However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame — her career in France was just beginning — Henderson, reportedly not wanting to end up as " Mr. Petula Clark ", decided to end the relationship.

In November 2006, Bunton released the charity single for the BBC Children in Need appeal, recording Petula Clark's 1960s song " Downtown ".

The first single taken from the album was a cover of Petula Clark's 1964 hit single " Downtown ", released on 13 November.

As reflected in popular culture, " downtown " in Manhattan has historically represented a place where one could " forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, and go Downtown ," as the lyrics of Petula Clark's 1964 hit " Downtown " celebrate.

The Frug is mentioned prominently in Allan Sherman's 1965 song " Crazy Downtown ," a parody of Petula Clark's " Downtown ".

Their biggest claim to fame was featuring on Petula Clark's 1952 recording of " Where Did My Snowman Go ?".

Cover of Petula Clark's promotional CD.

The Park was featured in Petula Clark's 1954 single " Meet Me In Battersea Park ".

Later the same year Ball was a guest star at Petula Clark's Concert, also broadcast by the BBC.

A duet by Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark, whose vocals were recorded more than thirty years apart, is included on Clark's 2007 CD Duets.

In 1955, the company acquired Polygon Records, a label that had been established by Petula Clark's father to control distribution of her recordings, and merged it with Nixa Records to form Pye Nixa Records.

" Cream Puff War " ( 1966 ), the first Warner Bros. single by The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s. In 1964, Warner Bros. successfully negotiated with French label Disques Vogue and Warner Bros .' British distributor Pye Records for the rights to distribute Petula Clark's recordings in the US.

Petula Clark's " This Is My Song " was # 1 for four weeks in Ireland and six weeks in Australia, with # 1 rankings also achieved in Rhodesia, South Africa and on the Dutch charts for both the Netherlands and Belgium.

" You and I " remains a staple of Petula Clark's concert repertoire.

Petula Clark's recordings of " I Couldn't Live Without Your Love " and " A Groovy Kind of Love " were heard during the opening and closing credits respectively, and " Downtown 99 ", a disco remix of her 1964 classic " Downtown ", was heard during a party scene.

It was started in 1949 as the Polygon Record Company Ltd. by Alan A. Freeman and Leslie Clark, who was anxious to control distribution of his daughter Petula Clark's recordings.

Nixa utilized a selection of Clark's Polygon tapes to release her first LP album, Petula Clark Sings.

* Esquire Records ( Australia ) distributed Petula Clark's first singles in Australia.

After recovering, he started working with Mike Curb at MGM Records, producing and arranging material for the Osmond Brothers hits, as well as having a hand in Sammy Davis, Jr .' s " The Candy Man " and Petula Clark's cover of " My Guy.

However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame — her career in France was just beginning — Henderson, reportedly not wanting to end up as " Mr. Petula Clark ", decided to call the whole thing off.

Alan A. Freeman ( 27 September 1920 – 15 March 1985 ) was an English record producer, remembered for being Petula Clark's producer from 1949 until 1963, when his role was taken over by Tony Hatch.

He has been Petula Clark's musical director and arranger since 1962, and also performs with his jazz group, The Kenny Clayton Trio.

In television, Clayton has worked as a musical director and accompanist on several series and specials, including Shirley Bassey and Count Basie's Something Special ( for NBC ), Petula Clark's Traces Of Love ( for ATV ), The Vocal Touch-Anita Harris ( for BBC2 ), and the original series Company & CO ( for BBC2 ), Coming Next ( for Channel 4 ), and Lilly Live ( for LWT ).

The subculture surfaced on Broadway as musical comedy in The Nervous Set ( 1959 ) by Neurotica editor Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker with music by Tommy Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman ; this was the source of two jazz standards, " Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most " and " The Ballad of the Sad Young Men " ( recorded by Gil Evans, Anita O ' Day, Roberta Flack, Petula Clark, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey and others ).

There were also two duets with Petula Clark that year, " Mariandl " and " Broken Heart ".

Robbins appeared in two series of the BBC Television comedy series dinnerladies, playing the character ' Babs ' a friend of ' Petula Gordino ' played by Julie Walters.

During the next two years, Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman ’ s Hermits, the Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Troggs, and Donovan would have one or more number one singles in America.

In 2004, Petula Clark reprised her role as Norma opposite Michael Ball in a concert production of the show that ran for two nights at the Cork Opera House in Ireland, which was later broadcast on BBC Radio.

After the war, the Rank Organisation hired her husband to head Gainsborough Pictures, where she was in charge of the scenario department, writing scripts for a number of light comedies, including two for child star Petula Clark, Easy Money and Here Come the Huggetts, both in 1948.

During the next two years, Peter and Gordon, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Petula Clark, Freddie and the Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits, The Rolling Stones, The Troggs, and Donovan would have one or more number one singles in the US.

Her first single, " Pick Up the Pieces ," was released in 1962, but it was not until two record labels and three years later that she scored her first hit, " Where Are You Now " which was featured in the popular TV series The Inspector Rose Mysteries and was written by Tony Hatch, who at that time was involved in a successful professional collaboration with Petula Clark.

Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, starring Petula Clark, in her first American film, and veteran Fred Astaire.

In 1969, a relatively unsuccessful musical film version appeared, starring Peter O ' Toole and Petula Clark, with songs by Leslie Bricusse and an underscore by John Williams.

In 1989, she contributed to the book for the Petula Clark West End musical Someone Like You.

In the 1990s, she played the conniving Mrs Lyons in the musical Blood Brothers on Broadway and in the West End, and was on the 1995 London cast recording as well as The International Cast Album ( with Petula Clark ).

The following year, he made his motion picture directorial debut with a musical version of the classic Goodbye, Mr. Chips, starring Peter O ' Toole and Petula Clark.

rightSomeone Like You is a musical with a book by Robin Midgley and Fay Weldon, lyrics by Dee Shipman, and music by Petula Clark.

Directed by Midgley, the musical premiered on October 25, 1989 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in Cambridge, and in his review in the Cambridge Evening News, Alan Kersey wrote, " Petula Clark proved last night at the world premiere of Someone Like You that she can still work wonders both on stage and in the tough real world of show business.

Earlier in 1968, NBC had expressed similar concern over a musical sequence in a Petula Clark special in which she touched Harry Belafonte's arm, a moment cited as the first occasion of direct physical contact on American television between a man and woman of different races.

Earlier in 1968, NBC had expressed similar concern over a musical sequence in a Petula Clark special in which she touched Harry Belafonte's arm, a moment cited as the first occasion of direct physical contact on American television between a man and woman of different races.

Clayton's theatre credits as musical director and arranger include The Sound of Music and Someone Like You ( both with Petula Clark ), No Strings, Privates On Parade, Billy, Song & Dance, and Nightingale.