FAMOUS PEOPLE
a Discovery 10-YEAR-OLD RADIO STAR BEAUTY OF SINGING VOICE IPetula Clark is a ten-year-old child artist, recently “discovered” by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Petula was giving a message to her soldier uncle in Iraq, with other children in the BBC’s overseas programme “It’s All Yours.”
As he usually does, the producer asked her whether she would like to sing a little song as well as send a
greeting. Petula a£ once started to* sing “Mighty Like a Rose” in a voice,, the beauty of which startled everyone, including the members of the orchestra, who, as though bewitched,reached for their instruments and, without music, accompanied her.
Next time Petula came to the studio she came as an artist (a voluntary one, because no child so young is allowed to earn money in Britain). This time she was brought by her daddy, Corporal L. N. Clark, R.A.C. Robin Richmond, well-known cinema organist, accompanied her on his Hammond Organ.
The programme “It’s All Yours” is specially designed for British Forces serving in the more remote war areas and is directed to one particular outpost each week.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3249, 7 April 1943, Page 6
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