[ETL]

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 will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure, downtown
Everything's waiting for you

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 'em 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

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 will be great when you're downtown
Don't wait a minute more, downtown
Everything is waiting for you, downtown

Downtown (downtown)
Downtown (downtown)
Downtown (downtown)
Downtown (downtown)

[Fiji Hill]

Tout Au Long du Calendrier (Through the Whole Calendar)--Petula Clark (1962)

[HotKat]

Lovely. She’s cute, nice modest dress. Understandable and G-rated lyrics. Those were the good old days.

[Fiji Hill]

The Song of the Mermaid--Petula Clark (1951)

[BRL]

Well we know your real name now , Don. Haha

[MrChips]

Ah! It’s Mrs. Chips!

[Fiji Hill]

The Little Blue Man--Petula Clark (1958)

[HerrBlucher]

Downtown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUICBMQBNU

[Adder]

Wow...one of the first records I ever bought.

Thanks for the memory.

[Legatus]

https://youtu.be/fKRS6CSCdlo

[Hotlanta Mike]

Song Facts

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3479

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Back in the early 1960s there was a TV show on called THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS, a spoof on all that week’s news.
They had a segment that played Petula Clark’s DOWNTOWN, while showing news paper articles on the various crimes perpetrated on people visiting downtown.

[Califreak]

I’m 52 years old and still remember hearing that song as a toddler.

Still sounds just as great now.

[redfreedom]

I recall that song when it first came out, even remember the 3 radio stations that played it alot, WLS of Chicago, CKY of Winnipeg, & KCJB of Minot, ND. - the only AM stations we could get where we lived back then. The Canadians pronounced her name “Pechula”.

[Larry Lucido]

Never mind Downtown! You haven't been to Payroll yet??

[DeSoto]

I don’t know about everyone but I get songs stuck in my head nearly everyday.

I was 12 when this song came out and I loved it. I listened to it over and over until I had most of it memorized.

Since 1965, whenever a song gets stuck I bring this song into my mind and replace whatever was driving me nuts. I have used this song thousands of times and never get tired of it.

Thank you Petula Clark

[Sans-Culotte]

I’ve always been a big fan of Pet Clark. There’s a sameness to her 60s hits, but they really bring back the 60s for me.

[tomkat]

Ohmy .. LOVE this song !

[Patriot Babe]

Wow thank you very much. That song reminds me of my childhood. I would go to with my mom to San Francisco or Oakland back in the 60’s and this song would play in the radio.

What a talent, I also lover her other songs like Kiss Me Goodbye, This Is My Song, and Don’t Sleep In The Subway.

[Rebelbase]

Wow. This just sparked a little kid memory in me of riding in the back seat of the car while this song was playing then stopping by the dentist office while my brother got a teeth cleaning.

I sat with my mom in the lobby trying to figure out how the lava lamp didn’t melt when it had hot lave inside it.