“I Know a Place” is a song that always demands doing the pony in a pair of white go-go boots, and yet, Petula Clark always, always remained firmly earthbound in sensible flats. Amazing. The youth among us may ask themselves “Who is this bitch? Where are her go-go boots?”
In her time, Ms Clark managed to be one big star by being a bridge between post-war big bands and rock and roll. The beat is the greatest there. O yeah. Get down, bad bitch Petula, get down.
Plus Ed Sullivan recommends safe driving. Well, OK.
Friday, October 26, 2007
I Know a Place Petula Clark
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I LOVE Pet Clark! I have her "downtown" album on reel-to-reel!
ReplyDeleteShe's just fabulously frumpy. Most of the time she has better hair/outfits, this is very mod schoolmarm.
I remember her as always looking sort of like this. I recall some show with her surrounded by bitches in a-line miniskirts and, literally, gogo boots and Pet still in her Sister Mary Elizabeth Katherine Ann of the Prompt Succor convent outfit.
ReplyDeleteLOVE THE PET!
ReplyDeleteMs Clark and the frumps go back a long way. In the Forties she was a precocious child actor with a good line in snooty superciliousness.
ReplyDeleteDowntown always gives me strange flashbacks to when I was about seven years old. We had a teacher who was obsessed with that song and played it continually, even making us write an essay about what it might mean.
Ms Clark and the Frumps. Hee hee.
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