Greatest Hits of Petula Clark

Petula Clark

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gnp Crescendo
• ASIN: B000001OWN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,941 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Downtown

2. Sign of the Times

3. Don't Sleep in the Subway

4. Let It Be Me

5. Colour My World

6. This Girl's in Love With You

7. Kiss Me Goodbye

8. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love

9. I Know a Place

10. Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener

11. Who Am I?

12. My Love

13. Happy Heart

14. You'd Better Come Home

15. This Is My Song

16. Round Every Corner

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Recall collection featuring 40 of her best, from the 1954 top 10 U.K. hit 'The Little Shoemaker' through to the top 10U.K. hit 'Downtown' (1988 remix), plus the original versionsof all 15 of her U.S. top 40 hits: 'Downtown', 'I Know A Place', 'You'd Better Come Home', 'Round Every Corner', 'You're The One', 'My Love', 'A Sign Of The Times', etc. All tracks are digitally mastered. Double slimline jewel case. 1997 release. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not The Best Wrapping, but Pet Clark's Music a Great CD Gift, April 5, 2000

By	Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is an fine one-disc collection of Petula Clark's mid-60s hits, covering her three hottest years for Warner Bros. in the mid-1960s. The set touches all her major singles, produced with Tony Hatch: the brassy #1 "Downtown" and its sort-of sequel "I Know A Place," the oddball, fun "Colour My World" (with its booming drum and sitar opening) her #1 "My Love," and, of course, her ballads "Kiss Me Goodbye" and Charles Chaplin's "This Is My Song." Her covers of hits from the period (Andy Williams' "Happy Heart," her reworking of Herb Alpert's "This Guy's In Love With You") are also included and, while all well sung, fall short of the originals.

The set as a whole also falls short of five stars for reasons beyond its control. GNP's handling of sound is not to the level of Uni's 2CD reissue, and the liner notes and cover photo are sloppily done. (This set had a bit more importance than, say, orchestral versions of Sci-Fi themes the label is known for.) That said, Petula Clark's hits are more than welcome in any CD collection, and highly recommended.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Classic Cuts - ..., July 13, 2002

By	Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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I should have listened to all the reviews here before I bought this collection. Good songs, but it was recorded directly from analogue to digital with no remastering done. This produces tinny glaring highs and muddled booming lows. It brings out all the defects of an analogue recording. I'd suggest buying "Downtown - The Greatest Hits Of Petula Clark". There are four less songs, but the recording was done with care.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars great music, lousy sound quality, February 13, 2000

By	Bradley Olson (Bemidji, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This collection of 16 of her biggest hits would have rated 5 stars from me if GNP were able to obtain better tapes, but the tapes that GNP was able to obtain have been damaged. The CD does have major dropouts, many tracks have wavery sound quality, and everything else is wrong with this CD.