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Presley's version of "Promised Land" was released as a single on September 27, 1974. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, [9] and 9 on the UK Singles Chart in the fall of 1974. [10] It was included on his 1975 album Promised Land. The Presley version was used in the soundtrack of the 1997 motion picture Men in Black.
Like several other songs on Darkness on the Edge of Town, Springsteen had the chorus for "The Promised Land" before he was able to come up with the lyrics for the verses. [8] The song's title pays homage to Chuck Berry's song "Promised Land". [5] [9] [8] In Berry's song, the singer leaves his Virginia home to go to the "promised land" of ...
In 1996, Mixmag ranked the song number 20 in its "100 Greatest Dance Singles of All Time" list, adding, "There's 'Someday' and 'Strings of Life' and 'Chime' and 'Keep On Moving', but the one record that, for me, sums up the excitement of that period of music more than any other is the incredible spiritual burst of optimism that is Joe Smooth's ...
"Promised Land" is a song by American Christian hip hop musician TobyMac. The song was released as a single on September 17, 2021. [1] TobyMac co-wrote the song with Adam Agee, and collaborated with Micah Kuiper in the production of the single. "Promised Land" peaked at No. 9 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart. [2] "
"Living in the Promiseland" is a song written by David Lynn Jones, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in February 1986 as the first single from the album The Promiseland. The song was Nelson's twelfth number one single on the country chart as a solo artist, spending one week at number one and twenty ...
Promised Land is the twenty-first studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records on January 8, 1975. It was recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records studios in Memphis and released on Presley's 40th birthday in January, 1975.
On February 5, 2016, 'Promised Land' was released by Sony Music, marking the band's first major label release of new material in nearly two decades. Personnel [ edit ]
Another song with a reportedly secret meaning is "Now Let Me Fly" [3] which references the biblical story of Ezekiel's Wheels. [4] The song talks mostly of a promised land. This song might have boosted the morale and spirit of the slaves, giving them hope that there was a place waiting that was better than where they were.