I live for this song, had it in my head in Milan Italy, that city made me sad, minute later I stepped into a store and it played it!!! I felt like ok I leave tomorrow now go downtown
I sang Downtown on the Epcot stage with Miss Petula many years ago. She saw me in the audience singing along with EVERY song. But when she finished her performance she hadn't sang my favorite which, of course, is Downtown. So I shouted out that she couldn't leave until she had! Then she invited me on stage to sing it with her! I will never ever ever forget that! What a thrill. Must tell you, we were both in our 60's! She was and will always be my favorite singer from the 1960's!!! (and the Beatles!)
When I was 7 years old, our mom was up late cleaning the house, this song came on the radio, I will never forget she woke me up out of bed, wearing a pink nightgown I sat next to the stereo on the floor listening to this song! Yes at age 7! I won’t say how old I am now lol! I told my family when I pass away, I want this song played as one of my all time favorites!
This was one of my Mom's favorite songs, she passed this Sept. Today is her birthday, thank you for introducing this beautiful music to me Mom ! Love and hugs !
My dad loved this song when i was a kid. Born in 58, i heard it on weekends 100 times. Reminds me of a simpler time when i was not burdened by a corrupted, chaotic world. I miss my dad❤
I played this song for my father a few years before he passed away. It was a year after both of his parents had died. He never spoke of any fond memories of the two of them, at all. Having lived his life a product of divorce and institutionalized by bouncing in and out of reform schools and various correctional facilities up until age 21, my father never had anything much pleasant to say about his childhood. I was going through iTunes and came across this song (I liked it because of a Seinfeld episode). As the song played, I saw and heard my dad recount and relive a long forgotten memory, in the mid sixties, of a maybe 6 or 7 year old him cruising down with his mother and father all singing along to this song. He told me it was the one time he remembered them as a happy family, tears streaming down his face. This remains the most tender and beautiful moment I ever had with my father. Whenever I get down in the dumps, I listen to this song and remember my father, and how precious and fleeting "family" truly is. Thanks for listening.
Wow. Sounds eerily familiar except for us not singing along. Probably my earliest memory is riding in the back seat with my brother and sister with mom and dad in front and this song playing as we drove in downtown Northfield. Think I was about 4. Dad passed away about a year later. Still reminds me of that moment in the car whenever I hear the song.
wow I am sorry you lost your father so young. I was 3 when the song was released, so your dad must have passed away in his mid-late 50's, way too young.
people are saying that the explosion was a suicide act and i keep thinking about how the dude felt - if it was a suicide act- inside the rv before the explosion. he might’ve played this song to calm himself down before dying. that’s really sad and scary.
I remember my mother played this so much when I was so little that the song is one of my earliest memories. Which I don’t remember anything till around 1971 so she played this song for years and I love it too. Saving mom songs from RUclips for Mother’s Day. 2024 ❤
I call this one of my "stop-whatever-I'm-doing-and-listen songs." If it comes the radio, I can't focus on anything else. It's hauntingly, simple, complex and beautiful all at the same time. Or maybe it's just because it's the first song that left an impression on me when I was 4 or 5. I can still picture where I was when I first heard it.
It was this and Georgy Girl and I'm a Believer I would look for on the diner mini jukebox at the table. And by the way "you make a dead man cum". That album soundtracked 1981 freshman year college. Long way from Petula Clark innocence.
another great song for those of us who first heard downtown in the 60s and then in the 70s we heard "summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing to the jazz song in my mind...."
I was born in 1962 and this is one of my earliest music memories.... always loved it because it made me want to spin in circles....reminds me of my mom...♡
I was born in 1961, in 1964 , I was only 3 year's old , now 2024 , 63 year's old... I heard this when I was young , I love Music, I know this ' Downtown'
I first heard it on the radio in the 1980s and have always loved it. But I'm hard of hearing so it was full of mondegreens for me. I'm glad someone posted the lyrics. Downtown was the only word I heard clearly when I heard it on the radio; mondegreens are funny😂.
@@d.w952 ikilkmmmmmlmlkikmkkkkmkkkklmlllilkkmlkimmmmmlkmmmlkkmm Mlkmmmllkkkkmkmnmknmnmmnm. Kmk NJ. J j. Nnj J. N. M... . J. Jbj. J. Mbb5. Mb Hjmj hnmmjmj. Jm. H. Y . B. Jmnhnh... Hbj. Jvhggvh get tt5345t33v5hb44g gtetr3bt3ng
This made me cry for some reason, I feel my life is going nowhere and I'm totally clueless about what I'm gonna do. This song disconnected me from all the sad things and reminded me of how beautiful life is.
I remember when I was little I always asked my dad to play this song everyday when he got home from work. It was one of my favorites :) I haven’t listened to it since I was about 4, so I thought I’d listen to it again. Such an incredible , nostalgic song!
I grew up with and still love all the older tunes, they make me happier than anything in the current pop music world. Thank you for making this upbeat playlist, it's making my work day a lot brighter!
I have always loved this song. Forget all your troubles and cares because life is worth living. When I am depressed and lonely I play this song and I fell life is great and worth living for.
This song has very special meaning to me. It was the first song I sang. I was 5 years old! It was the mid-60s - so yes I was there! I can still see the apartment my grandparents had. My young Mom and Dad, all the relatives - they encouraged me to sing for them. They are all gone now but that feeling lives on.......I went on to become a professional stage performer.......who’d would’ve thought!
Downtown was the best. There were no big suburb's or suburban shopping centers yet. Almost everyone lived in the city. The only place to find everything was at the big downtown department stores. I really miss those. 8 floors, every floor a different department. The elevators were run manually by real people who would announce what was on each floor or you could ask them for help. While waiting for the elevator, the doors had windows, you could see the counterweights side up and down. Most of the stores were within a couple of blocks that you could walk to. Bus routes covered every neighborhood. You just walked to the bus stop, took it downtown, and did your shopping. At Christmas time when my parents took myself and my brothers and sisters downtown it was like magic. Christmas lights everywhere. The big department stores had moving Christmas displays in the big street display windows. Sidewalks crammed with shoppers. Cops directing traffic at each corner. Too bad it's all gone.
OMG you just filled in the rest of the memories for me! We used to go to the old Spiegel store in downtown Chicago and order things. Then we had to wait weeks for it to get delivered to our house. Don't forget the penny candy stores back in those days. Our parents would give us a dime, park in front of the store, and let us go in by ourselves to spend our dime! My favorite was the wafer like shell that looked like a space ship.
@Tony I'm glad she's well ... and yes, she's like an angel. I grew up when the song came out ~ those were wild days! Petula sort of looked out for Karen Carpenter, like a big sister and knew what Karen went thru being stuck in the duo ~ Petula understood that Karen had a huge talent and was being held back by people around her. I've always loved that Petula was so kind to Karen ... I wish she had been able to get thru to her. WOW all this takes me back to another lifetime!!!
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Brooklyn NY, but ever since I was a child, this song always makes me want to go to Fulton Street, Albee Square, Junior's restaurant , Macys and the glamour of ''downtown''
I can't believe 53 years have gone by since I first heard this song back in 1964. I was a 10 year old boy then. Now that I am 63 years old, this song still captures my heart. priceless!
+donald leggett My Mom used to get my sisters and me dressed nicely. Then we'd hop on a bus for a shopping day downtown. I miss those carefree days. This song was, and still is, a classic. Petula Clark had it all in spades.
Funny trivia is, they (Hatch) had hard time to cobble up the lyrics - just 30 minutes before the session to start .. ;) it turned out quite well, didnt it ? .. Sullivan and Page waiting with their guitars tuned up 😂 Christ, what a fun those times were
This was a hit long before either X-Files or Girl Interrupted were ever thought of. Petula Clark is one of the finest singers the UK has ever produced…
This was my favorite song since I was 5. I got diagnosed with ptsd as a 12 year old (I'm a victim of sexuall abuse) and I have bad flashbacks and my mom always sings it to calm me down, and I'm 22 and she still does it every time. This song is so special to me, it instantly makes me feel safe 😊 I'm so greatfull for my mom and that she (even though I'm an Adult) never stopped doing it
I am a 70 year old social worker, and I can understand your feelings and memories. I was abused during an outdoor gym class in front of the entire school. The entire school saw this. Only my shoes were left on me, but none of the teachers, principal, or officers acted on my behalf. None of those who violated me received any discipline. When I graduated I became a social worker, and gave all the help and understanding I could give, and continue to give, to those clients with similar hard times. My heart and soul are with you. You are not alone, because God is with us now and forever!!!
@@WideTurnHistory57 I'm so sorry that that happened to you. My story is that I got assaulted by a male friend and when my boyfriend at the time found out he started assaulting me and no one would believe me, I don't even know how many times it happened.. I stripped counting after 5..anyways after all of that I was fucked up and I tryed to end my life but then a random girl from my class saw my cuts and we talked and she actually believed me and helped me get help. Today I'm greatfull that my attempt didn't work. I'm in a health relationship (he knows and he's so gentle and he knows me so well that he always sees when I'm not okay) I'm going to uni and life is actually okay. My biggest dream is to become a social worker too and help people who have been sexually assaulted. Thank you so much ❤️
@@adriennerobinson1180 Thank you... it was horrible, but im doing really good rn. I just have flashbacks and night terrors but I've learned to live with it and my boyfriend is really helpful. He always listens and is there for me when im having flashbacks/night terrors.
Born in 1952 and grew up in Tokyo. I remember the summer this song was on the radio over and over, and every time I was in raptures. How we were blessed then with beautiful music like these...
Thanks to you, I come to this video almost regularly to lift my spirits. You didn't know that by your comment that your helping someone..me! Great idea! Thanks!
Such a happy positive song, as a kid it made me feel that all was well when times were difficult. Pet Clark has such a kind and expressive voice. One of the greatest songs ever written.
When I about 4 or 5 years old in the late 1960s I remember hearing this song on the radio in the morning getting ready for school. My mom as I recall was and is a beautiful woman and loving mother, she always dressed up when going out with my dad and had bright golded blond hair and looked amazing from my earliest memories of her. When I see this video of petula clark her hair and face remind me of my mom from many years. My mom is a classy lady who set the bar for women I've known in my life. She taught me what being a decent man can be and how a true woman desires to be treated like by her man. I still visit as often as possible with my mom sadly my dad is now living in an Alzheimer's care facility. Thank mom, love you...
If it's possible to love a song constantly for 53 years and counting then this is the one. I was 8 back then but I loved and still Llove this song and Pet Clark too if i'm honest
Growing up this was one of many “old time” songs my dad would play. He eventually passed away and hearing it again makes me smile and cry at the same time. Good music.
My late mum LOVED this song as do I! She was one of the rare ladys who could WHISTLE she was always whistling this. It was one the reasons I asked for a piano as a child that powerful intro by Tony Hatch is unforgetable - now I can play this! NEVER played on radio such a shame!
I bought the 45 at 12 years May of 65 racing on my bike to the record store Napanee, ON, Canada singing it all the way as a Head Chorister in a Cathedral Choir. Still in great shape singing DT in falsetto right now as I type! She had another 15 or so fabulous songs written by Tony Hatch. She is in her mid-80s still performing and BTW Pet was the follow up to Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music!!! 2nd. place.
Love this. ... Has stayed with me all of my life since childhood. Mother would be cooking a Sunday roast with the radio on, and this was on all the time .
What a great song. Lost vibes anyone? I’m rewatching the series for the 8th time now and just started the 3rd season. What a wonderfully chosen song for the season opening.
lmao same, 8 times its insane. I rewatch it once a year, and I feel like it may not be the quality of the series alone (which is super good), especially because cliffhangers dont work a 2nd time, but because it takes me back to a time where things were easier. I mustve seen it like 10 times by now.
I was born in 1961, and this is the first song I remember hearing on the radio that caught my ear. I was riding in the car with my Mother and I told her I wanted to hear that song again. That was when I learned how the radio worked. Sure was disappointed I couldn't hear it again right away. I still LOVE this song
The best thing about pop music is a trifecta like this: great vocal performance by the lovely Petula Clark, great songwriting, and a great knockout arrangement. A childhood favorite of mine, and a timeless and perfect pop classic.
We had a stereo hifi in 1969, one of those long low cabinets, my dad was into the old big band records but i remember we had a tijuana brass album, But I still remember downtown and other songs. And tin bath, yes. If you are talking about one of those old galvanized tubs? I remember we lived in a house and my mom would heat up water to put in it and we would have a bath. I think it was the house before we lived in the next one that had a claw foot tub where when we turned the water on sometimes it would come out all rusting from the old plumbing and we had to wait for the water to clear. We lived in an old farmhouse that was turned into a rental when the owners moved into town but still farmed the property. Even had farmer relatives that had modern plumbing but a still using outhouse out by the chicken coops! We'd go into town and eat at the coffee shop at the department store for a treat or go to town and get a cherry coke at the soda fountain and next door was the meat market with wood shavings on the floor. Remember when there would be fans like ceiling fans above the store doors out on the sidewalk. Me reminiscing too much here LOL. But loved those days!
When you're alone, and life is making you lonely You can always go Downtown When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry Seems to help, I know Downtown Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares So go downtown, things'll be great when you're Downtown, no finer place for sure Downtown everything's waiting for you Downtown Don't hang around and let your problems surround you There are movie shows Downtown Maybe you know some little places to go to Where they never close Downtown Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova You'll be dancing with him too before the night is over Happy again The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares So go downtown, where all the lights are bright Downtown, waiting for you tonight Downtown, you're gonna be alright now Downtown, downtown Downtown Downtown And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to Guide them along So maybe I'll see you there We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares So go downtown, things'll be great when you're Downtown, don't wait a minute for Downtown, everything's waiting for you Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown
I absolutely love this song for the reason that I played this for my men while we were approaching our target which was Saigon 50 years ago. We were 100 percent successful in accomplishing our mission. Praise God!
This song is my earliest dream memory. I was 5 in 1965. I dreamed I was in a snowy forest and holding on to a tree while the wind was blowing me sideways, lifting my feet off the ground. It was cold and dark but this song was playing, I suppose it was playing on our home stereo, but it was incorporated into a most vivid dream that still has the same feeling 52 years later.
I was 4 when this came out. My mum and dad let me play the 45 all the time on a tiny portable record player. Also, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlett and UFO/Space 1999 -- all brilliant! R.I.P. Gerry Anderson
This is the first record (a 45) I ever, ever purchased. I was thirteen years old. And I heard it on what was known then as a Germanium radio. No battery, and no electricity required to operate it. It came with a wire and a clip you would attach to metal with earphones (tiny) for listening. I would attach the clip to the metal springs on my bed. Berserk, totally berserk. But it was mesmerizing (the song, and the experience). A memory though happy in remembrance, melancholy now. Thank you sir. And that was Bronx, N.Y.. And Downtown Manhattan meant the world to me.
Glad you recognized it, because I did a poor job of describing it. And you are actually thus far the first person I have heard from that experienced this radio. You know, in retrospect I believe though we cherish the memories, none of us were prepared to make the most out of them at the time.Thanks for sharing JH
I should have added that how remarkable that you had likely the same magic bestowed upon you by this musical number through the rarity of a Germanium Radio. It just puts a stamp upon my passage through time. Again, thanks JH.
This song came out before my time, but as a kid I loved to listen to it... and dream of going downtown. So many cities the downtown is now a complete mess - but I still love the vision of this song... the perfect enjoyable downtown!
loL! I do not even remember what i was doing when i was 11. you have a very sharp memory.I have a neighbour who can tell you what the temperature was outside the day that JFK died and what he'd been doing that very day. He was about six only lol!
I came here from one of my favorite scenes from lost with one of the best characters, Juliet. Such an underrated character. The "book club" scene was genius.
This is one of the songs that got my through my teenage years. I would drive from a desolate suburb to San Francisco and play this song on the way. And you what what? She was right! Downtown was the place to be. Thanks Petula. I have your LPs to play if I fell down. They always cheer me up.
I remember this playing a lot in my grandma's car when she drove me around as a kid. I've got lots of nostalgia tied into this song, and I love hearing it to this day.
i am 62 years old!! this reminds me when i was young and it was 'exciting' to go into nottingham town center!! people used to 'dress up' in their 'sunday best' and venture into town and have a 'wonderful' time! nowadays nottm town center is a 'depressing' sight to see! boarded up shops/'zombies' confronting you all the time/'scruffy slobs' shuffling around!!! miserable faced people with phones stuck to their ears...not a place we visit any more i'm afraid!!! md
So true Mick, I used to be 'downtown' nearby in Leicester in the 70s with everyone in their best after a week of work and have a great time. It never felt threatening, happy days. I wouldn't go into any city centre at night now, and I even try to avoid them as much as possible in daylight..
you gotta look at the world as if you just got out of a bunker where you were trapped for 10 years by yourself or with a few others, and then see behind the scruffiness and the phones and interrupt the people in what they are doing by shouting a cheerful "hi" at them and then see how they respond. Just keep shouting "Hi" and waving at each person as you walk down the street filled with people until eventually someone responds, and then engage them in a meaningful conversation about something positive and interesting like panda conservation or what they think about butterflies or something about themselves like what foreign country they have visited and what they did there or their pets or ask them about music. Some basic things that most humans can and will have in common with you and will talk about is: music, animals, nature, travel and food. And sometimes dancing.
mick dady you are an inspiration! When we can all get out again, we should all get dressed up! I know I’m looking better and better on my trip to the grocery store 😁😁😁
ashton vickers I am here because I loved the song for years since I’m a child I’m almost 40 I grew up with it I like the singer too prefer singers from then then any of them female pop singers of today
When my mother was growing up, her and my grandma (her mom) would sing this song while walking to get groceries in town. My grandmother has since passed but my mom still sings this song from here and there.
Today when I heard that it was her birthday, I just had to go to the computer, which we never had back in our days, to listen to Downtown, one of the greatest goldies ever.
My mum used to like this song...she never understood much english..as she hadnt lived in uk for long time..my mum came here from italy...i was born in italy.. And i remember she liked petula clarke...aaarrrhhh brings back memorys...unfortunately my mum is no longer with us..😢 miss you mum..❤
I grew up in a small town in NJ that had about 10 stores: a candy store, pizza place, butcher, deli, real estate and hardware. But us kids said even before this song came out, "I'm going downtown to get some M&Ms" What struck my chord (and probably anyone's) about this song is that downtown can be anywhere and, compared to sitting in the house, downtown can be exciting anywhere you live---it doesn't have to be swinging London in 1964.
Actually James, "Downtown" is a lot closer to you than you may realise. Recording executives in New York had rejected all of the compositions of British Composer Tony Hatch. Disconsolate, Hatch walked up 7th Avenue, down Broadway and over to 8th. He had just passed Madison Square Garden when the neon lights of New York's theater district came on and this tune began to form in his head. The only thing Tony Hatch got wrong that day, the Theatre district is in mid-town Manhattan while all the while Tony thought he was "Downtown". The rest as they say is history!
This is so true. Down my street in outer suburbia there is a beautiful shopping central where people go to congregate, eat, lounge, shop, have coffee, watch movies and play arcade games. There are trees and seats. Everyone is always so happy there, and I've had so many good times there I'm starting to think of it as my 'downtown'.
I remember this song when it hit the British charts in 1964. I was a young kid at the time and it's a song that stuck in my head for ages. Today was the first time I watched/heard this song for ages. Just loved Petula - oh and she is 91 years old!!
This is so 'of its period' - her PVC mac, hairstyle, the music, the fact it's in black and white - everything screams 1964. I was only 6 at the time, but I heard this on the radio and loved it.
A true timeless classic. Still appreciated in 2024.👍
Brilliant 60s song, with a very jazzy outro.
Eat me
Absolutely
Yo también. En ARGENTINA 2024 .... AUGOST 26. 🇦🇷
Evidemment!
I was in love with this song as a child, a teenager, and adult, and I'm in my 60's, and nothing has changed!!
I loved it too, my Mum absolutely loved it! Now I’m in my early 60s now🤗
One of the first 45s I ever played as a kid. Listening to it I knew I wanted to be a grown-up real soon.
Me too nothing has changed, she's great star for us in France 💖💝💖💗💓💞❣
I live for this song, had it in my head in Milan Italy, that city made me sad, minute later I stepped into a store and it played it!!! I felt like ok I leave tomorrow now go downtown
Me too❤
I sang Downtown on the Epcot stage with Miss Petula many years ago. She saw me in the audience singing along with EVERY song. But when she finished her performance she hadn't sang my favorite which, of course, is Downtown. So I shouted out that she couldn't leave until she had! Then she invited me on stage to sing it with her! I will never ever ever forget that! What a thrill. Must tell you, we were both in our 60's! She was and will always be my favorite singer from the 1960's!!! (and the Beatles!)
What a wonderful experience that must have been!
Wow, what a great story!! And she's such a nice person to do that!!!
Wow!!! What a memory to have!!
Omigosh, that's incredible! What a great story, thanks for sharing!
Sure wish I had been there to hear you both. Pretty sure I've loved this song all my life. Still gets to me.
Who's still appreciating this song at 2024
Do you have any doubt?
Godlike
Watching Seinfeld S7 E20 💯
When I was 7 years old, our mom was up late cleaning the house, this song came on the radio, I will never forget she woke me up out of bed, wearing a pink nightgown I sat next to the stereo on the floor listening to this song! Yes at age 7! I won’t say how old I am now lol! I told my family when I pass away, I want this song played as one of my all time favorites!
Me.
This was one of my Mom's favorite songs, she passed this Sept. Today is her birthday, thank you for introducing this beautiful music to me Mom ! Love and hugs !
Hugs 🤗🤗💙💙
I’m sorry 🙏🏽💙
🙏🏻RIP☦️
Oh good!
Congratulations on her passing, completion is what we all seek.
Oh good!
Congratulations on her passing, completion is what we all seek.
I love this sing so much, it was released in 1964 and here it is almost new years day 2023 and I'm still listening to it. Thank you petula
I also Love this song!
They just don’t write such wonderful songs like this anymore. Sad.
You misspelled song. If you want to correct it. I know the spellchecker always did that. Love this song, too.🙂
im bak here today yes lone time ago i rnenber petula clarl im am old
This song will never get old one of the best songs of all times I love it
As a child born in '57, when I heard Petula Clark sing 'Downtown' I realized there was a whole world of really cool music.
I was born in “57” too, what a good year 😁
@@lauraann4014 l
@@jamestownsend9345 I was also born in 1957. It's still very fresh in my memory of singing " Downtown" while walking going to school.
`1963 baby here, but I definitely remember hearing this as a child. And living in Brooklyn, it always made me want to go downtown Brooklyn
Wow wow yes for sure 😃
My dad loved this song when i was a kid. Born in 58, i heard it on weekends 100 times. Reminds me of a simpler time when i was not burdened by a corrupted, chaotic world. I miss my dad❤
same here
@@heinzspuerkel x files trashman
The world was better then. But a much better world than that is right around the corner.
I love u baby boi
@
How's that ? You think the world is improving ? In 2024 ?
I played this song for my father a few years before he passed away. It was a year after both of his parents had died. He never spoke of any fond memories of the two of them, at all. Having lived his life a product of divorce and institutionalized by bouncing in and out of reform schools and various correctional facilities up until age 21, my father never had anything much pleasant to say about his childhood. I was going through iTunes and came across this song (I liked it because of a Seinfeld episode). As the song played, I saw and heard my dad recount and relive a long forgotten memory, in the mid sixties, of a maybe 6 or 7 year old him cruising down with his mother and father all singing along to this song. He told me it was the one time he remembered them as a happy family, tears streaming down his face. This remains the most tender and beautiful moment I ever had with my father. Whenever I get down in the dumps, I listen to this song and remember my father, and how precious and fleeting "family" truly is. Thanks for listening.
I too remember the song well, but it's less the song itself, but rather the era, the time frame that is what I treasure most.
Wow. Sounds eerily familiar except for us not singing along. Probably my earliest memory is riding in the back seat with my brother and sister with mom and dad in front and this song playing as we drove in downtown Northfield. Think I was about 4. Dad passed away about a year later. Still reminds me of that moment in the car whenever I hear the song.
wow I am sorry you lost your father so young. I was 3 when the song was released, so your dad must have passed away in his mid-late 50's, way too young.
@@dgillies5420
Actually he was 33, aneurysm.
@@jamest3552 wow, I lost mine at 46, heart attack from a virus - I was 13 - about 7 years after this song was released ...
This song speaks to another era. If only we could get our downtowns the way this song makes you feel about them.
I heard it calling this morning, Christmas Day, when I got up to make a pot of coffee. _Something_ made me look up Petula Clark at this moment.
Some of them are still like that, if you can find them!
downtown l.a. is dead at night and most movie palaces are close and the one's open have become evangelical ventures!!!
Most of them are full of methed out homeless people these days
downtown has nothing but needles and crime
Anyone else come to listen because this is the song being played by the exploding RV in Nashville?
yeah when I heard the officer anounce this, and imagining him in the streets with the music playing I shivered
It definitely gave me this creepy, eerie feeling😩😟 Just thinking about the chorus of this song playing from that RV then ...BOOM💣💥😫😢
people are saying that the explosion was a suicide act and i keep thinking about how the dude felt - if it was a suicide act- inside the rv before the explosion. he might’ve played this song to calm himself down before dying. that’s really sad and scary.
Yea😂😂
I did come here after hearing about it unfortunately
I remember my mother played this so much when I was so little that the song is one of my earliest memories. Which I don’t remember anything till around 1971 so she played this song for years and I love it too. Saving mom songs from RUclips for Mother’s Day. 2024 ❤
I miss the innocence and purity when it comes to 60s and 70s music.
You ever heard the Grateful Dead? Purity and innocence abound. /s
True
There was no innocence in that music. You may have been innocent; the music was not.
I agree cause now song have swears😢
Otro nivel fue
What a voice. So clean, on key and powerful. One of my favorites.
I call this one of my "stop-whatever-I'm-doing-and-listen songs." If it comes the radio, I can't focus on anything else. It's hauntingly, simple, complex and beautiful all at the same time. Or maybe it's just because it's the first song that left an impression on me when I was 4 or 5. I can still picture where I was when I first heard it.
I just LOVE this song. My mother and I used to sing along while she drove me to school in her old Buick Cutlass.
Great car!! Like a tank..but pretty!
i can take that car off your hands for lets say..... how does 50 bucks sound (im taking all the risk)
I'm here from Last Night In Soho
Same, man.
I was thinking "Lost" when I saw the teaser.
Send Dude!
@@ericpoulsen3087 Me too, and Girl Interrupted
Me too
I remember this on TV back in 1964. I was a little kid but the tune grabbed you.
I remember it on the radio. Memorable tune!
I heard it over and over again on the radio when I was tiny. It makes me as wistful today as it did back then.
it must be a great time for yall folks.
It was this and Georgy Girl and I'm a Believer I would look for on the diner mini jukebox at the table. And by the way "you make a dead man cum". That album soundtracked 1981 freshman year college. Long way from Petula Clark innocence.
Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday evenings
Fantastic vocals by Petula, I think she is very underrated as a vocalist... amazing.
58 years goes by like a warm summer breeze. I loved this song when it came out, it is timeless.
another great song for those of us who first heard downtown in the 60s and then in the 70s we heard "summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing to the jazz song in my mind...."
Reminds me of Juliet burning her hands making muffins
Just watched that episode :)
***** oh god he freaks me out
The Fragz ahh the good times just finished watching lost for like the 4th time
***** its from a tv show -_-
The Batman Project well, as Ricky Ricardo would say, 'splain?
I was born in 1962 and this is one of my earliest music memories.... always loved it because it made me want to spin in circles....reminds me of my mom...♡
I was born in 1962 also and l have the same memories dancing in the living room in circles
I played it to my 5 and 7 year olds today for the first time and guess what? They started spinning around in circles!
I born in 1961 though not the earliest ie is one of my earliest music memories
same here, always thinking of my -then- very young mom
61
73 years old - remember when it came out and have always loved it and Petula Clark
I'm 14 and it's one of the few older songs I like
My father (who's 72) just told me "why are you whispering a song of my old times?"
And I said : Because it's in Lost, the Tv Series"
22 years old here - this song made my parents to be a couple. Thanks Dad. Some things never dies. Exactly like my feelings to this song.
I was about 4-5 when this came out.
I was born in 1961, in 1964 , I was only 3 year's old , now 2024 , 63 year's old... I heard this when I was young , I love Music, I know this ' Downtown'
A classic .
Still listening 56 years later .
Yeah it is a bop
Yeah it’s one of those good classic songs that comes to mind and I’m humming it or singing it a little.
I first heard it on the radio in the 1980s and have always loved it. But I'm hard of hearing so it was full of mondegreens for me. I'm glad someone posted the lyrics. Downtown was the only word I heard clearly when I heard it on the radio; mondegreens are funny😂.
I love this woman and her music, who's with me in May 2020
Definitely, Petula has such a lovely voice
I concur
I HERE IN BRAZIL
Yep, May 19th 2020!
@@d.w952 ikilkmmmmmlmlkikmkkkkmkkkklmlllilkkmlkimmmmmlkmmmlkkmm
Mlkmmmllkkkkmkmnmknmnmmnm. Kmk
NJ. J j. Nnj
J. N. M...
. J. Jbj. J. Mbb5. Mb
Hjmj hnmmjmj. Jm. H. Y . B. Jmnhnh... Hbj. Jvhggvh get tt5345t33v5hb44g gtetr3bt3ng
This is such a great song. Very popular and 'hip' for time, even though it wasn't rock or pop.
Well, hang a name on its genre, will you please! ;-D
Of course it's a "pop" song!! And extraordinary at that!! Tony Hatch is a brilliant writer
Not pop? What? lol
Excuse me this is a pop song. Pop perfection!!!!!!!
@@tiagoduraes1120 I said of COURSE it's a 'pop' song!!! What's so funny???
Loved this song as a teenager and now in my 60s I still love listening to it. Thank you!
I'm here because I like Petula Clark. This brings me back to being six years old and my first radio!
me too,,,,she was awesome and all over the radio in the mid to late 60's
Yes, brings back memories....and not of some damned annoying tv show!
yup the sixties , drinking beer and listening to 45 rpm
Ok boomer!
Rudy Zuluaga Ok Boomer!
This made me cry for some reason, I feel my life is going nowhere and I'm totally clueless about what I'm gonna do. This song disconnected me from all the sad things and reminded me of how beautiful life is.
Captain Cube - don't ever give up! Xo
You are definitely not alone, I can tell!
The proverbial ray of sunshine. Get in touch with that inner voice.
Captain Cube same here my grandads fave song was this and I love him even if I never got to meet him..
its up to you brother.you should do what you love, because we aint permanent on this life.
I remember when I was little I always asked my dad to play this song everyday when he got home from work. It was one of my favorites :) I haven’t listened to it since I was about 4, so I thought I’d listen to it again. Such an incredible , nostalgic song!
I grew up with and still love all the older tunes, they make me happier than anything in the current pop music world. Thank you for making this upbeat playlist, it's making my work day a lot brighter!
My late boyfriend Dan favorite song. Tonight is his anniversary. May he Rest In Peace
Sorry for your loss
R.I.P 🙏
Thinking of you and wishing you well.
💘
keep your memories close to your heart.
best wishes from austria !
I have always loved this song. Forget all your troubles and cares because life is worth living. When I am depressed and lonely I play this song and I fell life is great and worth living for.
Beautiful sentiment...Thank you.
Bigfoot Country o
👋
Es Sí un Mundo caido más que hacemos?
Satan would have you to think this life isn't worth living and nobody cares for you; DON't you listen to him.
Freedom, can't live with it, can't live without it
This song has very special meaning to me. It was the first song I sang. I was 5 years old! It was the mid-60s - so yes I was there! I can still see the apartment my grandparents had. My young Mom and Dad, all the relatives - they encouraged me to sing for them. They are all gone now but that feeling lives on.......I went on to become a professional stage performer.......who’d would’ve thought!
Gone? Oh my
Downtown was the best. There were no big suburb's or suburban shopping centers yet. Almost everyone lived in the city. The only place to find everything was at the big downtown department stores. I really miss those. 8 floors, every floor a different department. The elevators were run manually by real people who would announce what was on each floor or you could ask them for help. While waiting for the elevator, the doors had windows, you could see the counterweights side up and down. Most of the stores were within a couple of blocks that you could walk to. Bus routes covered every neighborhood. You just walked to the bus stop, took it downtown, and did your shopping. At Christmas time when my parents took myself and my brothers and sisters downtown it was like magic. Christmas lights everywhere. The big department stores had moving Christmas displays in the big street display windows. Sidewalks crammed with shoppers. Cops directing traffic at each corner. Too bad it's all gone.
OMG you just filled in the rest of the memories for me! We used to go to the old Spiegel store in downtown Chicago and order things. Then we had to wait weeks for it to get delivered to our house. Don't forget the penny candy stores back in those days. Our parents would give us a dime, park in front of the store, and let us go in by ourselves to spend our dime! My favorite was the wafer like shell that looked like a space ship.
This was one of my moms favorite songs I always think of her where I hear it. Tomorrow would be her birthday!! Miss you ma.
Petula Clark was such a class act. She was so lovely, and so engaged in her performances!
She's still alive ;-)
Umm.... she's alive and well
@Tony I'm glad she's well ... and yes, she's like an angel. I grew up when the song came out ~ those were wild days! Petula sort of looked out for Karen Carpenter, like a big sister and knew what Karen went thru being stuck in the duo ~ Petula understood that Karen had a huge talent and was being held back by people around her. I've always loved that Petula was so kind to Karen ... I wish she had been able to get thru to her. WOW all this takes me back to another lifetime!!!
@Tony
Yes I'm here because I genuinely like this song I remember hearing it as a kid
This has always been and still is a favorite! Tears are in my eyes as I hear it yet again.
❤
I first heard this driving down the West Side Drive in a 1964 Monza
I'm not sure if you're familiar with Brooklyn NY, but ever since I was a child, this song always makes me want to go to Fulton Street, Albee Square, Junior's restaurant , Macys and the glamour of ''downtown''
@@MVR326 Never been to Brooklyn before or even New York for that matter
Still here. 2024. Thank you.❤
I can't believe 53 years have gone by since I first heard this song back in 1964. I was a 10 year old boy then. Now that I am 63 years old, this song still captures my heart. priceless!
Mr54nomore now 64
Time.. man
Mr54nomore I was 4 but loved it from the first time I heard it!!!
Mr54nomore Glad to have you still around bro
I know right!! Makes me feel young again
I remember seeing mom singing this song as she cleaned house. She probably wanted to go downtown, as me and my younger brothers were all under 7.
+donald leggett mine too
+donald leggett That so funny! My mom always cleaned to the house listening to Petula Clark!
+donald leggett yep, same here. Great memories.
+donald leggett ..... yepper ..... loved downtown ....... that's where it was at when this song came out ...... too bad the malls are busier now
+donald leggett My Mom used to get my sisters and me dressed nicely. Then we'd hop on a bus for a shopping day downtown. I miss those carefree days.
This song was, and still is, a classic. Petula Clark had it all in spades.
This song was one of the best songs on the radio back then. And it's still of the best that ever recorded, in 2022.
What has happened to downtown since then? Nothing but drug addicts, vagrants, panhandlers, broken dreams and despair. I can't wait to get to Heaven!
Funny trivia is, they (Hatch) had hard time to cobble up the lyrics - just 30 minutes before the session to start .. ;) it turned out quite well, didnt it ? .. Sullivan and Page waiting with their guitars tuned up 😂 Christ, what a fun those times were
If you took Petula Clark out of the '60's and dropped her into 2024, she would CRUSH every modern female singer with her talent, intonation and skill.
This was a hit long before either X-Files or Girl Interrupted were ever thought of. Petula Clark is one of the finest singers the UK has ever produced…
But sadly underrated!
Agree.Makes one happy.And now I'm sixty-two, sad too.
I agree...I hate when people site the movie a song was in over 20 years after it was originally a hit. Song is about more than "Girl Interrupted".
Not underrated at all..she has had a 70 year career..starting in WW2
I saw her name in the credits of a movie from about 1944 and thought that can't be the same Petula Clark.
This was my favorite song since I was 5. I got diagnosed with ptsd as a 12 year old (I'm a victim of sexuall abuse) and I have bad flashbacks and my mom always sings it to calm me down, and I'm 22 and she still does it every time. This song is so special to me, it instantly makes me feel safe 😊 I'm so greatfull for my mom and that she (even though I'm an Adult) never stopped doing it
I'm sorry You went through that
I am a 70 year old social worker, and I can understand your feelings and memories. I was abused during an outdoor gym class in front of the entire school. The entire school saw this. Only my shoes were left on me, but none of the teachers, principal, or officers acted on my behalf. None of those who violated me received any discipline. When I graduated I became a social worker, and gave all the help and understanding I could give, and continue to give, to those clients with similar hard times. My heart and soul are with you. You are not alone, because God is with us now and forever!!!
@@WideTurnHistory57 I'm so sorry that that happened to you. My story is that I got assaulted by a male friend and when my boyfriend at the time found out he started assaulting me and no one would believe me, I don't even know how many times it happened.. I stripped counting after 5..anyways after all of that I was fucked up and I tryed to end my life but then a random girl from my class saw my cuts and we talked and she actually believed me and helped me get help. Today I'm greatfull that my attempt didn't work. I'm in a health relationship (he knows and he's so gentle and he knows me so well that he always sees when I'm not okay) I'm going to uni and life is actually okay. My biggest dream is to become a social worker too and help people who have been sexually assaulted. Thank you so much ❤️
@@adriennerobinson1180 Thank you... it was horrible, but im doing really good rn. I just have flashbacks and night terrors but I've learned to live with it and my boyfriend is really helpful. He always listens and is there for me when im having flashbacks/night terrors.
God loves you. Jw.org
Born in 1952 and grew up in Tokyo. I remember the summer this song was on the radio over and over, and every time I was in raptures. How we were blessed then with beautiful music like these...
This Petula song was my mum all over, she was always going downtown. We played it at her funeral so now when I hear it it's bitter sweet..
I come here every day for my "3 minutes without depression" moment.
Great! I must do that! I'm a depression sufferer also. Thanks for sharing ! G-d bless you!
I hope in time your depression lessens. Music is a good way to relax, I also recommend Shirley Bassey, she's a personal favourite :)
Thanks to you, I come to this video almost regularly to lift my spirits. You didn't know that by your comment that your helping someone..me! Great idea! Thanks!
Let the music cleanse your mind
Same
Such a happy positive song, as a kid it made me feel that all was well when times were difficult. Pet Clark has such a kind and expressive voice. One of the greatest songs ever written.
When I about 4 or 5 years old in the late 1960s I remember hearing this song on the radio in the morning getting ready for school. My mom as I recall was and is a beautiful woman and loving mother, she always dressed up when going out with my dad and had bright golded blond hair and looked amazing from my earliest memories of her. When I see this video of petula clark her hair and face remind me of my mom from many years. My mom is a classy lady who set the bar for women I've known in my life. She taught me what being a decent man can be and how a true woman desires to be treated like by her man. I still visit as often as possible with my mom sadly my dad is now living in an Alzheimer's care facility. Thank mom, love you...
I'm sorry to hear about your Mother. I PRAY she gets better.
I'm So sorry about yours parents .😢😢
Amaaazing Tune ❤❤❤Takes me back to my childhood in the 60ies listening to the Radio 🙏👌God Bless Her❤Xxx Memories Never Die 🙏
If it's possible to love a song constantly for 53 years and counting then this is the one. I was 8 back then but I loved and still Llove this song and Pet Clark too if i'm honest
It has to be ranked among the top 100 songs of the 20th century.
I have came from Lost, seems like this masterpiece has been used in lots of shows
i came from girl, interrupted but this song feels like idk home, and it looks so familiar to me
Same.
Same
Juliet’s song
Me too. I just branched after season 3 episode 1
Growing up this was one of many “old time” songs my dad would play. He eventually passed away and hearing it again makes me smile and cry at the same time. Good music.
My late mum LOVED this song as do I! She was one of the rare ladys who could WHISTLE she was always whistling this. It was one the reasons I asked for a piano as a child that powerful intro by Tony Hatch is unforgetable - now I can play this! NEVER played on radio such a shame!
I’m here because I genuinely Love this song...
One of my favorite songs...
God bless Petula Clark.
Im here because of the movie “girl interrupted” and I can say that this song is such a huge masterpiece I literally cried listening to it ❤️❤️
Very few people ever put the TWO together.
Yep had to come straight here after girl, interrupted
EXACTLY!!! With Elizabeth moss’s character 🥺 this movie and scene was a huge childhood core memory for me
Why did you cry?
I bought the 45 at 12 years May of 65 racing on my bike to the record store Napanee, ON, Canada singing it all the way as a Head Chorister in a Cathedral Choir. Still in great shape singing DT in falsetto right now as I type! She had another 15 or so fabulous songs written by Tony Hatch. She is in her mid-80s still performing and BTW Pet was the follow up to Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music!!! 2nd. place.
Born decades after the release of this song and never until accidentally find this gem! Totally love it
A class song. Music back then made you want to sing along with such happiness & full of joy😃💚💽.,.
Timelessmusic Familymusic fringing in the rigging
Timelessmusic Familymusic wonderful music ☺
Songs like this were flooding our radios in the 60s.
Over 50 years later and I still love this performance.
Love this. ... Has stayed with me all of my life since childhood.
Mother would be cooking a Sunday roast with the radio on, and this was on all the time .
What a great song.
Lost vibes anyone?
I’m rewatching the series for the 8th time now and just started the 3rd season. What a wonderfully chosen song for the season opening.
lmao same, 8 times its insane. I rewatch it once a year, and I feel like it may not be the quality of the series alone (which is super good), especially because cliffhangers dont work a 2nd time, but because it takes me back to a time where things were easier. I mustve seen it like 10 times by now.
exactly the same here. Know this song from the series only, and love it as much as the third season, my favourite!
Same I only know it from the lost series omg lost is so good I’m on season 3 right now and it’s so good
please, series of what, i just love the song, its from some tv series? which one?
Lost
I was born in 1961, and this is the first song I remember hearing on the radio that caught my ear. I was riding in the car with my Mother and I told her I wanted to hear that song again. That was when I learned how the radio worked. Sure was disappointed I couldn't hear it again right away. I still LOVE this song
The best thing about pop music is a trifecta like this: great vocal performance by the lovely Petula Clark, great songwriting, and a great knockout arrangement.
A childhood favorite of mine, and a timeless and perfect pop classic.
I’m 65, my parents had this record in their collection. Life seemed simplistic in the 60’s. Black and white tv, no phone, tin bath on a Sunday!!!
We had a stereo hifi in 1969, one of those long low cabinets, my dad was into the old big band records but i remember we had a tijuana brass album, But I still remember downtown and other songs. And tin bath, yes. If you are talking about one of those old galvanized tubs? I remember we lived in a house and my mom would heat up water to put in it and we would have a bath. I think it was the house before we lived in the next one that had a claw foot tub where when we turned the water on sometimes it would come out all rusting from the old plumbing and we had to wait for the water to clear. We lived in an old farmhouse that was turned into a rental when the owners moved into town but still farmed the property. Even had farmer relatives that had modern plumbing but a still using outhouse out by the chicken coops! We'd go into town and eat at the coffee shop at the department store for a treat or go to town and get a cherry coke at the soda fountain and next door was the meat market with wood shavings on the floor. Remember when there would be fans like ceiling fans above the store doors out on the sidewalk. Me reminiscing too much here LOL. But loved those days!
When you're alone, and life is making you lonely
You can always go
Downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know
Downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, no finer place for sure
Downtown everything's waiting for you
Downtown
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows
Downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close
Downtown
Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too before the night is over
Happy again
The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, where all the lights are bright
Downtown, waiting for you tonight
Downtown, you're gonna be alright now
Downtown, downtown
Downtown
Downtown
And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, don't wait a minute for
Downtown, everything's waiting for you
Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown
Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown
I absolutely love this song for the reason that I played this for my men while we were approaching our target which was Saigon 50 years ago. We were 100 percent successful in accomplishing our mission. Praise God!
This song is my earliest dream memory. I was 5 in 1965. I dreamed I was in a snowy forest and holding on to a tree while the wind was blowing me sideways, lifting my feet off the ground. It was cold and dark but this song was playing, I suppose it was playing on our home stereo, but it was incorporated into a most vivid dream that still has the same feeling 52 years later.
64-66 ford thunderbirds.
I was born in '59
I was 4 when this came out. My mum and dad let me play the 45 all the time on a tiny portable record player. Also, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlett and UFO/Space 1999 -- all brilliant! R.I.P. Gerry Anderson
You are my same age and I remember this song and have always loved it.
I love that!
This song is about to blow up once again after seeing Last Night in SoHo
You bet it will
The movie was great
Indeed , one of the best movies iv seen in 2021
I am gonna go see the film again man barely anyone is seeing it where I am
Really good film
Yes
Gorgeous voice, gorgeous song, gorgeous accent, beautiful woman.. I love this.
This is the first record (a 45) I ever, ever purchased. I was thirteen years old. And I heard it on what was known then as a Germanium radio. No battery, and no electricity required to operate it. It came with a wire and a clip you would attach to metal with earphones (tiny) for listening. I would attach the clip to the metal springs on my bed. Berserk, totally berserk. But it was mesmerizing (the song, and the experience). A memory though happy in remembrance, melancholy now. Thank you sir. And that was Bronx, N.Y.. And Downtown Manhattan meant the world to me.
I love hearing these kind of details. You sound like quite the character. Have a good day.
delphinium02c I agree! Oh how I loved the days of my youth. Great times as a kid and great memories now!
Miguel I had one of those radios and heard this song too.
Glad you recognized it, because I did a poor job of describing it. And you are actually thus far the first person I have heard from that experienced this radio. You know, in retrospect I believe though we cherish the memories, none of us were prepared to make the most out of them at the time.Thanks for sharing JH
I should have added that how remarkable that you had likely the same magic bestowed upon you by this musical number through the rarity of a Germanium Radio. It just puts a stamp upon my passage through time. Again, thanks JH.
This song is so powerful it will just blow you away......
XD such dark humor
great song , sing it Paula .
One of the first songs I fell in love with as a little boy. Love it more today... Takes me back to those youthful days of joy.
+Gary Pobst Ah yes, one of the very first songs I can remember. I must have been around five when this was on the radio a lot.
This song came out before my time, but as a kid I loved to listen to it... and dream of going downtown. So many cities the downtown is now a complete mess - but I still love the vision of this song... the perfect enjoyable downtown!
Wow.. what a classic. Quality signing we don't hear much nowadays.... ty PET.
SINGING
Apparently the quality in spelling has gone the same direction as the music. 😉 (Just kidding. No offense intended.)
OMG!!!!! This is my absolute favorite song...EVER!!! Makes me so sad and happy at the same time cause I was only a kid when this came out!
I remember hearing this on the radio in '64. I was 5.
photopicker you are so old HAHAHA
That may be but I got to see all the great bands you read about.
+Wallace Raymond 58 😩😩😩
loL! I do not even remember what i was doing when i was 11. you have a very sharp memory.I have a neighbour who can tell you what the temperature was outside the day that JFK died and what he'd been doing that very day. He was about six only lol!
photopicker loved this I was about 7 or 8 I remember singing it at the swing park
Thank God for the gift of music Petula Clark brought us.
I went to the bank today and the lady behind the counter started singing, "Downtown"
I thought to myself, what a peculiar clerk.
You mean a Petula Clark not a peculiar clerk...lol
hahahaha
Wonderfully clever. :)
Hahahahah! That's insanely funny!
lol That really cracked me up! hahaha
I came here from one of my favorite scenes from lost with one of the best characters, Juliet. Such an underrated character. The "book club" scene was genius.
Me too ahahah
Same xD
Same here hahahaah ...i look now lost
Same 😂 i am in s3 and it is masterpeice
Yess!! Such a amazing scene I love Juliet ❤️
This is one of the songs that got my through my teenage years. I would drive from a desolate suburb to San Francisco and play this song on the way. And you what what? She was right! Downtown was the place to be. Thanks Petula. I have your LPs to play if I fell down. They always cheer me up.
"The lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares..."
+smwca123 great name
I remember this playing a lot in my grandma's car when she drove me around as a kid. I've got lots of nostalgia tied into this song, and I love hearing it to this day.
Удивительная песня в исполнении прекрасной певицы, какие эмоции, восхитительно, прекрасно, браво.
I had a crazy dream yesterday and woke up with this song on my mind...
Felt SO happy! Awesome!
Hello friend, how are you doing today??
i am 62 years old!! this reminds me when i was young and it was 'exciting' to go into nottingham town center!! people used to 'dress up' in their 'sunday best' and venture into town and have a 'wonderful' time! nowadays nottm town center is a 'depressing' sight to see! boarded up shops/'zombies' confronting you all the time/'scruffy slobs' shuffling around!!! miserable faced people with phones stuck to their ears...not a place we visit any more i'm afraid!!! md
So true Mick, I used to be 'downtown' nearby in Leicester in the 70s with everyone in their best after a week of work and have a great time. It never felt threatening, happy days. I wouldn't go into any city centre at night now, and I even try to avoid them as much as possible in daylight..
My auntie just had her 60th and said the same kind of things.
you gotta look at the world as if you just got out of a bunker where you were trapped for 10 years by yourself or with a few others, and then see behind the scruffiness and the phones and interrupt the people in what they are doing by shouting a cheerful "hi" at them and then see how they respond. Just keep shouting "Hi" and waving at each person as you walk down the street filled with people until eventually someone responds, and then engage them in a meaningful conversation about something positive and interesting like panda conservation or what they think about butterflies or something about themselves like what foreign country they have visited and what they did there or their pets or ask them about music. Some basic things that most humans can and will have in common with you and will talk about is: music, animals, nature, travel and food. And sometimes dancing.
mick dady you are an inspiration! When we can all get out again, we should all get dressed up! I know I’m looking better and better on my trip to the grocery store 😁😁😁
@@lemurlover7975 think about butterflies? You're likely to get tased if you talk like that lmao
This song is truly a timeless classic,it will live in our hearts forever, love and peace to everyone ❤😊
That RV bomber definitely had some Joker in him playing this song. Brutal.
Bro shut up
@@W0RDonTH3street how about another joke noah
Yea I was thinking the same, reminded me of Joker
@@sealclub4294 You wouldn't get it
@Van Die No video of this is there? I think just eye witness accounts
My mother was named Petula because my grandparents loved this song. That's why I'm here
So when your Mom got angry...would you say she was... petulant?😉
@@ragnarragnarsson3128 the amount of creativity in this comment. Bravo!
@@elizabethg2428 thank you... thank you very much...😊
@@ragnarragnarsson3128 *HUGS* BOW! This made my day lol!
Did she happen to own a RV by any chance?
Anyone here because they genuinely like the song?!
totally its the best kinda music to listen too :)
First record bought!
Er yes actually.
As someone who went to a downtown that was dying even as I visited it, I can say I genuinely love this song.
ashton vickers I am here because I loved the song for years since I’m a child I’m almost 40 I grew up with it I like the singer too prefer singers from then then any of them female pop singers of today
Many of us still enjoy this clean music . Something simple and uncomplicated!!
When my mother was growing up, her and my grandma (her mom) would sing this song while walking to get groceries in town. My grandmother has since passed but my mom still sings this song from here and there.
This song heals my anxiety and helps me with fighting my depression off. Thank you heartily ♡
Trzymaj się 😊
We’re with you buddy! :)
Today when I heard that it was her birthday, I just had to go to the computer, which we never had back in our days, to listen to Downtown, one of the greatest goldies ever.
My mum used to like this song...she never understood much english..as she hadnt lived in uk for long time..my mum came here from italy...i was born in italy..
And i remember she liked petula clarke...aaarrrhhh brings back memorys...unfortunately my mum is no longer with us..😢 miss you mum..❤
I grew up in a small town in NJ that had about 10 stores: a candy store, pizza place, butcher, deli, real estate and hardware. But us kids said even before this song came out, "I'm going downtown to get some M&Ms" What struck my chord (and probably anyone's) about this song is that downtown can be anywhere and, compared to sitting in the house, downtown can be exciting anywhere you live---it doesn't have to be swinging London in 1964.
No.
Actually James, "Downtown" is a lot closer to you than you may realise. Recording executives in New York had rejected all of the compositions of British Composer Tony Hatch. Disconsolate, Hatch walked up 7th Avenue, down Broadway and over to 8th. He had just passed Madison Square Garden when the neon lights of New York's theater district came on and this tune began to form in his head. The only thing Tony Hatch got wrong that day, the Theatre district is in mid-town Manhattan while all the while Tony thought he was "Downtown". The rest as they say is history!
Oradell, NJ?
This is so true. Down my street in outer suburbia there is a beautiful shopping central where people go to congregate, eat, lounge, shop, have coffee, watch movies and play arcade games. There are trees and seats. Everyone is always so happy there, and I've had so many good times there I'm starting to think of it as my 'downtown'.
Who is here checking out this song after it was named to be playing from the RV that exploded in Nashville on Christmas morning 2020?
The guy commented on this video 8 months ago too. Wow.
Me I believe it could be just a suicide
@Quatroking a lot of people actually.
@@kingkong1040 What comment was it?
@@kingkong1040 8 hours ago fool.
I remember this song when it hit the British charts in 1964. I was a young kid at the time and it's a song that stuck in my head for ages. Today was the first time I watched/heard this song for ages. Just loved Petula - oh and she is 91 years old!!
This is so 'of its period' - her PVC mac, hairstyle, the music, the fact it's in black and white - everything screams 1964. I was only 6 at the time, but I heard this on the radio and loved it.
Everything was so new and exciting at this time and at the same so innocent that is gone forever
Right and this song some how caught the excitement of the times. Of course being 15 years old helped also.
Nope. Innocence is always there if you seek it.
Dave Wilson
Downtown all dressed up holding mom's hand and it playing from the store fronts on the walk
Now everything is DUMB psycopathtic and brainwashed.
Dave Wilson 100th like :D