Petula Clark - Miser Miser

[@dharmamati]

Wow ... Amazing to discover my Dad composed the music and he often told me before he died that he composed Petula Clark's first song. To really see this brings part of our family history to life.

[@mireilleverrilli7906]

Et aujourd'hui, plus de 80 ans de carrière. Incroyable, Petula c'est Petula❤

[@PaulMcElveen]

Adorable, beautiful Petula Clark at 14! Delightful song and performance!

[@SevenDeMagnus]

I wish beautiful celebrities never aged.

[@waynebrasler]

The qualities of Pet's voice we know well now are really evident already here. She was a born performer. Amazing to me is how made up she is here, how coiffed, how outfitted. In her early films she is seldom dolled up, presented as fresh and young. By all accounts, she was a pro from the start, always prepared, knowing her lines and lyrics, very focused but not a show biz type kid on the other hand. I think she never became a show biz type person. She was a thinker, a reader and an artist.

[@DarrenPlumpton]

❤HOW INCREDIBLE is the story of Petula Clark. Here is AMAZING footage of Petula at her youthful best already knocking out the start of what would become a lifetime of unbelievably brilliant music and song. Petula Clark stands in nobody's shadow and I mean nobody's. Petula as an abundance of phenomenal talent and is in a class of her own. And let's face it,she always been in a class of her own. Now 91 years young and still in Showbusiness. Petula's career has showcased her remarkable talent as a Worldwide Mega-Star Pop Star /A Film Actress/A Musical Theatre Actress and a accomplished Songwriter. PETULA CLARK is THE VERY BEST of the best.❤

[@artbeau]

OMG... It is so easy to see why she was the sweetheart of Britain... She is incredible

[@ddkoda7412]

Pet's great talent is so obvious even at this early stage of her career.

[@urgdaddy]

This great history. We all love this great artist. An inspiration.

[@00100049]

GRANDIOSA ! PETULA ! MY HEART IS WITH YOU !

[@raymondhambleton9452]

Amazing performance for a 14 year old girl. She's probably still going to school. Having a BBC career at the age of 14 was a great achievement.

[@bobdereimer5210]

Amazing and many positive words for Petula Clark!

[@hebneh]

Britain had national TV broadcasting from 1936, I believe, way before the US. But when the war started in Europe in 1939, TV stopped in the UK and didn't resume till after the war. This song is part of a film which apparently re-introduced TV there.

[@rottenraspberry8349]

They switched off their signal halfway through a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

[@Roger.Coleman1949]

True talent and personality well on the way to stardom !

[@akibubba1]

cool stuff !! she is a great talent at any age.

[@leematthews6812]

Cool, really glad to find this is up on KZbin.

[@VealParmigiana]

Excellent video and excellent singing.

[@Paladingrad1992]

That's amazing. I guess it was just in big cities like New York and London. I live in South Carolina. My grandparents didn't get a TV until the early 50's, because of the cost of the sets, and the lack of a local station. Back then, it took a massive outdoor antenna to get a halfway decent signal from the only transmitter, 110 miles away. By the mid 50's, they had several local channels.

[@garyjonathan9931]

adorable

[@harryhackney6416]

And she is still going today 2019 more talented there than the crap of today XX

[@claudedrouhin7984]

Fantastique !

[@terentii]

Wikipedia, I think, has a complete listing of all network TV programming going back to the 1940s, plus a breakdown of the number of sets and areas served (i.e., a market analysis). It includes the defunct DuMont network and makes for fascinating reading. It also lists the shows in order of popularity, as measured by the ratings of the time, and offers other trivia tidbits. The broadcast schedules are presented year-by-year.

[@BeckyBandJesus]

It is so funny when she comes on stage and she does that thing with her head. Haha, so cute. What a star she became!

[@Paladingrad1992]

I knew she was popular in the 60's, but this must be 20 years before she sang "Downtown". I wonder how many people actually had a TV set to watch this on back in 1946?

[@mireilleverrilli7906]

Petula Méga Star🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@mireilkeverrilli8254]

Et puis.... Quelle carrière notre Petula.

[@douglassharpe935]

What a girl!😃 A shame this type of child no longer exists.

[@terentii]

Those ... were .. the days! I was born 50 years too late, and on the wrong continent!

[@terentii]

Development of commercial TV was pretty much put on hold during WWII, but it took off very rapidly after 1945. I was born in Minneapolis in 1955, and I can't remember a time when there wasn't full-scale TV broadcasting (though it wasn't round-the-clock until the '70s). My older brother was watching TV in California by the early 50s (at that time, our dad was a TV repairman, having been trained in electronics by the US Army).

[@littleshoemaker]

Brilliant. Had you not seen it before? The clip is often shown!

[@terentii]

Not that many, but it's interesting to note that regular television programming was first broadcast in the UK and US around 1938---in other words, well before WWII.

[@mireilkeverrilli8254]

😘💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕Pétula

[@Paladingrad1992]

Back then, they thought 28 was old for a pop star. Most of the rock stars were teenagers or very early 20's. I am glad attitiudes have changed today.

[@ruthcormack1765]

Wow.

[@rottenraspberry8349]

20 years later... Petula Clark looked younger than she does here!

[@c.syde65]

I don't think so. But that's an interesting statement.

[@STRUGLINGCHILD]

forget bout going out of the house now lol for a while anyway, X)

[@robertwilliams533]

Please tell us what film this is from so we can try to view the whole thing. Thanks!

[@federicoezequielpiermarini6717]

Anybody know the name of the first woman of the video? Thanks.

[@drspaseebo410]

Very weird song and presentation, but great to see the young Pet.

[@dsjump]

Where's the beauty mark?

[@BeckyBandJesus]

what a cutie! such thin arms though!

[@douglassharpe55]

Yes, incredibly frail, yet strangely appealing, glad she had a strong constitution!

[@hebneh]

She’d just been through World War II in Britain and probably didn’t get enough to eat due to food shortages. At the same time, though, she was always a petite person.

[@italia689]

Anyone else think she has an American accent?

[@shippuuuden2009]

I think so.

[@jasonw9588]

she has a british accent

[@walterfunbike]

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[@markmagnolia]

Lolita vibe

[@Rustie_za]

looks like a skeleton sjeesh

[@layde1]

She looks very young to have so much make up on and that is the worst dress I have ever seen. It does not detract however from a great voice.

[@MichaelJones-wp6mz]

Apparantly in 1940’s television they all had to have a lot of makeup and lips painted black or they would look like ghosts