What a tragic chick. "After 9/11", wtf? The performance was already average on the song, the song was the story. Just horrific to have her bring up 9/11 as part of the song's history.
Sophie Charlotte I just came back to listen, and saw your response! I had this played at our 50th anniversary party! Such wonderful memories of falling in love!
It was a towering hit song. In that era my parents were buying 45 singles of their favorite songs (they weren't yet thirty years old) and their tastes impressed on their youngsters and now I'm here to remember.
I am an American and was a child when this song came out. My mother and I love it to this day. ♥ A few years ago it was playing in a McDonalds and about 10 people started singing to it. It is a special special song that makes people happy. Thanks Petula!
"Took it to their hearts"", Well said Petula Clark. I was a young 4 year old child who fell in love with this song. My family used to go downtown to shop at JC Penney's and Sears, go to lunch, and then go see a movie. I felt like Petula was singing about my life. 💕
@@honkyjesuseternal , what a weird comment and are you on drugs or something?? Wow. This song was recorded and sung in a time when life was more simple and carefree.
@honkyjesus eternal - this song was written and famous first in the mid 1960s in a much simpler, wonderful time! What a blessing to have been a young child and grown up then! Families shopped together downtown, met for dinner downtown, marched and performed in parades downtown, and viewed seasonal displays at the local department stores with our noses pressed to windows to see Santa and the newest toys to add to our Christmas lists! I live in a small 30,000 + town and our Downtown is enjoying a rebirth once again! Recently our Downtown shop owners recorded a short movie and sang “Downtown” while stopping in and out of the shops and restaurants there while ending on the steps of our historic courthouse with arms outstretched as they sang! I even work downtown! We LOVE 💕 this song in little main street USA Cleburne, TX. It’s “our” theme song!
@@honkyjesuseternal Why aren't you young barbarians viewing more age-appropriate videos. Your dumb comment belies your naivte about the 60's scene in America. 🤪😳🤡
Whenever I hear this song it reminds me of my childhood in Indianapolis. Whenever my mother was bored she would take my brother and I downtown. We didn't have a lot of money but she always liked window shopping even though she didn't buy anything. I also loved her in the movie Goodbye Mr. Chips. Even though I have never met her Petula Clark will always be a part of my life.
makeminefreedom Yeah, I grew up in INDY and I enjoyed going downtown to see the lighting of the tree/monument during the holidays and also going to Union Station. Also Castleton Square mall, I believe it was called was fun for window shopping.
Makeminefreedom: I enjoyed your story. My Mother did things like that too. She was fun and very smart. In the summer time, when my Dad was working graveyard, she'd take us to the drive-in in my little hometown of Lebanon, Oregon. Petula Clark was my supreme hero as a kid. Besides her music, I just ❤ her in "Goodbye Mr. Chips". Oh my gosh, that was a good movie. I didn't know it at the time, but it is a classic. She, Sonny & Cher and The Supremes were the BEST!🥰🤩😍EVER. Thanks for sharing 👍.
My parents attended a party thrown at our next door neighbors house back in the late 80's. The neighbor had previously owned the magazine 'Redbook' and was now rercording 60's musical artists with his new record label. It was a school night and I was asleep, but my father woke me up and told me to come out to the foyer. Standing right in front of me was Ms. Clark and 3 members of The Platters, who were famous for "Only You" and "The Great Pretender". They signed autographs and took pictures with me. Quite a thrill for a 16 year old kid in Florida.
This song has always “mesmerized” me for some reason. Song came out a few years before I was born so I grew up listening to it. My mother would sing this song while in the kitchen cooking or cleaning and I would just stop whatever I was doing and just listen, never failed. Also, I would stop and look at the radio while the song played, wherever I was. Weird. For some reason this song is special for me. The lyrics, melody, her voice but mostly the melody just gets me. Nowadays, I just still really enjoy it mostly because it brings back a flood of memories
I'll forever think of my Dad every time I hear Petula Clark. She is one of his absolute favorites along with Dusty Springfield. As my Dad would always tell me when I was little listening to his old reel to reel recorder, Petula has a voice that's completely effortless sounding and natural.
I was 10 years old and living in Wichita, Kansas in 1967 and for some reason this song spoke to me the first time I heard it. In that summer my mother the 3 of us brothers took a train across country to visit dad who had been working on a traveller for Boeing, who were working on the 747 program in Seattle.. And Seattle was a REAL city with a real vibrant downtown. Dad moved from the home of his birth Wichita, in 1980; mom followed in 84 along with our youngest brother. The middle brother moved to this area in early 1988 and I moved finally in September of 1988... almost 30 years ago for me now. And going from Everett where I live down to Seattle still has that same 'Downtown' feel it had in 1967 the first time I was there 51 years ago. Thanks Petula!!
This is one of my mom's favorite songs when I was a little girl. She came from a small town, met & married my dad who was a musician. She fell in love with Downtown Houston, Texas, she was soo excited by the big city! Downtown has such a very special meaning for mom & me cause she would take us on the city bus & we would head downtown to shops & eat. "You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares & go Downtown! Everything's waiting for you!"⚘💖🙋♀️
I was in a MacDonalds a few years ago and this came on the speaker. One person started humming it and people were singing the words..it just inspires happiness when she sings it.
One of my earliest memories is of Petula Clark singing "Downtown" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was very young and that must have been the first time I responded to music and singing and visual performance. That was a great way to start!
Always loved Petula , she is a remarkable talent and a very classy lady . She had a long string of great hit songs , so glad I grew up in the 50s - 60s it was such an incredible era of for music in every genre . Petula will turn 87 next month , God the years have flown !
She is a remarkable singer, she helped me have a lifetime love of music. I wouldn't say classy though, she is married, has a husband and a boyfriend. A little weird for me.
The first song that captured me. I was 7 and she made me want to go downtown as we lived in a small town and I had never been to a big town. Still love this song and petula
The quality of her voice on the phrase "down-town" is so exciting that I never get tired of hearing it. The melody builds toward that phrase throughout the song, and pays off with each repetition. I'm sure that musicologists or scientists who study the effect of music on the human nervous system can explain it -- I can't -- but I've heard people in choruses sing chords that are so intensely spine-tingling that it's all the audience can do to stand on their feet after listening. This song has an effect a bit like that. I love it.
Agreed. I love the way she sings the word "downtown". You're right, everything builds up toward it, then builds up again toward it. Very enjoyable song.
This song carries me back to a happy, special time as a little girl, walking downtown at Christmas time with my younger sister, mom, and dad. The trees, this song playing in the background, the overhead lights, other little children and their parents, Santa and the sheer joy of the season through a child's eye..all around me evoking a feeling of peace, and that all is well in my little corner of the world. A truly special time that I have never forgotten. 💓
As a youngster with older siblings who loved music, I remember my little mind be fascinated by this song! I was 4 years old and "Downtown" conjured such an unimaginable, responsible feeling within me..one that I would never be able to master:) But, here I am all these years later comfortably navigating the "downtown". Wonderful to see this video!
I was six when I first remembered hearing this song in 1967. We were living in Germany for 3 years while my father was flying CF-104's in the Canadian Air Force. I used to think she sounded like my Grandmother, who I missed terribly (we never saw any other family while we were overseas), so I have very fond memories of this tune. It would often come on the armed forces radio (played by the US all over Germany at the time) while we were driving around Germany and France and so I have all these snapshots of where we were whenever it was on the radio in my brain after all these years. I also remember Mrs. Robinson the same way (although I never really got the song until I saw the movie much later!). Anyway, Petula looks fantastic for someone who has to be well into her 80's even if this is quite old.
I too am a military brat whose dad was posted to Germany in the 1960s, when this song came out. The rhythm of "The lights are much brighter there..." almost matched that of the power control equipment on certain classes of German electric locomotives of those days "notching up" as their drivers say: ker-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINK!
I was born a few years after its release, I remember it from 3,4 & 5 years old. I used to imagine where was this 'downtown' in dark cold depressing winter. Not releasing the impact I found myself living downtown in 3 major world cities because it was brighter & full like minded people.
The Australians took it to heart as well. I was 4 when it was released and I loved it. If going down town was as good as the song I'd make sure I lived in the city.
When I attended her concert in Notre Dame, Indiana, it was a concert in the round, with people all around. Just like the black and white clip in the beginning.
I was years old Being a kid in Kodiak Alaska the 1st time i heard this song at KRAFTS GROCERIE Store . I LOVED IT . GOOD FEELING SONG MAKES ME C RY NOW IN 2021
It's such a peppy song, full of hope and wonder. I picture a young girl in the city for the very first time, looking up at the skyscrapers in awe with a great big smile on her face ready to take on the world. Remember when Mary Tyler Moore spun around and threw up her cap, like that moment. And the melody is pure bubbles, it stands the test of time, it's like an old friend you can go visit to help you when you're feeling a little sad, it cheers you right up every time.
When this song came out, you literally couldn’t turn on the radio and not hear it. That’s how popular it was. I was a teenager and saw how hot Petula Clark was, and I was shocked she was the same age as my mother
It’s a great song. Heard it since I can remember, one of my mums favourites. Probably the first time I heard Bossa nova . The most popular karaoke song here in the UK.
It is a lovely song, one of my favourites. I am not sure however that the concept of 'Downtown' was understood in The UK, it is very much an Americanism.
I remember her singing this song on the Ed Sullivan show. Ed introduced that night saying she had to rush to the show from the airport, barely making it in time for her performance. The song was all the rage and it was great to see to her doing it live. Back then of course it was one and done viewing. Unlike today, there were no videos of songs to access.
The best use of this song was Jerry and George trying to figure out what they thought was a coded message from Wilhelm on Seinfeld. I like her whole sassy 1960's look and attitude.
I equate it to moving to downtown Portland from the suburbs' that summer of 64, the happy memories of my adolescent year. Living in the heart of the city, bless mom for the idea of easier to get to work.
Petula is the most accomplished female artist in pop music. The quality of her material and the sheer volume of great songs places her as the best. My opinion of course but if you listen to her song library I am sure you will agree. Her music will be played long after Madonna and Beyoncé are forgotten.
it is the old conundrum, when we are young we all dream of leaving our small town and fantasize about going downtown. and when we get older we miss that simple small town that we escaped and long for those days that are gone and will never exist again because the small town we knew no longer exists.
I just fell in love with Petula Clark. She was my favorite singer when I was a kid. I was thinking when during this video about my "hero worship" and how I read everything about her that I could find and reacting negatively to friends who didn't share my complete adulation. ❤ I grew out of it, but recognize she's just as great as I thought back then. She's a great actress too. I just loved "Goodbye Mr. Chips" with Peter O'Toole. She was on Broadway too. Thanks for listening 🎶.
Sad that the real Americans she sang it for died in 9/11. Oh well. Like Rick Astley said, "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down". Word to Petula.
It's 1 of those songs that whenever I hear it I think, 'best song ever.' And I do remember it from '65 as it had a lot of airplay in Canada, and it was always 1 of my top favourites. Tony Hatch, 1 of the greatest composers of all-time, and Petula Clark, 1 of the greatest singers of all-time.
😊 PETULA CLARK: DOWNTOWN. HAS quite rightly become Petula's signature song and of course will always be renowned for singing it. THE SONG it's self is a absolute timeless masterpiece of Sixties culture and so uplifting that it takes us right into the Stratosphere. Petula Clark vocals are as always ( with Petula) are excellent and pin point accurate in diction,pitch and power. Where Petite Petula gets her incredibe stamaner from intrigues me as she is all of 5ft 2"". DOWNTOWN by the Legendary PETULA CLARK is TIMELESS and a Rembrandt amongs songs.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ AND I LOVE IT.❤❤❤❤❤
This was the first song I remember as a 4 year old and the Spanish Fly saxophone song. It made me want to go "downtown" to a place of wonder and amazement!
I love watching my shindig vhs tapes,petula clark singing downtown,makes my heart happy. I forget all my troubles and forget all my cares.beautifull lady thank you.god bless you.
One of my oldest memories...I was 4 or 5 I had a vivid dream of me in a dark snowy forest, and the wind was blowing me sideways as I held onto a tree. This song was playing. Most likely it was on the radio, and I was hearing it while I slept and incorporated it into the dream. That was over fifty years ago,
🎼🎵♬ "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!" 🎼🎵♬
This is the 1st. song I remember remembering. : ) I was 2 or 3 and it was still in very heavy rotation in '65-66 and beyond. Didn't The Wrecking Crew studio musicians play on this here in the States?
I probably sang _Downtown_ about a thousand times in the 1960s as a request for friends and family (I also did a mean Tiny Tim impression--don't ask). When it came out in 1964, I assumed (incorrectly) that Petula Clark was a teenager like everyone else I knew who liked this kind of music. She was, in fact, 32 years old. _Downtown_ was a great song back then, when actually _going_ downtown to shop, a restaurant, or theater, was a big deal; this, when there _was_ a downtown to visit in most communities. After the malls appeared in the 1970s, and their subsequent demise due (primarily) to online shopping, most downtown areas are now ghost towns here in America, the large metropolitan cities notwithstanding.
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This song was part of my happy childhood in simpler, innocent days.
welcome to the club
What a tragic chick. "After 9/11", wtf? The performance was already average on the song, the song was the story. Just horrific to have her bring up 9/11 as part of the song's history.
theres no time in history that was ever innocent
And the same for me. What a wonderful song.
Ohhhh, nostalgia when you hold me! 😢
My first date with my hubby this song was playing...I reached for his hand, and 55 years later we are still in love!
Beautiful!
Awhh this is so amazing!!🥺🥰
Sophie Charlotte I just came back to listen, and saw your response! I had this played at our 50th anniversary party! Such wonderful memories of falling in love!
Suzanne Robbins that’s so wonderful!! 🥺💕
(Happy Anniversary!!)💕
This was a monster hit back in the day and still evokes such great memories.
It was a towering hit song. In that era my parents were buying 45 singles of their favorite songs (they weren't yet thirty years old) and their tastes impressed on their youngsters and now I'm here to remember.
And to hear that it evokes 9/11 for the singer, much to her benefit.
I am an American and was a child when this song came out. My mother and I love it to this day. ♥
A few years ago it was playing in a McDonalds and about 10 people started singing to it.
It is a special special song that makes people happy. Thanks Petula!
LJKH: That's a cool story, thanks for sharing :)
Sandy (Dan Lee's wife)
Thanks, Petula for sharing this!
That the boom dot com song
@greenmean1 I love her
@greenmean1 she was tho
"Took it to their hearts"", Well said Petula Clark. I was a young 4 year old child who fell in love with this song. My family used to go downtown to shop at JC Penney's and Sears, go to lunch, and then go see a movie. I felt like Petula was singing about my life. 💕
Well, she was singing about 9/11. I hope that doesn't signify your life, hun.
@@honkyjesuseternal , what a weird comment and are you on drugs or something?? Wow. This song was recorded and sung in a time when life was more simple and carefree.
@honkyjesus eternal - this song was written and famous first in the mid 1960s in a much simpler, wonderful time! What a blessing to have been a young child and grown up then! Families shopped together downtown, met for dinner downtown, marched and performed in parades downtown, and viewed seasonal displays at the local department stores with our noses pressed to windows to see Santa and the newest toys to add to our Christmas lists! I live in a small 30,000 + town and our Downtown is enjoying a rebirth once again! Recently our Downtown shop owners recorded a short movie and sang “Downtown” while stopping in and out of the shops and restaurants there while ending on the steps of our historic courthouse with arms outstretched as they sang! I even work downtown! We LOVE 💕 this song in little main street USA Cleburne, TX. It’s “our” theme song!
@@honkyjesuseternal FFS the song was written and recorded in 1964, when NO ONE could have foreseen 9/11!!
@@honkyjesuseternal
Why aren't you young barbarians viewing more age-appropriate videos. Your dumb comment belies your naivte about the 60's scene in America. 🤪😳🤡
One of the most uplifting songs ever recorded. Makes me want to well, go downtown.....
Whenever I hear this song it reminds me of my childhood in Indianapolis. Whenever my mother was bored she would take my brother and I downtown. We didn't have a lot of money but she always liked window shopping even though she didn't buy anything. I also loved her in the movie Goodbye Mr. Chips. Even though I have never met her Petula Clark will always be a part of my life.
makeminefreedom
Yeah, I grew up in INDY and I enjoyed going downtown to see the lighting of the tree/monument during the holidays and also going to Union Station. Also Castleton Square mall, I believe it was called was fun for window shopping.
Makeminefreedom: I enjoyed your story. My Mother did things like that too. She was fun and very smart. In the summer time, when my Dad was working graveyard, she'd take us to the drive-in in my little hometown of Lebanon, Oregon. Petula Clark was my supreme hero as a kid. Besides her music, I just ❤ her in "Goodbye Mr. Chips". Oh my gosh, that was a good movie. I didn't know it at the time, but it is a classic. She, Sonny & Cher and The Supremes were the BEST!🥰🤩😍EVER. Thanks for sharing 👍.
@@fishercourt...but never stopping to buy?
This is definitely, one of the world's greatest songs, period.
My parents attended a party thrown at our next door neighbors house back in the late 80's. The neighbor had previously owned the magazine 'Redbook' and was now rercording 60's musical artists with his new record label. It was a school night and I was asleep, but my father woke me up and told me to come out to the foyer. Standing right in front of me was Ms. Clark and 3 members of The Platters, who were famous for "Only You" and "The Great Pretender". They signed autographs and took pictures with me. Quite a thrill for a 16 year old kid in Florida.
Did she tell you about 9/11? She did in the clip.
What a awestruck moment that must have been! You will remember that forever. Thank for sharing.
Your name is John Daker.
@@honkyjesuseternal lol what? He said this happened in the 80s...well before 9/11 happened. 🤦🏼♀️
Wow! How very COOL. What a treat.😋🤩
This song has always “mesmerized” me for some reason. Song came out a few years before I was born so I grew up listening to it. My mother would sing this song while in the kitchen cooking or cleaning and I would just stop whatever I was doing and just listen, never failed. Also, I would stop and look at the radio while the song played, wherever I was. Weird. For some reason this song is special for me. The lyrics, melody, her voice but mostly the melody just gets me. Nowadays, I just still really enjoy it mostly because it brings back a flood of memories
I'll forever think of my Dad every time I hear Petula Clark. She is one of his absolute favorites along with Dusty Springfield. As my Dad would always tell me when I was little listening to his old reel to reel recorder, Petula has a voice that's completely effortless sounding and natural.
I was 10 years old and living in Wichita, Kansas in 1967 and for some reason this song spoke to me the first time I heard it. In that summer my mother the 3 of us brothers took a train across country to visit dad who had been working on a traveller for Boeing, who were working on the 747 program in Seattle.. And Seattle was a REAL city with a real vibrant downtown. Dad moved from the home of his birth Wichita, in 1980; mom followed in 84 along with our youngest brother. The middle brother moved to this area in early 1988 and I moved finally in September of 1988... almost 30 years ago for me now. And going from Everett where I live down to Seattle still has that same 'Downtown' feel it had in 1967 the first time I was there 51 years ago. Thanks Petula!!
ha me to love this tune
I bought the remix version of this in 88 and the original was on the B Side, one of those timeless classics that never really gets old.
You sound like an old racist. Cheers.
And Seattle is an amazing city!
This is one of my mom's favorite songs when I was a little girl. She came from a small town, met & married my dad who was a musician. She fell in love with Downtown Houston, Texas, she was soo excited by the big city! Downtown has such a very special meaning for mom & me cause she would take us on the city bus & we would head downtown to shops & eat. "You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares & go Downtown! Everything's waiting for you!"⚘💖🙋♀️
I was in a MacDonalds a few years ago and this came on the speaker. One person started humming it and people were singing the words..it just inspires happiness when she sings it.
Yes, she is quite the talent. /s
One of my earliest memories is of Petula Clark singing "Downtown" on the Ed Sullivan Show. I was very young and that must have been the first time I responded to music and singing and visual performance. That was a great way to start!
Always loved Petula , she is a remarkable talent and a very classy lady . She had a long string of great hit songs , so glad I grew up in the 50s - 60s it was such an incredible era of for music in every genre . Petula will turn 87 next month , God the years have flown !
Plus, she never used 9/11 as a stepping stone. Oops.
Not to many good singers anymore
She is a remarkable singer, she helped me have a lifetime love of music. I wouldn't say classy though, she is married, has a husband and a boyfriend. A little weird for me.
No,New York used her song as a stepping stone after 9/11!
A boy friend? where did you get that?
2019: I just found this and I believe I needed to wipe away a tear or two, what a great singer.............
Ehh. Great singer? You found her great after this and her apparent 9/11 tribute?
I was a child when I first heard this song. I never forgot it. It mesmerised me as it did so many young people.
The 1960s. Great times. So glad I grew up then. I will take my age and my memories over anything today.
Rad ❤
Yup!! Downtown was THE place to be in my little hometown of 3,000 in Oregon. It was 1968 and life was GOOD🥰😍🤩
Loved this song! Always made me feel happy when I heard it. And loved her singing You Belong to Me.
In 1971 my father took me to the Okeefe Center to see Petula Clark on my 11th birthday. She was wonderful.
some songs never get old and become evergreens. This is one of them. Timeless.
I love Petula, she was so beautiful in that era and I love her song 'Downtown'.
God bless all celebrities.
I was about 3 or 4 when this came out. I remember my aunt playing the 45, over and over. It drove my grandpa nuts!
I'll always love this song, no matter what.
What a great song. It works on so many levels,
A great song then, now and always.
The first song that captured me. I was 7 and she made me want to go downtown as we lived in a small town and I had never been to a big town. Still love this song and petula
The quality of her voice on the phrase "down-town" is so exciting that I never get tired of hearing it. The melody builds toward that phrase throughout the song, and pays off with each repetition. I'm sure that musicologists or scientists who study the effect of music on the human nervous system can explain it -- I can't -- but I've heard people in choruses sing chords that are so intensely spine-tingling that it's all the audience can do to stand on their feet after listening. This song has an effect a bit like that. I love it.
Agreed. I love the way she sings the word "downtown". You're right, everything builds up toward it, then builds up again toward it. Very enjoyable song.
Awesome voice and a beautiful timeless song. Thank you Petula Clark.
This song carries me back to a happy, special time as a little girl, walking downtown at Christmas time with my younger sister, mom, and dad. The trees, this song playing in the background, the overhead lights, other little children and their parents, Santa and the sheer joy of the season through a child's eye..all around me evoking a feeling of peace, and that all is well in my little corner of the world. A truly special time that I have never forgotten. 💓
Same here it reminds me of my mom and being just a really young child and a positive feeling.
As a youngster with older siblings who loved music, I remember my little mind be fascinated by this song! I was 4 years old and "Downtown" conjured such an unimaginable, responsible feeling within me..one that I would never be able to master:) But, here I am all these years later comfortably navigating the "downtown". Wonderful to see this video!
Thank you so much for this. This was so fantastic to hear again...and the melody is still just as infectious today.
Like Petula said, it gives people the Itchy 9/11.
I was six when I first remembered hearing this song in 1967. We were living in Germany for 3 years while my father was flying CF-104's in the Canadian Air Force. I used to think she sounded like my Grandmother, who I missed terribly (we never saw any other family while we were overseas), so I have very fond memories of this tune. It would often come on the armed forces radio (played by the US all over Germany at the time) while we were driving around Germany and France and so I have all these snapshots of where we were whenever it was on the radio in my brain after all these years. I also remember Mrs. Robinson the same way (although I never really got the song until I saw the movie much later!). Anyway, Petula looks fantastic for someone who has to be well into her 80's even if this is quite old.
I too am a military brat whose dad was posted to Germany in the 1960s, when this song came out. The rhythm of "The lights are much brighter there..." almost matched that of the power control equipment on certain classes of German electric locomotives of those days "notching up" as their drivers say: ker-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINKA-CHINK!
All these years later I'm still listening to Downtown. I listen to all kinds of music and Petula Clark seems to be a main staple.
What an amazing song.
It is an amazing Anthem.
When this came out I sat and listened to her records for hours on end, she has a great voice.
this was only one of many great songs she did.
Played this song in my salon every day several times per day for TWO years. ALL ages LOVED it!
We all remember 9/11.
Each song carries an atmosphere that acts as a building block in our overall concept of what reality is
Like 9/11. Downtown. Each block from downtown is reality. Great point.
I was born a few years after its release, I remember it from 3,4 & 5 years old. I used to imagine where was this 'downtown' in dark cold depressing winter. Not releasing the impact I found myself living downtown in 3 major world cities because it was brighter & full like minded people.
One of my favourite vintage songs reminded me of my childhood days
Just an incredible song. Love It!
She said it inspired 9/11!!!
It wasn’t the song that took our hearts, Petula Dear! It was YOU!!!
Fab song. Never tire of listening to it.
The Australians took it to heart as well. I was 4 when it was released and I loved it. If going down town was as good as the song I'd make sure I lived in the city.
I absolutely love this song
When I attended her concert in Notre Dame, Indiana, it was a concert in the round, with people all around. Just like the black and white clip in the beginning.
I was years old Being a kid in Kodiak Alaska the 1st time i heard this song at KRAFTS GROCERIE Store . I LOVED IT . GOOD FEELING SONG MAKES ME C RY NOW IN 2021
It's such a peppy song, full of hope and wonder. I picture a young girl in the city for the very first time, looking up at the skyscrapers in awe with a great big smile on her face ready to take on the world. Remember when Mary Tyler Moore spun around and threw up her cap, like that moment. And the melody is pure bubbles, it stands the test of time, it's like an old friend you can go visit to help you when you're feeling a little sad, it cheers you right up every time.
When this song came out, you literally couldn’t turn on the radio and not hear it. That’s how popular it was. I was a teenager and saw how hot Petula Clark was, and I was shocked she was the same age as my mother
It’s a great song. Heard it since I can remember, one of my mums favourites. Probably the first time I heard Bossa nova . The most popular karaoke song here in the UK.
My God that was a great song and a great moment in time.
She wrote it about 9/11 she said.
It is a lovely song, one of my favourites. I am not sure however that the concept of 'Downtown' was understood in The UK, it is very much an Americanism.
Downtown is the earliest song a recall from my childhood. When I hear it...I'm 4 years old again...
I remember her singing this song on the Ed Sullivan show. Ed introduced that night saying she had to rush to the show from the airport, barely making it in time for her performance. The song was all the rage and it was great to see to her doing it live. Back then of course it was one and done viewing. Unlike today, there were no videos of songs to access.
The best use of this song was Jerry and George trying to figure out what they thought was a coded message from Wilhelm on Seinfeld.
I like her whole sassy 1960's look and attitude.
Yeah, she looked racist.
I was so in love with her as a young boy! So beautiful 😍
Pet Clark was and is a class act 100%
Plus, she never used 9/11 as a gambit. You never hear her use it once. Not once.
She was very classy
I equate it to moving to downtown Portland from the suburbs' that summer of 64, the happy memories of my adolescent year. Living in the heart of the city, bless mom for the idea of easier to get to work.
A terrific song, beautifully sung, and it is also forever immortalized in an episode of Seinfeld. Win : Win !!
8 years old when this song came out and still one of my favorites.
She wrote it for 9.11
Petula is the most accomplished female artist in pop music.
The quality of her material and the sheer volume of great songs places her as the best. My opinion of course but if you listen to her song library I am sure you will agree. Her music will be played long after Madonna and Beyoncé are forgotten.
That yellow dress is making me so happy right now!
2:54 Her impression of the archetypical American, complete with accent, shows what a good ear she has.
She sung various foreign-language versions of Downtown herself, with excellent pronunciation.
The lights are much brighter there..........wonderful stuff.
Was 15 when this song hit the air waves...
Touched my soul...
Shy country boy, back then, I was...
Wow..
A song that makes all us Welsh people think of twin town, also fits the movie amazingly
I'm from mexico and I love this song it's perfect
it is the old conundrum, when we are young we all dream of leaving our small town and fantasize about going downtown. and when we get older we miss that simple small town that we escaped and long for those days that are gone and will never exist again because the small town we knew no longer exists.
I remember this song and the lovin spoonful's "summer in the city" as songs that remind me of urban living in the 60's.
I just fell in love with Petula Clark. She was my favorite singer when I was a kid. I was thinking when during this video about my "hero worship" and how I read everything about her that I could find and reacting negatively to friends who didn't share my complete adulation. ❤ I grew out of it, but recognize she's just as great as I thought back then. She's a great actress too. I just loved "Goodbye Mr. Chips" with Peter O'Toole. She was on Broadway too. Thanks for listening 🎶.
A great song that was sang by a great star with a wonderful voice.
Growing up, the roller skating rink would play this and we'd all kneel down and touch the floor when she'd say "downtown."
Sad that the real Americans she sang it for died in 9/11. Oh well. Like Rick Astley said, "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down". Word to Petula.
It's 1 of those songs that whenever I hear it I think, 'best song ever.' And I do remember it from '65 as it had a lot of airplay in Canada, and it was always 1 of my top favourites. Tony Hatch, 1 of the greatest composers of all-time, and Petula Clark, 1 of the greatest singers of all-time.
Great song and recording. Don’t Sleep In The Subway and Colour my world also come to mind:)
😊 PETULA CLARK: DOWNTOWN.
HAS quite rightly become Petula's signature song and of course will always be renowned for singing it.
THE SONG it's self is a absolute timeless masterpiece of Sixties culture and so uplifting that it takes us right into the Stratosphere.
Petula Clark vocals are as always ( with Petula) are excellent and pin point accurate in diction,pitch and power.
Where Petite Petula gets her incredibe stamaner from intrigues me as she is all of 5ft 2"".
DOWNTOWN by the Legendary PETULA CLARK is TIMELESS and a Rembrandt amongs songs.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
AND I LOVE IT.❤❤❤❤❤
Pure joy!!!O was 5 ir 6 and this song brings.me back to that time like magic! It's a time machine...
San Diego is my lucky city for hearing Petula Clark on the radio.
I was 15 and I loved this song and Pet Clark.
She's being modest when she said America went crazy for the song, we also went crazy for her, and she followed up with one hit after another.
i was about 10 when this come out and loved it, still a fav song.
My earliest memories are this song on TV and radio .
Born in 1962 .
This makes me think of George Costanza
Ahhhhhh. My first thought.
This was the first song I remember as a 4 year old and the Spanish Fly saxophone song. It made me want to go "downtown" to a place of wonder and amazement!
She was my first crush. I was three. I heard this song and that was it!
I love watching my shindig vhs tapes,petula clark singing downtown,makes my heart happy. I forget all my troubles and forget all my cares.beautifull lady thank you.god bless you.
One of my oldest memories...I was 4 or 5 I had a vivid dream of me in a dark snowy forest, and the wind was blowing me sideways as I held onto a tree. This song was playing. Most likely it was on the radio, and I was hearing it while I slept and incorporated it into the dream. That was over fifty years ago,
Hasta en su conversacion encanta y demuestra una bella sencillez, talentosa, hermosa, preciosa, siempre en mi corazon Petula 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for that upload, strictly a NYC song, from the Bronx to Manhattan.
She dedicated it to 9/11, for a fee.
Used to listen to this song on KYSN radio when I was young. Brings back a lot of good memories.. Different times and different places..
IT IS JUST ONE OF THOSE SONGS THAT TAKE MY GENERATION BACK . NO PUN INTENDED .
She said it reminds her of 9/11. No pun intended.
Great song, and always will be, listen to this song when I was a kid.in 60s and 70s. and still going strong in my heart.
She sang it for the dead on 9/11, as kind of a spit in the face to Saddam Hussein. So glad she got his ass.
Downtown in NYC is where I'd get into trouble in the 80's :)
Oh I had one hell of crush on Petula. I was 16 in 1964!
I had one hell of a crush on Petula too... Only I was only 5 in 1964.
A timeless classic of a song💛❤💃
🎼🎵♬
"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!" 🎼🎵♬
In 1967 downtown's were a place for people to gather, shop, eat, socialize, etc. That was before major and minor malls ruined all that.
This is the 1st. song I remember remembering. : ) I was 2 or 3 and it was still in very heavy rotation in '65-66 and beyond.
Didn't The Wrecking Crew studio musicians play on this here in the States?
I probably sang _Downtown_ about a thousand times in the 1960s as a request for friends and family (I also did a mean Tiny Tim impression--don't ask). When it came out in 1964, I assumed (incorrectly) that Petula Clark was a teenager like everyone else I knew who liked this kind of music. She was, in fact, 32 years old. _Downtown_ was a great song back then, when actually _going_ downtown to shop, a restaurant, or theater, was a big deal; this, when there _was_ a downtown to visit in most communities. After the malls appeared in the 1970s, and their subsequent demise due (primarily) to online shopping, most downtown areas are now ghost towns here in America, the large metropolitan cities notwithstanding.