Word: petula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Negro has endured Little Rock and Selma; he will survive Missitucky, the mythological country of Finian's Rainbow. There, on a beaming day, a father (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) wander into a valley where white and cullud folks are jes a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody...
...unhappy fact is that, to keep prices competitive, most TV units are equipped with 4-in., $1.50 speakers, which have all the fidelity of a string stretched between two tin cans. Nonetheless, as Cole forever demonstrates in the specials he engineers for such headliners as Williams, Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark, enough of his expertise still filters through to make him the best sound...
...PETULA (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A musical special with Petula Clark and her guest Harry Belafonte...
...Finian's Rainbow, Astaire as usual is choreographing all his own numbers, as usual is going into training like a prizefighter to get the old bones in tip-tap shape. The master will have some new bones gliding alongside, though, in the itty-bitty form of British Popster Petula Clark, 33, who has never before danced professionally...
...more style, heart and verve for decades. Now U.S. audiences have belatedly discovered singers like Dionne, Aretha Franklin and Lou Rawls and hoisted them to the top of the bestseller charts. The trade Journal Cash Box, in fact, named Dionne the No. 2 pop singer of 1966 (No. 1: Petula Clark), and currently her recording of Alfie is outselling the versions of 40 other singers...