Down Drury Lane to Memory Lane was the fourth hit album, and first UK number one, for German orchestra 101 Strings

101 Strings

101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding a hundred albums and a creative lifetime of roughly thirty years. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan "The Sound of Magnificence", a puffy cloud logo and...

. The album was the twentieth record to make number one in the UK and the first double number one album. It spent five weeks at the top.

The album consists of orchestral cover versions of both older and contemporary hits.

Track listing

Chart positions

Chart	Year	Peak position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	1960	1

Writing credits

The following personnel all have writing credits on this album.

• Rudolf Friml
• Sigmund Romberg
• Jerome Kern
• Franz Lehar
• Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  
• Robert Stolz
• Paul Abraham
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• Kenneth Leslie-Smith
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Harole Roeme
• Frank Loewe
• Alan Jay Lerner