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Downtown (album)

Downtown
Downtown warner bros.jpg
US cover, Warner Bros.
Studio album by Petula Clark
Released 1965
Recorded 1963-65; Pye Studies, Marble Arch, London
Genre Pop
Length 30:20
Label Pye (UK)
Warner Bros. (U.S.)
Disques Vogue (Canada)
Producer Tony Hatch
Petula Clark chronology
In Other Words
(1962)
Downtown
(1965)
I Know a Place
(1965)
Singles from Downtown
  1. "In Love"
    Released: 1964
  2. "True Love Never Runs Smooth"
    Released: 1964
  3. "Downtown"
    Released: November 1964
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Allmusic 4/5 stars

Downtown is an album by Petula Clark (her first album licensed to Warner Brothers Records) following the success of her single of the same title. The album's tracks were all produced, arranged and conducted by Tony Hatch and were recorded at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch with the session personnel including drummer Bobby Graham, guitarist Big Jim Sullivan and the Breakaways vocal group; the "Downtown" track included guitarists Vic Flick and Jimmy Page in addition to Sullivan. Most of the album's tracks pre-dated the title cut, with almost all of the sides Hatch had produced from their inaugural collaboration: the 1963 single "Let Me Tell You Baby", being included.

Downtown entered the Billboard 200 on 13 February 1965 for a 36 weeks chart run with a #21 peak. Despite Clark's subsequent album releases being more focused on the hit sound Hatch had devised for Clark with the "Downtown" single, the Downtown album would remain Clark's most successful US album release. Downtown did not rank in the UK album charts which were then limited to the Top Twenty.


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