Word: petula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll. This week's cover, a photomontage* put together by Associate Editor Charles P. Jackson, shows some of the young performers who are now at the top of what can only be described as the heap. They are 1) The Shindig Dancers, 2) The Beach Boys, 3) Petula Clark, 4) Trini Lopez, 5) Herman of Herman's Hermits, 6) The Righteous Brothers, and 7) The Supremes. What they and their fellow bobbers of the big beat are like, where the phenomenon came from, and the considerable impact it is having on manners and morals around the world...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). An unlikely blend of cult and culture features Rock 'n' Rollers Petula Clark and The Beach Boys, plus Ballet Stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev...
...BEST ON RECORD (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A special program featuring some of the winners of the 1965 Grammy Awards: The Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Henry Mancini, Petula Clark and others...
...award was also a tribute to the international sway of rock 'n' roll, which is now as international as sex, the U.N. and Jewish cooking. Billed as Britain's Shirley Temple at the age of nine, when the BBC had her singing to the tommies overseas, Petula (pronounced Peh-tyou-la) was doing reasonably well, until at 25 she hiply hopped across the Channel to record two songs in France. When the first was a big hit, she settled down, married a French recording executive, bore two children and became a smash...
Over the past seven years, Petula has sold 10 million records in Europe, in the past four months, 1,700,000 in the U.S. Various of her songs at one time or another have popped to the top of the hit parade in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Rumania and Switzerland. At her home base, Paris, where the tousled blonde is possessively known as "La Petulante Petula," she has collected the Grand Prix du Disque (just like Edith Piaf and Yves Montand before her), and earlier this year got the Bravos du Music Hall, France's annual award...