Then & Now: The Very Best of Petula Clark is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by British

United Kingdom

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 singer Petula Clark

Petula Clark

Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...

 that was released on June 16, 2008. It's a collection of greatest hits

Greatest hits

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, four newly-recorded tracks, and a previously unreleased recording.

Following heavy promotion on radio

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, television

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 and in the press, the CD sold 10,535 copies in its first week of release and debuted at #17 on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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. In recognition of sales in excess of 60,000, it has been awarded a Silver Disc by BPI

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.

Track listing

1. "With All My Heart
   With All My Heart
   "With All My Heart" is a popular song, based on an originally French and Italian language song called "Gondolier." It was written by Peter De Angelis and Bob Marcucci....
   
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2. "Romeo
   Romeo (Petula Clark song)
   Romeo was a 1961 hit single for Petula Clark peaking at #3 on the UK chart dated 26 August.The song was a 1921 composition by Robert Stolz for which Jimmy Kennedy wrote a new lyric...
   
   "
3. "Sailor
   Sailor (Song)
   Sailor is a song written by Werner Scharfenberger and Fini Busch which via a 1960 recording by Lolita became an international hit, with its #5 peak on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard making "Sailor" the most successful American hit sung in German until 99 Luftballons by Nena in 1984.With English...
   
   "
4. "Downtown
   Downtown (Petula Clark song)
   "Downtown" is a pop song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark, became an international hit – No. 1 in the US and No. 2 in the UK – at the end of 1964.-Original recording:...
   
   "
5. "I Know a Place
   I Know a Place
   "I Know a Place" is a song with music and lyrics by Tony Hatch. It was recorded in 1965 by Petula Clark at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch in a session which featured drummer Bobby Graham and the Breakaways vocal group....
   
   "
6. "You're the One
   You're the One (Petula Clark song)
   "You're the One" is a song by Petula Clark. It was later also included on the 1965 album I Know a Place. Written by Clark with her regular songwriter/ producer Tony Hatch, "You're the One" was a Top 30 UK hit for Clark herself but was most successful as a Top Ten US single release by the Vogues.As...
   
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7. "Call Me"
8. "My Love
   My Love (Petula Clark song)
   "My Love" is a 1965 single release by Petula Clark which in early 1966 became an international hit, reaching #1 in the US: Clark's regular songwriter and producer Tony Hatch was responsible for "My Love"....
   
   "
9. "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
   I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
   "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" is a 1966 single written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent and recorded by Petula Clark. It was inspired by the affair the songwriters were having at the time....
   
   "
10. "Who Am I
    Who Am I? (Petula Clark song)
    "Who Am I?" was a 1966 single by Petula Clark written and produced by Tony Hatch.Although largely conforming to the formula established by Clark's previous work with Hatch, "Who Am I?" is distinct in its referencing concerns of the 1960s social consciousness, specifically the search for the...
    
    "
11. "This is My Song
    This Is My Song (1967 song)
    "This Is My Song" is a song written by Charlie Chaplin in 1966 and performed by Petula Clark.-Origin/ Petula Clark recording:"This is My Song" was intended for the film, A Countess from Hong Kong, which Charlie Chaplin wrote and directed...
    
    "
12. "Don't Sleep in the Subway
    Don't Sleep in the Subway
    "Don't Sleep in the Subway" is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent and recorded by Petula Clark. Released in April 1967, it peaked at #5 on the US charts that June. It was Clark's final US top-ten single and the second of two #1 hits on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, following "I...
    
    "
13. "The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener
    The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener
    "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener" is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which was a 1967 hit for Petula Clark.After working exclusively with producer/songwriter Tony Hatch following their 1964 breakout collaboration "Downtown", Clark had had her most successful single ever in the...
    
    "
14. "Kiss Me Goodbye
    Kiss Me Goodbye (Petula Clark song)
    "Kiss Me Goodbye" is a Les Reed/Barry Mason composition recorded in 1968 by Petula Clark.-Background:After recording the Reed/Mason composition "The Last Waltz" for her 1967 album The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener Clark had rendered that song as "La derniere valse" for release in France to...
    
    "
15. "People Get Ready"
16. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
17. "When You Get Right Down to It" (duet with Michael McDonald
    Michael McDonald (singer)
    Michael McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style and a multi-octave range. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan...
    
    )
18. "These Are the Days of Our Lives
    These Are the Days of Our Lives
    "These Are the Days of Our Lives" is a song by English rock band Queen. It was written largely by their drummer Roger Taylor, and is the eighth track on the band's 1991 album Innuendo. It is harmonically and structurally one of the simplest songs of the band's catalogue...
    
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19. "Memories of Love"
20. "La Vie en Rose
    La vie en rose
    "La Vie en Rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf.-Signature song of Édith Piaf:Édith Piaf first popularized La Vie en Rose in 1946. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the melody of the song by "Louiguy" . Initially, Piaf's peers and her songwriting team did not think the song...
    
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21. "Come Along with Me"
22. "Heaven's Door"
23. "It's OK (I Believe in You)"
24. "To Memphis"
25. "Corner of the Sky" (duet with Dusty Springfield
    Dusty Springfield
    Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
    
    )