plushpig

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Member Since: 1/13/2003
Total Mixes: 99
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Other Mixes By plushpig

CD | Theme - Road Trip
MP3 Playlist | Mixed Genre
CD | Single Artist
CD | Pop

Pet Astounds

Side A
Artist Song
Petula Clark  Ya YaTwist 
Petula Clark  Downtown 
Petula Clark  You'd Better Come Home 
Petula Clark  You're The One 
Petula Clark  I Know a Place 
Petula Clark  Call Me 
Petula Clark  Heart 
Petula Clark  Round Every Corner 
Petula Clark  Who Am I 
Petula Clark  Life & Soul Of The Party 
Petula Clark  Sign Of The Times 
Petula Clark  My Love 
Petula Clark  I Couldn't Live Without Your Love 
Petula Clark  Colour My World 
Petula Clark  Don't Sleep In The Subway 
Petula Clark  The Other Man's Grass Is always Greener 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Petula Clark  Every Little Bit Hurts 
Petula Clark  Groovy Kind Of Love 
Petula Clark  Bang Bang (My baby Shot Me Down) 
Petula Clark  Monday, Monday 
Petula Clark  Games People Play 
Petula Clark  People Get Ready 
Petula Clark  Tears Of a Clown 
Petula Clark  Cry Like a Baby 
Petula Clark  Happy Together 
Petula Clark  For Free 
Petula Clark  Time & Love 
Petula Clark  We Can Work It Out 
Petula Clark  Rain 
Petula Clark  The Fool On The Hill 
Petula Clark  Maybe I'm Amazed 
   

Comment:

Friends who think they know my tastes (once summed up as "a chainsaw running amock in a parrot-house") are usually baffled by my fondness for Pet. Can't see why; technically, she's one of the great pop singers equipped with a voice that's simultaneously light, strong & flexible and blessed with crystal clear diction. The comparison I like to use is that if Dusty was the British Aretha, the Pet was our Dionne.

Plus, she brought to the fledgling UK pop scene a touch of continental class & sophistication. Is it too preposterous to claim that she opened the door for the later acceptance of the likes of Air & Stereolab?

Side one concentrates on her musical partnership with the undersung Tony Hatch (her Baccharach?)while side 2 demonstrates her interpretive skills on a bunch of covers.

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Curtis_Burns
Date: 2/23/2003
Woo boy, this is good. I've got a thang for Petula as well (and Dionne for that matter). I love Petula's "Happy Together."
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laufi
Date: 2/24/2003
great tribute! i don't know her so much, so i would like to hear this mix one day if possible. what you think of sandie shaw?
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Jana
Date: 2/26/2003
I love Petula! What a voice....
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Jana
Date: 2/27/2003
I agree that Pet is the British Dionne, but I would have to say that Cilla is the British Dionne-wannabe. I recently read an interview with Dionne, in which she said if she sneezed on a recording, Cilla would have sneezed in the same place on her version. I know Cilla often released her version of Bacharach/David songs in the UK before Dionne's. Pet had class.