Before a warning message and countdown was broadcast from the RV that exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas day, the 1964 hit song “Downtown” by Petula Clark was playing.
“The music started, and I notified over the [police radio] air to notify other officers,” Officer James Luellen said, speaking alongside four of his fellow cops in a Sunday press briefing. “Then, after the song, it continued to go back to the announcement for a little while.”
“What I remembered was, ‘Downtown, where the lights shine bright,’ ” he said.
Hellbound and Down 