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MLive.com

Detroit judge fails to impress on "America's Got Talent"
MLive.com
Sane sang a very weak rendition of the 1960s Petula Clark tune "Downtown." Pierce Morgan, who also judges on the show's British counterpart, buzzed him out ...

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Theater Review: 'SHOUT: The Mod Musical'
Seacoastonline.com
The musical features 30-something crooning and swooning tunes made popular by artists like Lulu, Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield. ...

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Political discord as songwriters' voice of protest falls silent
Yorkshire Post
... were still together, and among the unlikely bedfellows whose voices can be heard on the record are Allen Ginsberg, Petula Clark and cartoonist Al Capp. ...

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Diana Ross Wants Custody Of Michael Jackson's Pet Chimp Bubbles
The Spoof (satire)
Jackson also owned the music libraries of The Rolling Stones; The Who; Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young; Ludwig Van Beethoven; and Petula Clark, ...

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Your top music stars
TeleText
Dave, Glasgow For me, no singer can better Petula Clark. Her versions of Beatles songs are brilliant too. Joseph, Newcastle Neil Diamond - the best singer, ...

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Spend 'An Evening With Megon mcdonough' 7/18 As Part Of 2009 ...
Broadway World
Her Auditorium debut performance includes songs by the ladies of the British Invasion such as Petula Clark, Lulu and Dusty Springfield, along with American ...

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Spend 'An Evening With Megon McDonough' 7/18 As Part Of 2009 ...
Broadway World
Her Auditorium debut performance includes songs by the ladies of the British Invasion such as Petula Clark, Lulu and Dusty Springfield, along with American ...

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Petula Clark to take part in film screening
Markdale Standard
The legendary British pop songstress won't be singing. Instead, she'll help screen and talk about her role at age 13 in the 1946 romanceI Know Where I'm ...

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Retro TV W/C 26th June 2009
Retro To Go, UK
7.00pm - 7.30pm Radio 2's profile of the man who wrote Downtown continues with his non-stop run of mid-60s gems for Petula Clark, co-written with long-term partner Jackie Trent. Left of the Dial: US Alternative Rock. Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt compares ...

TheaterMania.com

Cleale Returns To THE FANTASTICKS, McDaniel Joins On June 29th
Broadway World, NY
National Tours include Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (opposite Petula Clark) and Lt. Cable in South Pacific (with Robert Goulet). His regional credits include over thirty leading roles including Giorgio in Passion (Helen Hayes Award) and John Adams in ...
Addi McDaniel Joins The Fantasticks; Lewis Cleale Returns Broadway.com
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Peterson Returns To The Triad With SONG MAN, DANCE MAN 7/20, 8/24 ...
Broadway World, NY
West End and UK National Tours: "The Sound of Music" with Petula Clark (Rolf), "A Chorus Line" (Paul), "Dames at Sea" (Lucky), "She Loves Me" (Bus Boy), "Y" (Revue), "Sophisticated Ladies," "Cavalcade" (Joey), "Whooop-Dee-Doo! ...

The Wicked effect… and return to reality after Britain's Got Talent…
Stage, UK
While numerous pop stars have travelled the other direction, from pop careers to theatrical ones - from the likes of Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele and Petula Clark to Jason Donovan, Duncan James and Gareth Gates - how many begin in theatre and then ...

Russell Brand To Tour With Susan Boyle and Shaheen Jafargholi
The Spoof (satire), UK
And 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi is a young lad from Wales who at the tender age of just 2 months could already sing songs like "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles, "Get Off Of My Cloud," by The Rolling Stones, and "I Know A Place" by Petula Clark. ...

Russell Brand To Tour With Susan Boyle and Shaheen Jafargholi
The Spoof (satire), UK
And 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi is a young lad from Wales who at the tender age of just 2 months could already sing songs like "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles, "Get Off Of My Cloud," by The Rolling Stones, and "I Know A Place" by Petula Clark. ...

TheaterMania.com

Addi McDaniel Joins The Fantasticks; Lewis Cleale Returns
Broadway.com, NY
National tours include Sunset Boulevard (opposite Petula Clark) and South Pacific (with Robert Goulet). His regional credits include Passion and 1776 at Ford's Theatre. Featuring a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, ...
Cleale Returns To THE FANTASTICKS, mcdaniel Joins On June 29th Broadway World
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Jim Caruso's Cast Party Presents Ron Abel At Birdland 7/29
Broadway World, NY
Arranging, producing, and song writing by Ron can also be heard on Petula Clark, Lucie Arnaz, Helen Reddy and Dorian Harewood's albums among many others. Currently Ron is composing the musical score for Broadway's newest musical Bricktop, for producers ...

Fundraiser revisits the '60s
London Free Press, Canada
With nine vocalists sharing the leads and the harmonies, the 20-song hit list stretches from that 1966 album's Sloop John B to such hitmakers as the Monkees, Petula Clark and Roy Orbison. "All of these singers have their own niche. ...

Warm weather, hot tunes
AZ Central.com, AZ
There's also something to be said for how abruptly it shifts tone when she gets to the line "There's a little café," as though she's suddenly Petula Clark and everything is sure to turn out great because that's how things go when summer comes along. ...

Belle Of The Ball Bearings Extended Again, Added Shows 6/25, 6/27
Broadway World, NY
He has accompanied numerous performers including: Shauna Hicks, Georga Osborne, Christine Pedi, Darius de Haas, Karen Mason, Donny Osmond, Joely Fisher, Clint Holmes, Margaret Whiting, Petula Clark, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas and Joan Rivers.

Alabama Shakespeare Rocks Out With BEEHIVE, Features Biggest Hits ...
Broadway World, NY
(The Shirelles), Downtown (Petula Clark), Respect (Aretha Franklin), You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield) and Proud Mary (Tina Turner). Beehive: The 60s Musical Sensation was created by Larry Gallagher and was first performed in 1985 ...

BBC News

Outing for restored comedy films
BBC News, UK
Their crime dramas, musicals, melodramas and slapstick comedies featured stars like Sid James, Ted Ray, Petula Clark, Rolf Harris and Prunella Scales early in their careers. The BFI hopes to restore and release the rest of the films over the next 15 ...

Summer Deals: Downtown offers slice of everything
DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
By Michael Morain • The Register • June 14, 2009 Petula Clark had New York in mind when she sang "Downtown," but the words are just as apt for the chunk of Des Moines between the State Capitol, Meredith Corporation, Interstate 235 and the southern bend ...

Britain to America: 'Don't Let This Happen to You!'
Big Hollywood, CA
This was a far cry from the days of Noel and Gertie - or even Tom Jones and Petula Clark! No, my fellow Americans, the British Empire ain't what it used to be. The tables have turned. As British film critic Cosmo Landesman puts it in Peter Whittle's ...

DR. FERDIE PACHECO (ARTIST AND FIGHT DOCTOR TO MUHAMMAD ALI ...
BraggingRightsCorner
... and celebrities such as Andy Garcia, Evander Holyfield, Budd Schulberg, Shirley MacLaine, Ernest Borgnine, Petula Clark, and Dan Duva to name a few. ...

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Andy Murray interview: Net gains
Scotland on Sunday, UK
It's a highly unusual request that not even wily old stalwarts of the entertainment industry, like Tom Jones or Petula Clark, make. What's gone wrong that a 22-year-old tennis player feels the need? His predecessor as British No 1, Tim Henman, ...

Petula Clark to take part in film screening
Owen Sound Sun Times, Canada
The legendary British pop songstress won't be singing. Instead, she'll help screen and talk about her role at age 13 in the 1946 romancei Know Where I'm Going. The movie, which is set in Tobermory, Scotland, was launched in North America April 29, ...

Petula Clark Visits Boy George - Inmate #74316869
The Spoof (satire), UK
Petula Clark sitting in her living room watching reruns of The Benny Hill Show (photo courtesy of David Frost). LONDON - Boy George is presently incarcerated at The Petula Clark Prison For Blokes in London. Petula Clark, who is the most successful ...

World Magazine

Art for youth's sake
World Magazine, NC
What Gould meant by "art" probably didn't encompass pop music (Barbra Streisand and Petula Clark were his sole guilty pleasures), but these days pop musicians are among the few "artists" anyone knows. And while they may not deserve full blame for ...

Clark High School rallies around one of its own
Gary Post Tribune, IN
Karen Maravilla, president of the Downtown Hammond Council, should be crooning the famous '60s song "Downtown" by Petula Clark. Maravilla and her volunteer crew have been busy giving the area a face lift through an organized spring cleanup and ...

Saying yes to arts
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL
The result has been 19000 visitors to the downtown storefront — Jones demonstrated the importance of the location by singing Petula Clark's 1964 hit “Downtown” to a gathering of Sarasota arts and business leaders as keynote speaker at Friday's first ...

Susan Boyle Boiling Mad Subdued By London Bobbies
The Spoof (satire), UK
It seems that Boyle was sitting in the lobby of London's exquisitely elegant Petula Clark Hotel when a fan asked her for her autograph. Boyle complied and when she handed the paper back to the fan, the fan looked at her with a puzzled look and said, ...

COMPASS: Get a "Beehive" in your bonnet
StarNewsOnline.com, NC
The free show at Franklin Square Park in Southport will run 8 pm Thursday through Saturday. "Beehive" takes a look back at female artists from the '60s and '70s such as the Shirelles, the Supremes, Petula Clark, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin.

You can learn some good lessons, downtown
Havelock News, NC
The same year Petula Clark was singing her hit song, "Downtown." The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares and go downtown. Things'll be great when you're downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. ...

Today In Music History: Give Peace A Chance
Minnesota Public Radio, MN
Forty years ago today, John and Yoko began an eight-day 'bed in', in room 1742 of The Hotel La Reine Elizabeth, Montreal, Canada, to promote world peace. They recorded 'Give Peace a Chance' in the hotel room (Petula Clark can be heard on the chorus). ...

Susan Boyle's plain predecessor
Toronto Star,  Canada
Scottish sensation Susan Boyle may sing better, but older readers may recall a certain Mrs. Elva Miller (1907-1997), who had a moment of fame and glory brought on by a wobbly rendition of Petula Clark's "Downtown." Miller, who grew up in the American ...

Indian Express

Lennon-Ono bed-in: 40th anniversary
Globe and Mail, Canada
Peace and good vibes filled the flower-bedecked room, along with an ever-changing crowd of celebrity visitors – comedian Tom Smothers, psychedelic-drugs guru Timothy Leary, human-rights campaigner Dick Gregory, writer Nat Hentoff, singer Petula Clark ...
Remembering John and Yoko's Famous Bed-In Pollstar
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Indian Express

The Lennon-Ono bed-in: 40th anniversary
Globe and Mail, Canada
Peace and good vibes filled the flower-bedecked room, along with an ever-changing crowd of celebrity visitors – comedian Tom Smothers, psychedelic-drugs guru Timothy Leary, human-rights campaigner Dick Gregory, writer Nat Hentoff, singer Petula Clark ...
Remembering John and Yoko's Famous Bed-In Pollstar
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The Cabaret Chronicles: MAC Awards, Hector Coris, and Rob Langeder!
Broadway World, NY
A Tribute to Petula Clark. I've only heard the lovely Ms. Linehan do a song or two at a time, and I'm really looking forward to catching a full show of hers! I'm a big Petula Clark fan, too, so it should be a fun night! Show is at 7 pm at the Laurie ...