Mark Pentleton

I don’t know how to love him features in the 1970 musical Jesus Christ Superstar and is sung by Mary Magdalene. It first appeared with different lyrics in 1967 as Kansas morning, but it was rewritten for the musical, and the rights for the song were purchased for £50! I hope you enjoy today’s performance.
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Today’s song is the famous duet from the musical Chess, first performed by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson on the concept album for the show back in 1985. It was number one in the UK for four weeks at the time.
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Thanks for the nice comments this week on the songs I’ve been playing – it’s great to know that people are enjoying my music! Back to Abba today with the song I have a dream. It first appeared on the 1979 Voulez-vous album and is one of the Abba songs which everyone knows. I’ve decided [...]

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Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical Love Never Dies opened this week. I bought the soundtrack yesterday and I think this is the strongest song from what I’ve heard so far. I think it’s a bit reminiscent of With One Look from Sunset Boulevard, and the vocal by Ramin Karimloo is very good (YouTube link). [...]

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This beautiful song by Steven Sondheim first featured in his 1973 musical A Little Night Music. There’s actually a Swedish link to this song too: the first time I heard it was on the solo album Ensam by Annifrid Lyngstad (Frida from Abba) when she sang Var är min clown (YouTube link) and it turns [...]

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