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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPulse Records (Uk)

UPC5029575640423

eBay Product ID (ePID)18050195507

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year1999

GenreOldies

StyleBritish Invasion

ArtistPetula Clark

Release TitleThe Classic Collection

Additional Product Features

DistributionMSI Music Distribution

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Additional informationCLASSIC COLLECTION contains four CDs of 1960s British pop singer Petula Clark, delving deep into her illustrious career, including huge international hits like "Downtown" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway" to lesser known covers of songs from the Temptations to the Beatles. Four-CD, 80-song box set of Clark's '60s material contains all of her big U.S. and U.K. hits, numerous singles that were only hits in other countries (usually France), and a bunch of interesting covers, B-sides, and LP tracks, some quite rare. If you're enough of a fan to want more than what you'll find on the usual thorough hits anthology, but not enough of a fan to want everything she ever did, this is perfect. It's got all of the classics, serviceable (although not terribly extensive) liner notes, and a host of interesting items that aren't well-known. These include a 1963 version of "Please Please Me" (sung in French) that was most likely one of the very first Lennon-McCartney covers; a French-sung cover of "Nobody I Know," the Lennon-McCartney tune never done by the Beatles, although Peter & Gordon had a hit with it; the original versions of "I Will Follow Him" (in English and French), covered for a chart-topper by Little Peggy March in the U.S.; yet another French-sung British Invasion cover, of the Kinks' "Well Respected Man," that was a hit in Canada; and "You're the One" (covered for a hit by the Vogues in the States). Best of all is the mid-'60s B-side "Heart" (covered by the Remains in America), a Clark original that's her hardest-rocking cut, and proof that she could muster the energy to sing rock & roll convincingly on occasion. ~ Richie Unterberger

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo