The multi-talented entertainer Bobby Darin died on December 20, 1973. On February 2, 1973 The Bobby Darin Show featured this duet with Petula Clark.
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This video was glommed from YouTube. A few dropped frames here and there, but otherwise a nicely done transfer.
The night before taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test in high school, I worked at my part-time job as a short-order cook. I had a hard time getting to sleep, and I woke up the next morning exhausted, hearing a certain then-recent song playing on the radio.
I drove myself with my then-recent license to the next town over, where the SAT was being given. That damn stupid song kept running through my mind the entire time I took the test! This is that song.
How about some more of Petula Clark in Goodbye, Mr. Chips? About 18 minutes more.
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Previously on DogRat.com, I featured a video with a brief glimpse of Petula Clark at the infamous 1969 LennOno “bed-in.” The New Musical Express in England is reporting that a DVD of the complete recording session, Give Peace A Song, is being released at the end of the month. NME says…
‘Give Peace a Song’ also features over 35 minutes of bonus material including television interviews, a John and Yoko press conference and Petula Clark’s visit to the bed-in.
This is confusing, because Amazon.com lists the DVD as having been released in 2006. One of the DVD chapters is “Petula Clark Visits The Bed-In.”
I don’t know if the NME item is something old that was posted in error, nor do I know how much footage there is of Pet on the DVD, but it sounds like a video worth seeing.
Film students from the 60’s and 70’s got a real one-two punch recently with the deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. The latter directed L’Avventura (1960), a movie that I must confess nearly put me to sleep back in college. If I want to see a boy and a girl on an island, I’ll watch Gilligan and Mary Ann.
A much more interesting Antonioni film is Blowup (1966). It’s notable for a number of things, including some nude scenes that were daring for the time. I won’t be posting those — sorry! — but towards the end the Yardbirds, with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck in the line-up, make an appearance.
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A gigantic thank you goes to my twin sister Jean for spotting this video on YouTube. And thanks to “MrNatashaRostov” for posting it! But having learned the hard way to not depend upon anything staying on YouTube, I’ve grabbed it and will put it on my server.
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Seeing this, I think I can now understand why the English were so reluctant to see their little Pet as a grown-up.
