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Downtown (Petula Clark song) " Downtown " is a song written and produced by English composer Tony Hatch. The 1964 version recorded by British singer Petula Clark became an international hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart.
- November 1964
- Soul
- "You'd Better Love Me"
- 16 October 1964, Pye Studios, London
Clark continued to work with Hatch on a string of charting singles, including “Don’t Sleep in the Subway.” In 2007, Hatch, speaking to the Digger website, explained how he came to write the ...
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Jul 8, 2011 · The expression does have (U.S.) "Wild West" connotations, and it basically means to "eject" someone from town. This usually occurred when someone was carried out of town "on a rail" by a mob, often after being "tarred and feathered" (i.e. covered by the same).
When "Downtown" was released in the US, it shot to #1, making Petula the first female singer from the UK to hit #1 in the US during the rock era (after 1955). Remarkably, she didn't even promote the song before it hit the top spot, as she was touring French-speaking countries at the time.
Sep 13, 2023 · The origin and history of the idiom "out of town" are unclear, but it seems to have emerged in American English in the late 19th or early 20th century. It may have been influenced by the phrase "out of town paper," which refers to a newspaper published in another city or state than the one where it is read.
The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for "down town" or "downtown" dates to 1770, in reference to the center of Boston. Some have posited that the term "downtown" was coined in New York City, where it was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original settlement, or town, at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.
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