A songwriter wrote Petula Clark's "Downtown" because he disliked the title of one of Phil Spector's girl group songs.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

Find out who'll be speaking alongside Petula Clark about their love of French chanson. The actress and singer was the darling of the French New Wave movement (Nouvelle Vague).

Petula Clark had a pretty decent run after “Downtown,” charting with bright and friendly studio-pop songs through most of the ’60s. None of those songs were anywhere near as good as ...

Petula Clark is a true music and film legend who has been lighting up stages and screens for decades. Starting as a child performer during WWII, she quickly became a beloved voice across Britain.

January 22, 2025 • Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the US billboard charts 60 years ago, on January 23, 1965, and stayed there for two weeks. At 92, she's planning a ...

What did you think of his idea for the song? Petula Clark: I married a Frenchman and was living in Paris at the time and having lots of hit records in French and Italian and German. And Tony was a ...

Singer Petula Clark to go on new world tour aged 85 two years after last UK performance ...

The girlfriend of a suicide bomber who detonated his RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day alerted police he was making explosives inside the vehicle more than a year before the attack, police ...