A Sign of the Times

Infobox Single
Name = A Sign of the Times


Artist = Petula Clark
from Album = "My Love/A Sign of the Times"
Released = March 1966
Format =
Recorded = 1965
B-side = "Time for Love"
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = Warner Bros.(US)/Vogue (UK)
Writer = Tony Hatch
Producer = Tony Hatch
Chart position = 2 (US Adult Contemporary, South Africa), 8 (Canada), 11 (US, Australia)
Reviews =
Last single = "My Love"
This single = "A Sign of the Times"
Next single = "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love""A Sign of the Times" was a 1966 single by Petula Clark. Written by Tony Hatch, the uptempo pop number juxtaposed Clark's driving vocals with a powerful brass section. She introduced the tune on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 27, 1966.

The song indicated a burgeoning trend toward tempo in medlodic music, reaching #2 on Billboard's easy listening chart, as opposed to its #11 position on the Hot 100.In the late 1990s "A Sign of the Times" reached an entirely new audience in the United States when Clark's recording was featured in a series of popular Target Department Store commercials.