Here comes another somewhat foreign post, but its Petula Clark. Yes, the woman who brought us the tune ‘Downtown’ also sang songs in French. In fact, you could call her the “British Nana Mouskouri.”

After the success of her French recordings, she ventured into German, Spanish and even Italian songs that garnerd her worldwide acclaim. She even did some songs penned by Serge Gainsbourg. I wonder what would have happened if she took the place of Bridgit Bardot or Jane Birkin? Maybe songs like ‘” or “” would have sounded a bit mroe innocent.

In any case, soon after the success of her European tunes, a composer approached her with an English song that was originally intended for The Drifters, that song soon became her signature hit, ‘Downtown.’

Let’s take a look back at this scopitone of Ms Clark performing one of those French songs.