Petula Clark - These Are My Songs (1967) Vinyl LP • This is My Song

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Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing, (front/back); discoloration spots on front. Inner-sleeve is original (WB ads); one corner partly torn; seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with some wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge, with small spot of wear near top right. Wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of use and divots. Green label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. This Is My Song
2. Groovin'
3. Lover Man
4. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
5. Eternally
6. Resist
7. Don't Sleep In The Subway
8. Imagine
9. Love Is Here
10. How Insensitive
11. I Will Wait For You
12. On The Path Of Glory (La Colline Au Whisky)

About The Record:

These Are My Songs is a 1967 album released by Petula Clark. In a break with longtime collaborator Tony Hatch, Clark joined forces with producer Sonny Burke and arranger/conductor Ernie Freeman for this release. The album includes two songs that were released as singles. This Is My Song, with words and music by Charlie Chaplin, had been composed as an instrumental theme for his film A Countess From Hong Kong. It peaked at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 3 in the US. Don't Sleep In The Subway, the only track written by Hatch and Jackie Trent, who had written much of Clark's previous material, charted at No. 5 in the US and No. 12 in the UK. Hatch arranged and produced the song. On The Path Of Glory was a civil rights song co-written by Clark. It was the song she was singing with Harry Belafonte on her 1968 NBC special when she touched his hand. This incident set off controversy when the sponsor threatened to back out because a white woman touched a black man. Clark and Belafonte stood firm and the segment remained as filmed. These Are My Songs reached No. 27 on the album charts in the US where it was Clark's first album release to feature This Is My Song. In the UK that track had been featured on Clark's Colour My World album which had been released concurrently with the This Is My Song single in February 1967 and had reached No. 16. The These Are My Songs album reached No. 38 on the UK charts.