Petula Clark - "Calcutta" (Scopitone)

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A-67 Petula Clark "Calcutta" (dir. Alexandre Tarta)

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• A-67
• Petula
• Clark
• Calcutta
• (dir.
• Alexandre
• Tarta)

[davie1238]

@ShastaPacificRoad That's a nice story. You have a good reason to enjoy Petula. She is 79 now, but still in great voice; not as strong as it once was, but still awesome. I went over to Paris for a concert there in November. She brought the place down. They were screaming for more. There are some of her songs from that concert on here. She's got 3 weeks in New York, sold out, starting next week, and then a sold out tour of Australia with extra dates put in by demand, to follow.

[ShastaPacificRoad]

@davie1238 I actually had no idea she was that versitile! Most singers do or have dubbed, versions of their songs in other languages. I guess I just presumed that might have been the case here. One of her songs was playing the night I firsr met my late wife and then later proposed to her. I'll always remember that. Amazing how music, certain songs, associated with certain events stay in your mind......... forever.

[davie1238]

@terrisonb Still is. I saw her in concert a few weeks ago in Paris. Lovely and rockin' as ever...

[davie1238]

@garywrightny I have no more information other than she was doing a season of concerts in Montreal in about 1977, I think. She did quite a few of her 60s French hits with new arrangements by Harold Wheeler. L'Enfant Do; Je me sens bien and Calcutta were three that I know were included. At one time the Petula Clark Society sold dvds of some of that concert, but that was about 7 or 8 years ago. I don't know that there would be any left.

[davie1238]

@ShastaPacificRoad Petula has a vast French repertoire and is still considered to be a massive star in France. She has a new French language album out in March. She also recorded around 30 songs in Italian and the around the same number in German, and had many hits with them. She did record 4 songs in Spanish, just before Downtown, but never took that further, probably de to American commitments.

[garywrightny]

@davie12 If you have more info on the great '70's Canadian version of the song "CALCUTTA" that you spoke of, I would be interested in knowing it. :-)

[wydeye]

Beautiful. So glad I've discovered Scopitones!

[Juliaflo]

@CatapultYourMom Hardy-har-har-har, I'm just slightly over 21.



[CatapultYourMom]

@Juliaflo You gotta be over 100.

[joseph60us]

These Scopitones are amazing and sooo much fun!