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...radio station "the shy but friendly robot," which is catchy but far from accurate as a description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark. He's an automated hard rock station that foregoes disc jockeys, news, weather, and time reports and keeps ads at a minimum...
...Grammy awards - the Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
...PETULA CLARK: THE WORLD'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL HITS (Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky enough to please the youngsters, although they might balk at her slow version of Britain's second national anthem- I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...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...
Rock 'n' roll lyrics have lately taken on urban socioeconomic themes. In the Crystals' Uptown, downtown is a place where a man "don't get no breaks" and "everyone's his boss, and he's lost in an angry land." But to hear Petula Clark on the subject, Downtown is an island of promise...