Petula Clark was living in Paris with her family and had a successful European career . Of course , there were the inevitable parties and general madness , but I could take it or leave it . When she got the song `` Downtown , '' she knew she wanted to record it . She went back home to England where she recorded it on an 8-track tape recorder at Abbey Road Studios. Other hits followed ; she calls American audiences the most generous in the world .
Petula Clark was living in Paris with her family and had a successful European career . When she got the song `` Downtown , '' she knew she wanted to record it . She went back home to England where she recorded it on an 8-track tape recorder at Abbey Road Studios. Other hits followed ; she calls American audiences the most generous in the world .