Downtown / You'd Better Love Me

by Petula Clark

Downtown / You'd Better Love Me cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: November 1964
  • Label: Pye
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 6:04
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A brilliantly orchestrated, enormously successful pop anthem heavily influenced by Phil Spector's production techniques. Session guitarist Jimmy Page contributed to the dense, swelling arrangement, which perfectly frames Clark's vibrant, optimistic vocal celebration of urban escapism.

Genres

Descriptors: wall-of-sound, melodic, british, female-vocals, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Downtown (2:58)
  2. You'd Better Love Me (3:06)

Credits

  • Petula Clark - primary artist
  • Tony Hatch - conductor, written-by
  • Hugh Martin - written-by
  • Timothy Gray - written-by

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