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When the original song was nominated for an Academy Award, the Carpenters were not allowed to perform it at the ceremony because they had not appeared in any film. At their request, the song was performed by British singer Petula Clark. In 1972, Richard and Karen appeared on Tom Jones's London Bridge Special, where they performed "For All We Know".
Sally "Petula" Clark (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and has had the longest career of any British entertainer, spanning more than 85 years. Clark's professional career began during the Second World War as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. [1]
Then & Now: The Very Best of Petula Clark is a compilation album by British singer Petula Clark that was released on 16 June 2008. It's a collection of greatest hits , four newly recorded tracks, and a previously unreleased recording.
It features interviews by Richard Carpenter, John Bettis (co-writer), Gary Sims (part-time member), Petula Clark, et al. The documentary itself runs for approximately 60 minutes, with a 12-minute encore after the end credits featuring a performance of "(A Place To) Hideaway", the Carpenters' commercial for Morton's Potato Chips , and their ...
I Know A Place (Chante En English) 1. ... We Can Work It Out: ... The Many Faces of Petula Clark : 1. Don't Sleep in the Subway 2.
Petula is a 1968 Pye Records album release by Petula Clark leased to Warner Bros. in the USA.. The two albums precedent to Petula: These Are My Songs and The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener had been primarily produced by Sonny Burke with Tony Hatch, the producer/songwriter who'd established Clark as a top recording star in 1964, contributing only one track to each album.
The track "When Time Was All We Had" was a tribute to Karen. [176] The same year, Todd Haynes released the short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which featured Barbie dolls playing the main cast. Richard objected to music being used in the film without his consent, and served an injunction in 1990 that prevented it from being shown ...
Alan Albert Freeman, known professionally as Alan A. Freeman (27 September 1920 – 15 March 1985) [1] was an English record producer, remembered for being Petula Clark's producer from 1949 until 1963, when his role was taken over by Tony Hatch. Freeman founded the independent Polygon label and worked for its successor labels, Pye Nixa and Pye.