https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5nd-3BRr4
Something for the weekend. The endlessly talented Petula Clark singing Downtown. This song got a huge amount of play in the mid-Sixties, and I enjoyed it immensely as a child. Not great music, but certainly fun music. Optimistic music about human relationships.
Let’s try that in French:
Clark is quite fluent in French.
I have faint memories of my mom singing along with me while she prepared meals. The only part I belted out was D o w n T o w w w n, but boy did it make us laugh together.
There is nothing in the world that is as important as motherhood.
The women who seek the $ and or power of the business world will never reach the riches and glory of being a loving mother. That vocation, motherhood, is far more prestigious and world altering than any other occupation under the sun.
To all mothers who are striving to accomplish both vocations due to necessity, my heartfelt prayers and best wishes go to you.
It’s not 1964 anymore.
Milk was what? 50 cents a quart. A new Ford Mustang, $2500. Gasoline, 65 cents a gallon???
So called “progress” has it’s costs I guess.
I better get downtown and buy some eggs… before they reach $8.00 a carton.
Oops….
My estimations were incorrect;
Gallon of milk in ’64…….36 cents.
Gallon of gas in ’64……..30 cents.
They need to redo it with “Out of downtown “ now, js…
I sure as heck don’t go downtown anymore
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K52X0Al634E?si=rW4oSbLj5jzgQCjW&controls=0&w=560&h=315%5D
Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Jackie deShannon, Dionne Warwick, Astrid Gilberto, Lani Hall, Cass Elliot, Eydie Gorme, LuLu. Peggy Lee was still active and Judy Garland (while a mess personally) was producing her best work. Great era for girl singers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUICBMQBNU
At 1:30 on the first video: the shy teenage boy, embarrassed to be sung to: it’s like a glimpse into a vanished world, where no one–I imagine–would pay much attention to something as wholesome as this because it was so normal.