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Friday Night is Music Night celebrates the Great British Songbook with the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guests Sophie Louise Dann and Jimmy Johnston.

As part of Radio 2's ongoing celebration of Great British Songbook - tonight's Friday Night is Music Night includes music by Ivor Novello; Noel Gay; Lennon and McCartney; Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse; Don Black; Elton John; George Drewe and Anthony Stiles and Lionel Bart. Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with vocalists Sophie Louise Dann and Jimmy Johnston.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Jun 201020:00

Music Played

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    English Musicals Overture

    (Various)

  • Sophie Louise Dann

    Waltz of My Heart

    (Novello) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Les Reed Medley

    (Reed)

  • Jimmy Johnston

    Leaning On A Lamp Post

    (Gay) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Sophie Louise Dann and Jimmy Johnston

    Me and My Girl

    (Gay) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

    (Sherwin)

  • Sophie Louise Dann & Jimmy Johnston

    Duet – Half A Sixpence

    (Heneker) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    At the Sign Of The Swinging Cymbals

    (Fahey)

  • Jimmy Johnston

    The Candy Man

    (Bricusse/Newley) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Anthony Newley Overture

    (Various)

  • Sophie Louise Dann

    If Love Were All

    (Coward) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Jimmy Johnston

    Music

    (Miles) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Jake Thackray

    Lah-Di-Dah

    (Thackray)

    • Lah-Di-Dah.
    • EMI.
  • Gracie Fields

    The Biggest Aspidistra In The World

    (haines/Harper/Connor)

    • Gracie Fields: Classic Years.
    • CDS.
  • Benny Hill

    Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)

    (Benny Hill)

    • Single.
    • EMI.
  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    The Gas Man Cometh

    (Flanders/Swann)

    • The Complete Flanders & Swann.
    • EMI.
  • Joyce Grenfell

    Old Tyme Dancing

    (Grenfell/Addinsell)

    • The Joyce Grenfell Collection.
    • EMI.
  • Victoria Wood

    The Ballad Of Barry and Freda (Let's Do It)

    (Victoria Wood)

    • Victoria Wood Live.
    • Columbia.
  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Don Black Overture

    (Various)

  • Jimmy Johnston

    Some Of Us Belong To The Stars

    (Barry/Black) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Sophie Louise Dann

    Diamonds Are Forever

    (Barry/Black)) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Hit and Miss

    (Barry)

  • Sophie Louise Dann

    Wait A Bit

    (Drew/Stiles) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Rocket Man

    (John)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Beatle Medley

    (Lennon/McCartney)

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jun 201020:00