Premiering in March 1973, singer Petula Clark presented this series of half-hour musical variety specials – her first television series for five years – on Saturday nights on BBC1.
Each show had a different “songbook” theme – beginning with ‘The Girls Who Make Music’ (singing songs by Carole King, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Carole Bayer Sager, Jackie Trent, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Carly Simon) and working her way through subjects such as ‘Songs of The Beatles’ and ‘The Bacharach & David Songbook’ to ‘Off To The Movies’, wrapping up with ‘Petula Sings Christmas’ on 21 December 1974.
Pet was accompanied by Peter Knight and the Orchestra, the Mike Sammes Singers and the Norman Maen Dancers.
The Girls Who Make Music | Songs of The Beatles | Songs of My Life | The French Connection | The Bacharach & David Song Book | Your Kind of Music || And Favourite Things | Dancing on a Saturday Night | What’s New? | The Roaring Forties | His and Hers | The Tale of a Scorpio | Off to the Movies | And All That Jazz | The One Man Band | The Young at Heart | Petula Sings Christmas
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Each show had a different “songbook” theme – beginning with ‘The Girls Who Make Music’ (singing songs by Carole King, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Carole Bayer Sager, Jackie Trent, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Carly Simon) and working her way through subjects such as ‘Songs of The Beatles’ and ‘The Bacharach & David Songbook’ to ‘Off To The Movies’, wrapping up with ‘Petula Sings Christmas’ on 21 December 1974.
