On Sale Today: “I Know a Place” by Petula Clark

Mar. 14, 1965 - On sale today is “I Know a Place,” Petula Clark’s follow-up single to “Downtown.” The B-side is “Jack and John.” It was recorded by Clark at the Pye Studios in London in a session which featured drummer Bobby Graham and the Breakaways.

Having much more of a rock ’n’ roll beat than its predecessor, “I Know a Place” emulates the theme of “Downtown” by inviting the listener to “just get away where your worries won't find you” to a place “where the music is fine and the lights are always low.”

The song twice includes the lyric “a cellar full of noise,” a deliberate reference to “A Cellarful of Noise,” the title of Brian Epstein’s 1964 autobiography, describing the below-ground Cavern Club in Liverpool where he first discovered the Beatles.

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