Petula Clark

PETULA CLARK
 
 
Petula Clark  (born Sally Olwen Clark, 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress and composer whose career spans seven decades.  Clark’s professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II.  During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including “Downtown”, “I Know a Place”, “My Love”, “A Sign of the Times”, “I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love”, “Colour My World”, “This Is My Song”, and “Don’t Sleep in the Subway”; and she was dubbed “the First Lady of the British Invasion”.  She has sold more than 68 million records.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

The band started out with the name the Rising Sons and gained renown in the clubs around their home town of Oxford for their strong R&B sound.  After going by the surprising name of the Cornflakes for a time, they entered and won a local band competition in Northampton; the prize was a recording contract with Pye Records, home of Petula Clarkthe Searchersthe Kinks, Status Quo and other prime British artists, as well as past UARB the Soul Agents.  The owners of the Plaza Theatre (where the contest was held) agreed to be their managers, and at that point, they changed their name to a more promising one, the Primitives

 

(May 2015)

 

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