| Be sure to refresh page.Please contact the Webmaster or the IPCS!"Not yet a member of PetNet?Click here to register for your free account now!Interview with Michael Roberts.Become a Member of The International Petula Clark Society The IPCS, Petula Clark's official international fan organization, was established over 30 years ago in the UK and continues to inform admirers worldwide.IPCS and are posted on this website as a courtesy to our website visitors.Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s.Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a combination of the names of two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla.As a child, she sang in the church choir; her first public performances were in Bentalls Department Store in Kingston upon Thames, where she sang with an orchestra in the entrance hall for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch.In October 1942, she made her radio debut while attending a BBC broadcast with her father, hoping to send a message to an uncle stationed overseas.In quick succession, she starred in Strawberry Roan, I Know Where I'm Going!Anthony Newley in Vice Versa (directed by Peter Ustinov) and Alec Guinness in The Card.In 1946, she launched her television career with an appearance on a BBC variety show, Cabaret Cartoons, which led to her being signed to host her own afternoon series, titled simply Petula Clark.Pet's Parlour, followed in 1949.Her father, whose theatrical ambitions had been thwarted by his parents, teamed with Alan A.Freeman to form their own label, Polygon Records, in order to better control her singing career.She scored a number of major hits in the UK during the 1950s, including "The Little Shoemaker" (1954), "Majorca" (1955), "Suddenly There's a Valley" (1955) and "With All My Heart" (1956).It was around 1955 that she became romantically linked with Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson.Speculation that the couple planned to marry became rife."There's Nothing More To Say," for Clark's LP In Other Words.International fame
In 1958, Clark was invited to appear at the Olympia in Paris where, despite her misgivings, she was received with acclaim.In June 1961, Clark married Wolff, first in a civil ceremony in Paris, then a religious one in her native England.While she focused on her new career in France, she continued to achieve hit records in the UK into the early 1960s, developing a parallel career on both sides of the Channel.Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs were also big sellers.In 1963 and 1964, Clark's British career foundered.Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by a recent first trip to New York City, which he intended to present to The Drifters.Thus "Downtown" came into being.Released in four different languages in late 1964, "Downtown" was a success in the UK, France (in both English and French versions), Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy, and even Rhodesia, Japan, and India.During a visit to the Vogue offices in Paris, Warner Brothers executive Joe Smith heard it and acquired the rights for the United States."Downtown" went to number 1 on the US charts in January 1965 and sold three million copies in America.It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark scored in the US, including "I Know a Place," "My Love," "A Sign of the Times," "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "This Is My Song" (from the Charles Chaplin film A Countess from Hong Kong), and "Don't Sleep in the Subway."Roll Record" for "Downtown" in 1964 and for "Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance" for "I Know a Place" in 1965.In 2003, her recording of "Downtown" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.Daggers Drawn) and played a cameo as herself in the movie.Clark's recording successes led to frequent appearances on US variety programs hosted by Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin, guest shots on Hullabaloo, Shindig!When he insisted they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from each other, she and husband Wolff, producer of the show, refused and delivered the finished programme to NBC with the touch intact.During this period, she also appeared in print and radio ads for Coca Cola, television commercials for Plymouth, print and TV spots for Burlington Industries in the US, television and print ads for Chrysler Sunbeam, and print ads for Sanderson Wallpaper in the UK.Clark revived her film career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films: Finian's Rainbow (1968) opposite Fred Astaire (for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award), and Goodbye, Mr.Chips (1969) with Peter O'Toole.After this, her output of hits in the States diminished markedly, although she continued to record and make television appearances into the 1970s.Clark's interest in encouraging new talent.Later stage work includes Someone Like You in 1989 and 1990, for which she composed the score; Blood Brothers, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre, followed by the US tour; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, appearing in both the West End and U.With more than 2500 performances, she has played the role more often than any other actress.In both 1998 and 2002, Clark toured extensively throughout the UK.Denis Theatre in Montreal.Olympia in Paris has been issued in both DVD and CD formats.Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl.In November 2006, Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary entitled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month.My Music: The British Beat, an overview of music's British invasion of the US in the 1960s, followed by a number of concert dates throughout the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.She can be heard on the soundtrack of the 2007 independent film Downtown: A Street Tale.Une Baladine (in English, a wandering minstrel), an authorized pictorial biography by Francoise Piazza, was published in France and Switzerland in October 2007, and the following month Clark promoted it in bookshops and at book fairs.Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Goodbye, Mr.US and UK chart albums
Clark released her debut album on the Nixa label in 1956, but none of her LPs charted in either the US or the UK until 1965.Petula Clark's Greatest Hits, Vol.Charted US and UK singles
Although Clark released her first single in 1949, her first chart record was not until 1954, since the first UK pop singles chart was not published until 1952."Put Your Shoes On Lucy" (1949)
"House in the Sky" (1949)
"I'll Always Love You" (1949)
"Clancy Lowered the Boom" (1949)
"You Go To My Head" (1950)
"Music!Andrea Kon, This is My Song: A Biography of Petula Clark, W.External links
Official Website
UK Website
Petula Clark at the Internet Movie Database
Radio show(MP3) in which Glenn Gould meticulously dissects the music and image of Petula Clark.This page was last modified 21:19, 1 January 2008.See Copyrights for details.Charts
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Y!Rating affects your music played in LAUNCHcast and Music Videos.The most commercially successful female singer in British chart history, Petula Clark was born November 15, 1932 in Epsom, England.Trained to sing by her soprano mother, Clark embarked on a stage career at the age of seven; soon she...The Petula Clark Anthology: Downtown To Sunset Boulevard
Downtown: The Greatest Hits...Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.See all 21 customer reviews...Ships from and sold by Amazon.See all 21 customer reviews...Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.No Credit Card Required.Sheet music for Petula clark at Sheet Music Plus.No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet.Downtown is the song that people remember Petula best for (at least in the English speaking world) and it rightly opens this collection.CD Downtown to Sunset Boulevard, a compilation that also includes plenty of songs from stage and screen as well as some of her seventies music.When Petula Clark burst onto the U.England for the past fifteen years.Her final Top 40 hit was 1968's "Don't Give Up," but the following year she reached No.Don't Know How To Love Him," which reached No.Was this review helpful to you?Published 2 months ago by S.ULTIMATE PETULA CLARK cd after watching a documentary on the Ovation channel about Clark and her career.Published 4 months ago by B.Petula Clark was a British singer, who's career spanned over fifty years.She is best known for her upbeat pop tunes of the 1960's some of which became memorable hits...Without a doubt one of the greatest cd's I own
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It is music of my youth and likes at DOWNTOWN and likes MY LOVE elsewhere, too.Petula Clark's sound is timely and even if you did not live these days, you will still enjoy this classic sound.All of Petula Clark's hit songs are here.If you are a Petula Clark fan,get this collection of hits.Why do people buy CDs when records sound so much better?Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.Music You Should Hear: Artists' PicksWant to know what Norah Jones, Sting, and Il Divo are listening to?Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.Off Your StairMaster and Nautilus Purchase
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