Artist: Petula Clark
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Vocal
Pop
Discography:
Kaleidoscope - cd 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Kaleidoscope - cd 1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 24
The Very Best of Petula Clark CD2
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Very Best of Petula Clark CD1
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Greatest Hits of Petula Clark
Year: 1990
Tracks: 2
Hello Paris - Anthologie Vol 2
Year: 1964
Tracks: 23
Hello Paris - Anthologie Vol 1
Year: 1962
Tracks: 24
The to the highest degree 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; shortly she was a secureness on British wireless programs, and began hosting her possess regular show Pet's Parlour -- a series spotlighting patriotic songs designed to advance the morale of wartime audiences -- at the untoughened years of 11.
After entertaining British troops aboard familiar baby stars Julie Andrews and Anthony Newley, Clark made her film debut with A Medal for the General in 1944. By the morning of the fifties she was a hotshot end-to-end the U.K., with a re-start of close to deuce dozen films; 1954's "The Little Shoemaker" was her first-class honours degree Top 20 single, spell 1960's "Sailor" was her offset chart-topper. Still, Clark struggled with her inability to pour forth her teenage image. After marketing over a trillion copies of 1961's "Romeo," she matrimonial and resettled to France, establishing a strong fan floor thither on the strong suit of hits including "Ya-Ya Twist," "Chariot" and "Monsieur," which spotlighted a new, more than sophisticated pop sound anchored by her crystalline vocals.
Horseback riding the wave of the British Invasion, Clark was finally able to bottom the U.S. market in 1964 with the Grammy-winning "Downtown," the low gear single by a British adult female ever to attain number one on the American pop charts. It was too the low gear in a serial of American Top Ten hits (most scripted and arranged by Tony Hatch) which too included 1965's "I Know a Place" and 1966's "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" and the number one smash "My Love." At the same fourth dimension, she remained a vast star throughout Europe, topping the British charts in 1967 with "This Is My Song," taken from the film A Countess From Hong Kong. In addition to hosting her possess BBC series, she likewise asterisked in the 1968 NBC television system special Petula, which triggered argument when sponsors requested that a segment with guest Harry Belafonte be cut in obligingness to Southern affiliates; finally, the evince aired in its intended form.
As the 1960s john Drew to a close, Clark's commercial stature slipped, although singles like "Don't Sleep on the Subway," "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener" and "Osculation Me Goodbye" noneffervescent charted on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1968 she revived her film career by stellar in Finian's Rainbow, followed a yr later by Good-by, Mr. Chips. In later days Clark focussed primarily on outside touring, headlining the 1981 London resurgence of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music; later on starring in the 1990 musical Someone Like You, which she too co-wrote, she made her Broadway debut in Blood Brothers in 1993. Additionally, in 1988, an acid-house remix of "Downtown" reached the U.K. Top Ten, some other laurels for the female isaac Bashevis Singer awarded the to the highest degree gold records in British pop history.
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