Petula Clark - A Sign Of The Times
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- "In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song." [Petula Clark]
Album "My Love" Released - March 1966
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lyrics:
It's a sign of the times
That your love for me is getting so much stronger
It's a sign of the times
And I know that I won't have to wait much longer
You've changed a lot somehow from the one I used to know-oh-oh
For when you hold me now it feels like you never want to let me go
It's a sign of the times
That you call me up whenever you feel lonely
It's a sign of the times
That you tell your friends that I'm your one and only
I'll never understand the way you treated me-ee-ee
But when I hold your hand I know you couldn't be the way you used to be
refrain
Maybe my lucky star at last decided to shine
Maybe somebody knows how long I've waited to make you mine, mm, mm, mm
I'll never understand the way you treated me-ee-ee
But when I hold your hand I know you couldn't be the way you used to be
refrain
Maybe my lucky star at last decided to shine
Maybe somebody knows how long I've waited to make you mine, mm, mm, mm
It's a sign of the times
That you kiss me now as if you really mean it
It's a sign of the times
And a year ago I never could have seen it
Don't ever change your mind and take your love away-ay-ay
Just leave the past behind and, baby, only think of how it is today
It's a sign of the ti-imes
It's a sign of the ti-i-i-i-imes
It's a sign of the times
It's a sign of the ti-i-i-i-imes
Boy our music was just wonderful. Every single rock station had records like this playing. The kids now have absolute garbage to listen to compared to this.
It's a sign of the times.
There is a joyfulness to this music that is missing now. The poor young people don't know how to have fun and it's sad.
People who were lucky enough to experience those times are truly lucky.I just want to fatally karate slap the fools today starting with Jay z
Nancy Desch really? they have all the same (and more) drugs the hippies had in the 60s
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It's fascinating how RUclips can be such a window to the past. This vid puts you in front of your TV back in '66. Unreal.
+Big Cheese I've heard a little about Carnaby Street, but never been there. I'm assuming you've been there recently? If so, what's it like now compared to the late 60s?
I probably seen this video 200 times--I am addicted to it!! Happy 83rd Birthday my cutie pie rock idol!!!!!
To think that I knew of her before she became the muse of Anthony Hatch.
A timeless beauty for sure!
Our Pet doing her bit for the British car industry in 1966. I don't know whats the coolest: her, the song, the vid, or the cars!
Russell Blackwell Her!!!!!!!!!!😁❤️👍
english cars we don't really make them any more, full flight mid sixties, a so fine production so beautifully performed, top notch song heart warming its cool to be young
This is the most fabulously Mod thing I've ever seen, I think I'm in love.
Wish it was 1966 & I had a red XKE with Petula Clark by my side.
I never posted this. Damien did. What a stinker. He knows I rarely use the computer.
This must of came out in the Spring of '66, my cousin Ray gave me a ride home from school in the pouring rain and I remember marveling at how his windshield wipers were keeping perfect time with this great new song. I was 9.
You must be right around my age, I was born in September of 1956.
Born October 1956, like the late Carrie Fisher
I miss the 1960s and music like this.
God ...
Please send me back in time.
George Vreeland Hill
The good ole days are gone forever, but we have the future; and the day will come at some future time when things will be better than they were in the 1960 era. Mark my word, that day is coming and you will see it for yourself. Why go back in time when you will have to come back to the mess we are in today. Just be patient and you will have something which is 100 or 1000 times better than the 1960 era minus Dick Clark.
To think that I knew about her career long before she became the muse of Anthony Hatch...and I was not even born. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Naomi Fritchey
With the human race adding another Billion to the world population every 12 years(up 6 Billion since 1900 when the world population first hit1 Billion) it's hard to imagine a better time ahead but I admire your optimism..
Great singer, great song, great cars, great clothes, great everything. Now? Forget it.
I was fortunate to have met Ms. Clark many years when she sang at a dinner show at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. My date and I were in a bar after the show and she came in. She was very gracious (although tired and hungry) but willingly signed an autograph and spoke with us for a short time. Nice to know she's still doing her thing and doing it very well.
Pet Clark had, not just a good voice, she had a GREAT voice. So many of her songs bring back high school memories. I had a MGB and longed, but never could afford what may be the most beautiful car ever designed, an 'E' Jag. Despite all of those great memories, I am SO-O-O pleased that those fashions are GONE! LOL!
The clothing is pure Caranby Street. For those who weren't alive then, Carnaby was street in London that was the center of my much of the "swingin London" of the 60's. Carnaby Street became a metaphor, especially for clothes.
I wish the radio stations played her songs more often.
I think her music helped us get through some really ugly years here in the states. Never really identified Petula Clark with the 'British Invasion', just always loved her songs and was forever hoping one of hers would play next on the radio. At a time when there was little else out there to make a person feel good, her music always did.
The 1960's and 1970's were a lot better than the soulless anything goes situation of today. In the last 30 years or so things have gone way, way downhill.
I don't think back on the 60's here in the US as "really ugly years", it might seem that way to someone reading a text book on the era but for me me growing up in a small rural town it was sort of like the 50's with more sophisticated music and clothes.Our schools still had dress code until 1970-71 and girls had to were skirts and guys short hair, just look at any yearbook from that period and you will see what I'm talking about. It's funny, the 60's really didn't take hold in our town until the 1970's. Ha ha
Today is much uglier because we let the ugly elements run wild, it is time for them to be put down hard!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember this song. I miss the sixties. I was a kid, but who could not remember those fun songs😀😁
WHAT A GREAT VOICE
Love Pet! Chased a girl in school that looked just like her- but no success :( Did manage to collect two Jag E-Types along the way, though & even got to meet Pet after a concert a few years ago. The lady's got class, elegance & can sing!!
One of the best live performances from the 60s Especially the one brunette dancer on the end She steals the show for me
Happy Birthday, Miss Petula!!! She looks good for turning 83 years old yesterday.
Some people have that special presence and Petula is certainly one of those!
This fondly reminds me of the flashy musical numbers that I used to see in variety shows like Ed Sullivan with my parents when I was a small boy in the 60s.
+Themaddprof Yeah, "Hollywood Palace", "The Andy Williams Show", "Tom Jones", etc. Great times!!!
She is Adorable!
I love Petula! Always have since her fab "I Know a Place" (#3, 1965) song, after "Downtown" (Dec. 1964). Now 85 !!! I hope she makes it to 100. Love her to bits!
Austin Healey, I had one of those - british racing green with a black interior and mechanical Smith's gauges.
LOVELY VIDEO! PETULA CLARK IS WONDERFUL!
Sign of the times back then ? The Peace sign of course !! I was 9 years old when this was on Ed Sullivan Show and we had a Black and White tube T. V. back then. I loved her singing back then on the radio and thanks to RUclips I get to see it in Colour :)
+zap wazzup The thing I remember most about those tv's, is that the picture didn't appear as soon as you turned it on. You had to wait about 30 seconds for it to warm up.
I had such a CRUSH on Pet Clark after I heard her sing Downtown! That was back in 1964.
What great British sports cars from the gorgeous Pet Clark sitting on the hood of the sexy E-type and the Austin Healy 3000 and the gorgeous Aston Marin DB6 all beautiful roadsters to boot!!! I love the music and the cars of a great bygone era.
Pet Clark is fantastic A class act This song to me is her best Love the 60s hippie groove dancers
So refreshing to view something soinnocent and bursting with naive & sillyenthusiasm. I love the 60's so much..Q
PETULA CLARK IS AMAZING!
I really dig those groovy 60's threads......
+CatfishHunter61 Unfortunately, her dress looks like she bought it at a Ronald McDonald garage sale. This is still a great and groovy song.
I like that polyester look.
+Scott Lane Mate, you must be very, very young. What Pet is wearing was probably haute couture for the times., and Dear Lord but she looks great.
+Scott Lane The Barbie 'fries with that?' look?
+CatfishHunter61 I like that polyester look.
I so love this song for some reason. It makes me teary eyed. In.a happy way each time I view it
It''s at least. 5 to 10 Times in a row. THANK you miss Clark well
Done
Donald Nelson Must be a sign of the times.....yep, love this song too
I remember sitting in the back of my mom's camero listening to "Downtown"
Great times the 60's.
im glad your enjoying
Thing to remember is - this is live. Not miming. And it’s delivered note perfect. No auto tuning or digital correction. The recording has its quirks. Like when she goes for the pockets, but didn’t remember where they were, but this adds to the natural and real performance. Love it!
Pet can really carry a song. Good tune by Tony Hatch.
Pet is fab, very gear. Love the Aston Martin, Austin Healey and of course the XKE
+Scott Ferrell It's an Austin-Healey 3000, not an Aston Martin.
+unclecolt There are three cars, XKE, Austin-Healey 3000 and the car on the left is an Aston Martin.
+Scott Ferrell You are correct. I was looking at the middle car. I resent how they treated the three beautiful sports car by having dancers traipse all over the hoods with belts and jewelry on and standing in the interiors with shoes on. Profane and unnecessary scratches on enamel and lacquer paints of the time.
+unclecolt Very true. I have a 1962 Studebaker Lark that I take to shows. I hate seeing the ladies with the huge bags swinging back and forth between the cars.
+Scott Ferrell Especially Petula Clark on he XKE hood with high heels on. I cringed. Otherwise I liked the video.
When I was a kid and we saw Ms.Clark on TV , he remembered seeing her in English when he was there WWII.
Irrepressibly mod and groovy!
Happy Birthday, Petula! You make 84 look good!!!
this video is adorably camp, just love the choreography
Love you always Petula Clark!!!!
Always loved Pet Clark. Especially love the dancers and the fun choreography in this performance too.
Wow -- back in the days when colour TV was new -- so all the stage sets were aimed at colour! Cool era. [:-)]
I agree with all the cool comments. May I add the choreography is so endearing.
Great song, Petula looks nice, and the dancers are awesome. Yes, that is Michael Bennett, the dancer who loses his hat.
Yes... the male dancer whose hat fell off during the song did go on to far bigger things.. That was Michael Bennett. He was the choreographer, director and inspiration behind the shows such as Chorus Line on Broadway. He also did DreamGirls first on Broadway in 1982 and Promises, Promises. He won seven Tony Awards as well as the Pultizer for Drama. He died in 1987 in Arizona at age 44. This production was done in the middle 60's when Bennett was struggling to establish himself. I am sure he setup the dance sequence. Bob Fosse had more fame but not as much acclaim as Michael Bennett. Chorus Line was all Bennett's.
Read his biography on IMDB. Darn shame. Extreamly talented. A loss to everyone.
Great song, excellent quote by Pet C.
Oh and don't forget,you could understand the words to the songs!!!!!
Half century ago--ugh where has the time gone. Michael Bennett losing his hat is hilarious!
+Charles Moorman I had to look him up. Interesting career cut short.
It's hard to take your eyes off the hat on the floor once it's fallen, isn't it! LOL
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One of the first rules you learn in theatre is that when you drop a prop or costume piece, you pick it up when believable to do so. Couldn't get my eyes off the hat. LOL! I would have thought a stage hand would have rushed in to grab it when they did the cut away of Pet at the car.
wow, a red Austin Martin & Jaguar XKE. I once drove an XKE from a friend of mine, what a car!
Hard to believe but this segment on Ed Sullivan is now exactly 50 years old--a half century ago! I was 9 at the time and am now 59. A good share of the people in this video could well be dead and, if not, are very old and, unfortunately forgotten, by and large. Someday someone 50 years hence will look at this video and not have the foggiest notion of the context the video was trying to portray--that we were entering a colorful "New Age" full of promise which, unfortunately didn't quite match the expectations of many who lived in the time, sadly enough.
Good to see my old friend again. Over the years I have probably seen this video three hundred times and commented on it 50-60. So mod, so cool, and so very long ago!
Born in '65, I've often wished I'd been born in the late '40's to have enjoyed the world here, with the magic of the late 1950's and early 1960's. The music and prominence of travel to France and Spain with design influence and before the world became liberally screwed up. There were still values and purity then.
love this song petula has such a brilliant voice
love this and those cars. WOW I'm 57 young
I wish they still styled cars like that XKE. What a beauty!
Her songs were so great...music today is sooolacking of this type of talent...I miss her...
love that uk sound and cars!
Beautifully conceived video of a magnificent performer. This TV show gave Petula the total class treatment. I hope someday to see this video in its original clarity. But thank y ou so much for this!
Woke up this morning and this song was in my head. Thank you...
It's amazing how singers used to become so successful without wearing next to nothing and gyrating around, showing off everything they should keep private. But the one thing they had going for them was - They could really sing! I miss those days.
It's a radial age. Now the world is safer on a great new tire. Got to love Pat Christman!
Especially the one brunette on the right side She is killin it
Los años 60 fabulosos recuerdos de mi infancia, Petula Clark, es uno de esos bellos recuerdos.
brilliant sound....mid late 60s American colour show, you were so lucky, having this, Beautiful Petula Clark singing for you
This song has been going through my head for days and days. The Germans call a song like this that you can't get out of your head an "ear-worm". Great description. So I had to go online and hear her sing it. Great!
From this to death metal in 50 short years. Who coulda thought? Signs of the times.
such a beautiful video, all the players, thank you all
With the exception of the Vietnam War and the civil strife during the civil rights riots in this country back then looking back as an adult now the 1960's and early 1970's appear to be the best era of this country since its foundation in the 1770's!
Bill Davison There were certainly a lot of truly awful things going on back then, but music was definitely NOT one of them. Never before, nor since, has popular music been so varied, eclectic, and exiting as it was in the 1960s. THE #1 golden musical era for sure, and with pop stars today being so overproduced, relying more, and more on letting computer software dictate their sound, I really doubt that will ever change.
as for me.. ive been in love with this now octegenerian when i was but 7 and she was in her hey day. sigh... cutie.. some voice.
She is tremendously talented but let's not forget the wonderful songs and arrangements of Tony Hatch and the fact that most of the songs were engineered by the great Keith Grant
I remember listening to this when I was 5 years old I it was my dads record I would play it all the time it brings back good memories thanks
Love those roadsters.
"Look, Marge! It's in living color!"
Has it been 50 years? How did I manage to get that old? (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL).
Maybe. LOLOLOLOL.
Have a safe Labor Day.
I knew of Miss Clark's work long before she became famous for the songs of Tony Hatch. And that was before I was born. LOLOLOLOLOL.
Have a safe holiday.
rock n roll is always gonna stay it will never die doo whopin forever
2012endofanerror: Well I am 71 and I don't feel old as I still have illusions and enjoy life. And I can still dance these tunes if I get the chance. You are still young. Regards.
And just remember when she about 8-years-old she used to sing for people in the bomb shelters during the Blitz.
those years were filled with magic.. i wish someone would build a time machine because i'd be the first to go back and relive those days time and time again.. in fact once i would go back they could completely erase anything past the 80s.. just as mary hopkins said, those were the days!
Sweet! I even managed to look away from the Jaguar a couple of times.
Yep. Song for the young teeny bopper. Innocence.
The hat 🎩 on the stage tells me this was a continuous recording and very nice too.
+lakefloor--here, here! Almost 50 years ago to the day (February 27, 1966) this first appeared on Ed Sullivan. I don't remember seeing this but I do remember the appearance she made on Sullivan in April, 1967 where she sang "Love" from the movie "Countess from Hong Kong". It was a sunny bright late afternoon, early evening (Sullivan came on @ either 6:00 or 7:00 in Utah where I grew up). She wore a long dress and looked great! Not bad memory for 49 years ago!
Remember listening to petula and others from those times,I feel that those were much better times than now!!!!LL.
Amen, George....take me with you!!!
OMG! Those dancers!
+knighthawk How about that checkerboard dress on the far right!
1960's--a lot of things happened--this video captures some of the GibraltarRocks--Petula Clark singing, Tony Hatch composition, British Leyland cars, and the Michael Bennett dancers--
Gorgeous!
Love this..so 60's
Love those 60's cars.
Una de las canciones más populares de la vocalista británica Petula Clark, que marcó un éxito en su carrera con la canción "Downtown", escrita especialmente para ella por Tony Hatch. Este video procede de un programa de televisión grabado por allá en 1967.
Yeah baby yeah!
Howay Petula... Pick the blokes hat up !!! :)
Groovy dancing and set
Groovy happy song
Groovy, groovy, groovy !
The Fab 1960s
Great dancers...great singer
Reminds me of Dancing With The Stars... kinda..... Gotta love the 60's.
Crikey I thought Austin Powers was going to appear!
Love the dancers !