TIMELESS classics from the legendary Neil Sedaka and writing partner Howard Greenfield will ring out in Greenock this weekend.

Hit stage show Oh! Carol comes to the Beacon Arts Centre on Saturday night celebrating some of the most famous tracks written by the pair.

Together they penned more than 800 songs, some of which are easily recognisable as Sedaka hits and others that many people won’t even realise they wrote.

Acclaimed Australian singer Damion Scarcella stars alongside West End performer Sara Louisa Parry and they are accompanied by a live band as they celebrate the music and take the audience on a journey throughout the duo’s illustrious career.

Sara told the Tele: “We were up in Scotland a couple of months ago and the audiences loved us, we played Falkirk and Pitlochry, so I’m looking forward to coming back to Scotland.

“It’s a really fun, feel-good show with lots of audience participation and we know that the Scottish people like a good night out and to join in, sing along and get up and dance in the aisle.

“The Scots seem to like us.

“It was great in Falkirk because we didn’t realise until we were singing ‘Amarillo’ that it’s their football song and so they were all singing back to us ‘Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la Falkirk!’.

“It was brilliant, there was such a party atmosphere.”

This show is packed full of hits such as ‘Calendar Girl’, ‘Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen’, ‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do’, ‘Stupid Cupid’ and of course ‘Oh! Carol’.

But their masterpieces were made famous not only by Sedaka but also other well-known performers like Connie Francis, Tony Christie and Tom Jones.

She said: “We talk a bit in between the songs and tell a bit about how they met and how they got going and the famous people who sang their songs and that kind of thing.

“It’s full of music and tunes that everybody knows, as well as some they won’t realise that Neil Sedaka wrote later in his career when other people were singing his songs.

"A number like ‘Solitaire’, which was made famous by Karen Carpenter and Andy Williams sung too, personally I didn’t realise it was a Neil Sedaka song before I started the show.

“Also ‘Amarillo’, it’s such an iconic song that we forget who wrote it. We get to spend time with the audience afterwards during a ‘meet and greet’ and people always tell us how much they’ve enjoyed it.

“I had a lovely comment the other day, a lady came in and said ‘I was 81 when I came into this theatre and I’m leaving it as an 18-year-old’.

“It takes people back to their younger days and they seem to sing along and get up and dance.”

The show starts at 7.30pm.

For tickets and more information visit call the box office on 723723.