Petula Clark, (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer with almost 70 million record sales throughout her career.
Downtown composed by Tony Hatch, became an international hit – No. 1 in the US – and released in four different languages early in 1965. She has also received the Grammy Award for "Best Rock and Roll Song" that year. It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark achieved in the United States. The song has been covered numerous times by other artists since Clark's original recording. Following 9/11, New York City adopted Clark's version of "Downtown" as the theme song for a series of commercials encouraging tourism to Lower Manhattan.
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