January 23, 1965 –
Petula Clark’s song Downtown, hit No. #1 on the Billboard Charts on this date.
This was Petula Clark’s first hit in the US, which was slow to discover her talents. In the UK, she was a star as a singer and as a television performer, where she was a regular on the BBC. In the early ‘60s, she also caught on in France when she started recording her songs in French. Oddly, she didn’t get an American record deal until late in 1964 when a Warner Bros. executive named Joe Smith, who was vacationing in England, heard the song and signed her to a deal. (Bunkies, she’s still alive and kicking.)
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