Videos of performances at my WORDS SHARED WITH FRIENDS album launch concert

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/16/14 at 12:01pm

The first videos of performances from the launch concert for my album WORDS SHARED WITH FRIENDS at the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge last Sunday are now on youtube.

The awesome Rebecca Trehearn (Ghost, Love Story, We Will Rock You) singing WHERE DID THE SUMMER GO (music by Dean Heller/lyrics by me) and PERFECT (music by Christopher J. Orton/lyrics by me - from our musical "Based On A True Story"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOFCyrqSZ0U&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

IF I COULD CHANGE MY LIFE (music by Omri Lahav/lyrics by me and Jimmy Granstrom - from our musical "Shadow On The Sun") - performed by the wonderful Shaun McCourt (Joseph) and Carolyn Maitland (Miss Saigon, From Here To Eternity, Kiss Me Kate):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZU_BxsGJ3s&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew&index=2

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 4:05am

Kane Oliver Parry (The Light Princess) & Lauren Ingram (From Here To Eternity, Joseph) singing THE BLANKET OF MY LOVE, a brand new one-off pop song which I wrote with Jonathan Eio for my album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpayOx-AOfA&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

You can hear the recording of the song (performed by Jonathan Eio & Laura Pitt-Pulford) if you download it from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/words-shared-friends-lyrics/id850313838
or from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=words+shared+with+friends

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 7:03pm

Here's the opening song from my album launch - "A Whisper In The Dark" (music by Filip von Uexkull/lyrics by me) - vocals by Kieran Brown (Pipe Dream, Phantom, Wicked, Love Never Dies):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVPfwESEjcI&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/20/14 at 4:26am

Way back in 2003 I wrote the musical ALONE with composer Ty Kroll from Madison, Wisconsin and we staged a workshop production at the University of Wisconsin. In 2013 I was lucky enough to have the amazing Sarah Galbraith go into the studio to record the song THE RAINBOW ROOM from ALONE for my album. And at my album launch concert I was doubly lucky to have the song performed live by the wonderful Carolyn Maitland (who covered & played Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity, covered & played Lilli/Kate in Kiss Me Kate at the Old Vic & will soon be seen as 1st Cover Ellen in Miss Saigon).

Here's Carolyn singing THE RAINBOW ROOM (which is sung in the show by a somewhat neurotic character about a date that never really happened with a boyfriend who exists only in her own mind!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYUHNM39WU&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/21/14 at 12:11pm

Here are a couple of videos from my album launch of performances of two songs I wrote a few years ago with singer-songwriter Ben Messenger (from Cumbria) and co-lyricist Allan Mooney (from Glasgow)

JADED, a rock ballad with vocals by Shaun McCourt (Joseph, Miracle On 34th Street):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAbG54JuMKw&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

HERE IT COMES AGAIN - which we were inspired to write after reading about the tragic story of a teenage boy who committed suicide after suffering constant and persistent bullying - with vocals by Keith Ramsay (an amazing young actor who was seen recently on BBC in the crime drama series SHETLAND and who played the title role in John Barry & Don Black's musical BILLY at the Union Theatre last summer):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkMlUOmHVWI&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew
(This performance actually had most of the audience in tears)

If you like the songs - they feature on the album (which can be downloaded on iTunes & Amazon), with vocals by Will Barratt (Jersey Boys, The Phantom Of The Opera, Les Miserables) and Ben Stott (Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, Wicked).

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/22/14 at 6:42am

Here's a video of an acoustic performance by Joe Sterling at my album launch of the song REASONS (which I co-wrote with Joe). A fully orchestrated version of the song is featured on the album (also with vocals by Joe.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdE3GW2FVuM&index=7&list=PLxiqWz_x4aoakjN4kSq18DfXbWAO4ng6m

It's quite apt that I should post this performance on here - I first met Joe around 5 years ago when he responded to a post of mine on this very board. As well as being an incredible songwriter, Joe is also a musical theatre actor, who covered and played the role of Mowgli in the UK Number 1 Tour of The Jungle Book and played the lead role of Ugly in Stiles & Drewe's HONK! at the Tabard Theatre.

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/23/14 at 11:34am

There were some "bonus" performances during my album launch concert of songs with my lyrics that are NOT featured on the album, including some songs from the epic Welsh historical musical MY LAND'S SHORE (which I wrote with Christopher J. Orton). here are videos of two of the My Land's Shore songs:
REBECCA TREHEARN - "The Way Things Are":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TAlhY5X2Y&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

SHAUN McCOURT - "A Lonely Voice":
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151969233071946&l=2406732856812158001

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/24/14 at 4:53am

Here's another "bonus" number from my album launch concert - the amazing Joe Sterling's acoustic version of a song we wrote together, VALENTINE'S DAY (which featured on his album "Somewhere In My Mind" with a full orchestral track and vocals by Craig Mather http://www.somewhereinmymind.co.uk/):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdwXP75WWI&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/25/14 at 4:25am

Here's another performance of a MY LAND'S SHORE song at the WORDS SHARED WITH FRIENDS concert - Rebecca Trehearn & Shaun McCourt singing "Love On The Edge Of Our Tears":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfSAEPsnVmU&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

[bob8rich]

Posted: 4/26/14 at 3:54am

Here's one more "bonus" performance from my album launch of a song not on the album - an acoustic version of GONE (from the musical ROUNDABOUT which I co-wrote with Joe Sterling) performed by Joe Sterling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr340TSEwzI&list=UUBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

A fully orchestrated recording of the song with vocals by the awesome Jonathan Williams (Les Miserables, Godspell, Tenors Of Rock) is featured on the album "SOMEWHERE IN MY MIND - THE SONGS OF JOE STERLING". http://www.somewhereinmymind.co.uk/