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Petula Clark CBE (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 81 years.
Clark's professional career began during the
Clark has sold more than 70 million records.[2] She has also enjoyed success in the musical film Finian's Rainbow, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a musical, and in the stage musicals The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers, Sunset Boulevard and Mary Poppins.
Biography
Early career
Petula Clark was born Sally Clark on 15 November 1932 in Ewell, Surrey, England[3] to Doris (née Phillips) and Leslie Noah Clark. Both of Clark's parents were nurses at Long Grove Hospital in Epsom. Clark's mother had Welsh ancestry and her father was English. Clark's stage name "Petula" was invented by her father, who joked that it was a combination of the names of his two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla.[4]
Clark grew up in Abercanaid, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales,[5] in a house with no electricity or running water and a toilet in the garden. Her grandfather was a coal miner.[6] Her first ever live audience was at the Colliers' Arms in Abercanaid.[7] She also recalls living just outside London during the Blitz and watching the dogfights in the air and running to air-raid shelters with her sister. Later, when she was eight, she joined other children to record messages with the BBC to be broadcast to members of their families in the forces. The recording event was in the Criterion Theatre, an underground theatre that was safe. When the air-raid siren went off other children were upset and a call went out for someone to step forward and sing to calm them. Petula volunteered, and they liked her voice so much, in the control room they recorded her. Her song was "Mighty Like a Rose".[8]
As a child, Clark sang in the chapel choir and showed a talent for mimicry, impersonating Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and Sophie Tucker for her family and friends.[9] Her father introduced her to theatre in 1944 when he took her to see Flora Robson in a production of Mary Stuart; she later recalled that after the performance, "I made up my mind then and there I was going to be an actress. ... I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world."[10] However, her first public performances were as a singer. In 1945 she performed with an orchestra in the entrance hall of Bentall's Department Store in Kingston upon Thames for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch.[11]
Career start
From a chance beginning at the age of seven Clark appeared on radio, in film, in print, on television and on recordings. In October 1942 the nine-year-old Clark made her radio debut while attending a BBC broadcast with her father. She was trying to send a message to an uncle who was stationed overseas, but the broadcast was delayed by an air raid. During the bombing the producer requested that someone perform to settle the jittery theatre audience and she volunteered a rendering of "Mighty Lak' a Rose" to an enthusiastic response. She then repeated her performance for the broadcast audience, launching a series of some 500 appearances in programmes designed to entertain the troops.[12][13]
In addition to radio work, Clark frequently toured the United Kingdom with fellow child performer Julie Andrews. Nicknamed the "Singing Sweetheart", she performed for George VI, Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery. She also became known as "Britain's Shirley Temple",[14] and was considered a mascot by the British Army, some of whose troops plastered her photos on their tanks for good luck as they advanced into battle.[15]
While she was performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1944 Clark was discovered by the film director Maurice Elvey, who cast her, at the age of 12, as the precocious orphaned waif Irma in his war drama Medal for the General.[16] In quick succession she performed in Strawberry Roan,[17] I Know Where I'm Going!,[18] London Town,[19] Here Come the Huggetts, Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad, the second, third and fourth of four Huggett Family films.[20] She worked with Anthony Newley in Vice Versa (directed by Peter Ustinov) and Alec Guinness in The Card.[21] She also had a small role in I Know Where I'm Going.[18]
In 1945 Clark was featured in the comic Radio Fun, in which she was billed as "Radio's Merry Mimic".[22] By then Clark felt that she had played child parts for too long.[14]
In 1946 Clark began 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, Petula Clark. Pet's Parlour followed in 1950.[23]
In 1947 Clark met
Near the end of 1955 Polygon Records was sold to Nixa Records, then part of
During this period Clark showed a keen interest in encouraging new talent. She suggested that Henderson be allowed to record his own music, and he had five chart hits on Polygon/Pye between 1955 and 1960.
European fame
In 1957 Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia, where, despite her misgivings and a bad cold, she was received with acclaim. The following day she was invited to the office of Vogue Records to discuss a contract. There she met her future longtime publicist, collaborator and husband Claude Wolff. Clark was attracted immediately, and when she was told that she would be working with him if she signed with the Vogue label she agreed.[26]
In 1960 Clark embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel, who remained a close friend until his death in 2004.[27] Gradually she moved further into the continent, recording in German, French, Italian and Spanish.
While Clark focused on her new career in France she continued to achieve hit records in the UK into the early 1960s. Her 1961 recording of "Sailor" became her first number-one hit in the UK, while such follow-up recordings as "
In 1963 Clark wrote the soundtrack for the French crime film A Couteaux Tirés (Daggers Drawn) - released in 1964 - and made a cameo appearance as herself in the film. Although it was only a mild success,[citation needed] it added a new dimension—that of film composer—to her career. Additional film scores she composed include Entre ciel et mer (1963), Rêves d'enfant (1964), La bande à Bebel (1966),[29] and Pétain (1989). Six themes from the last were released on the CD In Her Own Write in 2007.[citation needed]
Clark was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1964,[30] April 1975[31] and March 1996, becoming the only person to receive the television tribute three times.[citation needed]
Global fame – the "Downtown" era
By 1964 Clark's British recording career was foundering. Composer/arranger Tony Hatch, who had been assisting her with her work for Vogue Records in France and Pye Records in the UK, flew to her home in Paris with new song material he hoped would interest her, but she found none of it appealing.[32] Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by his recent first trip to New York City. Upon hearing the melody, Clark told him that if he could write lyrics as good as the melody, she wanted to record the tune as her next single—"Downtown".[33] Hatch has subsequently denied originally offering "Downtown" to the Drifters.[32]
Neither Clark, who was performing in Canada when the song first received major air play, "Downtown" went to number one on the American charts in January 1965, and 3 million copies were sold in the United States.
"Downtown" was the first of 15 consecutive Top-40 hits Clark achieved in the U.S., including "
Clark's recording successes led to frequent appearances on American variety programmes hosted by Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin, guest shots on Hullabaloo, Shindig!, The Kraft Music Hall and The Hollywood Palace, and inclusion in musical specials such as The Best on Record and Rodgers and Hart Today.
In 1968
Clark was later the host of two more specials; The Petula Clark Show shown on both the NBC and
Clark revived her film career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films. In
Throughout the late 1960s Clark toured in concerts in the U.S., and she often appeared in
During this period Clark continued her interest in encouraging new talent. These efforts also supported the launch of
Clark has recalled that she and Karen Carpenter went to see Elvis Presley perform in Las Vegas and that afterwards "He was flirting with both of us, (saying) 'Wow, the two biggest girl pop stars in my dressing room. That's pretty good'... He didn't have us, exactly, but he had a darned good try. Not going to talk about that any more."[50]
Clark was one of the backing vocalists on
1970–2000
During the early 1970s Clark had chart singles on both sides of the Atlantic with "Melody Man" (1970), "The Song of My Life" (1971), "I Don't Know How To Love Him" (1972), "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" (1972), and "Loving Arms" (1974). In Canada, "Je Voudrais Qu'il Soit Malheureux" was a major hit. Clark continued touring during the 1970s, performing in clubs in the US and Europe. During this period, Clark also appeared in print and radio ads for the
In the mid-1970s Clark scaled back her career to devote more time to her family. On 31 December 1976, she performed her hit song "Downtown" on
As Clark moved away from film and television, she returned to the stage. In 1954, she had starred in a stage production of
Her later stage work includes
A new disco remix of "Downtown", called "Downtown '88", was released in 1988, registering Clark's first UK singles chart success since 1972, making the Top 10 in the UK in December 1988.[59] A live vocal performance of this version was performed on the BBC show Top of the Pops.[citation needed] Clark recorded new material regularly throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and in 1992 released "Oxygen", a single produced by Andy Richards and written by Nik Kershaw.
In 1998 Clark was made a
2000–present
In both 1998 and 2002 Clark toured extensively throughout the UK. In 2000, she presented a self-written, one-woman show, highlighting her life and career, to large critical and audience acclaim at the
In November 2006 Clark was the subject of a
In 2005 Clark took part in the
Clark was presented with the 2007 Film and TV Music Award for Best Use of a Song in a Television Programme for "Downtown" in the ABC series Lost.[citation needed] She completed a concert tour of England and Wales in summer 2008, followed by concerts in Switzerland and the Philippines.[citation needed] Then & Now, a compilation of greatest hits and several new Clark compositions, entered the UK Albums Chart in June 2008 and won Clark her first silver disc for an album.[citation needed] Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection, a compilation of previously unreleased material and new and remixed recordings, was released in January 2009.[citation needed] Additionally, her 1969 NBC special Portrait of Petula, already released on DVD for Region 2 viewers, is also being produced for Region 1.[citation needed] A collection of holiday songs titled This Is Christmas, which includes some new Clark compositions in addition to previously released material, was released in November 2009.[citation needed]
At the Montreux Jazz Festival on 14 July 2008 Clark joined with Paolo Nutini to perform "Goin' to Chicago Blues" in celebration of Quincy Jones' 75th birthday.
In 2010 Clark became president of the Hastings Musical Festival;[62] she toured Australia, New Zealand and Quebec to sell-out crowds,[citation needed] and appeared on the Vivement Dimanche show on French television, where she promised a return to Paris in the new year. Her triple album Une Baladine included 10 new tracks and one new studio recording: "SOS Mozart", a writing collaboration of Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë.[citation needed] Both her album set and the new recording of "SOS Mozart" were produced by David Hadzis at the Arthanor Productions studio in Geneva and appeared on the French charts. She was patron of 2011 Dinard British Film Festival.[63]
Early in 2011 the Lark Street Business Improvement District in a section of the downtown area of Albany, New York, needed a name for its logo/mascot, a graphic image of a blue lark. An internet poll was held, and the winner was Petula Lark, clearly a reference to the singer of the adopted anthem of New York City's urban area, "Downtown".[64] In November 2011, at age 78, Clark performed at the Casino de Paris, a Parisian music hall. Clark entertained for more than 90 minutes and introduced five new songs, one of which she had recently written with friend Charles Aznavour. A French album of all new material was to be released on 7 February 2012 on the Sony label, Clark's first in that language since the late 1970s.[65]
On 11 December 2011 the Saw Doctors released their version of "Downtown", featuring Clark. She appeared in the video for the song, which they recorded in Galway, and she in Paris.[66] On 22 December 2011, the record reached number two on the Irish chart.[67] In February 2012 Clark completed her first New York City show since 1975.[68] Her show featured a parody of "Downtown", an idea that came from her musical director Grant Sturiale.[68] After the end of her season, which was extended due to the demand for tickets, she returned to Paris to promote her new album, before flying to Australia for a tour.[69]
Clark appeared as a guest on Radio 4's The Reunion in August 2012. In January 2013, she released a new album titled
On 10 November 2017 an English-language album was released, Living for Today. Clark embarked on a tour of the United States in November 2017. It was her first US tour in five decades.[74] On 20 April 2018 a French-Canadian album was released, Vu d'ici.[75] In March 2019 she was announced as returning to the West End stage in London for the first time in 20 years, performing in the upcoming revival of Mary Poppins as The Bird Woman.[76] In March 2020 the United Music Foundation released A Valentine's Day at the Royal Albert Hall, a collector's edition including the complete recording of her legendary concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 14 February 1974.[77]
Clark appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends concert which aired on the BBC in January 2023. She performed "I'm Still Here" from Follies. The CD recording of this performance was released physically and digitally in December 2023.
Personal life
In 1955 Clark became linked romantically with
In October 1957, Clark was invited to appear at the
Following the 1979 UK general election, at which Margaret Thatcher had won a majority for the Conservatives, becoming Britain's first female prime minister, Clark sent Thatcher a congratulatory telegram, saying "Felicitations – so happy for you and for Britain."[80][81] The same year, Clark performed at a Young Conservatives rally.[82] However, in 2002, she attended a fundraiser for Labour prime minister Tony Blair.[83]
Since 2012 Clark has lived for most of the year in Geneva, Switzerland; she also has a holiday chalet in the French Alps, where she likes to ski, and a pied-à-terre in London's Chelsea.
Filmography
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- Medal for the General (1944)
- Strawberry Roan (1945)
- Murder in Reverse?(1945)
- I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
- Trouble at Townsend (1946)
- London Town (1946)
- Vice Versa (1948)
- Easy Money (1948)
- Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
- Vote for Huggett (1949)
- The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
- Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
- The Romantic Age (1949)
- Dance Hall (1950)
- White Corridors (1951)
- Madame Louise (1951)
- The Card (1952)
- Made in Heaven (1952)
- The Runaway Bus (1954)
- The Gay Dog (1954)
- The Happiness of Three Women (1954)
- Track the Man Down (1955)
- That Woman Opposite (1957)
- 6.5 Special(1958) (as herself)
- À Couteaux Tirés (1964) (also composed score) (aka "Daggers Drawn" for the American release)
- Finian's Rainbow (1968)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
- Drôles de zèbres (1977)
- Never Never Land (1980)
- Sans famille (1981, French mini-series)
Noteworthy recordings
French singles
- "Prends mon cœur" ("A Fool Such as I") (1960, No.9)
- "Garde-moi la dernière danse (Save the Last Dance for Me)" (1961, No.3[85])
- "Marin (Sailor)" (1961, No.2)
- "Roméo" (1961, No.3)
- "Ya Ya Twist" (1962, with Johnny Hallyday, No.1)[86]
- "Chariot" (later also known as "I Will Follow Him") (1962, No.1)
- "Les Beaux Jours" (original title: "Ramblin' Rose") (1963)
- "Cœur blessé" (original title: "Torture" by John D. Loudermilk; lyric by Jean Kluger, Daniel Vangarde, Claude Carrere, Jean Broussolle) (1963, No.4)
- "Je me sens bien auprès de toi (Dance On)" (1963, No.5)
- "Ceux qui ont un cœur (Anyone Who Had a Heart)" (1964, No.11)
- "Dans le temps (Downtown)" (1965, No.6)
- "Un jeune homme bien (A Well Respected Man)" (1965)
- "C'est ma chanson" ("This is My Song") (1967, No.1)
- "La Dernière Valse (The Last Waltz)" (1967, No.2)
- "Tout le monde veut aller au ciel" (1967)
German singles
- "Monsieur" (by Karl Götz, Kurt Hertha; German language song) (1962, No.1)
- "Casanova Baciami" (song with German lyric) (1963, No.2)
- "Cheerio" (German language version of "Chariot") (1963, No.6)
- "Mille Mille Grazie" (song with mainly German lyric) (1963, No.9)
- "Warum muß man auseinandergeh'n (Mit weißen Perlen)" (1964, No.17)
- "Alles ist nun vorbei (Anyone Who Had a Heart)" (1964, No.37)
- "Downtown" (1965, German version, No.1)
- "Kann ich dir vertrauen" (1966, No.17)
- "Verzeih' die dummen Tränen" (1966, German version of "My Love", No.21)
- "Love – so heißt mein Song" (1967, German version of "This is My Song", No.23)
- "Alle Leute wollen in den Himmel", (1967, German version of "Tout le monde veut aller au ciel", No.28)
Italian singles
- "Monsieur" (the German song with Italian lyrics by Vito Pallavicini) (1962, No.1)
- "Sul mio carro (Chariot)" (1962, No.1)
- "Quelli che hanno un cuore (Anyone who had a heart)" (1964, No.4)
- "Invece no" (Entry at the San Remo Festival1965, No.5)
- "Ciao, ciao (Downtown)", (1965, No.1)
- "Cara felicità (This is my song)" (1967, No.1)
- "Kiss Me Goodbye (Italian version)" (1968, No.26)
Complete Spanish recordings
- "Qué tal, Dolly? (Hello, Dolly!)"
- "Pequeña Flor (Petite Fleur)"
- "Tú no tienes corazón (Anyone Who Had a Heart)"
- "Cantando al caminar (The Road)"
All four songs were released in 1964 in Spain on Hispavox EP "Petula Clark canta en Español" (Cat.-No. HV 27–126).
Other noteworthy recordings
- "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! Music! Music!" (1950)
- "You Are My True Love" (1950)
- "May Kway (Rose, Rose I Love You)" (1951)[87]
- "Mariandl" (with Jimmy Young) (1951)
- "Where Did My Snowman Go?" (1952)
- "The Card" (1952)
- "Christopher Robin at Buckingham Palace" (1953)
- "Meet Me in Battersea Park" (1954)
- "Suddenly There's a Valley" (1955)
- "Another Door Opens" (1956)
- "With All My Heart" (1957)
- "Fibbin'" (1958)
- "Devotion" (1958)
- "Dear Daddy" (1959)
- "Mama's Talkin' Soft" (1959), a song deleted from Gypsyprior to its Broadway opening
- "Cinderella Jones" (1960)
- "Marin" ("Sailor") (1961)
- "La Nuit N'en Finit Plus" ("Needles And Pins") (1963)
- "Ceux qui ont un cœur" ("Anyone Who Had a Heart") (1964)
- "Petite Fleur" (1964)
- "Invece no" (1965)
- "Dans le temps" ("Downtown") (1965)
- "Sauve-moi" (1977)
- "C'est si bon" (1978) (with Mireille Mathieu)
- "Fred and Marguerite" (1980) (from Captain Beaky and His Band)
- "The Bumble Bee" (1980) (from Captain Beaky and His Band)
- "Mr. Orwell" (1984)
- Blood Brothers (International Recording) (1995)
- Songs from Sunset Boulevard (1996)
- Here for You (1998)
- The Ultimate Collection (2002)
- Kaleidoscope (2003)
- "Starting All Over Again" (2003)
- Live at the Paris Olympia (2004)
- "Driven by Emotion" (2005)
- "Memphis" (2005)
- "Together" (2006), recorded as a duet with Andy Williams
- "Thank You for Christmas" (2006)
- "Simple Gifts" (2006)
- "It Had to Be You" (2007)
- Duets (2007)
- Solitude and Sunshine (2007)
- In Her Own Write (2007), also featuring a guest recording by Amanda-Jane Manning of My Love Will Never Die[88]
- Then & Now (2008)
- Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection (2009)
- This is Christmas (2009)
See also
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External links
- Official website
- Petula Clark at IMDb
- Petula Clark at AllMovie
- Petula Clark at the TCM Movie Database
- Petula Clark at the better source needed]
- Petula Clark at the Internet Broadway Database
- Petula Clark discography at Discogs
- petulaclark.co.uk, her British official website
- Petula Clark LIVE on YouTube --- 20 songs performed live mostly on television.
- Glenn Gould dissects the music and image of Petula Clark in a 1967 CBC broadcast (sound only)
- BBC interview, April 2002
- Union Jack News interview, November 2006
- BBC Radio Wales interview, January 2007
- Las Vegas Sun interview, February 2007