NEW * Downtown - Petula Clark {Stereo} 1964

1964-65.....#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #2 UK Singles Chart, #1 Canada, #2 Australia, #1 New Zealand, #1 West Germany Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound. “Downtown“ is a song written and produced by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. Hatch received the 1981 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. “Downtown“ was recorded on 16 October 1964 at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch. Thirty minutes before the session was scheduled, Hatch was still touching up the song’s lyrics in the studio’s washroom. Hatch said of his arrangement: “I had to connect with young record buyers... but not alienate Pet[ula]’s older core audience... The trick was to make a giant orchestra sound like a rock band.“ Hatch insisted that all session personnel on his productions be recorded pe