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(Stage Door Records) 23 tracks, limited to 500 copies. Following the critically acclaimed... more

Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet: In Copenhagen 1958-1960 (CD, Ltd.)

(Stage Door Records) 23 tracks, limited to 500 copies.

Following the critically acclaimed release of Stage Door's Petula Clark "On Air 1951-1961" album comes a brand new collection of previously unreleased Petula Clark recordings: "In Copenhagen 1958-1960".

The recordings included on this album date from 1958 to 1960 and represent a historic and groundbreaking archival discovery. The recordings from the archives of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation illuminate a remarkable part of Petula Clark's career that has been relatively unknown and unreported outside Scandinavia.

This specially compiled album contains 23 recordings, all previously unissued on CD and unheard since their original broadcast. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes, the featured studio recordings were used as playbacks in four Petula Clark television specials recorded and broadcast exclusively in Denmark over a two-year period. With musical accompaniment by Bent Fabric and His Quartet, the recordings show Petula as a jazz song stylist and torch singer. Most of the featured numbers were never commercially recorded or performed outside of these broadcasts. Highlights include 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill', 'Over the Rainbow', 'I'll Be Seeing You' and 'Among My Souvenirs'.

The CD booklet contains a detailed chronology tracing Petula's career in Denmark between 1945 and 1960.

Petula Clark 'In Copenhagen 1958 - 1960' is strictly limited to only 500 copies.

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Clark, Petula - In Copenhagen 1958-1960 (CD, Ltd.) CD 1
01 It's Been A Long, Long Time Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
02 Jingle, Jangle, Jingle Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
03 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
04 Medley - Silver Dollar / With All My Heart / Alone Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
05 Among My Souvenirs Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
06 I'll Be Seeing You Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
07 The Folks Who Live On The Hill Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
08 I May Be Wrong Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
09 The Little Blue Man Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
10 Lullaby Of Broadway Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
11 Loch Lomond Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
12 Three Little Words Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
13 Over The Rainbow Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
14 To Be, Or Not To Be Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
15 Histoire D'un Amour Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
16 The Little Shoemaker Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
17 Don't Blame Me Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
18 Make Yourself Comfortable Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
19 Tell Him No Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
20 I Only Saw Him Once Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
21 It's Only A Paper Moon Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
22 Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
23 Mighty Lak A Rose (Bonus Track) Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet
Petula Clark From her childhood days performing for Allied troops during World War II in... more
"Petula Clark With The Bent Fabric Quartet"

Petula Clark

From her childhood days performing for Allied troops during World War II in her native England, to more recent triumphs such as the Broadway stage in America, Petula Clark has spent five decades as the epitome of an international star. Nowhere is her widespread appeal more evident than in a rundown of various countries in which she has earned hit records: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, the United States, and, of course, the United Kingdom. As a result, Petula has amassed cumulative global sales of over 60 million recordings.

To the popular music world, Petula is best known for her melodic string of 1960s English hits, including Downtown, I Know A Place, My Love, I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love, This Is My Song, Don’t Sleep In The Subway and other feel-good classics. However, from the late 1950s through the 1970s, Petula simultaneously enjoyed major successes with records in multiple languages. Although her hits were primarily English and French, Petula was prolific with German and Italian sung releases too.

Born on November 15, 1932, at Epsom in Surrey, England, Petula Sally Olwen Clark became a beloved child star in her homeland, singing in music halls and performing on the radio -- where she even had her own program, 'Pet’s Parlour.' She appeared in motion pictures (1944’s 'A Medal For The General' marked her debut), on television, and, in 1949, began issuing records (her first being an Australian release of the Teresa Brewer tune Music, Music, Music).

Petula’s father, Leslie, served as her manager during the early years of her career. With record producer Alan Freeman, he established Polygon Records in 1950, for which Petula was placed under contract. (The label was later merged with Nixa and subsequently folded into the Pye imprint, for which Petula would record in the U.K. through 1971.) Throughout the 1950s, Petula scaled the British hit parade with such records as Where Did My Snowman Go?, The Little Shoemaker (both capitalizing on her lingering image as an adored juvenile star), Suddenly There’s A Valley and With All My Heart. During this time she continued a multitude of radio, stage, television and film activities as well.

Firmly established as one of England’s top entertainers, Petula nonetheless felt hampered by the British public’s tendency to still view her as the cherished child performer who had first endeared herself to the nation by singing songs of hope and strength to servicemen and civilians alike during the dramatic days of the war. The youthful image seemed inescapable to Petula, who longed to be fully accepted as an adult performer and to pursue a more sophisticated direction in her career. Fortunately, the solution was merely a continent away.

Starting in 1957, Petula’s English language records were released in France. She also gained notoriety in that country due to local singer Dalida’s successful cover versions of Petula’s songs for the French speaking-market. In November of 1957, Petula was invited to perform at the celebrated Olympia Theater in Paris. Following a warm and enthusiastic reception, she was encouraged to record her own songs in French and she accepted a contract with Vogue Records for label representation in France. Petula was embarking on an exciting and challenging new phase of her career in a country largely distanced from her past -- a country which would allow her to mature professionally.

Petula connected immediately with Gallic audiences, with record buyers enabling her to generate a greater number of hits in France (and later French-speaking Canada) during this period than back home in England. The French saw Petula as a fresh, contemporary artist who could sing hip rock and roll numbers like Ya Ya Twist as well as deeply emotional torch songs like Coeur Blessé. Petula married Frenchman and Vogue executive Claude Wolff in 1961, and at one point even considered abandoning her English career entirely to concentrate on her enormous success in France. (The 1964 international smash Downtown -- which would make Petula a major star in the United States -- happily convinced her otherwise.)

Petula’s multi-lingual recording career branched out further in 1962 to encompass Germany and Italy. The global record business was expanding and because of Petula’s strong acceptance in France, Vogue decided to promote her in other territories with custom-made releases for their affiliated labels. Again, Petula was instantly embraced.

The breakthrough for Petula in Germany was Monsieur, a number one novelty tune which signaled the playful, light formula to be taken with many of her early German tracks. The song earned Petula a gold record award with sales of a million copies and was cited as the largest selling single up to that time by a foreign artist.

Although Monsieur was Petula’s initial German release for Vogue, a subsequent single of St. Tropez backed with Du bist mein Anfang und mein Schluss (the former being a rerecording of one of her English and French selections) was actually recorded back in 1960 but had remained unissued until Petula’s German recording career was fully activated a couple of years later.

Petula recalls her experiences in the recording studio: "When I was asked to record in different languages I asked for them to keep it very simple for me. I would arrive in the studio and everything would be done except for me. It is not my favorite way of working. I really like to be there when the track is being laid down. It almost never happened on these sessions. They were mostly songs which I’d already done in French or English or songs that were written especially for me. It seemed that I was able to do it very well and fairly quickly, much to my surprise, and they gave me more and more to record. I found the German language more difficult than Italian, probably because by then my French was pretty fluent and I was finding Italian much closer to French. Some of the German sessions I found particularly stressful, although I’ve been told that my German sounds very good. I was also told that the Italians were sure that I could speak fluent Italian, apparently it sounds as if I had an accent from Genoa, but it didn’t sound English at all -- that’s what I’ve been told."

Petula Clark The International Collection (4-CD)
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Tracklist
Clark, Petula - In Copenhagen 1958-1960 (CD, Ltd.) CD 1
01 It's Been A Long, Long Time
02 Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
03 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
04 Medley - Silver Dollar / With All My Heart / Alone
05 Among My Souvenirs
06 I'll Be Seeing You
07 The Folks Who Live On The Hill
08 I May Be Wrong
09 The Little Blue Man
10 Lullaby Of Broadway
11 Loch Lomond
12 Three Little Words
13 Over The Rainbow
14 To Be, Or Not To Be
15 Histoire D'un Amour
16 The Little Shoemaker
17 Don't Blame Me
18 Make Yourself Comfortable
19 Tell Him No
20 I Only Saw Him Once
21 It's Only A Paper Moon
22 Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep
23 Mighty Lak A Rose (Bonus Track)