When the rights to the name PYE expired in 1980, both the label and
the studio changed their name to PRT (Precision Records & Tapes). Petula's back catalogued transferred and remained with PRT until it ceased operations in July 1989 when the PYE / PRT
catalogue was acquired in 1990 by Castle Communications.
Petula's association with PRT resulted in a surprising Top 10 hit with
DOWNTOWN '88 which returned Petula to the UK singles chart
in 1988 after a 16 year absence. Throughout the 10 year period in which PRT controlled Petula's back catalogue of
her Pye recordings there were numerous PRT releases issued, focusing mainly on hit recording compilations, in the UK, throughout
Europe, Australia and South Korea.
Here
we annotate and present the PRT catalogue of Petula Clark releases
together with facts, figures, track listings, album artwork, videos and
news cuttings from our archive collection.
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK
First
issued by PRT in the UK in May 1980 as a 24 track double album, the
SPOTLIGHT album was also issued in Greece in 1980 as a single album, in
Spain in 1981 as a double album, in Australia in 1981 over two volumes
and in Korea in 1984 as a single album. IT'S A FACT: The UK issue
featured 24 tracks across 2 LPS, 14 of the 24 tracks were in mono which
is odd especially considering that PRT will have had access to stereo
versions. IT'S A FACT: In the UK, SPOTLIGHT was deleted in 1985.
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK / SPOT 1012 / 1980 (UK) Record 1: Downtown* / I Know A Place* / Round Every Corner* / The
Other Man's Grass* / A Sign Of The Times* / You're The One* / Colour My
World / Who Am I / Just Say Goodbye / Happy Heart / Kiss Me Goodbye* /
Heart
Record 2: Sailor* / This Girl's In Love With You / Where Did We
Go Wrong / Let It Be Me / The Last Waltz / Imagine / This Is My Song* /
You'd Better Come Home* / My Love* / Don't Sleep In The Subway* /
Strangers In The Night* / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love* Also issued on cassette ZCSPT 1012 / 1980 (UK)
*mono
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK / PRT 70020 / 1980 (GREECE) Downtown* / Round Every Corner* / A Sign Of The Times* / Colour My
World / Just Say Goodbye / Let It Be Me / Don't Sleep In The Subway* /
Sailor* / This Girl's In Love With You / Where Did We Go Wrong / This Is
My Song* / You'd Better Come Home / My Love* / Strangers In The Night
*mono
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK / MPL - 153 / 1981 (SPAIN) Record 1: Downtown* / I Know A Place* / Round Every Corner* / The
Other Man's Grass* / A Sign Of The Times* / You're The One* / Colour My
World / Who Am I / Just Say Goodbye / Happy Heart / Kiss Me Goodbye* /
Heart
Record 2: Sailor* / This Girl's In Love With You / Where Did We
Go Wrong / Let It Be Me / The Last Waltz / Imagine / This Is My Song* /
You'd Better Come Home* / My Love* / Don't Sleep In The Subway* /
Strangers In The Night* / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love*
*mono
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK VOLUME ONE / ASTLP 2059 / 1981 (AUSTRALIA)
Downtown* / I Know A Place* / Round Every Corner* / The Other Man's
Grass* / A Sign Of The Times* / You're The One* / Colour My World / Who Am
I / Just Say Goodbye / Happy Heart / Kiss Me Goodbye* / Heart Also issued on cassette ASTCS 2059 / 1981 (AUSTRALIA)
*mono
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK VOLUME TWO / SPOT 2012 / 1981 (AUSTRALIA) Sailor* / This Girl's In Love With You / Where Did We Go Wrong / Let
It Be Me / The Last Waltz / Imagine / This Is My Song* / You'd Better
Come Home / My Love / Don't Sleep In The Subway* / Strangers In The Night
/ I Couldn't Live Without Your Love* Also issued on cassette 4SPOT 2012 / 1981 (AUSTRALIA)
*mono
SPOTLIGHT
ON PETULA CLARK / SRD2 - 069 / 1984 (SOUTH KOREA) Downtown / I Know A Place / Round Every Corner / The Other Man's
Grass / This Is My Song / My Love / You're The One / Kiss Me Goodbye /
Don't Sleep In The Subway / A Sign Of The Times / Colour My World / Happy
Heart / This Girl's In Love With You / The Last Waltz
PETULA
CLARK'S GREATEST HIT PARADE / SP20-5241 / Year Unknown / (JAPAN) A Sign Of The Times / My Love / Heart / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love / You'd Better Come Home / You're The One / I Know a Place / Just say Goodbye / Round Every Corner / Where Did We Go Wrong / Call Me / Downtown
In
1981, PRT issued two 7" singles of back catalogue material Downtown
b/w I Know A Place and This Is My Song b/w I Couldn't Live Without Your
Love. IT'S A FACT: These issues were the last 7" singles
that ultilised the Pye 7N catalogue numbering system.
DOWNTOWN
/ I KNOW A PLACE / PRT 7N 46099 / 1981 (UK)
THIS
IS MY SONG / I COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR LOVE / PRT 7N 46106 / 1981
(UK)
In
June 1982, PRT released a very successful cassette only release entitled
100 Minutes Of Petula Clark featuring 35 tracks as part of their 100
Minutes Of series.
100
MINUTES OF PETULA CLARK / PRT ZCTON 108 / 1982 (UK) Downtown / Don't Sleep In The Subway / My Love / Colour My World /
The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener / Round Every Corner / You're
The One / Never On A Sunday / I Want To Hold Your Hand / Call Me /
Monday Monday / Winchester Cathedral / Las Vegas / Kiss Me Goodbye / The
Last Waltz / Memories Are Made Of This / Volare / Here, There And
Everywhere / This Is My Song / Who Am I / I Know A Place / A Sign Of The
Times / I Don't Know How To Love Him / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
/ Sailor / Romeo / I (Who Have Nothing) / Heart / A Groovy Kind Of Love
/ Homeward Bound / Imagine / Where Did We Go Wrong / This Girl's In Love
With You / Hold On To What You've Got
In
1982 in Australia, PRT issued a collectors EP featuring 4 TOP 10 Petula
Clark Australian hits from 1967. The release was entitled VOLUME ONE.
Further volumes never materialised.
PETULA
CLARK - VOLUME ONE / PRT MA 7476 / 1982 (AUSTRALIA) Colour My World / Don't Sleep In The Subway / This Is My Song / I
Want To Sing With Your Band
In
February 1985, PRT released Petula's latest recording of Mr. Orwell
b/w Glamoureuse, recorded at Trident Studio's in London and produced by Jamie Lane.
MR.
ORWELL / GLAMOUREUSE / PRT 7P 323 / 1985 (UK)
In
October 1985, as part of the PRT "Flash Backs" imprint series, a 12 track
"greatest hits" compilation was issued entitled THIS IS MY
SONG which replaced the deleted SPOTLIGHT album.
THIS
IS MY SONG / PRT - FLASHBACKS FBLP 8072 / 1985 (UK)
Downtown / My Love / Don't Sleep In The Subway / Round Every Corner /
The Other Man's Grass / Sailor / This Is My Song / Romeo / I Know A
Place / My Friend The Sea / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love Also issued on cassette ZCFBL 8072 / 1985 (UK)
In
October 1986, after much campaigning by the fan club and its members,
PRT issued the double album THE EARLY YEARS which pulled together
42 Petula recordings including a number of early classic hit songs
together with tracks which had never been issued on vinyl and others
which had not been available for 30 years. This release marked the start
of a very successful re-issue programme.
PETULA
CLARK - THE EARLY YEARS / PRT PCL 101 / 1986 (UK) Record 1: Teasin' / The Card / A Boy In Love / Made In Heaven
/ Temptation Rag / Poppa Piccalino / The Who-Is-It Song / Meet Me In
Battersea Park / A Long Way To Go / Little Shoemaker / Little Johnny
Rainbow / Romance In Rome / Chee Chee Oo Chee (Sang The Little Bird) /
The Pendulum Song / Christmas Cards / Tuna Puna Trinidad / Fascinating
Rhythm / Majorca / Suddenly There's A Valley / Another Door Opens / A
Million Stars Above / Fortune Teller
Record 2: Fibbin' / Band Of Gold / Long Before I Knew You / Alone
/ Gonna Find Me A Bluebird / Memories Are Made Of This / With All My
Heart / Who Needs You / Love Me Again / In A Little Moment / Baby Lover
/ Ever Been In Love / Devotion / I've Grown Accustomed To His Face / My
Favourite Things / The Little Blue Man / To You My Love / Lucky Day /
Suddenly / Watch Your Heart Also issued on cassette ZCPCL 101 / 1986 (UK)
Above: Review from The Stage & TV
Today
PRT
STUDIOS The home of Pye Studios (later PRT Studios from September 1980) was located in the basement of ATV House in Great Cumberland Place
(re-named under PRT as ACC House), Bryanston Street. Petula's mega-hit Downtown was recorded here. Petula returned to PRT studios
in 1986, after a 9 year absence of recording there, and recorded demo recordings for her musical
Someone Like You. These recordings are unreleased but form part
of our archive collection.
Guess You've Got A Lot To Learn - recorded by Petula Clark and Majorie Barnes (from the Clark / Shipman musical Someone Like You)
Liberty - recorded by Lance Ellington (from the Clark / Shipman musical Someone Like You)
Look Where The Journey Led - recorded by Petula Clark (from the Clark / Shipman musical Someone Like You)
Three Time Loser - recorded by Petula Clark (from the Clark / Shipman musical Someone Like
You)
The
revival of Downtown can be traced back to then BBC Children's TV
presenter Phillip Schofield who began using Downtown in 1987 as a
platform for a competition for viewers to take photos of themselves in a
Downtown setting. Reacting to the response, PRT quickly re-issued the original
recording b/w I Know A Place. Daily plugs were presented by Phillip
Schofield in an attempt to get Petula back in the charts - Philip even
caught up with Petula by telephone. Despite Phillip Schofield's enthusiastic
promotion of the single, the release failed to break into the top 50
singles chart. IT'S
A FACT: The re-issue peaked in the UK top 200 at #116.
DOWNTOWN
/ I KNOW A PLACE / PRT PYS 1 / 1987 (UK)
1987
ended with PRT releasing THE HIT SINGLES COLLECTION, a double album of
32 tracks featuring all of Petula's UK and US top fifty hits presented
in a gatefold sleeve. In Greece,
THE HIT SINGLES COLLECTION was issued in 1989 as a single LP. IT'S A
FACT: THE HIT SINGLES COLLECTION was the first ever Petula CD to be
released in the UK.
THE
HIT SINGLES COLLECTION / PRT PYL 7002 / 1987 (UK)
Record 1: The Little Shoemaker / Majorca / Suddenly There's A Valley
/ With All My Heart / Alone / Baby Lover / Sailor / Something's Missing
/ Romeo / My Friend The Sea / I'm Counting On You / Ya Ya Twist /
Casanova / Chariot / Downtown / I Know A Place
Record 2: You'd Better Come Home / Round Every Corner / You're
The One / My Love / A Sign Of The Times / I Couldn't Live Without Your
Love / Who Am I / Colour My World / This Is My Song / Don't Sleep In The
Subway / The Cat In The Window / The Other Man's Grass / Kiss Me Goodbye
/ Don't Give Up / The Song Of My Life / I Don't Know How To Love Him Also issued on cassette PYM 7002 / 1987 (UK) Also issued on CD PYC 7002 / 1988 (UK) - Petula's first ever UK
CD release!
Above: Review from The Stage & TV
Today
THE
HIT SINGLES COLLECTION / PRT 11010 / 1988 (GREECE) Downtown / With All My Heart / My Love / Ya Ya Twist / Sailor / My
Friend The Sea / Alone / Don't Sleep In The Subway / Chariot / Baby
Lover / Romeo / I Know A Place / This Is My Song / I Couldn't Live
Without Your Love / The Little Shoemaker / I Don't Know How To Love Him
DOWNTOWN
'88
The 1987
re-issue of Downtown sparked the interest of the staff at DJ mail out service DMC
(based in Berkshire) who, possibly unaware that Petula herself had reworked Downtown as a disco track in 1977, wondered if the track would work as a club remix. The idea was floated past the Dutch remixer Peter 'Hithouse' Slaghuis who
embarked on remixing the original into a house remix entitled DOWNTOWN
'88. The reaction to DOWTOWN '88 was overwhelming and the track was
promptly issued by PRT as single in November 1988 in the UK, Germany,
Belgium and
Australia. Following its release in the UK, the single was a Top 40 hit within a fortnight and was a Top 10 hit three weeks later in time for Christmas.
DOWNTOWN '88 remained in the UK singles charts for 14 weeks. In Belgium
DOWNTOWN '88 peaked at #19 and in Germany at #13. IT'S A
FACT: DOWNTOWN '88 was Petula's biggest hit single in 21 years!
Downtown
'88 (extended version) / Downtown / Don't Sleep In The Subway / PRT 7545
/ 1988 (GREECE) 12" single
In
an effort to cash in on the chart success of Downtown '88 a 20 track
album was quickly issued in December 1988 by PRT but oddly the album did
not include the hit single in question!
DOWNTOWN
- THE PETULA CLARK COLLECTION / PRT PYL 17 / 1988 (UK) Downtown / A Sign Of The Times / Colour My World / Ya Ya Twist / My
Love / Don't Give Up / Time For Love / You're The One / Baby Lover / Who
Am I / Don't Sleep In The Subway / The Other Man's Grass / I Couldn't
Live Without Your Love / Kiss Me Goodbye / I Know A Place / Round Every
Corner / This Is My Song / Sailor / Romeo / Suddenly There's A Valley Also issued on cassette PYM 17 / 1988 (UK) Also issued on CD PYC 17 / 1988 (UK)
Following
the enormous success of the Top 10 smash Downtown '88 PRT embarked on a
further radical remix by DMC's Peter Slaghuis of Petula's recording of
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent's I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
which had been a smash hit for Petula in 1967. The remix was issued on
7", 12" and CD single formats. Following its release on 05
June 1989 on Legacy (a subsidiary of PRT) I Couldn't Live Without
Your Love '89 Mix failed to trouble the charts. A month after its
release PRT ceased operations in July 1989 when the PYE / PRT catalogue was acquired in 1990 by Castle
Communications.
IT'S A FACT: It was originally intended for You'd
Better Come Home to be one of the featured bonus tracks but was
replaced last minute with the Clark composition Come On Home (see
press release below).
I
Couldn't Live Without Your Love '89 Mix / Come On Home / PRT - Legacy
LGY 100 (UK) 7" single
I
Couldn't Live Without Your Love '89 Mix (extended version) / I Couldn't
Live Without Your Love '89 Mix / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
(original version) / Come On Home / PRT - Legacy LGYT 100 (UK) 12"
single
I
Couldn't Live Without Your Love '89 Mix (extended version) / I Couldn't
Live Without Your Love '89 Mix / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
(original version) / Come On Home / Call Me '89 Mix / PRT - Legacy LGYC
100 (UK) CD single
I
Couldn't Live Without Your Love '89 Mix / Come On Home / PRT 246 834-7
(GERMANY) 7" single
The
final releases on the PRT label were European and issued in 1989 -
presumably the arrangements for these releases were made before PRT made
the decision to cease operations in July 1989.
DOWNTOWN
- 20 GREATEST HITS / PRT - GREENLINE PRLP 23 / 1989 (GERMANY) Downtown '88 / With All My Heart / A Long Way To Go / Ya Ya Twist /
Romeo / Majorca / Suddenly There's A Valley / My Favourite Things /
Something's Missing / Sailor / Downtown / Casanova / Alone / Baby Lover
/ The Little Shoemaker / My Friend The Sea / Chariot / Made In Heaven /
Watch Your Heart / Don't Sleep In The Subway Also issued on cassette PRK 723 / 1989 (GERMANY) Also issued on CD CDPR 23 / 1989 (GERMANY)
DOWNTOWN
- THE HIT SINGLE COLLECTION / PRT 244 856-1 / 1989 (GERMANY) Downtown / My Love / Chariot / Don't Sleep In The Subway / Kiss Me
Goodbye / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love / Ya Ya Twist / Sailor /
Casanova / This Is My Song / Round Every Corner / A Sign Of The Times /
The Other Man's Grass / I Know A Place / The Song Of My Life / Downtown
'88 Also issued on cassette 244 856-4 / 1989 (GERMANY) Also issued on CD 244 856-2 / 1989 (GERMANY)
DOWNTOWN
- 20 GREATEST HITS / PRT - GREENLINE PRLP 23 / 1989 (ITALY) Downtown '88 / With All My Heart / A Long Way To Go / Ya Ya Twist /
Romeo / Majorca / Suddenly There's A Valley / My Favourite Things /
Something's Missing / Sailor / Downtown / Casanova / Alone / Baby Lover
/ The Little Shoemaker / My Friend The Sea / Chariot / Made In Heaven /
Watch Your Heart / Don't Sleep In The Subway Also issued on cassette PRK 723 / 1989 (ITALY)
DOWNTOWN
'88 - 21 ORIGINAL VERSIONS / PRT - CARRERE LP 76681 / 1989 (FRANCE) Downtown '88 / Downtown / A Sign Of The Times / Colour My World / Ya
Ya Twist / My Love / Don't Give Up / Time For Love / You're The One /
Baby Lover / Who Am I / Don't Sleep In The Subway / The Other Man's
Grass / I Couldn't Live Without Your Love / Kiss Me Goodbye / I Know A
Place / Round Every Corner / This Is My Song / Sailor / Romeo / Suddenly
There's A Valley Also issued on cassette K7 76681 / 1989 (FRANCE) Also issued on CD CA 802 (France)
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