Sunday, July 9, 2017

"Don't Sleep In The Subway" #5 7/8/1967

Petula Clark scored with a tune written by impresario Tony Hatch and his then-wife Jackie Trent. It was pieced together from three unfinished songs, and you can tell where one ends and the next begins - listen for the transitions. A subway in the UK is a pedestrian tunnel below an intersection. What we call a subway, they call the Underground. Pet wouldn't chart this highly again at home until a 1988 remix of "Downtown" not released in America. I think the Breakaways are on backing vocals.


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