Derek and Annie Skates are the soloists with the Stephen Hill Singers performing live on BBC Radio. Fast and furious - but very exciting!

Radio 2 Compilation

YOU CAN"T STOP THE MUSIC - live on Friday Night is Music Night

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". The medley is of 3 songs from Stephen Sondheim's Sunday In The Park With George - Carol sings 'We do not belong together', Derek 'Finishing the hat' and Mary 'Move On'. There is a letter from Stephen Sondheim himself approving the project and asking for it to be finished...

Move On Medley

Opening SFTS & Swells

This is a rough recording from the sound desk of a live concert in 1991 - you can hardly hear the orchestra but Derek's extraordinary style, musicality and technique sings through!

Music Of The Night

I Didnt Know What Time It Was

Giants In The Sky

This is an incomplete recording of the finale of a Radio 2 broadcast of Friday Night Is Music NIght and features Derek and Mary Carewe plus Janet Mooney and the Stephen Hill Singers.

Company Medley

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". This song from 'Assassins' - the 1990 show about obsessive murderers and would be murderers of US presidents - features Derek and Mary.

Unworthy Of Your Love

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". This Overture incorporates many of the great melodies from Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

Sweeney Todd Overture

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". These 2 songs are from Into The Woods - Derek sings Not while I'm around and Carol Stay with me.

Not While I'm Around - Stay With Me

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". 
Derek, Mary, Carol and Steve decided to record 3 songs from Dick Tracy and imagined they were all being performed in a jazz club...a little tongue-in-cheek! 'What can you lose' was in the style of a Harry Connick Jnr.

Mary Carewe's Album

What can you lose

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". 
Derek, Mary, Carol and Steve decided to record 3 songs from Dick Tracy and imagined they were all being performed in a jazz club...a little tongue-in-cheek! 'Sooner or later' was in the style of a wanna-be Ella Fitzgerald

Sooner or later

This is an extract from the recording project that Derek worked on with Steve Jeffries (keyboards and arranger), Carol Duffy and Mary Carewe that they called their "Sondheim Project". 
Derek, Mary, Carol and Steve decided to record 3 songs from Dick Tracy and imagined they were all being performed in a jazz club...a little tongue-in-cheek! 'More' was in the style of someone like Blossom Dearie.

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