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		<title>Now for the new Paul Anka</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Scott]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Paul Anka makes a Personal Appearance</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure id="attachment_64" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png" alt="TVTimes masthead" width="200" height="40" class="size-full wp-image-64" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png 200w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1-150x30.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64" class="wp-caption-text">From the TVTimes for week commencing 31 December 1961</figcaption></figure>
<p>PAUL ANKA, star of Granada’s <em>Personal Appearance</em> on Wednesday, is an agreeable youngster who seems remarkably composed by the fact that, at 20, he earns a million-and-a-half dollars a year.</p>
<p>Even more remarkable, he has reached this palmy income bracket in just four years. Only the tax man is likely to halt the flow of Anka dollars to any appreciable extent.</p>
<p><a href="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-500x448.jpg" alt="Paul Anka" width="500" height="448" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2040" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-500x448.jpg 500w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-150x134.jpg 150w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-768x688.jpg 768w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-421x377.jpg 421w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02-394x353.jpg 394w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-02.jpg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
<p>For Paul is something of a one-man band. He doesn’t have to pay a lyric writer, music writer, or even a song publisher. He does the lot himself.</p>
<p>Two American artists make their first appearance on British television with Paul in this hour of music and comedy — 16-year-old vocalist Linda Scott and comedian Johnny Carson.</p>
<p>Linda, who will sing <em>Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off</em> with Anka, soared to success a year ago with her first recording of the song <em>I’ve Told Every Little Star</em>, which sold 1,000,000 copies.</p>
<p>She won a Golden Disc. At 16, Paul did the same thing with his first recording, <em>Diana</em>.</p>
<p>Johnny Carson, who has had his own television show in America for the past four years, has been described by newspaper critics as &#8220;a logical successor to Bob Hope and Jack Benny.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In this programme,&#8221; said Irvin Feld, Paul’s personal manager, &#8220;you are going to see the new Paul Anka.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he was in Britain nearly four years ago. he sang his current hits which were aimed specifically at the teenagers. Songs like <em>Diana</em>.</p>
<p>&#8220;But since then, Paul has been undergoing a vast change. He has been bridging the gap between teenagers and an adult audience.</p>
<p>&#8220;The result is that he now appeals to audiences of all ages. We have even given him a facial change. We had a plastic surgery job done on his nose which makes him better looking than ever,&#8221; said Mr. Feld.</p>
<p>&#8220;His voice, too, has a fullness and a range it never had in the beginning. Even his song writing has changed. He is writing mature lyrics now.</p>
<p>&#8220;In Wednesday&#8217;s show he will include a 15-minute spot in which he will sing only established ballads and some of his own songs written in the same vein.</p>
<p>&#8220;It will be like telling the story of his life in song, a sort of potted biography.&#8221;</p>
<figure id="attachment_2039" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2039" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-500x1015.jpg" alt="Linda Scott" width="500" height="1015" class="size-medium wp-image-2039" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-500x1015.jpg 500w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-150x304.jpg 150w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-768x1559.jpg 768w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-757x1536.jpg 757w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-1009x2048.jpg 1009w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-1024x2079.jpg 1024w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-186x377.jpg 186w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01-174x353.jpg 174w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/19611231-a-01.jpg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2039" class="wp-caption-text">Linda Scott: the girl with a Golden Disc</figcaption></figure>
<p>The story of his life is really his four-year-old career. Before <em>Diana</em> put him on the map, Paul was just another school kid who had dabbled at singing from the age of ten.</p>
<p>His family are Syrians, although Paul was born in Ottawa, where his career began to open up after a New York record company heard him singing on the radio.</p>
<p>He talks assuredly and frankly: &#8220;I’m not a brash kid,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You have to try and stay reasonably humble about success.</p>
<p>&#8220;I started out as a Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll singer and, let’s face it, I owed my success to the teenagers. But I knew in my mind that I had to bridge the gap and get the adults to accept me, too.&#8221;</p>
<p>He drummed his fingers assertively on the table. &#8220;I don’t kid myself. I’m just out of the kindergarten stage. I’ve got a long way to go.</p>
<p>&#8220;But I figure it this way. The all-time greats, fellows like Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby &#8230; well, they have to retire some time. Younger people have got to take over.</p>
<p>&#8220;The freakish thing about this business is that you can make a lot of money. I&#8217;ve done just that, and it’s nice to have the money.</p>
<p>&#8220;But, honestly, the accomplishment of becoming a great entertainer means a whole lot more to me right now.”</p>
<p>In America. Paul has been described as a &#8220;sort of sophisticated Rock ’n&#8217; Roller.”</p>
<p>&#8220;In a way,” says Paul, “that’s a compliment, I guess. It shows my development is being noticed. But really people say this about me because they don’t know yet how to describe me.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s true I was the youngest among the kids like Fabian, Tommy Sands and Frankie Avalon to appear in night clubs in the States.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is why they call me sophisticated. Playing the plush night clubs in America is a measure of success. So in that sense I’m a pioneer.”</p>
<p>Paul summed up: &#8220;This is quite something, but it doesn&#8217;t scare me. At my age I suppose I should be scared by success. But I have never got into anything that I didn&#8217;t like.</p>
<p>&#8220;I love what I&#8217;m doing too much to be worried about it.”</p>
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		<title>She&#8217;s &#8216;a real live girl&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Carol Burnett makes her first British TV appearance on Granada's The Variety Show</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure id="attachment_64" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png" alt="TVTimes masthead" width="200" height="40" class="size-full wp-image-64" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png 200w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1-150x30.png 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64" class="wp-caption-text">From the TVTimes for week commencing 21 August 1960</figcaption></figure>
<p>VIVACIOUS, red-haired Carol Burnett, who makes her British TV debut in Granada’s <em>The Variety Show</em> on Wednesday, was telling me about her philosophy of life.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have one golden rule,” she said. &#8220;It’s simple. Do unto others as others do unto you.”</p>
<p><a href="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-500x715.jpg" alt="Carol Burnett" width="500" height="715" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-459" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-500x715.jpg 500w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-150x214.jpg 150w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-768x1098.jpg 768w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-1024x1463.jpg 1024w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-264x377.jpg 264w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01-247x353.jpg 247w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-01.jpg 1170w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a></p>
<p>Carol, 26, has been exercising her exuberant comedy talent to advantage on American television. She said: &#8220;I guess I’m the luckiest girl in New York, where my career started in earnest. Everybody has been nice to me. So my aim is to be just as pleasant to others.”</p>
<p>She went on: “Like most comediennes I’m inclined to treat life seriously. You know, being a comedienne is a serious business.</p>
<p>&#8220;I studied at theatre art school in California. That’s where I did my first public performance. It was a musical comedy act. I remember it well &#8230; because I fell off the stage.” Later, said Carol, she went to New York.</p>
<p>In New York Carol got a job straight away — checking hats in a restaurant. But she moved to New York’s Rehearsal Club. &#8220;The problem,” she said, “ was getting good stage experience. So I hit on an idea. I suggested to the other girls at the club that we should all pitch in and put on a show of our own.</p>
<p><a href="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-150x335.jpg" alt="Carol Burnett" width="150" height="335" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-462" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-150x335.jpg 150w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-500x1116.jpg 500w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-768x1714.jpg 768w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-688x1536.jpg 688w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-918x2048.jpg 918w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-1024x2285.jpg 1024w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-169x377.jpg 169w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-158x353.jpg 158w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600821-02-scaled.jpg 1147w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;We each contributed 25 cents a night to pay for the cost of a rehearsal hall. Then a number of New York socialites, who’d seen the preview of our show, decided to finance the production. It ran for three nights.”</p>
<p>Carol’s act was a take-off of Eartha Kitt, but with a difference. No shimmering Jacques Fath gown. &#8220;For laughs I wore a beat-up old house dress,” she said.</p>
<p>At this point an agent stepped in and signed her up. She got her first job on TV, as the girl friend of a ventriloquist’s dummy in a children’s series.</p>
<p>&#8220;Other TV dates followed,” said Carol. &#8220;My biggest hit was in Jack Paar’s show. I sang a satirical comedy song called <em>I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles</em>. It amused the then Secretary of State so much that he ordered my recording for himself.”</p>
<p>A friend of Carol’s told me: &#8220;She’s a real live girl. Oh, she’s funny, but you have to see her in action to appreciate her brand of humour.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dorothy Loudon telephones from New York to talk about Granada's The Variety Show</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure id="attachment_64" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png" alt="TVTimes masthead" width="200" height="40" class="size-full wp-image-64" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1.png 200w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tvtimes-masthead-late50s-1-150x30.png 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64" class="wp-caption-text">From the TVTimes for week commencing 23 March 1960</figcaption></figure>
<p>THE sleepy voice on the end of the telephone line in New York said: “Good morning; this is Dorothy Loudon. This is quite a surprise. I didn’t think anyone in England had heard of me.&#8221;</p>
<p>As I had the advantage of five hours over the 26-year-old singer comedienne, I said “Good afternoon,” and apologised for bringing her out of bed at 8am (her time) to answer the telephone — and questions about her appearance in Granada&#8217;s <em>The Variety Show</em>, next Thursday.</p>
<p>The Loudon voice came over loud &#8216;n&#8217; clear: “Well, it&#8217;s my biggest opportunity yet. I can’t tell you how excited I am about appearing in London for the first time.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have been doing a special cabaret act here in America, and I am wondering how it will go down in England. Tell me, are the British public very critical?”</p>
<p>I told her the British are a pretty amiable bunch.</p>
<p>“You see,” cooed the Loudon voice above a menacing transatlantic splutter, &#8220;I don’t tell jokes. I hate women who tell jokes. I mean, what&#8217;s so clever about telling jokes?”</p>
<p>I said that it depended largely on the joke and on who tells the joke.</p>
<p>“Yes, but there are not so many people around who can really tell a joke. Certainly very few women, anyway, and I&#8217;ve tried to be a <em>different</em> comedienne.</p>
<p>“How do I describe my brand of humour? Well, it&#8217;s off-beat. The humour comes out in the treatment of my songs. Singing a song in a certain style can be a whole lot funnier than telling a joke.</p>
<p>“Michael Brown, the fellow who wrote the Lizzie Borden song, has written a new song especially for me. It is based on a famous murder case. But don’t let that frighten you. It is really very funny.”</p>
<p><a href="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01.jpg" alt="Dorothy Loudon&#039;s head" width="1170" height="1479" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-446" srcset="https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01.jpg 1170w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-500x632.jpg 500w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-150x190.jpg 150w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-768x971.jpg 768w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-1024x1294.jpg 1024w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-298x377.jpg 298w, https://granadatv.network/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/19600327-01-279x353.jpg 279w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px" /></a></p>
<p>I gathered that Dorothy Loudon had good cause to talk so enthusiastically about humour &#8230; before breakfast. Even in this instance, when she had retired to bed late and was nursing a cold. “It’s true I’m pretty excited,” she said. “All of a sudden everything is happening to me. I have just finished playing in Las Vegas and, honestly, I had standing ovations there every night.</p>
<p>“Considering they see everybody in Las Vegas, I was particularly pleased to come out tops. The result is I am being flooded with TV offers and I am now signing a recording contract.”</p>
<p>Glamorous Dorothy Loudon — a Boston-born girl — has been fortunate in having the benefit of show business experience passed down to her by her musical family. Her grandmother was an actress and dramatic coach. Her father was a saxophonist. And her mother was a pianist.</p>
<p>“The family background helped me a lot when I left school to begin my career in New York,” she told me. “But during the past six years, particularly, it has taken a lot of hard work to develop this humorous style of mine. The family experience helped in as much as I was able to develop my natural feeling for show business by studying dancing and acting at school.</p>
<p>“But once I came to New York, I was on my own. Work didn&#8217;t come easily in the big city. But I was engaged as a pianist and vocalist in a cocktail lounge and, all at once, my career began to take shape.</p>
<p>“Producers were interested enough to give me a spot on television, and I began adding the comedy to my act. My fortunes had changed, and I was getting more jobs than I could cope with. Now, I think I&#8217;m really going places.”</p>
<p>Was it too much to ask her to talk on the subject of romance at the unromantic hour of eight in the morning?</p>
<p>A pause on the New York end of the line indicated that it might well be.</p>
<p>But then the Loudon voice insisted to the contrary, thus:</p>
<p>“A girl should be able to talk about romance at any time of the day. I&#8217;ve been talking romance seriously to Norman Paris, a New York piano player, for the past four years.</p>
<p>“At last we have got engaged. We plan to marry in the summer. Yes, it is true that I am planning to settle down, even though my career has taken this sudden upsurge. Marriage is a wonderful institution. I would give up my career for it if necessary.&#8221;</p>
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