Emma Bunton Songs - Downtown, What I Am, What Took You So Long?, Maybe, Life in Mono, Take My Breath Away, All I Need to Know (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Downtown, What I Am, What Took You So Long?, Maybe, Life in Mono, Take My Breath Away, All I Need to Know, Crickets Sing for Anamaria, Sunshine on a Rainy Day, Free Me, We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight, I'll Be There. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Downtown" is a pop song composed by Tony Hatch which as recorded by Petula Clark became an international hit No. 1 in the US early in 1965. Tony Hatch recalls: "'Downtown' was written on the occasion of my first visit to New York. I was staying at a hotel on Central Park and I wandered down to Broadway and to Times Square and, naively, I thought I was downtown. Forgetting that in New York especially downtown is a lot further downtown getting on towards Battery Park. I loved the whole atmosphere there and the song came to me very, very quickly." Hatch had originally intended to present "Downtown" to The Drifters, but when British singer Petula Clark heard the incomplete tune, she proposed that if he could write lyrics to match the quality of the melody, she would be interested in recording it. "Downtown" was recorded 16 October 1964 at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch. Thirty minutes before the session was scheduled, Hatch was still touching up the song's lyrics in the studio's washroom. Hatch always insisted on recording all the personnel on his productions actually performing together as would be heard on the finished track: the large number of personnel contributing to the "Downtown" session necessitated that two studios be utilized for the track's recording, with a closed-circuit television connection allowing Hatch to conduct the personnel in both the studio in which he was physically present and the auxiliary studio. The session personnel on "Downtow...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1149325