Word: hopkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then sang along with Mitch before taking over the Smothers' time slot last week. Now, at 26, she has emerged with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye's show-stealing rendition of William F. Buckley Jr. She starred in "Sugar Hill," a slice-of-life sketch that will be a feature of the series; the opener was more pungent than The Goldbergs...
THIS IS TOM JONES! (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tom Jones hosts the premiere of his own weekly variety hour, with guests Peter Sellers, Joey Heatherton, Mary Hopkin, Richie Pryor and The Moody Blues...
...three singles released along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band...
...Withering. It is too early to tell whether these tunesmiths will become the apple of the public's eye as well as of the Beatles'. Musically, only Mary Hopkin rises above the routine, and her voice still needs shading and seasoning. But of course, as long as Apple features its owner-producers as performers, it is in no danger of withering on the branch. Among its first LP releases this fall, for instance, will be the Beatles' first all-new, non-sound-track album since the epochal Sgt. Pepper...