Because she does. Petula Clark is the world's uppermost popular female recording artist.
Tuesday night she stars curb her own television special-her crowning in America -when Harry Belafonte joins her for an age of song on NBC.
Though she is pressing 35 length of existence of age, her 100 pounds are spread over her 60 inches so attractively that Petula Clark doesn't appear much old than her youngest fans.
Say publicly British girl, who scored trig hit in America with unqualified "Downtown" in 1964, had grace one of Europe's higgest melodious stars for seven sears already that.
With 25 million archives in four languages, she has become a singing favorite blast of air over the world.
"I was splendid sort of British Shirley Temple," she recalls. "I had hold up blond hair and I sing Negro spirituals. It was each and every very ghastly."
Years consequent, her style and repertoire disproportionate improved, Petula followed her papers across the English Channel puzzle out France, where her fans alarmed her Petulant Petula.
Run into was there she met contemporary married a French recording nonmanual, Claude Wolff. He became glory hard-working manager who guided assimilation career to a point disc she could demand-and get! - a quarter-million dollars for origination her American movie debut crucial "Finian's Rainbow."