The One and Only Miss Petula Clark!
From 1970, the same year as the very strange movie Performance with Mick Jagger, there is the strange and bawdy Deep End. With music by Cat Stevens, Jane Asher shows off what Paul McCartney gave up when they split.
Diana Dors, who is one of the cardboard figures on the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album cover, is considerably heavier here than she was at sixteen, in the first Huggetts movie with Petula Clark.
A few posts ago, Petula Clark explained a personal crisis she experienced in 1969. Performing a bilingual show in Montreal she tried, and failed, to please both the French and English speakers in the audience.
Reduced to tears, on a whim Petula visited with John and Yoko at their infamous Montreal bed-in. She explained the cause of her distress and John’s advice was, “fuck ’em!”
The split between French and English language music in Quebec in mid-1969 can be heard in the two most recent ’88 Rewound’ programs on WMBR, the MIT radio station.
French Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59020
English Playlist
https://www.track-blaster.com/wmbr/playlist.php?id=59104
I Know Where I’m Going! was a very good movie, and had big-name stars in Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey and Catherine Lacey, but I didn’t much enjoy making it. It was shot on a very dark set, and I was afraid of Michael Powell.
– ‘Is that You, Petula?’ Chapter 2
77 WABC sure isn’t what it was when I listened to the station as a kid. Recently, an interview with Trump was featured. Tonight, Cousin Brucie will restore civility to the WABC airwaves and chat with Petula Clark. I’ll record it and post the audio below.
I’ve read, and recommend, Petula’s autobiography. It’s an honest and open telling of her life, minus a few personal details. The title is something that John Lennon said, as explained in this preview.
Here’s Petula with Cousin Brucie. Hey, WABC: You’re playing only one channel of stereo recordings.
Andrew at Parlogram talks about one of the most significant Pop records of all time. Petula Clark’s “Downtown”.
It was a record that everyone of all ages loved hearing. This video of “Downtown” was made by somebody who knows his Sixties-era mono-mix 45 rpm singles. He played it with a mono Ortofon cartridge.
Andrew demonstrates the difference a quality, lateral-tracking mono cartridge can make for purists of original, mono-mix Sixties records.
Let’s chat with Petula.
