The Oracle Has Spoken...I Will See Petula Clark Live!!

I absolutely think you're on the right track here, Joe. The very fact that Pet lives and performs must be celebrated.

Being in her band would be smashing, wouldn't it? Although, I should think, offering little in the way of sexual opportunity.

OH, I am so happy that she's still alive and out there. I don't want that to sound bad.. just that, Dusty died, the Supremes are so defunct... but Pet is still singing!

'Don't Sleep In The Subway' is the most classic of the classics.

Go Pet! I'll always love ya for "Downtown". Wasn't she a singer as a kid? My guess is she's a real pro on stage.

All the Tony Hatch stuff (her 2nd incarnation) is great. It's bound to be this material she'll be singing. I'll add 'I Know a Place' to the list.

I am a fat loser now, but when I was 20 I was a fashionable punk boy with a really large mohawk. I hung out with cool punk rock stars no one remembers anymore. I too loved Petula, and went to see her with some pals at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. I gave her flowers onstage with I note I saying I wished I was Tony Franks, the actor in the movie "Finian's Rainbow" She invited me and my friends backstage. She was really touched youngster like us liked her. She asked why I wanted to be Tony Franks, and I said because he got to kiss her. She said she wished I was him to because he was gross. Then we sang "Devil Moon" together. She would always put me on the guest list in Atlantic City. She is a really nice lady and still puts on a good show (although she can get a little hokey). She is the coolest - I love seeing old TV clips of her acting all groovey.

FYI - her shows are good. A little hokey now (medleys, backup singers) but worthwhile. She'll do the Tony Hatch stuff, most hits, some broadway crap she was in (Sunset Boulevard, Blood Brothers). She usually does some Elton John, or equally weird choice. She was friends with Charlie Chaplin. Sometimes she takes requests. But it is a good show, and she is the nicest person on earth. Nicer even than Dolly Parton, who is sunshine and happiness personified.

An odd thing is that Paul Morley thinks she is called 'Petula Clarke'.

The mission was accomplished. I have data.

I SAW PETULA CLARK on September 29, 2004, at 7:30 P.M., her first in a string of shows at the venue lasting until the Sunday afterwards.

I sat near a group of women, and I think one of them (who was feverishly scribbling down a set-list) was going to attend each and every show offered, and also apparently follows her around the country. Maybe that was a joke. It didn't appear to be. Petula clearly recognized her when she came out.

Dexterpie OTM. She opened up with "Sign of the Times", and proceeded to do other crowd-pleasing favorites such as "This Is My Song" (I didn't know Charlie Chaplin wroten songs!), "Don't Sleep in the Subway", also "I Know a Place," "My Love", "Colour My World" (not the Chicago song), "Downtown". The encore was an organic and dulcet "I Couldn't Live without Your Love".

She also did a lot of Broadway stuff--not as much my cup of tea. Sunset Boulevard, Finnian's Rainbow (Francis Ford Coppola directed that?!?!), Sondheim, etc. Talked with her after the show--again, Dexterpie OTM. Quite a cool lady!

Petula = Adventure.