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Downtown (Petula Clark song)

"Downtown"is a song written and produced by English composerTony Hatch.Its lyrics speak of going to spend time in an urbandowntownas a means of escape from everyday life. The 1964 version recorded by British singerPetula Clarkbecame an international hit, reaching number one on theBillboardHot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart. Hatch received the 1981Ivor Novello awardfor Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[2]

"Downtown"
Solid centre edition of 1964 UK single
SinglebyPetula Clark
from the albumDowntown
B-side"You'd Better Love Me"
ReleasedNovember 1964
Recorded16 October 1964
StudioPye Studios,London
GenrePop[1]
Length3:05
Label
Songwriter(s)Tony Hatch
Producer(s)Tony Hatch
Petula Clarksingles chronology
"True Love Never Runs Smooth"
(1964) 		"Downtown"
(1964) 		"I Know a Place"
(1965)
Official audio
"Downtown"onYouTube

The song has been covered by many singers, includingDolly Parton,Emma Buntonandthe Saw Doctors.

Composition

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Tony Hatchfirst worked with Petula Clark when he assisted her producerAlan A. Freemanon her 1961No.1 hit "Sailor".In 1963 Freeman asked Hatch to take over as Clark's regular producer. Hatch subsequently produced five English-language singles for Clark, none of which charted.

In the autumn of 1964 Hatch made his first visit toNew York City,spending three days there in search of material from music publishers for the artists he was producing. He recalled, "I was staying at a hotel onCentral Parkand I wandered down toBroadwayand toTimes Squareand, naively, I thought I was downtown.... I loved the whole atmosphere there and the [music] came to me very, very quickly ".[3]He was standing on the corner of48th StreetinMidtown,waiting for the traffic lights to change and looking towards Times Square when "the melody first came to me, just as the neon signs went on."[4]

Hatch envisioned his embryonic composition "as a sort ofdoo wopR&Bsong ", which he thought to eventually pitch tothe Drifters:[5]He had scored his biggest success to date withthe Searchers' "Sugar and Spice"modelled on the Drifters' hit"Sweets for My Sweet",and had also produced acover versionof the Drifters' "Up on the Roof"forJulie Grant.It has been said that Hatch gave Julie Grant the opportunity to record "Downtown" which Grant turned down,[6]but this does not accord with Hatch's statement that he played "Downtown" for Petula Clark within a few days of conceiving the melody and only completed the song's lyrics after Clark had asked to record it. Hatch has also said that prior to Clark's expressed interest in "Downtown", "it never occurred to me that a white woman could even sing it."[5]Hatch has subsequently denied originally offering "Downtown" to the Drifters.[7]

Within a few days of his New York City trip Hatch visited Paris to present Clark with three or four songs he had acquired from New York publishers for Clark to consider recording at a London recording session scheduled for 16 October 1964, which was roughly two weeks away. Hatch said of the meeting: "She was not very enthusiastic about [the material] and asked me if I was working on anything new myself."[8]According to Clark, besides the title lyric, Hatch had only written "one or two lines."[9]Hatch recalled: "Reluctantly, I played her the tune of my New York inspiration and slipped in the word 'Downtown' in the appropriate places."[8]Clark, who first heard "Downtown" from her kitchen, having stepped away to make a pot of tea, told Hatch: "That's the one I want to record."[8]"Get that finished. Get a good lyric in it. Get a great arrangement and I think we’ll at least have a song we’re proud to record even if it isn’t a hit."[10]

Recording

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"Downtown" was recorded on 16 October 1964 at the Pye Studios inMarble Arch.Thirty minutes before the session was scheduled, Hatch was still touching up the song's lyrics in the studio's washroom. Hatch said of his arrangement: "I had to connect with young record buyers... but not alienate Pet[ula]'s older core audience... The trick was to make a giant orchestra sound like a rock band."[4]Hatch insisted that all session personnel on his productions be recorded performing together. The session personnel for the recording of "Downtown" were assembled in Studio One of Pye Recording Studios and included eight violinists, two viola players and two cellists, four trumpeters and four trombonists, five woodwind players with flutes and oboes, percussionists, a bass player and a pianist.[11]

Also playing on the session were guitaristsVic Flick,Jimmy PageandBig Jim Sullivan,as well as drummerRonnie Verrell,whilethe Breakawaysprovided the vocal accompaniment.Bobby Grahamwas also credited as being the drummer on the session.[11]Brian Brocklehurst stated in 1995 that he played upright bass at the session. Hatch's assistant Bob Leaper conducted.[10]According to Petula Clark, the session for "Downtown" consisted of threetakeswith the second take ultimately chosen as the completed track yet, elsewhere, an "extended" version consisting of an instrumental and backing vocal track most likely from a session tape, makes this claim questionable.[12]

Impact

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Tony Hatch would recall playing the completed "Downtown" track forPye Recordsexecutives saying: "Nobody knew what to make of it and no release date was set. Then Pye's general manager called and said Joe Smith –Warner Bros.' head ofA&R– was in London looking for British material. When Joe heard Pet[ula]'s record, he loved it and scheduled the single for urgent release in the [United] States ".[4]When Hatch, surprised by Smith's enthusiasm for releasing "Downtown" in the US, asked if Smith didn't consider "Downtown" to be a "very English record" Smith replied: "It's perfect. It's just an observation from outside of America and it's just beautiful and just perfect."[3]

In the wake of Smith's interest "Downtown" was released in the UK in November 1964. It entered the UK Top 50 dated 14 November 1964, ending a virtual two-year UK chart absence for Clark; of the ten singles she had released in the UK during that period only one, "Chariot",had appeared in even the lower charts (No. 39 the spring of 1963)." Downtown "rose to No. 2 UK in December 1964, remaining there for three weeks, kept out of the No. 1 position bythe Beatles' "I Feel Fine"."Downtown "reached No. 2 inIrelandand No. 1 in Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia and South Africa, and was also a hit in Denmark (No. 2), India (No. 3), the Netherlands (No. 4) and Norway (No. 8).

But "Downtown" had its greatest significance in the reception it was afforded in the United States, where it was released by Warner Bros. in November 1964: after early regional break-outs, notably in Detroit, Miami, and Washington D.C., "Downtown" debuted at No. 87 on theHot 100chart in theBillboardissue dated 19 December 1964. Despite the Christmas season typically being the worst time to break a new hit, "Downtown" shot up to No. 41 in its second week on the Hot 100 chart ascending in its third and fourth charting weeks to respectively No. 12 and No. 5; then after a subsequent single point advance to No. 4 "Downtown" leapt to No. 1 on theBillboardHot 100 dated 23 January 1965, retaining that position a further week before being overtaken by the ascendancy ofthe Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'".The song became the first No. 1 hit for the year 1965.[13]

Petula Clark thus became the first UK female artist to have a US No. 1 hit during the rock era and the second in the annals of US charted music,Vera Lynnhaving hit No. 1 in the US with "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"in 1952." Downtown "also made Clark the first UK female artist to have a single certified as aGold recordfor US sales of one million units. On Billboard's annual Disk Jockey poll, "Downtown" was voted the second best single release of 1965 and Petula Clark was voted third most popular female vocalist.[14]"Downtown" would be the first of fifteen consecutive hits Clark would place in the US Top 40 during a period when she'd have considerably less chart impact in her native UK, there reaching the Top 40 eight times.

Petula Clark, who had been playing to her French-speaking fans in small venues in Quebec when "Downtown" entered the US charts, swiftly cut non-English versions of the song for the markets in France, Italy and Germany; the absence in each region's language of a two-syllable equivalent of "downtown" necessitated a radical lyric recasting for the versions aimed at France ( "Dans le temps" ), Italy ( "Ciao Ciao", winning theFestivalbar,a juke-box contest) and Spain ( "Chao Chao" ) which respectively charted at No. 6, No. 2 and – for three weeks – No. 1: "Dans le temps" also reaching No. 18 on Belgium's French-language chart. The title and lyric "Downtown" was retained for an otherwise German version which was the most successful foreign-language version, reaching No. 1 in Germany, No. 3 in Austria, and No. 11 on the charts for the Flemish region of Belgium.

In 2013, Petula Clark rerecorded that song for her albumLost in You,with new arrangements, as a ballad and with a soft voice, giving it a new life.

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In the 1991 film,Flight of the Intruder,Brad JohnsonandWillem Dafoesing the chorus portion of "Downtown" as they are flying their A-6 Intruder back to the aircraft carrier after the unauthorized bombing of the "Sam City" section ofHanoiinNorth Vietnam.

In the 1996Seinfeldepisode "The Bottle Deposit",the song is referenced byGeorge Costanza's supervisor Wilhelm when discussing a project Costanza is in the dark about, prompting George Costanza andJerry Seinfeldto analyze the song's lyrics for clues.[15][16][17]

The song is on the soundtrack of the 1999 filmGirl, Interrupted[18]and is sung in character byWinona RyderandAngelina Jolie.[19]

The song is featured prominently in the beginning of the 2006Lostepisode "A Tale of Two Cities".[20]

The song plays on a loop in a scene from the 2019 filmEscape Room.[21][22][23]

Immediately before the2020 Nashville bombing,the song was played from the vehicle which exploded, followed by an audio warning to "evacuate now".[24][25][26]Clark released a statement expressing her "shock and disbelief" at the explosion in Nashville.[27]

The song is featured in theEdgar Wrighthorror filmLast Night in Sohoperformed by actressAnya Taylor-Joy.[28]

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[46] Silver 250,000[45]
United States (RIAA)[48] Gold 1,600,000[47]
Summaries
Worldwide — 3,000,000[45]

Accolades

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Downtown '88

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"Downtown '88"
SinglebyPetula Clark
from the albumMy Greatest
Released6 June 1988(1988-06-06)
Genre
Length3:25
LabelPRT
Songwriter(s)Tony Hatch
Producer(s)Peter Slaghuis,Eddy Ouwens
Petula Clarksingles chronology
"Life's a Game"
(1988) 		"Downtown '88"
(1988) 		"I Couldn't Live Without Your Love '89"
(1989)

In addition, the original 1964 recording was remixed and released in 1988 as "Downtown '88": a top ten UK hit, the track also charted in Australia (No. 58),[52]Belgium (Dutch chart No. 19), Finland (No. 3), Germany (No. 13) and Ireland (No. 14). Clark recalled: "The first time I heard the '88 remix of 'Downtown' I was in my car. I thought: 'This sounds familiar. I wonder who's singing this?' and it turned out to be me! They'd wiped out the orchestra and put on some kind of ticka-ticka-tick thing. I don't know what the hell it was, but it turned into a hit. They don't have to ask my permission, if you know what I mean. But it's fine. I find it rather flattering, actually. And quite amusing."[53]

Clark in fact promoted "Downtown '88" in a live performance on 15 December 1988 broadcast ofTop of the Pops(TOTP)[54]– the track had been aired on the precedingTOTPbroadcast of 8 December 1988 and had moved from No. 37 to No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart dated (i.e. for the week ending) 12 December 1988: Clark's liveTOTPperformance evidently facilitated the rise of "Downtown '88" to No. 13 on the UK chart dated 17 December 1988, while the track reached its No. 10 peak on the UK chart dated 24 December 1988, that being the singles rankings for the first full week after Clark'sTOTPlive performance of "Downtown '88".[55]

Charts

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Chart (1988−1989) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[52] 58
BelgiumUltratop[56] 19
Ireland (IRMA)[57] 14
UK Singles(OCC)[40] 10
West Germany (GfK)[58] 13

Other re-recordings

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In October 2011, Clark recorded several lines of "Downtown" for inclusion in the remake by Irish bandthe Saw Doctorswhich was credited to the Saw Doctors featuring Petula Clark –(see below).Clark's own 2013 album releaseLost in Youfeatures a new version of "Downtown": Clark said she was uninterested when it was first suggested she again record "Downtown", then "I was played this beautiful [instrumental] track...And I said it was lovely, and they told me it was [intended for] 'Downtown.' I got to the microphone and I didn't know how I was going to sing it, and it really feels like a new song."[59]ReviewingLost in Youfor MusicOHM.com, Philip Matusavage writes of the "Downtown" remake: "already a song loaded with melancholy, the stately version here acquires new meaning with its weary but amiable delivery summoning forth powerful nostalgia and the sense of someone fondly remembering their youth."[60]

Dolly Parton version

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"Downtown"
SinglebyDolly Parton
from the albumThe Great Pretender
B-side"The Great Pretender"
Released12 March 1984
Recorded1983
GenreCountry,Pop
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Tony Hatch
Producer(s)Val Garay
Dolly Partonsingles chronology
"Save the Last Dance for Me"
(1983) 		"Downtown"
(1984) 		"Tennessee Homesick Blues"
(1984)

Dolly Partonrecorded "Downtown" inNashvillein 1983 in the sessions for hercovers albumThe Great Pretender,aVal Garayproduction which focused on hits from the 1950s and 1960s. "Downtown" served as the album's second single release in March 1984 reaching No. 36 on theBillboardC&W chartandcrossing overto No. 80 on theBillboardHot 100 pop chart: to date "Downtown" marks Parton's final solo Hot 100 appearance. Parton's version altered some of the lyrics: "Listen to the rhythm of a gentlebossa nova"became" Listen to the rhythm of the music that they're playing ". Petula Clark has described Parton's take on" Downtown "as" cute, because she didn’t even try to sound like my recording. "[61]

Charts

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Chart (1984) Peak
position
USBillboardHot 100 80
USBillboardAdult Contemporary 20
USBillboardHot Country Singles 36
CanadianRPMCountry Tracks 20

Emma Bunton version

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"Downtown"
SinglebyEmma Bunton
from the albumLife in Mono
B-side
Released13 November 2006
Recorded2006
Studio
GenreSoul
Length3:24
LabelUniversal
Songwriter(s)Tony Hatch
Producer(s)Simon Franglen
Emma Buntonsingles chronology
"Crickets Sing for Anamaria"
(2004) 		"Downtown"
(2006) 		"All I Need to Know"
(2007)
Music video
"Downtown"onYouTube

Background

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BBC Newsannounced 20 October 2006 thatEmma Buntonwould record a remake of thePetula Clarkhit "Downtown" to be the 2006 official BBCChildren in Needsingle, with Bunton quoted as saying: "I've always loved 'Downtown'...and I'm really looking forward to putting my own stamp on it. The track's good fun and one everyone will know. "[62]Bunton, whose admiration for Petula Clark was evident on the 2004Free Mealbum, recorded "Downtown" atAIR Studios' Lyndhurst Hall location with Simon Franglen producing; the orchestra for the track was recorded atAngel Recording Studioswith Gavin Wright conducting. The track was released on 13 November 2006 and Bunton premiered her version of "Downtown" on the 2006Children in Needtelethon which began broadcast 17 November 2006.

Although Bunton said that she knew "Downtown" composerTony Hatch"quite well",[63]Petula Clark said that neither she [i.e. Clark] nor Hatch had prior knowledge of Bunton's remake.[64]Clark also stated that she considered Bunton's remake to be an "outright copy"[61]of Clark's original recording: "I could ask: 'What's the point'...but Emma's recording is wonderful and...for a great cause "[64](i.e. Children in Need).

Impact

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"Downtown" by Emma Bunton debuted on the UK singles chart 25 November 2006 at No. 24.Central FMnoted Bunton's chart debut, declaring "Downtown" "the song she was born to cover...One of the all time great pop songs, ['Downtown'] was long overdue for a revival and Emma Bunton pays it the respect it deserves. "The Spanish radio station predicted" Downtown "would rise to the Top 3 in its second week and the single did indeed jump to No. 3 on the chart for 2 December 2006 having sold 30,582 units in the relevant week: the mid-week stats had ranked" Downtown "at No. 2 behind"Patience"byTake Thatbut on the chart for the full week Bunton was bested not only by Take That at No. 1 but by the previous week's No. 1, "Smack That"byAkon,which outsold "Downtown" by 57 copies.[65]

While affording Bunton her highest charting single since her No. 1 solo debut "What Took You So Long?"in 2001," Downtown "would prove to have little staying power, spending only three weeks in the Top 20, performances by Bunton on a Christmas Day broadcast ofTop of the PopsandNew Year Livefailing to significantly buoy its popularity. Total UK sales for "Downtown" by Emma Bunton were tallied at 77,039 units.

Music video

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Directed by Harvey & Carolyn, (the directors who also directed her video for her single "Maybe" ) the sexually suggestive music video for the single is set in a hotel bedroom featuring Bunton as amaid.It includes appearances from contestants from the BBC's reality television showStrictly Come Dancingand features cameos fromMatt Dawson,Louisa Lytton,Carol Smillie,Spoony,Mark Ramprakash,Claire King,Peter Schmeichel,Craig Revel Horwood,Anton du Beke,Brendan Cole,Erin Boag,Lilia Kopylova,Karen Hardy,andDarren Bennett.According to Mark Ramprakash the video was shot at "a big house nearBaker Street".[66]

The video drew negative reaction for evidently skewing the phrase "go downtown" into a sexual term. Bunton would constantly evade or deny this allegation, as when Michael Baggs ofPopjusticeput to her: "The dancers in the 'Downtown' video seem to know you very well indeed. So well that they are all pointing at your fanny. Was this your idea?", Bunton's response being: "I don't understand where this has come from. It is a dance routine and it is nothing to do with anything like that. It is everyone else's dirty little minds. Especially yours. It worries me because it is a classic and you can't make classics rude."[63]SingerJann Ardenwho recorded "Downtown" for her 2007 albumUncover Mereacted to Bunton's "Downtown" video with the statement: "Petula Clark would slap [Bunton's] face"[67]though in fact Clark herself would state to being untroubled by Bunton's evidently salacious interpretation of "Downtown": "It's a pop song, for God's sake. It's not ahymn!"[61]

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Saw Doctors version

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In October 2011, Irish bandthe Saw Doctorsremade "Downtown" with Petula Clark singing some lines: the track is credited to the Saw Doctors featuring Petula Clark. According to Saw Doctors' memberLeo Moranthe group habitually played snippets of well-known songs during their encore numbers: "One night for no particular reason we did 'Downtown' and you could see people loved it. All ages. You could see it brought joy to people’s faces."[73]Some time later the Saw Doctors learned their producer Philip Tennant was friends with Petula Clark's manager John Williams and an invitation was conveyed to Clark to sing on a Saw Doctors' remake of "Downtown"; Clark being agreeable, a session was booked in a London recording studio to allow the Irish group to liaison with the European-based Clark and "Downtown" was recorded over two days with Clark arriving to record her vocal on the second day. Moran recalls: "We [the Saw Doctors] did a whole lot of work the first day. [Petula Clark] came in the second evening and we discovered that the song was in the wrong key. So we had to scrap all of the first day's work and put down the backing track with Petula because she only had a few hours that evening and wasn’t able to come back the following day. It was exciting, exhilarating, scary and privileged… rolled into one."[74]

Top IrishcinematographerEugene O' Connor (Father Ted) directed the video for the Saw Doctor's "Downtown" which was uploaded to YouTube on 17 November 2011. Shot on the nights of 9–10 November 2011, the video focuses on the band's members walking through the town center ofGalway(lead vocalistDavy Cartonis also seen briefly riding in a car). Footage of Clark was shot in Paris and spliced into the completed video in which she mainly appears on the screens oftelevisionsdisplayed in a shop window (the shop is in fact clothing retailer Anthony Ryans) outside of which the Saw Doctors perform on the street in the company of eight members of the Galway City Cougarscheerleadingsquad and also afire juggler.[75]

Radio presenterRay Foley(Today FM) began a campaign to make the Saw Doctors' "Downtown" the Christmas No. 1 in Ireland for 2011 encouraging sales of the track upon its 16 December 2011 release with the intent of propelling it to the No. 1 position on the Irish Singles Chart for the week ending 22 December 2011 and the Saw Doctors' "Downtown" was indeed No. 1 oniTunesIreland for the relevant period. However, on the Irish Singles Chart dated 22 December 2011 the track debuted at No. 2 with "Cannonball"byLittle Mixretaining the No. 1 position largely because of "Cannonball" 's greater availability as a CD single – 10,000 units as opposed to "Downtown" 's 2000 – making "Cannonball" a more attractive prospect for gift-buyers.[76][77][78]

On the Irish Singles Chart dated 29 December 2011 "Downtown" by the Saw Doctors featuring Petula Clark was ranked at No. 43 in its second and final week on the chart.[78]

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