Petula Clark

[mjzee]

Petula Clark isn't much for hanging out in the past. This may explain why the 1960s British pop star long ago chucked the miniskirts and trumpet-sleeved baby-doll dresses that were part of her mod, mod, mod, mod world.

"My daughters are furious because I haven't kept any of that stuff. They would love to have go-go boots or some of the other things I used to wear," said Ms. Clark, 79, whose children will have to content themselves with mementos like mom's two Grammy Awards and her 10 gold records for such hits as "This Is My Song," "My Love" "I Can't Live Without Your Love" and, of course, the catchy little ditty that started it all, "Downtown."

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WSJ

[JSngry]

Tony Hatch on a roll!

Rabbit on a bun...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JvjzZVf44M

[felser]

She and Tony Hatch had a great run of pop records 1965-67, "Downtown", "I Know A Place", "Round Every Corner", "A Sign of The Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "My Love", "Who Am I", "Colour My World", "Don't Sleep On The Subway" are all fabulous. "Who Am I" should have a been much bigger hit than it was. Spectacular production on many of these.

[mjzee]

Good for Tony Hatch, who will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame:

Yahoo News

[robertoart]

For the Brits.

From Us (Aussies) To You

[GA Russell]

I saw Petula in Las Vegas in August of '73. The warm-up act was Joan Rivers. It was a great evening!

[medjuck]

IIRC Glen Gould really liked her.

[Chuck Nessa]

IIRC Glen Gould really liked her.

I knew there was a flaw causing my distaste for much of his work.

[brownie]

I have always been partial to the song 'La Gadoue' that Serge Gainsbourg composed for her

http://www.wat.tv/video/serge-gainsbourg-petula-clark-29klb_2fgqp_.html

[robertoart]

IIRC Glen Gould really liked her.

That's one of the most out there connections I've heard. But why wouldn't Gould like Bacharach inspired 60's pop?

Everyone else does. Except maybe Chuck Nessa.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think I was the wrong age for Pet. In the early 60s, I used to be friendly with a girl who managed in a record shop in Ealing. She used to get blues & R&B singles in on the day of release, knowing there was a bit of a market there. One day she told me a GREAT story, though I never knew if it was true. She got a call from the organisation that put together the UK pop charts for the New Musical Express. They'd apparently had a fire in the office, had lost all the information they used to compile the charts and needed to produce something for the publishing deadline, so were doing a quick telephone sample. And she told them that Pet Clark's cover of Lee Dorsey's 'Ya ya' was her best seling single. So it entered the top thirty!

I always thought it was extremely odd for a French language cover of an R&B song to be a hit in Britain

MG