Sunday Night is Music Night

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The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Sunday Night is Music Night: 50th Birthday Bonanza - Sensational Songs from '67

50th Birthday Bonanza - Sensational Songs from '67

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, 50th Birthday Bonanza - Sensational Songs from '67

Sunday Night Is Music Night marks the 50th birthdays of the great films & musicals of '67.

1967 was a sensational year for film songs. Graham Bickley and Anna Jane Casey celebrate 50 years of Camelot, You Only Live Twice, Dr Doolittle, Hair, Bonnie & Clyde and many more.

Tonight, another chance to hear a concert marking the 50th birthdays of the great films & musicals of '67. It was a sensational year that saw the release of The Jungle Book, Camelot, Half A Sixpence, Dr Doolittle, Hair, Bonnie and Clyde, You Only Live Twice, and To Sir With Love among others. 

In tonight's concert, singers Graham Bickley and Anna Jane Casey join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Mike Dixon to sing songs from the films and show of '67, including The Bare Necessities; How To Handle a Woman; Flash Bang Wallop; Talk to the Animals, Good Morning Starshine, If I Were A Rich Man and many others.

First broadcast in January 2017.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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