Petula, Sonny and Gap

In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed Petula Clark on growing up in London and Wales (go here). Most people are unaware that Petula was a child singer and actor in the U.K. during World War II. She also was a singing sensation in France in the late 1950s. By the time she recorded Downtown in 1965 and invaded America, she was 32. This inter…