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Here’s another slice and splice with Petula Clark and legendary NY DJ Cousin Bruce Morrow from the PBS special My Music: The British Beat. I don’t actually agree with Pet’s comment that the Beatles were her big break in America. Her success was her own, of course, but if anybody deserves some credit for paving the way for Petula it was Julie Andrews, who had been in America for nearly ten years by that point. And before the Beatles the James Bond movies were hugely influential in opening up the U.S. to all things British.
If ya have to suffer through those PBS promos, what better salesman (er, salespeople) could you ask for that Petula Clark and Cousin Bruce Morrow? One thing that wasn’t pointed out was that a lot of the British groups had one-hit wonders, like the one who did “Concrete and Clay,” you know “The sidewalk’s in the street, the concrete and the clay beneath my feet begin to crumble, but love will never die … “