Album: My Love (1966)

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• It's a sign of the times
  That your love for me is getting so much stronger
  It's a sign of the times
  And I know that I won't have to wait much longer
  You've changed a lot somehow from the one I used to know
  For when you hold me now, it feels like you never want to let me go
  
  It's a sign of the times
  That you call me up whenever you feel lonely
  It's a sign of the times
  That you tell your friends that I'm your one and only
  I'll never understand the way you treated me
  But when I hold your hand, I know you couldn't be the way you used to be
  
  Maybe my lucky star at last decided to shine
  Maybe somebody knows how long I've waited to make you mine, mmh
  
  I'll never understand the way you treated me
  But when I hold your hand, I know you couldn't be the way you used to be
  
  Maybe my lucky star at last decided to shine
  Maybe somebody knows how long I've waited to make you mine
  
  It's a sign of the times
  That you kiss me now as if you really mean it
  It's a sign of the times
  And a year ago I never could have seen it
  Don't ever change your mind and take your love away
  Just leave the past behind and, baby, only think of how it is today
  
  It's a sign of the times
  It's a sign of the times
  It's a sign of the times
  It's a sign of the times
  
  It's a sign of the times Writer/s: TONY HATCH
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Bruce Braithwaite from ConnecticutIn Vietnam with US Army 1966 and 1967.
  Loved hearing her music over there! Think of Nam every time her music plays.
• Kev from Rogers, ArIf I'm not mistaken, I think Petula Clark had her own TV Special in the US in the mid-1960s. I remember several of her songs from that era, including "It's a Sign of the Times," Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling", and "Downtown". I think "Downtown" was even featured in an episode of "Ironside".
• Marinegrunt66 from Inwas in Vietnam when this came out
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 17th 1966, Petula Clark performed "Sign of the Times" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  See the next post below; for seven weeks earlier on February 27th, 1966 she appeared on the 'Sullivan' show and also performed "Sign of the Times" at the time.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 27th 1966, Petula Clark performed "A Sign of the Times" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  Less than one month later on March 20th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #70; and on April 17th it peaked at #11 (for 1 week) and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
  Was track one on side two from her album, 'My Love'., the album peaked at #68 and spent 12 weeks on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
  One other track from the album also made the Top 100 chart, "My Love" (#1 for 2 weeks)...
  Ms. Clark celebrated her 81st birthday three months ago on November 15th (2013).
• Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, CaNot one of my favorites of Pet's and Tony
  Hatch...
• Daevid from Glendale, CaProbably my favorite "Pet" Clark song ever.
  Great beat, great lyrics, great arrangement.
• Richard from Rocketville, MdPetula Clark recorded a version of the song specifically for BF Goodrich Tires in the sixties titled: It's a Radial Age.
  
  It had all new lyrics used to promote their then new "radial" tires - the Radial 990.

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