1. Kiss Me Goodbye

2. A Sign Of The Times

3. Don't Sleep In The Subway

4. Colour My World

5. Downtown

6. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love

7. I Know A Place

8. The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener

9. Let It Be Me

10. Who Am I

11. My Love

12. This Girl's In Love With You

　13. Happy Heart

14. You'd Better Come Home

15. Tjhis Is My Song

16. Round Every Corner

Petula Clark

 This collection features hits that made Petula Clark a star of U.S. pop radio. Clark has had a varied and remarkably successful career, beginning during World War II, developing in France, bringing U.S. pop stardom, and continuing today at clubs and concert venues around the world.

Petula Clark began singing professionally as a child. Known as the English Shirley Temple, she became so popular among British troops during wartime that by the end of the war, still under ten, she was a national star, singing at the victory celebration at Trafalgar Square and staring to appear in British films. As she matured in the late 1940’s and ‘50’s, Clark became a fixture of music radio. She began appearing in the infant medium of television as early as the 1940’s, starring in a number of her own series, including “Pet’s Parlour.” Her recording career didn’t begin until 1949, and she focused throughout the early ‘50’s on recording children’s songs, though as teen pop began to dominate the airwaves in the latter part of the decade, she recorded some singles in that vein as well.

In 1957, after a smash appearance at the Olympia Theatre in France, Petula Clark was reinvented as a French recording artist. She recorded in French ; then she began recording in German and Italian and had multiple number-one chart hits in different languages throughout Europe. Clark was thus already a European superstar when in the early 1960’s she recorded “Downtown” in English. That single reached number one in the U.S. and began what amounted to a third career for Petula Clark.

“Downtown” won a Grammy in 1964. “I Know a Place” reached number three and won a Grammy in 65’. The idiosyncratic “Don’t Sleep in the Subway” defined for the U.S. a certain kind of light, rock-influenced British pop in the summer of 1966. Clark also began appearing in Hollywood films and appearing widely on British and U.S. TV specials. Her concerts were smash hits in New York, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Later successes included country-western recording. West End and U.S. music-theater appearances, and regular Vegas stands.

Petula Clark continues to perform to sellout crowds. These U.S. hits – by no means her first forays into music – began a career that defined a pop style and created an international superstar.

WILLIAM HOGELAND