Neil Sedaka - BBC In Concert, Neil Sedaka, London, Britain, 4-26-1975

A couple of weeks ago (writing this in March 2026), a posted a couple of albums made up of performance of Neil Sedaka on the "Midnight Special" TV show. In the course of putting those together, I stumbled across this BBC concert Sedaka did at the same time. I'm not that big of a Sedaka fan, but I'm kind of fanatic about posting these old BBC concerts, so I figured what the heck and I'm posting it. 

By the way, I also found evidence that Sedaka did other BBC concerts, usually decades later. For instance, he did one in 2010. But I haven't been able to find any of those. If you have them and want to share them, I'll post those as well.

This concert was broadcast on BBC TV. It was relatively early in his mid-1970s comeback. But it includes the song "Laughter in the Rain," which was the key song that made him popular again. It also starts with "Love Will Keep Us Together," which he wrote. That was a huge Number One hit for Captain and Tennille. I looked it up, and that single was released in April 1975, the same month as this concert. But this is probably the broadcast date, not the recording date. So I think it's highly likely he recorded this before he knew that song would be such a big hit.

The "BBC In Concert" concert is only half an hour long. Since that's pretty short, I did a search to see if he did anything else for the BBC around that time. I did find a couple of things. Tracks 12 through 15 are from an appearance on the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test" in 1974. That was even earlier in his comeback. But he did have one minor hit in Britain in 1972, "That's When the Music Takes Me." The last song is from a 1975 episode of the BBC TV show "Lulu," starring the British singer Lulu. The song, "Laughter in the Rain," is the only repeat here, luckily enough. But this is a duet version sung by Lulu, so I figured that's different enough to justify including both.

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 42 minutes long. Just the "In Concert" portion is 30 minutes long.

01 Love Will Keep Us Together (Neil Sedaka)
02 talk (Neil Sedaka)
03 Laughter in the Rain (Neil Sedaka)
04 When You Were Lovin' Me (Neil Sedaka)
05 talk (Neil Sedaka)
06 Stephen (Neil Sedaka)
07 talk (Neil Sedaka)
08 The Queen of 1964 (Neil Sedaka)
09 New York City Blues (Neil Sedaka)
10 talk (Neil Sedaka)
11 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Neil Sedaka)
12 Betty Grable (Neil Sedaka)
13 A Little Lovin' (Neil Sedaka)
14 talk (Neil Sedaka)
15 Solitaire (Neil Sedaka)
16 Laughter in the Rain (Neil Sedaka & Lulu)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/S63g5A1b 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/YxjeaydmC3VxZCN/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert.