In an interview, Petula said that if she HAD to choose only one favorite of her songs, it would be "Don't Sleep in the Subway". I never cared for "Downtown". But, with her second U.S. hit, "I Know a Place", I was sold on all of her hits for the next few years. 🥳
Yes, you got the pronunciation right - peh-TYOU -la. She's a wonderful, beautiful, talented woman who has made a stand against institutional racism in TV. In 1968, on her NBC-TV special "Petula", she held the arm of Harry Belafonte, a Black singer and activist, while they sang a duet to her antiwar song "On the Path of Glory". The show's only sponsor, Chrysler Corp., objected to the arm touching and insisted that they substitute another take of the song in which they stood well apart from each other. Petula and executive producer Claude Wolff, her husband, destroyed all the alternate takes of the song and aired the original version, with the touch intact. The program received critical acclaim, high ratings, and an Emmy nomination.
Petula DID have another U.S. Billboard Number One -- MY LOVE, in Jan. 1966, as well as a total of 15 consecutive Top 40s through 1968. She also placed several other songs in the lower half of the Hot 100 through around 1981-82.
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I just have to mention Mrs. Miller's "unforgettable"
rendition of "Downtown". 'Nuff said!! 🤣
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Petula Clark's career stretches back to the 1950's but Downtown was her biggest hit ever. She starred in a few movies as well.
You can't help but visualize city nights. Love it so much. Happy again. :)
In an interview, Petula said that if she HAD to choose only one favorite of her songs, it would be "Don't Sleep in the Subway". I never cared for "Downtown". But, with her second U.S. hit, "I Know a Place", I was sold on all of her hits for the next few years. 🥳
Yes, you got the pronunciation right - peh-TYOU -la.
She's a wonderful, beautiful, talented woman who has made a stand against institutional racism in TV. In 1968, on her NBC-TV special "Petula", she held the arm of Harry Belafonte, a Black singer and activist, while they sang a duet to her antiwar song "On the Path of Glory". The show's only sponsor, Chrysler Corp., objected to the arm touching and insisted that they substitute another take of the song in which they stood well apart from each other. Petula and executive producer Claude Wolff, her husband, destroyed all the alternate takes of the song and aired the original version, with the touch intact. The program received critical acclaim, high ratings, and an Emmy nomination.
Petula DID have another U.S. Billboard Number One -- MY LOVE, in Jan. 1966, as well as a total of 15 consecutive Top 40s through 1968. She also placed several other songs in the lower half of the Hot 100 through around 1981-82.
So she did! My eyes must have glossed over that. Thanks Steven!
Great song, one of my favorites. Thanks for the reaction.
This was the start of a great string of #1 hits this year in 1965 in my opinion
Sony owns The Beatles songs.
SONY Standard Oil of New York
Didn't Michael Jackson buy up the Beatles catalog??