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Petula Clark, accompanied by The Buddy Rich Band, plays the first of two nights at Jones Hall, Houston, Texas, USA.Full article:
Edwin McCain in the Houston Chronicle : The dainty English singer is a doll, appearing even smaller than her five-foot-two (yes, with eyes of blue) and much younger than her thirty-plus years.
And she's quite a clown, too. A big production number, My Name Is Petula, in which she changes her style to fit the German, Italian and French images of herself, is most endearing and comical. A delightful My Fair Lady medley also is performed with gentle humor.
More of her famous numbers were sprinkled throughout the show: Don't Sleep in the Subway, This Is My Song, My Love. And the most famous, Downtown, her first Grammy award winner, was saved for an encore.
She offered three Lennon-McCartney tunes quite dramatically, perhaps too much so for the tender Yesterday, but very effectively for Hey Jude. The other was Fool on the Hill.
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And she's quite a clown, too. A big production number, My Name Is Petula, in which she changes her style to fit the German, Italian and French images of herself, is most endearing and comical. A delightful My Fair Lady medley also is performed with gentle humor.
More of her famous numbers were sprinkled throughout the show: Don't Sleep in the Subway, This Is My Song, My Love. And the most famous, Downtown, her first Grammy award winner, was saved for an encore.
She offered three Lennon-McCartney tunes quite dramatically, perhaps too much so for the tender Yesterday, but very effectively for Hey Jude. The other was Fool on the Hill.