Petula Clark - Downtown (Jools Annual Hootenanny 2013)

[@777petew]

Wonderful. Petula was a singer in WW2, and here she is in 2013, with much younger people knowing her song, and loving it. Fantastic.

[@sitthichailimlertcharoenva6419]

😅

[@walterbrenner7359]

In ww 2 she was a young girl, read the history.

[@bryanjbuchanan]

@@walterbrenner7359 From Wikipedia: "Clark's professional career began during the Second World War as a child entertainer on BBC Radio."

[@jamesstephenpeyton3305]

You’re thinking of Loretta Lynne.

[@777petew]

@@walterbrenner7359 She was a very young entertainer.

[@MrsRickyRicardo]

She's amazing! I can't believe she's 80 years old here! Her voice is amazing still!

[@MargauxHemingway]

Yes¡. The ending part was fantastic. She kept her voice.

[@JTScott1988]

Look up the one for her at age 90!!!!

[@CockneyRebel1979]

@@JTScott1988 Is she still performing now?

[@JTScott1988]

@@CockneyRebel1979 yes she is. She’s actually on the UK version of broadway, west end right now

[@sweetcaroline2060]

Bless her heart. 🙏 She's still a beautiful and gracious lady. I just loved her when I was a kid. She's also a great actress. I hope I still have it going on when I'm 80 years old. Love you, Petula Clark ❤❤❤

[@alesssndromanzoni2920]

As we Say here in italy, class Is not water! Petula Clark: a shining example how to sing and entertaining only by talent! No artifices Need when class and talent are at play.❤️👋🇮🇹

[@johnmaher1208]

What a legend, still belting out the notes. What joy she's brought to millions for over 50 years!! ❤

[@billythekid3234]

She started singing in 1940 when she was nine on the BBC in London right after the war started. So shes' been singing for 80 years,,,, take care,,,,,,,, Love you Pet!

[@rah62]

I wouldn't call it "belting"...

[@marian6593]

I don't know why but this song always makes me cry. (But I'll never stop listening to it) 💖💖💖

[@riverdonoghue9992]

This beautiful lady's music has brought me so much happiness over the years. Love her.

[@dudleyowl]

Petula is one of those very very rare stars who has managed to age without aging! A true music icon.

[@GUITARTIME2024]

plastic surgery

[@iohnxxxx]

@@GUITARTIME2024 not 4 the voice u prize

[@ciarraibuzz]

She has aged like a normal person.

[@zekeonstormpeak4186]

One of my favorite songs of all time. A master piece of lyrics and orchestration. She is awesome!

[@ianwhitehead691]

Lovely lady, Great tune. 🥰

[@HandwhistlerBen]

Petula looks and sounds fantastic for 80! She hasn't lost a thing!

[@bobinobaker]

Really over 80 years? I never would have believed her voice and look, say something else. She is wonderful!

[@carlsperr]

Born in 1932 Petula is 82.

[@GoldeneyeDog]

Carl Sperr This was 2 years ago, she would have been 80.

[@HandwhistlerBen]

Amazing entertainer so much talent!

[@apocalypseplough8089]

HandwhistlerBen She's 80 here? Holy macaroni. Some people age. Some people don't.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

I grew up in the 1960s. Petula Clark was a big part of the music scene, and this song got as many people hyped up on weekends as any song did at the time.

[@raymondallo9947]

Timeless classic song

[@MusicLoverPearson]

God Bless she just gets better with time she is gorgeous.

[@Wafuller]

Just like fine wine!

[@MusicLoverPearson]

Wafuller That's right.LOL

[@TheMaleforce]

Just like you handsome x

[@TheMaleforce]

LOL, typical was giving you a compliment no need to go on the attack sweetie no one questioning your masculinity :)

[@MusicLoverPearson]

TheMaleforce

[@yell50]

She is in her 80's and still looks fab

[@mrceq]

and sings fab!

[@thekid1568]

🧢

[@mrellen5]

She is 90 now! [2022]

[@yell50]

She has a very unusual marriage, I won't say anymore, you can do your own research if you really want to know.

[@Timo-15]

I think that Jools 'got it in one' when he prepared for Petula Clark to appear on his Hootenanny show. Quite simpley this is the best ever *'live'* version of 'Downtown' out there. And his band is on top form here as they backed up such an iconic figure as Petula Clark. His band really show that they want to 'give it their all' for her. *And what a performance from Petua!* She is amazing. Well done to everyone!

[@Stives1979]

I love listening to petula Clark's music since I was a child and now I'm 62 and still loving right now in Oct 2024 thanks for a excellent upload 💯👍🎵🎶✊

[@lajosvigh1771]

I heard it for the first time when I was 8 years old. I've been in love ever since.

[@jeffreyconner1805]

The first time I heard this song I was 4 years old, and it has been with me ever since. My mother told me I was toddling around the house singing it after hearing it on the radio. I think patula sounded just as good maybe better in 2013 than she did in 1964. Wow.

[@stationofdreams8242]

Great to see her still performing and sounding so fine.

[@katsullivan7274]

Still beautiful 50 years later. And what a wonderful song!! 💓🎵🎶🎉🎧💃

[@rockyroll4021]

Timeless voice, timeless beauty!

[@RRD203]

80 years old in 2013 and still sounds stunning! I remember this song when I was like 8 yrs old, now I'm 67... Still beautiful, still sings so great... Just WOW!

[@waynerogers914]

Amazing lady,I have always love her Music, memories for us older ,but still young one s

[@susanoloughlan7833]

Love this song since i was kid till up to now that im 65 yr olds ❤

[@johnbittlestone7577]

What a woman what a song class never fades

[@NeedsealMetasielProdukte]

ja, lang ist es her....aber immer wieder in meinem Kopf

[@robertburdick2998]

Brought me right back to putting the 45 on the player, the first bounce of the stylus then this beautiful song came out. Loved the song, I can still smell the vinyl.

[@scottmorley3672]

Wow. I met and spoke to her 49 years ago in Philadelphia, waiting at the pedestrian crossing 5th and Market Sts. I can still hear my late brother Mike on piano still a teen. Whew!

[@deborahswanson3457]

Wonderful song from my teenage years! 💜💜💜

[@careyharborne8357]

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - bought this when originally released, loved her singing, and bizarrely my record collection was blues and heavy rock, she was so different to my taste - I loved her. So don't go telling any of my mates - will shoot my credibility.

[@jessegrd071163]

This is a classic by Petula Clark. I like the original song by her. God bless her.

[@paulcasini4759]

Pet clark one of our very best

[@casrdinks865]

Wow! I can remember, as a very young lad, being on the farm. Far too young to know why my parents were on ladders?? They were trying to make ends meet with 5 kids. I was driving around, on the farmers lap, listening to "down town"! I would have been 6 ish years old - still remember.

[@paulharrison1699]

Such a star ❤️

[@thehusketeers4319]

I was in nappies when this song came out.

[@edmundcharles5278]

81 years and still going strong! Good voice and good genes!

[@TonyEnglandUK]

Such a classy lady and still with the beautiful voice.

[@MrBogusSmogus]

BRAVO !! - Miss Petula Clark. Thanks for the memories. you may not have been the prophet Elisha, but you were in tune with the time and remembered to this day. You helped make my youth a brighter memory. I can only wish i could make your days now as bright. Thank you and know that you made a difference; you made an impact; YOU made memories for many people a pleasant thing Ms. Petula Clark.

[@Slimjim260]

A song just can be written any better that, so witty,kind,and loving words, that were written by her! Wow

[@lyndamcardle4123]

The song was written - both lyrics and music - by Tony Hatch who also produced the track with many of Petula's other tracks. He also co-composed many others of Petula's other track along with his wife of the time, Jackie Trent and Petula herself.

[@kindredtheembraced]

Love Petula Clark, so glad to see her in more contempory times and sounding fabulous!

[@cottingleybaby]

What a career, you name it , shes done it , you name shes won it. She is up there with the greats Bassey and Andrews but sadly has never recieved the same recognition they have..Quite simply a "legend "

[@richardparker7157]

That's amazing. My mother always tells a story about my Dad, who passed away a few years ago. Back in the sixties, his party piece was to get on the microphone in a pub and do a rendition of this song. He was so bad...one night they gave him the prize - a bottle of Champagne - just to get off the stage. Growing up, my dad always used to play this song. And to this day, I continue the tradition ... my karaoke is awful, I cannot sing a note. But I love it.

[@chrisshenzo2594]

A wonderfully talented and beautiful woman who ,with Tony Hatch at the helm,CLASSED UP the whole British Invasion! And Bravo to Jools for keeping so many torches burning brightly!

[@celticbro2828]

Bless her! Still alive and kickin' at 90!

[@chriscampbell5544]

OMG!! She gave me chills! What a legend!!

[@clydesuckfinger7097]

She could not have done it better. And I think I am in love as much now as I was in 1966. Just a beautiful woman

[@kevinw9073]

Brings back so many great memories.

[@AmeliaRoselina]

Wow! She looks and sounds amazing.

[@tattskink9589]

Let this sink in she’s 80 years old here!

[@rogerwilco4397]

Class act. She's still got it. Her and Tom Jones.

[@TheMaleforce]

Wonderful lady God bless her she makes me smile, the fact she is still having fun in her 80's is so good to see.

[@Kanobpong]

This song was from my kindergarden year. It was on the radio when my mom drove me to school (downtown). P Clark gets better with age.

[@MargauxHemingway]

I began watching her live performances of Downtown from the 60s to the early 2000s I am surprised se performed live at 80 in 2013. she is AMAZING

[@jameshowe50]

Classy lady...classic song...lived in the UK as a kid..dad was in the USAF at Bentwaters...remember this over the radio in our '62 Rambler

[@jackmurray2446]

She looks AMAZING for her age! God bless her!

[@RANDY4410]

I remember that song Down town very well i was in the 4th grade living in NYC and i use to always hear it on the radio, great song.

[@nahnni]

Still so elegant and classy. Still dresses beautifully as well.

[@Pianodude112]

She still sounds so great and looks beautiful!

[@morganrieder6281]

I was 17 when she came out with this song. Good God, she's in her 80s and still sounds and looks so very good.

[@houstonhouston5817]

Mme Clark quelle grande dame vous avez été présente toute ma jeunesse merci

[@Aeoline]

Lovely lady singing such a lovely song.

[@Exotic3000]

Just amazing!!

[@thomasnorman9723]

God Bless my sister for sticking around to sing this song in 2013......

[@grehhet161]

she still looks and sounds great! awesome. this put a big smile on my face

[@manuelacosta2088]

I adore this song and I adore her! T.Y. for sharing!

[@stephenadkins-y8u]

She is one awesome lady.

[@marktrevelion4270]

love this woman remember this when growing up in the 60s noone sings it like petula great song

[@paulbarone4329]

What Energy! Love the tune.

[@ronamcsmith1982]

Am so grateful that an icon as Petulant Clark is still singing her number one hit from 1965. Are people critical of her singing?? Well wait till you turn her age, be happy to even be alive. DOWNTOWN will always be MISS PETULANT CLARK. And this song;immortal.

[@philharnden243]

SHE IS STILL GREAT

[@tomsmith2013]

This tune is just as relevant today as it was 55 years ago. And so is she!

[@CarmineLombardi-e9f]

This song still gives me goose bumps.

[@Richardgwilliams]

Bloody marvelous. Love You Petula. Living Legend

[@Basman59]

Classic....this Hootenanny has to be the best i just watched all the clips...fantastic. She has aged so well...voice is great!

[@HugoHackenbush-jq7hl]

There are not enough superlatives that adequately describe just how perfect Petula's voice is.

[@rhalf38]

what a great performance! kudos to petula clark, a true living legend

[@1940limited]

Glad she; still with us and performing. Long live the Queen and Petula Clark!

[@josepilarcastillogallardo5782]

Hermosa Petula..ii ❤❤❤ Maravillosa Su Voz 👏👏👏

[@ajgie]

Cudowne wykonanie.

[@luisaudilioborquezescobar3043]

Maravillosa. El Talento no tiene Edad. Su voz sigue encantando.

[@davecsaszarable]

This never goes old. Love this song

[@47AndyT]

A legend, nothing less!

[@avdreader1]

I love her! She looks great and sounds good too.

[@michaelgallant8957]

I grew up hearing this song on the radio. It holds a special place in my memories.

[@kenjoneslee]

wow...amazing she's still singing at 80......good for her

[@Myplop]

Sounds fantastic, looks amazing ...what a star!

[@zachUK]

I don't think most people appreciate how f'ing remarkable this lady sounds at 81 years old ... are you kidding me?

[@cowsongs]

I KNOW! Sure, when she starts off, she seems a bit wobbly, but she really does stick the hard notes very well, and she pulls out plenty of power when she needs it and for the finish. It really warmed my heart to see how she could ramp it up at the end.

[@mauricepayne4248]

Bring her back please, she will love it so will we...

[@joanbennett2430]

My absolutely favourite hootenanny always said would be hard to beat … I still keep watching and it’s 2025 🎉🥰 loves jools Holland and his big band xxx

[@abidinuyanik5923]

KRALİÇE PETULA❤

[@showtunestarpower]

I've been watching Petula in all different versions of DOWNTOWN and I love this most recent version. Petula forever!!!!!

[@RichardSteuland]

First time I heard this on the car radio as we were traveling to Downtown Minneapolis. 1966. Back then it was just as described . Today with the Internet the Downtowns are less vibrant.

[@adrianfernandonoya5196]

God Bless You Petula Clark.

[@paulht3251]

Fantastic for eighty one. For all the negative comments I want to see you look this good and sing if you can at this age ..

[@juangonzales2626]

Fabuloso acompañamiento musical para esta gran estrella que brilla en lo más alto del firmamento en la interpretación no le queda grande es propiamente lo que merece Petula para siempre ella será y es la más grande cancionista.

[@robertodaboin8434]

Me encanta esta orquesta,bastante cantante,han acompañado,con la Spector, y Sandy Shaw,se botaron de hoy,saludos,desde venezuela

[@JuanPerez-qt7mf]

Petulaaaa I love you

[@johnbarry0076]

Brilliant, well done Petula.

[@luismiguelmaguinonapuri3748]

Soy su fan de toda la vida. Grande Petula, talento inacabable, hermosa.

[@antruok4950]

Magic 🙏

[@AnilJohn61]

love her. keep going, petula.