BBC Formula One Singapore Grand Prix song at end of programme

[kh70]

The song played at the end was Downtown orginally by Petula Clark but this was a cover by a man does anyone know who sang this?

Thanks

[Frank97]

Missed the song at the end myself, but was it this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p809FSIFas

[factor-fiction]

I haven't heard it.
Some covers are listed here. Frank Sinatra is probably the most well known male version. If it's a bit wilder it could be B52s


Sandie Shaw (for her debut 1965 album Sandie)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (for their 1965 album Chipmunks à Go-Go)
Marianne Faithfull (for her debut 1965 album Marianne Faithfull)
The New Christy Minstrels (for their 1965 album Chim Chim Cher-ee)
Chris Connor (for her 1965 album Sings Gentle Bossa Nova)
Danny (as " Kauan" 1965 Finnish rendering)
Gelu (1965 Spanish rendering retaining "Downtown" title)
Helena Vondráčková (as "Pátá" 1965 Czech rendering)
Allan Sherman (a parody version: same melody, comedy lyrics, called "Crazy Downtown")
Frank Sinatra (for his 1966 album Strangers in the Night)
Connie Smith (for her 1966 album Downtown Country)
Mrs. Miller (for her 1966 album "Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits")
Christine Lavin (for her 1988 album "Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind")
The B-52's
Rx (aka Ritalin), on-off collaboration project by Skinny Puppy vocalist Nivek Ogre and Invisible Records owner Martin Atkins
Holly Cole Trio (a version with updated lyrics)
Kaori Iida (cover of the French version of this song on her album, Osavurio: Ai wa Matte Kurenai, in 2003)
The Killer Barbies
Jann Arden (for her album, Uncover Me)
Tina Arena (as a bonus track on the digital release of her 2008 studio album, "Songs of Love & Loss 2")
Ina Martell (for release in the former German Democratic Republic, using the same lyrics as on Clark's version for the Western German market)
Michaela Prunerova (ditto)
Siw Malmkvist (in Swedish)
Wendy Van Wanten in Dutch as "Nachtblauw" (blue night) on her 1998 album Denk aan mij
Celly Campello (in Portuguese as "Não me abandone")
Sarah Cracknell (b-side of "Desert Baby")
Irene Cara (for the Downtown soundtrack)
The Osmonds (as The Osmond Brothers) Mid 1960's LP Track, Also on compilation MGM PARADE OF STARS
On March 8, 2010, a charity version of the single was released in the UK called "Cheltenham", with the lyrics adapted to be about the Cheltenham Racing Festival. The recording group, made up of various jockeys and commentators, were called 'The Favourites'.
Bill Bruford's Earthworks (an instrumental version on the 1989 album Dig?)

[edit] In popular culture

[factor-fiction]

Hi D97x7, I don't think the Tom Waits song is the same song as Petula sang, although it is difficult to work out the tune he's growling over.
BTW I couldn't get sound on your link

[Frank97]

It was just a guess factor30, don't know why the sound doesn't work it works for me, strange.

[kh70]

It's defo not Tom Waits or Frank Sinatra it was a slower version of the song abit Damien Rice style.

Thanks anyway