Music Appreciation

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts) Wed Aug 31, 2022, 11:27 AM Aug 2022

This Is My Song - Petula Clark

1967. Written by Charlie Chaplin. Petula Clark, the grandchild of a British coal miner began singing at a young age. As a child she performed songs on BBC radio to entertain troops during World War 2. Her popularity & international career as a singer & actress lasted for decades.
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- Petula Sally Olwen Clark, CBE (born 15 Nov. 1932) is a British singer, actress, and composer with one of the longest serving careers of a British singer, spanning more than 7 decades.. During the Second World War Clark lived with her sister at the home of their grandparents in Abercanaid, near Merthyr Tydfil,[citation needed] a small stone house with no electricity or running water, and a toilet at the bottom of the garden. Her grandfather was a coal miner. Her first ever live audience was at the Colliers' Arms in Abercanaid. She also recalls living just outside London during the Blitz and watching the dogfights in the air and running to air-raid shelters with her sister.

Later, when she was 8, she joined other children to record messages with the BBC to be broadcast to members of their families in the forces. The recording event was in the Criterion Theatre, an underground theatre that was safe. When the air-raid siren went off other children were upset and a call went out for someone to step forward and sing to calm them. Petula volunteered, and they liked her voice so much, in the control room they recorded her. Her song was "Mighty Rose"...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petula_Clark