tour next summer. We tried, but we didn’t get through, and now it seems that almost [...]
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This is definitely the first song I’ve played on my 365songs project which is about a rodent! Ben dates from 1972 and was originally written for Donny Osmond. However, he was on tour at the time so it was given to Michael Jackson who recorded it for the film Ben which deals with the friendship [...]
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Today’s song is from the 1992 Disney film Aladdin and was written by Tim Rice (lyrics) and Alan Menken (music). The less said about Peter André and Jordan’s version the better…!
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Today’s song is especially for my niece and nephew Aimee and Angus who celebrate their 10th birthday today. I’m fairly certain this is the first Katy Perry song I’ve played on 365songs! California Gurls has been a huge hit this summer and topped the charts in the UK, US, Russia, Poland, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada [...]
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This song was originally released in 1995 by The Corrs and didn’t do particularly well in the charts, other than in Ireland and Australia. A remixed version by Tin Tin Out was released in 1999 and was only kept off the #1 spot in the UK by Britney Spears and her début single Baby One [...]
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Today’s song is the 1987 Diane Warren and Albert Hammond classic Nothing’s gonna stop us now, performed by Starship and used as the theme song of the film Mannequin. It made #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK charts, and rightly so in my opinion!
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Today’s song is the ballad from the 1980 Abba album Super Trouper. It’s always been one of my favourite Abba songs, and I remember playing this often while my wife was expecting our first son. It was released as a single in South America and South Africa, but elsewhere it featured only as an album [...]
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Based on the French song La Mer by Charles Trenet, this song was recorded in 1959 by crooner Bobby Darin. I’d like to dedicate the song to my wife Catriona who celebrates her birthday today. It’s always been one of her favourite songs, and I hope she likes this version! Happy birthday, Catriona!
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After my Canada Day performance the other day I was trying to think of something suitable to play for American Independence Day and I came up with At Last. It’s perhaps not the most obvious choice, but the Etta James version of this song has become a standard used at weddings in the US and [...]
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The title of this song in English is “I love you, I loved you, I will love you”, using the present, imperfect and future tenses of the French verb aimer! I lovely song for us French teachers. But it is, of course, much more than that, and I’ve loved this song since I first heard [...]
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A big song for Eurovision day itself – performed in French by the Greek-German singer Vicky Leandros, representing Luxembourg back in 1972, just three weeks before I was born! This is one of the signature Eurovision songs and was released in English, German, Greek, Italian and Japanese after winning the contest. For a little nostalgia, [...]
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There was something about Eurovision in the 1980s – it was probably when I first got interested in the contest and its linguistic and musical “exoticism”, but there’s definitely something about some of the big songs from the 80s, including this classic from Johnny Logan with which he won his second Eurovision (previously with What’s Another [...]
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My previous operatic performance (on the piano!) seemed to go down quite well, so I thought I’d do something else operatic with the Intermezzo from Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria Rusticana. It conjures up Italian countryside on warm summer evenings! Hope you enjoy this!
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Song 120 is the title song from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. Written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, it won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1992. We’re four months into the project now. I’d be interested to know if you have any favourites so far? Let me know in the [...]
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A birthday performance for me today! I’ve been saving this song for a special day as it’s always been one of my favourite songs to play. It was first released in 1938 so it’s quite appropriate as I turn 38 today! It also featured in An American in Paris. I recorded it this evening after [...]
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This beautiful song was written by Charlie Chaplin and used in the soundtrack of his 1936 movie Modern Times. It was first recorded by Nat King Cole in 1954 and has been covered many times since.
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Ok, so I couldn’t resist doing a special performance for April Fools’ day! Here’s the real version of the 1968 Beatles classic, Hey Jude. I hope you enjoy this a bit more than my earlier post!
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In 2010 I challenged myself to record a well-known song every day of the year. To see the full list of songs, click on the image below.
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