1965 DOWNTOWN Petula Clark

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[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)

[Covenantor]

written BC, before crack and BLM

Things are different now.

[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)

[ETL]

Plenty of bad stuff going on then too. We just rather remember the good things.

[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)

[Steely Tom]

Plenty of bad stuff going on then too. We just rather remember the good things.

I remember reading about heroin addicts in Reader's Digest in 1963 or '64. I was in elementary school, and the story disturbed me greatly; I couldn't get it off my mind. It was well written and vivid, describing a couple who lived in NYC and who were both addicts.

[HerrBlucher]

Downtown

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

[Adder]

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

Thanks for the memory.

[ETL]

Believe it or not, heroin is still a problem today in various parts of Manhattan, including the section I was born and raised in, the Lower East Side. We moved from there to Queens in 1970.

[Legatus]

https://youtu.be/fKRS6CSCdlo

[stevem]

Petula Clark was more than a treat. My favorite female of the British invasion persuasion, though, was Dusty Springfield.

My favorite female vocalist of that era and, maybe, for all time, was Judith Durham (The Seekers).

Priceless is also timeless.

[mdittmar]

Downtown;)

[madrastex]

Do you remember Dusty Springfield singing “Johhny One Time”?
Awesome voice!

Also love Pet Clark singing “Kiss me Goodbye”

[Hotlanta Mike]

Auf Deutsch...

Ina Martell - Down Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an09gcQFfpc

[nomorelurker]

Durham best ever. Even over lots of before and later. Ronnie Spechter might be better.