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Petula Clark , Order of the British Empire|CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned eight decades.

Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II . During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as The Little Shoemaker, Baby Lover, With All My Heart and Prends Mon Coeur. During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including " Downtown (Petula Clark song)|Downtown ", " I Know a Place ", " My Love (Petula Clark song)|My Love ", " Colour My World (Petula Clark song)|Colour My World ", " A Sign of the Times ", and " Don't Sleep in the Subway ." She has sold in excess of 68 million records throughout her career.

Early years

Born to English father Leslie Norman Clark and Welsh mother Doris ( Married and maiden names|née Phillips), both nurses at Long Grove Hospital, in Epsom , Surrey , England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark . Her father Leslie coined her first name, jokingly alleging it was a combination of the names of two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla. As a child, she sang in the chapel choir and showed a talent for mimicry, frequently impersonating Vera Lynn , Carmen Miranda , and Sophie Tucker for the amusement of family and friends.Kon, Andrea, This is My Song: A Biography of Petula Clark . London: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. 1983 ISBN 0 491 02898 9, pp. 23, 37-38 Her father introduced her to theatre when he took her to see Flora Robson in a 1938 production of Mary Stuart (play)|Mary Tudor ; she later recalled that after the performance "I made up my mind then and there I was going to be an actress& nbsp;... I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world."Kon, pp. 22-23 However, her first public performances were as a singer, performing with an orchestra in the entrance hall of Bentalls|Bentalls Department Store in Kingston upon Thames for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch, in 1939.Kon, pp. 26-27

In October 1942, Clark made her radio debut while attending a BBC broadcast with her father, hoping to send a message to an uncle stationed overseas. During an air raid, the producer requested that someone perform to settle the jittery audience, and she volunteered a rendering of " Mighty Lak a Rose " to an enthusiastic response in the theatre. She then repeated her performance for the broadcast audience, launching a series of some 500 appearances in programmes designed to entertain the troops. (accessed 2011-04-23). In addition to radio work, Clark frequently toured the United Kingdom with fellow child performer Julie Andrews . Clark became known as "Britain's Shirley Temple ," and she was considered a mascot by the British Army , whose troops plastered her photos on their tanks for good luck as they advanced into battle.Kon, p. 54

In 1944, while performing at London's Royal Albert Hall , Clark was discovered by film director Maurice Elvey , who cast her as precocious orphaned waif Irma in his weepy war drama Medal for the General . In quick succession, she starred in Strawberry Roan , '' I Know Where I'm Going! , London Town (film)|London Town , and Here Come the Huggetts , the first in a series of Huggett Family films based on a British radio series. Although some of the films she made in the UK during the 1940s and 1950s were B-movies , she worked with Anthony Newley in Vice Versa (film)|Vice Versa (directed by Peter Ustinov ) and Alec Guinness in The Card as well as the aforementioned I Know Where I'm Going!'' which is a Powell and Pressburger feature film now generally regarded as a masterpiece (Clark's part was small).

In 1945, Clark was featured in the comic strip Radio Fun , in which she was billed as "Radio's Merry Mimic". The Penguin Book of Comics by George Perry and Alan Aldridge, 1967

In 1946, Clark launched her television career with an appearance on a BBC variety show, Cabaret Cartoons , which led to her being signed to host her own afternoon series, titled simply Petula Clark . A second, ''Pet's Parlour , followed in 1949. In later years, she starred in This is Petula Clark (1966–1967) and The Sound of Petula (1972–1974).

In 1949, Clark branched into recording with her first release, "Put Your Shoes On, Lucy," for EMI . Because neither EMI nor Decca Records|Decca , for whom she also had recorded, were keen to sign her to a long-term contract, her father, whose own theatrical ambitions had been thwarted by his parents, teamed with Alan A. Freeman to form Polygon Records in order to better control her singing career.. This project was financed with Clark's earnings. She scored a number of major hits in the UK during the 1950s, including " The Little Shoemaker " (1954), "Majorca" (1955), " Suddenly There's a Valley " (1955) and " With All My Heart " (1956).'The Little shoemaker' was an international hit reaching the coveted No 1 position in Australia, giving her the first of many No 1 records in her career. Although Clark released singles in the United States as early as 1951 (the first was "Tell Me Truly" b/w "Song Of The Mermaid" on the Coral label), it would take thirteen years before the American record-buying public would discover her.
In 1955, Clark became linked romantically with Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson . Speculation that the couple planned to marry became rife. However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame& nbsp;— her career in France was just beginning& nbsp;— Henderson, reportedly not wanting to end up as "Mr. Petula Clark", decided to end the relationship.Kon, pp. 119-20 Their professional relationship continued for a couple of years, culminating in the BBC Radio series Pet and Mr. Piano , the last time they worked together,Kon, p. 130 although they remained on friendly terms. In 1962, he penned a ballad about their break-up, called "There's Nothing More To Say", for Clark's LP In Other Words .

Near the end of 1955, Polygon Records was sold to Nixa Records, then part of Pye Records , which lead to the establishment of Pye Nixa Records (subsequently simply Pye). This turn of events effectively signed Clark to the Pye label in the UK, for whom she would record for the remainder of the 1950s, throughout the 1960s, and early into the 1970s.

International fame

In 1958, Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia where, despite her misgivings and a bad cold, she was received with acclaim. The following day she was invited to the office of Disques Vogue|Vogue Records to discuss a contract. It was there that she met publicist Claude Wolff , to whom she was attracted immediately, and when told he would work with her if she signed with the label, she agreed.Kon, pp. 122-25 Her initial French recordings were huge successes, and in 1960 she embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel , who remained a close friend until his death in 2004. Gradually she moved further into the continent, recording in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and establishing herself as a multi-lingual performer.

In 1964, Clark wrote the soundtrack for the French crime film A Couteaux Tirés (aka Daggers Drawn ) and made a cameo appearance as herself in the movie. Although it was only a mild success, it added a new dimension — that of film composer — to her career. Additional film scores she composed include Animato (1969), La bande à Bebel (1966), and Pétain (1989). Six themes from the latter were released on the CD In Her Own Write in 2007.

In 1963 and 1964, Clark's British recording career foundered. The composer-arranger Tony Hatch , who had been assisting her with her work for Vogue Records in France and Pye Records in the UK, flew to her home in Paris with new song material he hoped would interest her, but she found none of it appealing. Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by his recent first trip to New York City , which he suggested might be offered to The Drifters . Upon hearing the melody, Clark told him that if he could write lyrics as good as the melody, she wanted to record the tune as her next single. Thus " Downtown (Petula Clark song)|Downtown " came into being.Kon, pp. 157-58

"Downtown" era

Neither Clark, who was performing in Canada when the song first received major air-play, Legends: Petula Clark — Blue Lady , broadcast on BBC Four 19 November 2006 nor Hatch realized the impact the song would have on their respective careers. Released in four different languages in late 1964, "Downtown" was a success in the UK, France (in both the English and the French versions), the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy, and also Rhodesia, Japan, and India. During a visit to London, Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. executive Joe Smith heard it and acquired the rights for the United States. "Downtown" went to #1 on the American charts in January 1965, and three million copies were sold in America. It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark achieved in the United States, including " I Know a Place ", " My Love (Petula Clark song)|My Love ", " A Sign of the Times ", " I Couldn't Live Without Your Love ", " This Is My Song (1967 song)|This Is My Song " (from the Charles Chaplin film A Countess from Hong Kong ), and " Don't Sleep in the Subway ". The American recording industry honored her with Grammy Award s for "Best Rock & Roll Record" for "Downtown" in 1964 and for "Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance" for "I Know a Place" in 1965. In 2003, her recording of "Downtown" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame .

In 1968, NBC-TV invited Clark to host her own special in the U.S., and in doing so she inadvertently made television history. While singing a duet of "On the Path of Glory," an anti-war song that she had composed, with guest Harry Belafonte , she took hold of his arm, to the dismay of a representative from the Chrysler Corporation, the show's sponsor, who feared that the moment would incur the racist bigotry of Southern viewers. When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from one another, Clark and the executive producer of the show — her husband, Wolff — refused, destroyed all other takes of the song and delivered the finished program to NBC with the touch intact. The program aired on 8 April 1968, with high ratings and critical acclaim. (To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original telecast, Clark and Wolff appeared at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan on 22 September 2008, to discuss the broadcast and its impact, following a broadcast of the program.)

Clark later was the hostess of two more specials, another one for NBC and one for American Broadcasting Company|ABC - one which served as a pilot for a projected weekly series. Clark declined the offer in order to please her children, who disliked living in Los Angeles .
Clark revived her movie career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films. In '' Finian's Rainbow (film)|Finian's Rainbow '' (1968), she starred opposite Fred Astaire and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance. With her role, she again made history by becoming Astaire's final on-screen dance partner. The following year she was cast with Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips , a musical adaptation of the classic James Hilton novella . (Her last film to date has been the British production Never, Never Land (1980 film)|Never Never Land , released in 1980.) After that, her output of musical hits in the States diminished markedly, although she continued to record and make television appearances into the 1970s. By the mid-1970s, Clark scaled back her career in order to devote more time to her family. On December 31, 1976, she performed her hit song Downtown on BBC1 's A Jubilee Of Music , celebrating British pop music for Queen Elizabeth II 's impending Silver Jubilee .

Herb Alpert and his A& M Records|A& M record label benefited from Clark's interest in encouraging new talent. In 1968, she brought French composer/arranger Michel Colombier to the States to work as her musical director and introduced him to Alpert. (He went on to co-write Purple Rain (song)|Purple Rain with Prince (artist)|Prince , composed the acclaimed pop symphony Wings and a number of soundtracks for American films.) Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter credited her with bringing him and his sister Karen to Alpert's attention when they performed at a premiere party for Clark's film Goodbye, Mr. Chips .

Post-"Downtown" era

During the early 1970s, Clark had chart singles on both sides of the Atlantic with: "Melody Man" (1970); "The Song Of My Life" (1971); "I Don't Know How To Love Him" (1972), "The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" (1972) and "Loving Arms" (1974). In Canada 'Je voudrais Qu'il Soit Malheureuse' was a major hit.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Clark toured in concerts in the States, and she often appeared in supper clubs such as the Copacabana (nightclub)|Copacabana in New York City, the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)|Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Empire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel , where she consistently broke house attendance records. During this period, she also appeared in print and radio ads for the Coca Cola Corp., television commercials for Plymouth automobile s, print and TV spots for Burlington Industries , television and print ads for Chrysler Sunbeam, and print ads for Sanderson Wallpaper in the UK.
In 1954, Clark had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph (play)|The Constant Nymph , but it wasn't until 1981, at the urging of her children, that she returned to legitimate theatre, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in London's West End of London|West End . Opening to rave reviews and what was then the largest advance sale in British theatre history, Clark — proclaimed by Maria Von Trapp herself as "the best Maria ever" — extended her initial six-month run to thirteen to accommodate the huge demand for tickets. In 1983, she took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw 's Candida (play)|Candida . Later stage work includes Someone Like You (Musical Theatre)|Someone Like You in 1989 and 1990, for which she composed the score; Blood Brothers (musical)|Blood Brothers , in which she made her Broadway theatre|Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre , followed by the American tour; and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Sunset Boulevard (musical)|Sunset Boulevard , appearing in both the West End and American touring productions from 1995 through 2000. In 2004, she repeated her performance of Norma Desmond in a production at the Cork Opera House in the Republic of Ireland, which was later broadcast by the BBC. With more than 2,500 performances, she has played the role more often than any other actress.
A new disco re-mix of Downtown called Downtown '88 was released in 1988 registering Clark's first UK singles chart success since 1972, making the Top Ten in the UK in December 1988. A live vocal performance of this version was performed on the UK TV chart show Top Of The Pops. Clark recorded new material regularly throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and in 1992 released "Oxygen", a single produced by Nik Kershaw.
In both 1998 and 2002, Clark toured extensively throughout the UK. In 2000, she presented a self-written one-woman show, highlighting her life and career, to large critical and audience acclaim at the St. Denis Theater in Montreal . A 2003 concert appearance at the Olympia in Paris has been issued in both DVD and compact disc formats. In 2004, she toured Australia and New Zealand, appeared at the Hilton in Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City , the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto, Ontario|Toronto , Humphrey's in San Diego, California|San Diego , and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut , and participated in a multi-performer tribute to the late Peggy Lee at the Hollywood Bowl . Following another British concert tour in early spring 2005, she appeared with Andy Williams in his Moon River Theater in Branson, Missouri , for several months, and she returned for another engagement in the fall of 2006, following scattered concert dates throughout the U.S. and Canada.In November 2006, Clark was the subject of a BBC Four documentary entitled Petula Clark: Blue Lady and appeared with Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball and Tony Hatch in a concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane broadcast by BBC Radio the following month. In December that year she made her first appearance in Iceland. Duets , a compilation including Dusty Springfield , Peggy Lee , Dean Martin , Bobby Darin , and the Everly Brothers , among others, was released in February 2007, and Solitude and Sunshine , a studio recording of all new material by composer Rod McKuen , was released in July of that year. She was the host of the March 2007 Public Broadcasting Service|PBS pledge-drive special My Music: The British Beat , an overview of music's British invasion of the United States in the 1960s, followed by a number of concert dates throughout the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She can be heard on the soundtrack of the 2007 independent film Downtown: A Street Tale . Une Baladine (in English, a wandering minstrel), an authorized pictorial biography by Francoise Piazza, was published in France and Switzerland in October 2007, and the following month Clark promoted it in bookshops and at book fairs.
In 2007 Clark took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home (TV series)|Coming Home about her Welsh family history.

Clark was presented with the 2007 Film & TV Music Award for Best Use of a Song in a Television Program for "Downtown" in the ABC series Lost (TV series)|Lost . She completed a concert tour of England and Wales in Summer 2008, followed by concerts in Switzerland and the Philippines. Then & Now: The Very Best of Petula Clark|Then & Now , a compilation of greatest hits and several new Clark compositions, entered the British album charts in June 2008 and won Clark her first-ever Silver Disc for an album. Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection , a compilation of previously unreleased material and new and remixed recordings, was released in January 2009. Additionally, her 1969 NBC special Portrait of Petula , already released on DVD for Region 2 viewers, is also being produced for Region 1. A collection of holiday songs titled This Is Christmas , which includes some new Clark compositions in addition to previously released material, was released in November 2009.
In 1998, Clark was made a Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II .

In 2010, Clark became the President of the Hastings Musical Festival ; she toured Australia, New Zealand and Quebec to sell out crowds, and appeared on the iconic "Vivement Dimanche" show on French television, where she promised a return to Paris in the new year. (She is to appear in concert at the Casino de Paris on 7th November of 2011.) Her Triple Best of CD, "Une Baladine" included 10 new tracks and one new studio recording "SOS Mozart" a writing collaboration of Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë. Both her 3CD set and her new recording of "SOS Mozart" were produced by David Hadzis at the studio in Geneva and appeared on the French charts. She is patron of 2011 Dinard British Film Festival.

Early in 2011, the Lark Street Business Improvement District in a section of the downtown area of Albany, New York, USA - New York State's Capital city - needed a name for its logo/mascot, a graphic image of a blue lark. An internet poll was held and the winner was "PETULA LARK", clearly a reference to the singer of the adopted anthem of New York City's (and many other cities') urban areas, "DOWNTOWN". http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/name-that-bird/3524/

In November 2011, aged 78, Clark performed at the Casino de Paris, a Parisienne Music Hall where Mistinguett and Josephine Baker had previously triumphed. Clark entertained for more than 90 minutes and introduced five new songs, one of which she had recently written with friend Charles Aznavour . A French album of all new material is to be released on February 7, 2012 on the Sony label, Petula's first in that language since the late '70s. http://www.petula-clark.com/

On December 11, 2011 Irish Band, The Saw Doctors release their version of "Downtown", featuring Petula. She appears in the video for the song, which they recorded in Galway, and she in Paris. http://www.petulaclark.net/home/sawdrs.html On December 22, 2011 the record made No 2 on the Irish charts http://irma.ie/aucharts.asp

As of 2012 Clark was living in Switzerland. In January a facebook campaign was launched to petition for a Damehood for Petula, to celebrate the year of both her 80th birthday and the Diamond Jubilee. page In February she is scheduled to do her first New York City show since 1975. Her show features parody of "Downtown" an idea that came from her musical director Grant Sturiale.

Filmography

Medal for the General (1944)

Strawberry Roan (film)|Strawberry Roan (1945)

Murder in Reverse (1945)

'' I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Trouble at Townsend (1946)

London Town (film)|London Town (1946)

Vice Versa (film)|Vice Versa (1948)

Easy Money (1948 film)|Easy Money (1948)

Here Come the Huggetts (1948)

Vote for Huggett (1949)

The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

'' Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)

The Romantic Age (1949)

Dance Hall (film)|Dance Hall (1950)

White Corridors (1951)

Madame Louise (1951)

The Card (1952)

Made in Heaven (1952 film)|Made in Heaven (1952)

The Runaway Bus (1954)

The Gay Dog (1954)

The Happiness of Three Women (1954)

Track the Man Down (1955)

That Woman Opposite (1957)

6.5 Special (1958)

À Couteaux Tirés (1964) (also composed score) (aka "Daggers Drawn" for the American release)

'' Finian's Rainbow (film)|Finian's Rainbow (1968)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Drôles de Zèbres (1977)

Never, Never Land (1980 film)|Never, Never Land (1980)

Sans Famille (1981 French television miniseries)

Discography

Notable French singles

(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I|Prends Mon Coeur ("A Fool Such as I") (1960, #9)

"Garde-moi la dernière danse ( Save the Last Dance for Me )" (1961, #3)

"Marin ( Sailor (song)|Sailor )" (1961, #2)

" Romeo (Petula Clark song)|Roméo " (1961, #1)

" Ya Ya (Lee Dorsey song)|Ya Ya Twist " (1962, #1)

"Chariot" (later also known as " I Will Follow Him ") (1962, #1)

"Les Beaux Jours" (original title: " Ramblin' Rose ") (1963, #10)

" Cœur Blessé " (original title: "Torture" by John D. Loudermilk ; lyric by Jean Kluger , Daniel Vangarde , Claude Carrere , Jean Broussolle ) (1963, #1)

"Je me sens bien auprès de toi ( Dance On )" (1963, # 3)

"Ceux qui ont un cœur ( Anyone Who Had a Heart (song)|Anyone Who Had a Heart )" (1964, #7)

"Dans le temps ( Downtown (Petula Clark song)|Downtown )" (1965, #6)

"Un jeune homme bien ( Well Respected Man )" (1965)

"C'est Ma Chanson" (" This is My Song ") (1967, #1)

"La dernière valse ( The Last Waltz (song)|The Last Waltz )" (1967, #2)

"Tout le monde veut aller au ciel" (1967)

Notable German singles

"Monsieur" (by Karl Götz, Kurt Hertha; German language song) (1962, #1)

"Casanova Baciami" (song with German lyric) (1963, #2)

"Cheerio" (German language version of "Chariot") (1963, #6)

"Mille Mille Grazie" (song with mainly German lyric) (1963, #9)

"Warum muß man auseinandergeh'n (Mit weißen Perlen)" (1964, #17)

"Alles ist nun vorbei ( Anyone Who Had a Heart (song)|Anyone Who Had a Heart )" (1964, #37)

"Downtown" (1965, German version, #1)

"Kann ich dir vertrauen" (1966, #17)

"Verzeih' die dummen Tränen" (1966, German version of "My Love", #21)

"Love - so heißt mein Song" (1967, German version of "This is My Song", #23)

"Alle Leute wollen in den Himmel", (1967, German version of "Tout le monde veut aller au ciel", #28)

Notable Italian singles

"Monsieur" (the German song with italian lyrics by Vito Pallavicini (1962, #1)

"Sul mio carro (Chariot)" (1962, #1)

"Quelli che hanno un cuore ( Anyone Who Had a Heart (song)|Anyone who had a heart )" (1964, #4)

"Invece no" (Entry at the San Remo Festival 1965, # 5)

"Ciao, ciao ( Downtown (Petula Clark song)|Downtown )", (1965, #1)

"Cara felicita' (This is my song)" (1967, # 1)

" Kiss Me Goodbye (Petula Clark song)|Kiss Me Goodbye (Italian version)" (1968, #26)

Complete Spanish recordings

"Qué tal, Dolly? ( Hello, Dolly& #33; (song)|Hello, Dolly! )"

"Pequeña Flor ( Petite Fleur )"

"Tú no tienes corazón ( Anyone Who Had a Heart (song)|Anyone Who Had a Heart )"

"Cantando al caminar (The Road)"

All four songs were released in 1964 in Spain on Hispavox Extended play|EP "Petula Clark canta en Español" (Cat.-No. HV 27-126).

Other noteworthy recordings

"Put Your Shoes On Lucy" (1949)

"House in the Sky" (1949)

"I'll Always Love You" (1949)

"Clancy Lowered the Boom" (1949)

"You Go To My Head" (1950)

" Music& #33; Music& #33; Music! " (1950)

"You Are My True Love" (1950)

"Mariandl" (with Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young ) (1951)

"Where Did My Snowman Go? " (1952)

"The Card" (1952)

"Christopher Robin At Buckingham Palace" (1953)

"Meet Me In Battersea Park" (1954)

" Suddenly There's A Valley " (1955)

"Another Door Opens" (1956)

" With All My Heart " (1957)

"Fibbin'" (1958)

"Devotion" (1958)

"Dear Daddy" (1959)

"Mama's Talkin' Soft" (1959), a song deleted from Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy prior to its Broadway opening

"Cinderella Jones" (1960)

"Marin" ("Sailor") (1961)

"Cœur blessé" (1963)

"Ceux qui ont un cœur" ("Anyone Who Had a Heart") (1964)

"Invece no" (1965)

"Dans le temps" ("Downtown") (1965)

"Sauve-moi" (1977)

"Mr. Orwell" (1984)

Blood Brothers (musical)|Blood Brothers (International Recording) (1995)

Songs from Sunset Boulevard (musical)|Sunset Boulevard (1996)

Here for You (1998)

The Ultimate Collection (2002)

Kaleidoscope (2003)

"Starting All Over Again" (2003)

Live at the Paris Olympia (2004)

"Driven by Emotion" (2005)

"Memphis" (2005)

"Together" (2006), recorded as a duet with Andy Williams

"Thank You for Christmas" (2006)

"Simple Gifts" (2006)

"It had to be you" (2007)

Duets (2007)

Solitude and Sunshine (2007)

In Her Own Write (2007),also featuring a guest recording by Amanda-Jane Manning of My Love Will Never Die

Then & Now: The Very Best of Petula Clark|Then & Now (2008)

Open Your Heart: A Love Song Collection (2009)

This is Christmas (2009)

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