Mark Pentleton

Today’s song is actually linked to one of my earliest musical memories. I think I would have been about 4 or 5 and I remember listening to this song on my dad’s reel-to-reel tape deck, along with He is your brother on Abba’s Greatest Hits album. It was written in 1973 and was released in [...]

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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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This song dates from 1957 and was the title song of Frank Sinatra’s album, setting the tone for an album which featured various songs describing exotic locations, including April in Paris, The Isle of Capri, Blue Hawaii and Autumn in New York. Come fly with me must be one of the only songs ever to [...]

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After leaving Iceland – travelling in the lap of luxury with Icelandair first class! – I arrived in Toronto, Canada, where I was met by relatives. We spent a couple of days in Toronto, saw Niagara Falls in the pouring rain, and then made our way to Windsor in south-west Ontario. I very much enjoyed [...]

My first night on US soil was spent at a baseball game between the Toronto Blue-Jays and the Detroit Tigers. I had been warned about what to expect, and I wasn’t disappointed!
It seems to be about much more than the game. I don’t think I quite managed to understand the rules until the seventh inning, [...]

I started my ‘big trip‘ a week past on Thursday when I flew from Glasgow to Keflavík in Iceland. Arriving late at night it was great to be picked up by a member of staff from the Northern Lights Inn at the airport. Joining me in the minibus were two elderly gentlemen who were planning [...]