Fact #192122

Petula Clark : My head wasn't in it at the time. I was totally into French, Italian, German, whatever. I said: 'Well, you know, if I could find the right song' and he (composer Tony Hatch) said he had an unfinished song he wanted to play me, and he played Downtown on the piano. I said, 'Woah, I like that.' So I asked him to write a lyric up to the standard of the tune, and two weeks later we did it.
(Source : https://www.songfacts.com/facts/petula-clark/downtown)