Bernadette Peters sings "Dedicated to the One I Love" and "Don't" from her "Now Playing" album, and chats with host David Steinberg, in this rare 1981 TV appearance.
On this day in 1981 {September 22nd} Bernadette Peters was a guest on the CBS-TV weekday-afternoon television program, 'The Merv Griffin Show'... At the time her covered version of "Dedicated To The One I Love"* was at position #96 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, and that was also it's eighth and final week on the chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #65 {for 1 week}... The New York City native had one other Top 100 record, a covered version of "Gee Whiz", it peaked at #31 {for 2 weeks} in 1980 and stayed on the chart for thirteen weeks... Ms. Peters, born Bernadette Lazzara, will celebrate her 72nd birthday come next February 28th, 2020... * The Shirelles' original charted version of "Dedicated To The One I Love" charted twice on the Top 100 chart, in 1959 the quartet took it to #83, and then two years later on March 27th, 1961 it peaked at #3 {for 1 week} and stayed on the chart for sixteen weeks...
