Month: March 2007

Petula Clark in Wales

Petula in Wales

Petula Clark is half-Welsh, and she spent a goodly part of her childhood in Wales. A few weeks ago, before her San Francisco concert, Pet was in Wales, visiting her grammar school. A TV show about the visit was shown tonight in Wales. Maybe it will show up somewhere online.

In the meantime, you can click here to go to a BBC page with pictures and a 15-minute interview from Welsh radio. Petula is 74 now, as charming as ever, in fine form, and still singing beautifully.

The radio interview is in Real format, which is often a problem, so I’ll provide it here on the trusty MP3 player.

[audio:https://dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/Pet2007.mp3]

Petula Clark – 1942

Leslie and Pet Clark

Let’s backtrack — way back — to Petula as a child starlet in war-torn England. Here she is at 10 with her father, Leslie Clark. Open the audio player to hear a bit of her singing on the BBC for her uncle, a soldier stationed in, yes, Iraq.

[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/Petula1942.mp3]

This is how the English came to know Petula Clark, and she just couldn’t shake this image until she moved to France, nearly 20 years later.

Don’t Register!

Previously, I highlighted the fact that it was possible to register yourself with this Web site. It was this feature that provided the recent infestation a way in. The updated software should prevent it from happening again, but nevertheless I have disabled the feature.

I don’t want to go through another attack like that! After I realized what had happened, I sat stunned for five minutes, wanting to read “My Pet Goat”! 😉