Catalog Number: WS-1719 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing and slight discoloration on back; heavier scuffing, tiny surface abrasions, and surface impressions on front. Inner-sleeve is original (WB ads); two seams partially split. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with some wear. Some shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Smile Black Coffee The Last Waltz Answer Me My Love The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener Today, Tomorrow (Boa Palavra) I Could Have Danced All Night At The Crossroads L'ile De France The Cat In The Window (The Bird In The Sky) For Love Ballads Of A Sad Young Man About The Record: The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener, by Petula Clark, entered the Billboard 200 on February 17, 1968 and remained on the charts for 23 weeks, peaking at No. 93. It fared better in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 37. After collaborating with producer/songwriter Tony Hatch on nine US Top 40 hits, Petula Clark had begun to work independently of Hatch in 1966 collaborating with Sonny Burke. Clark's single The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky) was produced by Charles Koppelman and Don Rubin, and was released in August 1967 as the first advance single for what would become Clark's The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener album, although as The Cat in the Window... shaped up to become Clark's first US Top Twenty shortfall since she'd reached No. 1 with Downtown in 1965 plans for Clark to record an entire album with Koppelman/Rubin were scrapped and in September 1967 Clark reunited with Burke and arranger Ernie Freeman to record the nucleus of her next album release at Western Studios (Los Angeles) with the Wrecking Crew session players. The tracks which Sonny Burke had Clark record included his own composition: Black Coffee, which had helmed the iconic 1953 debut album by Peggy Lee: Black Coffee, which Petula Clark would eventually describe as "my Bible. I knew every note [Peggy Lee] sang, every note of the orchestrations." Clark would add that she herself "really shouldn't have touched" the song Black Coffee. Burke also had Clark record Smile, the signature composition by Charlie Chaplin. Burke also produced the only French language track to be included on a non-Francophone album by Petula Clark: L'île de France, which Clark herself wrote with lyricist Pierre Delanoe. With Burke's output seemingly too easy listening focused to yield the comeback single Clark required it was felt expedient to reunite the singer with Tony Hatch to produce a second advance single The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener, as song written by Hatch with Jackie Trent which would eventually serve as the title cut for Clark's January 1968 album release. The Other Man's Grass is Greener would in fact become Clark's second consecutive US Top 30 shortfall peaking at No. 31 on the Hot 100 in Billboard for the last week of December 1967 and the first week of January 1968. The single fared better in the UK - where its title was formatted as The Other Man's Grass (is Always Greener) - spending six weeks in the Top 30 with a No. 20 peak on the UK chart dated January 16 1968.