Happy Birthday, Petula Clark

On this day in 1932 British actress and singer Petula Clark was born in Ewell, Surrey, England. She is 90 years old.

In "Happiness (Le Bonheur)," a song on her 2017 album Living for Today, Petula Clark wrote:

Happiness

That sweet and fleeting feeling

We all need to know

Is waiting here inside us

All it takes is a smile or a song

Or the perfume of a long forgotten

Garden rose

It comes

It goes

Yes, this is happiness

Happiness is hearing Petula Clark singing. 

Petula Clark sings "While You See a Chance" (1980) by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings (Live)

Petula Clark - "Sacrifice My Heart" (Official Video)

Petula Clark sings The Beatles' "Blackbird" by Lennon and McCartney (Official Audio)

"The Final Say: Jane Austen" by Monty Gilmer

THE FINAL SAY: JANE AUSTEN
by Monty Gilmer

The novels of Jane Austen
Are the ones to get lost in.
                --Edmund Clerihew Bentley

I wonder if Petula Clark
Has ever read Mansfield Park.
                                   --Monty Gilmer


(English songstress Petula Clark was born on this day in 1932.)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Portrait, ca. 1810

"The Wedding Song (There Is Love)" - written by Noel Paul Stookey and sung by Petula Clark