In reply to Roger Foster, Petula was very much part of the British Invasion with her Tony Hatch productions from 1965 to 1968 winning 2 Grammy awards and came runner up to the Beatles as best new artist! In 1966 Cashbox voted her Top female singer in the USA and she was the first British female to top the American charts twice and to sell a million copies of a record there.Granted she was a decade older and living in France,but all her Tony Hatch stuff was recorded in London often with Jimmy Page on guitar!
I bought this L.P. back in the summer of 1974, along with the 1962, 1964 and 1965 volumes (in Virgin Records at the bottom of The Moor in Sheffield, Yorkshire to be precise) having heard one of them being played in its entirety a few weeks previously on a Continental Radio Station (either Dutch or German no doubt).
What struck me about the 1964/5/6 editions was that although this was in the height of the era when The U.S. was struck down with a serious case of Beatlemania there was an almost total lack of British recordings on them. "Downtown" by Petula Clark was on the 1965 volume but that was hardly representative of "British Invasion" music.
No doubt that was mainly due to licensing issues but this was brought home by this 1966 edition from "All American KJR" in Seattle.
Not that "All American KJR" was that "all American" as we invited to go to see Dusty Springfield in Seattle in a few days time and we are told that we are going to hear a record by The Rolling Stones after the news. Not that owners of this disc ever get to hear The News, let alone The Rolling Stones.
So, for those awaiting the arrival of The Big Kahuna who have 40 minutes to spare, here is your chance to learn how to pronounce BaBaRaRaKooKooWhatever, ponder whether you can afford a brand new Lincoln Continental and imagine that you are in Seattle in the summer of 1966 ......