Downtown: The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 1:56pm

Easily my favorite and most playable CD of all time.

Is anyone else as obsessed with it as me?

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:27pm

Love it. "Downtown" is also one of my all-time favorite car songs.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 2:31pm

It is a fab CD. "Don't Give Up" was a song my little brother and I used to play all the time when we were kids. It has a special place in my heart...also it's a "B-side," so it's kind of obscure. I love obscure.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:22pm

One of my favorites as well!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:23pm

WW, why does this not surprise me?????

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:23pm

K-TOWN!

It's the fight song (the tune) for Kaiserslautern American High School (or was not sure if they exist anymore).

Was a lot of fun when the local American HS where I was stationed (Karlsruhe) played them.....

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:29pm

I think I wore it out, I played my CD so much. That was about 10 years ago. Since then, I still play it... just not as much.

Mine is actually a double CD "best of" import from Europe, which was the best (aka fully remastered) that was around 10 years ago. Now there are plenty of Petula "greatest hits" CDs. Tons of different ones, and I'm not sure why there are so many variables.

Miss Penny---I love "Don't Give Up." I can just picture you "boogalooing" around your living room to it as a kid!

My favorites have rotated a bit over the years, but I love "Who Am I?" It starts out simple and nicely rambling, and then the chorus just takes off with a lot of surprise resolutions in the chord structure. Love that.

I love "I Know a Place" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway." And I got all excited a few years back when Target picked up "A Sign of the Times" for a commercial campaign.

Oh... also love "Round Every Corner."

I have her singing a medley of hits and also "Downtown" (by itself) from her Hullabaloo appearances. I also have a few dance club remixes that surfaced about a dozen years ago.

Great stuff!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:33pm

Best, just for you, I'm going to post a photo of myself on the Baby Picture thread so you can visualize how I might have looked when I was "boogalooing" to Pet Clark! (Of course, it was kind of hard to do in a snowsuit.)

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:38pm

Yay!


Snowsuit "boogalooing" is a fine art.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 3:43pm

Didn't Ringo Starr record "Snowsuit Boogaloo"?

[NiteOwl]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 5:08pm

as a 1960s aficionado i definitely have Petula Clark on my iTunes.

she goes great with a little Dusty Springfield and Nancy Sinatra , a pinch of Dionne Warwick thrown in with just a dash of Sergio & Brasil '66 and a heaping tablespoon of Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. '60s Pop Heaven!