Petula Clark

Petula singing her 1967 hit "Don't Sleep In The Subway".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Petula
• Clark
• Pop
• 60's
• Subway

[johnnyu278]

People often ask me what the sixties were like? Just close your eyes and imagine a warm summer evening with the windows and doors open to catch a cool breeze, family members talking, maybe a hot rod or two going down the street. Then out of the speaker of the radio thats always on, and through all the crackeling and static noise comes this angelic voice of Petula Clark and everyone starts to hum, sing, or dance along to whatever joy she is singing. Maybe thats just my recollection.

[stan2211stan]

There's a "Petula Clark Wing" in The MILF Hall Of Fame.

Petula's voice WAS The Sexual Revolution.

[chuckbuckbobuck]

Well the good thing about Petula Clark (among many things) is that she will die in her bed sometime in her 80's or 90's possibly next to her husband and not in the bathtub of the Beverly Hilton like Whitney Houston had the honor of doing. Some people handle fame better then others and it helps to be famous nearly 50 years ago when a lot of people "manned up" better and now be somewhat forgotten then in the present day and age! It may be harsh but it is true!

[papoj1PVR]

@johnnyu278

To be honest, I wasn't. I'm just someone who happens to be born in 1993, while having an older heart...

[johnnyu278]

@papoj1PVR We reserved them mostly for traveling on vacation. Now Big Boy restaurants and others had the jukeboxs at the tables which was very cool. I do remember thinking that those recording the songs seemed to be having as much fun singing them as I had listening to them. Sounds like you were there.

[papoj1PVR]

@johnnyu278

You forgot the jukeboxes and diners!

[preciousjey]

I read the Hollywood Palace is now a night club

[73seabee]

while the sixties were a decade of change I still flashback to music which was more innocent and pure. You can close your eyes and by and large you can see the music and it's gooooood!

[thisherecat2]

My favourite pop song. Really.

[mkl62]

This hit by Petula Clark was the 90th #1 song on what is now Billboard's Adult Contemporary charts. It also hit #1 in Australia. It hit #5 on the Top 40 charts and in Canada. It was #12 in the United Kingdom. This was Petula Clark's last #1 hit on any chart.

[carbon4me]

What an amazing talent. I was only six years old when this song was released. This was the first song I heard when my parents gave my my first radio. The station was KFRC in San Francisco.