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500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money and too ashamed to return.
In the US, "Miles Away" failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, but it did reach number-two on Billboard ' s Hot Dance Club Play chart, behind "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" by Beyoncé. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] With a "31 to 1" leap, the song became Madonna's ninth release to top the Hot Singles Sales chart, as well as the chart's first number-one of ...
It peaked at number nine on the chart the week of February 28, 1964 and became his second top ten album on the chart. [6] It also became Bare's second album to chart the Billboard 200, peaking at the number 133 position on February 8, 1964. [7] 500 Miles Away from Home was met with positive reception in later years from AllMusic. The ...
"93 Million Miles" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. It was released as the second promotional single from his fourth studio album, Love Is a Four Letter Word , on March 27, 2012 via iTunes and in October, 2012, as the second official single.
His version reached #10 in the Canadian RPM Soul charts on January 27, 1968. [23] Dolly Parton covered the song on her 1980 album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs. [24] The song has also been covered by soul singer Joe Tex on his 1965 album The New Boss. The song was covered by Yugoslav beat band Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete on their 1967 EP Stoj, Džoni ...
"Twenty-Five Miles" is a song written by Johnny Bristol, Harvey Fuqua, and Edwin Starr for Starr's second album, 25 Miles (1969). The song was considered sufficiently similar to "32 Miles out of Waycross" by Hoagy Lands (also recorded as "Mojo Mama" by both Wilson Pickett and Don Varner), written by Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler, [2] [3] that Berns and Wexler were eventually given co-writing ...
"Miles Away" is a power ballad [3] by American rock band Winger from their album In the Heart of the Young. Released in late 1990 to pop radio after already reaching number one in most AOR markets, the song peaked at number 12 on the Hot 100 chart. [ 4 ]
"Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune)" is a song by British band It's Immaterial. Released as a single in March 1986, it spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 18 in April 1986. [1] The song has been described by the band as a "British on-the-road song".