Mark Pentleton

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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Running a bit late today – sorry! Today I’ve had the official launch of the Euroquiz in East Dunbartonshire Council and I’ve been away all day since early this morning until late tonight. Anyway, today’s song is the beautiful Bring him home from Les Misérables. I hope you enjoy it!

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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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Today’s song was one of the most-requested songs when I used to play in hotels and restaurants. It’s Memory from the 1981 musical Cats and was sung by Grizabella, the former ‘glamour cat’, who is singing of her glorious past. Hope you enjoy it!

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Keeping the romantic songs for Valentine’s week, today I’ve recorded the love duet All I ask of you from Phantom. In the song which comes at the end of the first act of the musical, Raoul promises to protect Christine, unaware that the Phantom is listening in.

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A very romantic song today, and make sure you click on the links which will help to illustrate my story! True Love was first sung by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the 1956 musical film High Society. The last time I heard this song performed was at the Benny Anderssons Orkester concert last summer in [...]

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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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This beautiful song written by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is my favourite song from West Side Story, and indeed one of my favourite songs of all time! In addition to featuring on the cast recordings of many productions of the show, Somewhere has been recorded by artists ranging from Johnny Mathis to Josh [...]

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Today’s song comes from the musical Evita. In the stage version of the show, it’s sung by Juan Perón’s mistress as she is pushed out by his future wife Eva Perón. In the film version it was sung by Eva herself and focused on the end of her relationship with Agustín Magaldi. I guess Madonna [...]

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So, our second song of February is from the Schönberg/Boublil musical Miss Saigon. The song is a duet by the characters Chris and Kim as they pledge their love for each other. I’m not sure if it works, but I’ve tried to give the song a bit of a far eastern flavour by using lots [...]

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