Petula Clark...The International Hits.

Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark; 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and composer.

Clark's professional career began during the Second World War as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. In 1954 she charted with "The Little Shoemaker", the first of her big UK hits, and within two years she began recording in French. Her international successes have included "Prends mon coeur", "Sailor" (a UK number one), "Romeo", and "Chariot". Hits in German, Italian and Spanish followed. In late 1964 Clark's success extended to the United States with a four-year run of career-defining, often upbeat singles, many written or co-written by Tony Hatch (and Jackie Trent). These songs include her signature song "Downtown" and "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "Who Am I", "Colour My World", "This Is My Song" (by Charlie Chaplin), "Don't Sleep in the Subway", "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener", and "Kiss Me Goodbye". In the United States Clark was sometimes called "the First Lady of the British Invasion". Clark has sold more than 68 million records. She has also enjoyed success in the musical film (Finian's Rainbow) and in the stage musicals The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers and Sunset Boulevard.

1. Never On A Sunday

2. You Can't Keep Me From Loving You

3. What Now my Love

4. Why Don't They Understand

5. Have I The Right

6. Volare

1. One More Sunrise

2. I Want To Hold Your Hand

3. Love Me With All your Heart

4. Boy from Ipanema

5. I Who Have Nothing

6. Hello Dolly

      

          5. Have I The Right

Petula Clark.

This L/P is also known as "The Pink Album" to the fans of Petula Clark and is known as one of the best ones she has recorded....Most of the songs on it are written by "Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent" so it does have a good pedigree it is also arranged and produced by "Tony Hatch"

          7. Kiss Me Goodbye

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Petula Clark's many French recordings...
I think the cover is great...songs are good too not many well known ones...

Over the years she has recorded some great album's and singles...

One of her best CD's in my opinion was one called "Blue Lady"..."The Nashville Sessions "She recorded it in 1975 but it wasn't released till 1995 it was recorded for the ABC Record Company...reason for the delay according to the review was "Creative differences with the label" ,whatever that means so it was lying on a shelf for 20 years

1. Chariot
2. Coeur Blesse
3. Les Chants De L'Ete
4. Les Colimacons
5. Dans Le Train De Nuit
6. Claquez Vos Doigts

1. Les Beaux Jours
2. L 'Enfant Do
3. Chanson D'Argentine Tes Yeux Blues
4. Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garcon
5. L'Amour Que Tu M' As Donne
6. Darling Cheri

          1. Chariot

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Another cool selection of songs by Petula plus her hit the L/P's title...Just a bit of Petula trivia...
The track "For Love" was written by "Al Grant" which is Petula's sometime pseudonym name she uses for her song writing !!!

1. Smile

2. Black Coffee

3.The Last Waltz

4. Answer Me
5. The Other Mans Grass Is Always Greener
6. Today Tomorrow

1. I Could Have Danced All Night
2. At The Crossroads
3. Isle De France
4. The Cat In The Window
5. For Love
6. Ballad Of The Sad Young Man

   2. Black Coffee

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This is another compilation L/P...I think it is Petula's singles and tracks from some of her L/P's....you have first track very early 60's and the last track early 60's and sandwiched between them hits and cover versions...have a listen... the cover versions of songs are completely different from the originals..."Fool On The Hill" is a bit dramatic....I like "I Want To Sing With Your Band" corny but good!!!!!.......

1.Sailor

2. Fool On The Hill

3. Windmills Of Your Mind

4. I Want To Sing With Your Band

5. A Groovy Kind Of Love

6. Call Me

7. My Funny Valentine

8. Downtown

1. This Is My Song

2. I Could Have Danced All Night

3. Hey Jude

4. Strangers In The Night

5. Never On A Sunday

6. Winchester Cathedral

7. Where Did We Go Wrong

8. Romeo

          4. I Want To Sing With Your Band

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Not got this one so thanks John !...a mixture of songs sung fantastically as only Pet can do !!
And at the age of 91 a video of a track from her latest CD proves that she still has that OOmph !!!..and its below !!!

          10. The Fool On The Hill

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This one was recorded in USA whilst Pet was making "Finians Rainbow".....love her version of "Lover Man" and "Eternally"

1. This Is My Song
2. Groovin'
3. Lover Man
4. San Francisco
5. Eternally
6. Resist

1. Don't Sleep In The Subway
2. Imagine
3. Love Is Here
4. How Insensitive
5. I Will Wait For You
6. On The Path Of Glory

    3. Lover Man

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I think we will end this session with two of "England's" best known female singers who have travelled the world to entertain everybody....Two distinctive voices that need no introduction of who they are.....And I've met both of them !!!..."Petula" twice once in the 50's and again in the 80's..."Shirl" in the early 60's when she was doing the "Variety" circuit !!

           7. Winchester Cathedral

Petula Clark.

 Here's Petula being produced by her then husband "Claude Wolff"and I presume it was recorded in France....A great recording of "My Funny Valentine"...date of recording is about 1969...another great pic of Petula

1. Happy Heart
2. If Ever You're Lonely
3. Games People Play
4. Love Is The Only Thing
5. When I Was A Child
6. The Ad

1. My Funny Valentine
2. Lovin' Things
3. When I Give My Heart
4. Let It Be Me
5. Some
6. The Windmills Of Your Mind 

       7. My Funny Valentine

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Here is the second part of Petula's very early recordings....some great and rare recording's if you are a Pet fan than this is the one for you !!

1.Tell Me Truly

2.Song Of The Mermaid

3.The Card

4.It Had to Be You

5.A Boy In Love

6.A Boy In Love (Radiola Version)

7.Where Did My Snowman Go

8.Anytime Is Tea Time Now

9.Made in Heaven

10.Temptation Rag

11.Made In Heaven

12.My Love Is a Wanderer

13.Take Care of Yourself

14.Christopher Robin at Buckingham Palace

15.Three Little Kittens

16.Poppa Piccolino

17.The Who-is-it Song

18.The Little Shoemaker

19.Helpless

20.Meet Me In Battersea Park

21.A Long Way to Go

22.Smile

23.Somebody

24.Christmas Cards

25.Little Johnny Rainbow

26.Majorca

27.Facinating Rhythm

28.Romance In Rome

29.Chee Chee-Oo Chee

30.The Pendulum Song

31.Crazy Otto Rag

32.How Are Things With You

33.Tuna Puna Trinidad

          4. It Had To Be You

           18. The Little Shoemaker

           27. Fascinating Rhythm

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As with most of the "Live" L/P's there are no gaps in between the tracks so this has been recorded as "Side One & Side Two"....As usual not much info on the back of the sleeve but it was "Petula's" 1972 performance...and a good one at that !!!....she recieved a CBE in 1998 ....maybe soon she will become a "Dame" 

 

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Here's Pet at the very start of her singing career....songs from Films she made with the Huggets

I believe are the first few tracks, so they are not too good sound wise...but enjoyable if your a fan of Petula Clark !!

 This anthology of her complete early singles is a detailed analysis of her Polygon recordings made between 1949 and 1955, which were also released on Esquire in Australia and Melodi in Denmark. By 1956 she would be recording for Nixa, and this would lead to her Pye, Vogue, and Warner Brothers recordings of the late '50s and early to middle '60s. Petula Clark was a ubiquitous teenaged movie star during the 1940s and early '50s, sometimes working with young Julie Andrews. Indeed, on some of these records Petula sounds a lot like Julie, or (dare one say it?) Mary Poppins. That's because the material is predominately light, happy-go-lucky innocent pop.

On this first post of 28 tracks which cover all of her original Polygon 78s lovingly re-mastered for the first time in one collection. In addition there are rare sides from Columbia and Decca, as well as rare overseas releases. From child star to her heyday and still performing today, six decades later! Petula Clark is a true icon of the music business.

1. DOODLE-OODLE-DAY

2. IT'S NOT FOR THE WANT OF TRYING

3. HOUSE IN THE SKY

4. PUT YOUR SHOES ON, LUCY

5. I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

6. CLANCY LOWERED THE BOOM

7. TWO LIPS (The "Kiss" Song)

8. YOU GO TO MY HEAD

9. OUT OF A CLEAR BLUE SKY

10. MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC

11. BLOSSOMS ON THE BOUGH

12. SILVER DOLLAR

13. TALKY, TALKY, TALKY

14. FLY AWAY PETER, FLY AWAY PAUL

15. WHO SPILT THE COFFEE ON THE CARPET

16. YOU ARE MY TRUE LOVE

17. YOU'RE THE SWEETEST IN THE LAND

18. BELOVED, BE FAITHFUL

19. TENNESSEE WALTZ

20. SLEEPY EYES

21. TEASIN'

22. BLACK-NOTE SERENADE

23. MAY KWAY (Rose, Rose, I Love you)

24. CLICKETY CLACK

25. MARIANDL

26. BROKEN HEART

27. THAT'S HOW A LOVE SONG IS BORN

28. COLD, COLD HEART

There is another 33 tracks to come later !!

          8 You Go To My Head

          28. Cold Cold Heart

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This is one of Pets American releases recorded in 1971 in Miami....not a hint of the "Hatch & Trent" sound...except of course on the title track which was not arranged by "Tony Hatch" but still has the same sound.....Seems that quite a few of Petula's American releases contains a Hit title track that became the title of the L/P.....She sings contemporary songs of the day by composers of today.

1. Let Me Be The One

2. Loss Of Love

3. Cry Like A Baby

4. Don't Say I Didn't Tell You So

5. For Free

6. Maybe I'm Amazed

1. The Song Of My life

2. Beautiful

3. Time And Love

4. I've Got My Eyes On You

5. Couldn't Sleep

          3. Cry Like A Baby

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 Another of Petula's french L/P's....two or three well known songs including her french version of "Kiss Me Goodbye"

 1. Chante

2. Dans Mon Lit

3. Qu'Est Ce Qui Fait Courir Le Monde

4. Je Reve

5. Tu Ne Sais Pas Tu Ne Sais Rien

6. Ce Matin La

1. Frere Jacques

2. Dis Moi Au Revoir

3. Quand Ton Tour Viendre

4. Tu Ne Joues Plus

5. Avec Le Temps

          2. Dis Moi Au Revoir

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 The English (Pye) and American (WB) L/P covers...Pet doing the International Hits from 1965

The World's Greatest International Hits is the third album released by Petula Clark in the United States and was the first not to include original material by Tony Hatch. It includes cover songs of other British Invasion groups such as The Beatles and The Honeycombs. Roland Bianchini was credited with the cover photography and Ed Thrasher with art direction.(USA version)

1. Never On A Sunday

2. You Can't Keep Me From Loving You

3. What Now My Love

4. Why Don't They Understand

5. Have I The Right

6. Volare

1. One More Sunrise

2. I Want To Hold Your Hand

3. Love Me All Your Heart

4. The Boy From Ipanema

5. I Who Have Nothing

6. Hello Dolly

         5. I Who Have Nothing

Petula Clark

This Petula L/P was the only one that she recorded for MGM....obviously in america there is not much information on the back cover I think it was probably 1972 or thereabouts Pets in good voice and the tracks are a mixture pop tunes... and one written by her and one by Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent....The arrangments are by "Don Costa" who has done most of "Eydie Gorme's" L/Ps so they are cool !!...(Now is 1972)....not 2019 !!

6. Baby I'm Yours

Petula Clark..320 Kbps

This is an interesting alternative !!! with an extra track for good measure !!...and its a Mini CD !!

1. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love...( Extended Version )..89 Mix.
2.  I Couldn't Live Without Your love...89 Mix.
3. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love...( Original )
4. Come On Home
5. Call Me...( 89 Mix)
6. Happy Heart...( Junior Vasquez Remix )

2. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love.

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When this L/P was released "Pet" was 23 !....so here are some of her early recordings

1. Somebody
2. A Long Way To Go
3. Little Johnny Rainbow
4. Majorca

1. Smile
2. Fascinating Rhythm
3. Helpless
4. The Little Shoemaker

04 - Majorca.mp3

Petula Clark

Its a wonder that I could have sat down on that carpet must have laid down and had a snooze !! yes another one from "John's" "New York" record shop !!....Pet doing songs of the time!