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"Quiet Village" is an orchestral pop instrumental that was written and originally performed by Les Baxter in 1951 and an instrumental album from 1959 by Martin Denny. In the liner notes to his album, Ritual of the Savage (Le sacre du sauvage) , Baxter described the themes he was conveying in the work: [ 1 ]
She is doing the grand in a distant land, Ten thousand miles away. Verse 3. Oh! that was a dark and dismal day When last she left the strand She bade good-bye with a tearful eye, and waved her lily hand - And waved her lily hand, my boys, As the big ship left the bay "Adieu" says she, "remember me, Ten thousand miles away." Verse 4
"Miles Away" is a song by John Foxx, released as a single in October 1980. It was his fourth solo single, following " Burning Car " in July that year. The track was not included on any original album, falling roughly midway between the release of Foxx's debut LP Metamatic in January 1980 and his second album The Garden in September 1981.
The album features the track, "Quiet Village", which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Disco chart along with songs "African Queens" and "Summer Dance". "Quiet Village" also peaked at No. 68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
Quiet Village: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny is the eighth studio album by Martin Denny.Released in the summer of 1959, the monophonic version of the album (LRP 3122) reached No. 21 on the Billboard monophonic album chart in November 1959, [2] and the stereophonic version (LST 7122) reached No. 12 on the magazine's stereophonic album chart in January 1960.
"A Thousand Miles Away" is a 1956 song recorded by the American doo-wop group The Heartbeats. The song was written by James Sheppard and William H. Miller. [ 1 ] The sequel, "Daddy's Home," also written by Sheppard and performed by his group Shep and the Limelites, was released in 1961.
"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 ]
Otis Redding's "spunky ... free-associating", [46] "rich soul take" [177] version was released on his 1964 album Pain in My Heart. Dave Marsh called it "the best of the era" and noted that he "rearranged it to suit his style" by adding a full horn section and "garble[d] the lyrics so completely that it seems likely he made up the verses on the ...