Downtown (Petula Clark album)

Downtown
US cover, Warner Bros.
Studio album by
Petula Clark
Released1965
Recorded1963–1965
StudioPye Studies, Marble Arch, London
GenrePop
Length30:20
LabelPye (UK)
Warner Bros. (U.S.)
Disques Vogue (France,Canada)
ProducerTony 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
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Downtown is an album by Petula Clark (her first album licensed to Warner Bros. 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.[2][3]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."True Love Never Runs Smooth"Hal David (lyrics) Burt Bacharach (music)2:07
2."Baby It's Me"Mark Anthony
(pseudonym for Tony Hatch)		2:19
3."Now That You've Gone"Petula Clark, Hubert Ballay, Norman Newell2:54
4."Tell Me (That It's Love)"Tony Hatch, Petula Clark, Ralph Bernet2:31
5."Crying Through a Sleepless Night"Mark Anthony
(pseudonym for Tony Hatch)		2:23
6."In Love"Harvey Fuqua, Bobby Lester2:31
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Music"Tony Hatch3:09
2."Be Good To Me"Petula Clark, Tony Hatch2:00
3."This Is Goodbye"Georges Aber, Petula Clark, Tony Hatch2:22
4."Let Me Tell You Baby"Mark Anthony
(pseudonym for Tony Hatch)		2:13
5."You Belong to Me"Chilton Price, Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart2:36
6."Downtown"Tony Hatch3:01

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "US charts at PetulaClark.net". Archived from the original on 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  3. ^ 45 RPM
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_(Petula_Clark_album)