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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.
The lyrics also include a change, with the words "roll 500 miles" replacing "walk 500 miles", because the characters Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin are both in wheelchairs. "(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles" was released as a charity single for Comic Relief immediately following its performance on the Comic Relief 2007: The Big One television show on ...
59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) 1967 – – Paul Simon: Seekers Seen in Green: Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant/The Seekers: 2:19 Five Hundred Miles: 1964 – – Hedy West: The Seekers (a.k.a. Roving With The Seekers) W&G Records: Keith Grant: 1:46 Forever Isn't Long Enough (For Me) 1997: Keith Potger: Byron Hill –-Future ...
West's most famous song was 500 Miles, put together from fragments of a melody she had heard her uncle sing to her back in Georgia. She copyrighted the resulting song. 500 Miles has been recorded by Bobby Bare (a Billboard Top 10 hit in 1963), The Highwaymen, The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter & Gordon, Rosanne Cash, and many others ...
500 Miles Away from Home is the debut studio album by American country artist Bobby Bare. It was released in December 1963 by RCA Victor and contained 12 tracks. RCA Victor had previously released a compilation album of Bare's songs.The album's title track was released as a single in 1963. The single reached the top ten on the American country ...
After 21 Emmys, 51 pros, 394 Stars, 32 winners and thousands of iconic performances, Dancing with the Stars celebrates its milestone 500th episode on Tuesday with a night full of star-studded ...
"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 ...
Only six hundred miles more to go (2x) And if we can just get lucky We will end up in Kentucky Only six hundred miles more to go. When the song is first heard, there are eight hundred miles (1,287.5 km) to go (the tune is "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain").