What does the Edmund Octet sing?

Well, just about anything! Besides the songs listed below the Edmund Octet has a Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire and an extensive

Christmas programme. Details upon request.

Our repertoire

The Blue-Tail Fly Dan Emmett arr. Alan Gibbs

Doctor Foster Herbet Hughes

The Hippopotamus Song Michael Flanders & Donald Swann arr.William Stickles

Dream Johnny Mercer arr. Marcel Rousseau

Lullaby of Birdland George Shearing arr. Marcel Rousseau

Our Love Is Here To Stay George and Ira Gershwin adpt. Marcel Rousseau, arr.Chris Wiltshire

She was Beautiful (Cavatina) Stanley Myers and Cleo Lane arr. Alans Simmons

Yes Sir, That's My Baby Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson arr. Jack Baird

Lullabies

Bilbo's Last Song Donald Swann words by J.R.R.Tolkien

Eriskay Love Lilt Marjory Kennedy-Fraser arr. Hugh S. Roberton

Lullaby Billy Joel arr. Philip Lawson

Scarlet Ribbons Evelyn Danzig and Jack Segal adpt. Derek Ward arr.Marcel Roussau

Beatles for Choirs John Lennon and Paul McCartney arr. Alan Simmons

Nice 'n' Easy (a Perry Como Medley) arr. Alan Simmons

Oliver medley Lionel Bart arr. Alan Simmons

Paint Your Wagon Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe arr. Alan Simmons

World War One Songs Ian Assersohn

Young and Sentimental (A Frank Sinatra Medley) arr. Gwyn Arch

Opera/Classical

Goin' Home Antonin Dvořák adpt. William Arms Fisher

Lonely Woods Jean-Baptiste Lully

Nessun Dorma (From 'Tourandot') Giacomo Puccini arr. Alan Simmons

Sea Fever John Ireland words by John Masefield, arr. Mansel Thomas

The Birth of the Blues Bud de Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson arr. Gwyn Arch

Blue Skies Irving Berlin arr.Gwyn Arch

Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury arr. Alan Simmons

Close To You Hal David and Burt Bacharach arr. Marcel Rousseau

Every Time We Say Goodbye Cole Porter arr. Alan Simmons

Georgy Girl Jim Dale and Tom Springfield arr. Chuck Cassey

God Only Knows Brian Wilson and Tony Asher arr. Ed Lojeski

I Dream Of Jeannie Stephen Foster arr. Ernest Dicks

Is This the Way to Amarillo? Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield arr. Jeffrey Howard

Me and My Shadow Al Jolson, Billy Rose and David Dreyer arr. Dennis Driscoll

My Way Jacques Revaux and Claude François translated by Paul Anka arr. Gwyn Arch

Once in a While Bud Green and Michael Edwards

Puppet on a String Phil Coulter and Bill Martin arr. Alan Simmons

Seems Like Old Times Carmen Lomardo and John Jacob Loeb

She Charles Aznavour & Herbert Kretzmer arr. Alan Simmons

Sherry Bob Gaudio arr.Mac Huff

The Three Bells (the Jimmy Brown Song) Jean Gilles trans. Bert Reisfield arr. Pat Pattison

Three Times a lady Lionel Richie arr. Alan Simmons

Turn Your Radio On Albert Brumley arr. Marcel Rousseau

Uptown Girl Billy Joel arr. Nicholas Hare

Wake Up, Little Susie Felice & Boudleaux Bryant arr. Nicholas Hare

When I'm Sixty Four John Lennon and Paul McCartney arr. Nicholas Hare

Whispering Grass Fred and Doris Fisher arr. Nicholas Hare

The Windmills Of Your Mind Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Michel Legrand arr Alan Simmons

Adoramus Te Giovanni da Palestrina ed. by W.S.Gwynn Williams

Ave Verum Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Louis Saar

O Vos Omnes Giovanni da Palestrina ed. By W.S.Gwynn Williams

Seigneur, Je Vu En Prie Francis Poulenc

Then the Sons of the Hebrews Giovanni Palestrina ed. W.S.Gwynn Williams

Tout puisant Francis Poulenc

We'll all be there Johnson Oatman & Kem G. Bottorf

Songs from Films and Shows

The Deadwood Stage Paul Webster and Sammy Fain arr. Gwyn Arch

How To Handle a Woman (from 'Camelot') Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe arr. Alan Simmons

Loudly let the Trumpets Bray (Chorus of Peers from 'Iolanthe') W.S.Gilbert and A.Sullivan

Maria (from 'West Side Story') Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein arr. Nicholas Hare

New York, New York Fred Ebb and John Kander arr.Alan Simmons

Policeman's Song (from 'Pirates of Penzance') W.S.Gilbert and A.Sullivan

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (from 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid') Hal David and Burt Bacharach arr. Gwyn Arch

Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat (from 'Guys and Dolls') Frank Loesser arr. Alam Simmons

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from 'Roberta') Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach arr.Alan Simmons

Toot Toot Tootsie (from 'the Jazz Singer') Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo arr.anon

The Way We Were Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch arr Gwyn Arch

We Saw the Sea (from 'Follow the Fleet') Irving Berlin arr. Anon

Spiritual/Traditional

Deep River Traditonal arr.H.T.Burleigh

Down In Alabama Traditonal arr. Paul Edmonds

Go down Moses Traditional arr. Vladimir SoŁtysik

Kwmbayah Traditional arr. K.J.Dinham

My Evaline Traditional arr. A.E.Hall

Old Abram Brown Traditional arr. Benjamin Britten

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Traditional arr. Nicholas Hare