26th July 2026.
๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. Lenaโs single, Ma! Heโs Making Eyes At Me was at number 8 in the South African charts.
Pos LW Weeks Song Artist 1 1 9 Waterloo ย โ ABBA 2 2 11 The Air That I Breathe ย โ Hollies 3 10 3 Sundown ย โ Gordon Lightfoot 4 4 16 Solitaire
๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. The East Kent Times advertised Lenaโs Sunday concert at the Winter Gardens, Margate in the 4th August.
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Harry Secombe was doing the summer season.
๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. In the New York Times, John Rockwell notes that every subway station is plastered with adverts for Lena.
The Pop Life By John Rockwell,
New York Times 26th July 1974.
โThe Jackson 5 (or six, with the addition of 11โyearโold Randy), who are performing at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night, are hardly the only young group before the public these days. The record racks and the airwaves are full of piping prepubescence.The reasons are several. Not all such singers and groups appeal exclusively to the 8โtoโ16โyearโold set of course, but most of the youngโteenโagers and subteenagers have become an increasingly affluent market, and the music business has never โbeen shy about following its nose towards affluence.
Another reason is that lots of pop has gotten pretty fancy. Rock was born as something vital yet simple. But pop stars and their audiences have both grown older, even with infusions from the youthful end of the scale. Where is a panting 12โyearโold to turn for moonโJune pap if all lie or she can get is profundities from Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Bobby Sherman, Rick Springfield, David Cassidy, the DeFrances, the Osmond Brothers and the Jacksion 5, are the young Elvis Presley and young Beatles of today.
At the moment every subway station is plastered with Pictures of a rather aggressIveโlooking little girl named Lena Zavaroni. Miss Zavaroni is 10, yet she belts out torch songs with a fervor that might make Mae West blush and an assortment of glottal showโbiz squeaks and ornamental flourishes worthy of the aging Judy Garland,
Clearly, some adults can find tot stars cuddly cute, and maybe even look upon their juxtaposition with โmatureโ material with mildly kinky glee. Miss Zavaroniโs version of โHelp Me Make It Through the Nightโ makes the 15โyearโold Tanya Tuckerโs account of โWould You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)โ sound positively innocent.
Miss Zavaroni has a brassy vocal talent, to be sure. But her managers should have their money bags washed out with Of course, in principal thereโs nothing much wrong with performing microboppers (to use an Esquire magazine term that never caught on), and a young person trying to sound old is probably no worse than an old person trying to sound young. Some acts, like the Jackson 5, can even make music of a genuinely infectious, appealing kind, and ad of them serve to inject continually new energy into an entertainment form that sometimes threatens to float away in its own cosmic profundity.Itโs just that one canโt he quite sure where it will all end.
Rodney Allen Rippy, the 5โyearโold hamburgerโeating superโsmiler, is, after all heading toward center stage.Some adults think of the world of pop music as a den of dopeโcrazed incompetents, amiably ambling about in permanent mental fog. One naturally rejects such slander with righteous indignation, except that recently two rock bands have come along that canโt seem to decide how to spell themselves.The first was 10 cc., an innovative British group that has won both commercial success and critical acclaim for its clever variants of rock formulas. The groupโs name has variously appeared โ in ads, record covers and publicity materialโas 10 c.c., 10 C.C., 10 cc, 10 CC, 10cc and lOCC. A woman at London Records, when quizzed about the discrepancies recently, said, โGee, thatโs a good question, We fight about it here at the office all the time.โThe latest instance of nomenclatural confusion is Grinderswitch, a Southern bluesโrocking band that has opened a number of the Allman Brothers summer shows., Grinderswitch has also appeared as Grinder Switch; Grinders Switch and Grindersswitch. Perhaps both bands are making a significant protest against the order freaks of this world. As a certified orderfreak, however, I can only urge them to get it together before my next deadline.
It looks now as if the Bob DylanโBand European tour, that had been widely rumored for this fall will take place next springโ.
๐๐๐๐. Lena was photographed at home with her friend Senise and her dog Whiskey. (from the long defunct site lena-zavaroni.co.uk).
๐๐๐๐. Publicity photograph. (from the long defunct site lena-zavaroni.co.uk).
๐๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. Lena was at the opening of the new Tesco store at Pitsea, promoting her new LP; Songs are such good things, and signing autographs.
๐๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. The Stage listed The Lena Zavaroni Show in Bridlington on itโs Summer Shows 1979 page.
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๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. An undated newspaper article about how bored Lena was in Bridlington during her 1979 season and how Carla came down to keep her company, the article estimated that Lena earned about ยฃ400,000 p.a, - about ยฃ2.03 million in todayโs money. The photograph was one of a set taken by John Curtis somewhere in the countryside near Bridlington.
๐๐๐๐. A fan club photograph from a set taken on 30th January.
๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. Record Business reported that Lena had agreed to appear in a February 1983 song festival to aid deprived children.
๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. Lena & Jimmy Crickets show was advertised in The Torbay Express.
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๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐. The South Wales Echo listed the coming Sunday's Summer Praise on it's television pages.
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