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Petula Clark's Endless Career
By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/31/2019 - 2:41am |Still remember one holiday to Texas and the beach in '65, where Downtown was everywhere.
And a summer 1967 at the pool with the somehow stirring "Don't Sleep in the Subway Darling"
And then Petula Clark's tribute on some Bob Hope special '72 singing Penny Lane/Eleanor Rigby feeling a bit dated
And yet she seems to have done so much more that I didn't know about,
though I'd heard the Belafonte anecdote. The Bed for Peace story's pretty funny,
almost Forrest Gumpish.
A bit of an entertaining traipse down her long memory lane:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/31/petula-clark-elvis-angled-...
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