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500 Miles

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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. [1]

84 relations: A-side and B-side, Adult Contemporary (chart), AllMusic, American fiddle, American folk music revival, Anjan Dutt, Assamese language, Bad Astronaut, BBC, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bare, Carey Mulligan, Cashbox (magazine), Cathy Come Home, Chinese language, College Concert, Country music, Czech language, Dick and Dee Dee, Duckweed (film), Easy listening, Elizabeth MacRae, Elvis Presley, Eric Bibb, Franco Battiato, French language, German language, Glen Campbell, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Hedy West, Helena Vondráčková, Hindi, Hootenanny Singers, India, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jackie DeShannon, Jayanta Hazarika, Jim Nabors, Joan Baez, John Phillips (musician), Johnny Rivers, Jurm (1990 film), Justin Timberlake, Keu Gaan Gaye, Kumar Sanu, Lament, List of number-one singles of 1962 (France), List of train songs, ..., Lonnie Donegan, Look at Us, Nick Cave, Peter and Gordon, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter, Paul and Mary (album), RCA Records, Reba McEntire, Repetition (music), Richard Anthony (singer), Rise Up Singing, Rosanne Cash, Sadhana Sargam, Samishii Nettaigyo, Shining Time Station, Single (music), Sonny & Cher, Stark Sands, Swedish language, Takako Matsu, Terry Callier, The Brothers Four, The Highwaymen (country supergroup), The Hooters, The Innocence Mission, The Journeymen, The Kingston Trio, The Persuasions, The Seekers, The Seldom Scene, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Waldemar Matuška, Wink (Japanese band). Expand index (34 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American fiddle

American fiddle-playing began with the early settlers who found that the small viol family instruments were portable and rugged.

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American folk music revival

The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

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Anjan Dutt

Anjan Dutt (19 January 1953) is an Indian film director, actor, and singer-songwriter of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by anyodharar gaan (alternative music)- reminiscent of western folk music.

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Assamese language

Assamese or Asamiya অসমীয়া is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

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Bad Astronaut

Bad Astronaut is an American indie/alternative rock band founded in 2000 by Joey Cape, singer from Lagwagon.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bobby Bare

Robert Joseph Bare Sr. (born April 7, 1935) is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home".

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Carey Mulligan

Carey Hannah MulliganEngland & Wales, 1984-2004. Gives name at birth as "Carey Hannah Mulligan" (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress and singer.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Cathy Come Home

Cathy Come Home is a 1966 BBC television play by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, about homelessness.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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College Concert

College Concert is the twelfth album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music).

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Czech language

Czech (čeština), historically also Bohemian (lingua Bohemica in Latin), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group.

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Dick and Dee Dee

Dick and Dee Dee (or Dick and Deedee) is an American singer-songwriter duo that reached popularity in the early to mid-1960s.

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Duckweed (film)

Duckweed (乘风破浪; lit. Ride the Winds, Break the Waves) is a 2017 Chinese drama film directed by Han Han and starring Deng Chao, Eddie Peng, Zhao Liying and Dong Zijian.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Elizabeth MacRae

Elizabeth Herndon MacRae (born February 22, 1936 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American actress who appeared in various television shows and movies from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Eric Bibb

Eric Charles Bibb (born August 16, 1951) is an American-born blues singer and songwriter.

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Franco Battiato

Francesco "Franco" Battiato (born 23 March 1945, Ionia, Sicily) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show (and CBS) renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC.

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Hedy West

Hedy West (April 6, 1938 – July 3, 2005) was an American folksinger and songwriter.

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Helena Vondráčková

Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hootenanny Singers

The Hootenanny Singers were a popular folk group from Sweden, founded in 1961.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside Llewyn Davis is a 2013 American black comedy tragedy film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen.

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Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon (born August 21, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer.

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Jayanta Hazarika

Jayanta Hazarika (জয়ন্ত হাজৰিকা.) (20 September 1943 – 15 October 1977) was an Assamese Indian singer and composer.

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Jim Nabors

James Thurston Nabors (June 12, 1930 – November 30, 2017) was an American actor, singer, and comedian.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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John Phillips (musician)

John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and promoter, most notably of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, a landmark event of the counterculture era and the Summer of Love.

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Johnny Rivers

Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella; November 7, 1942) is an American rock 'n' roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.

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Jurm (1990 film)

Jurm is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language crime film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by his brother Mukesh.

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer.

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Keu Gaan Gaye

Keu Gaan Gaye (1997) is a Bengali album by Anjan Dutt.

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Kumar Sanu

Kedarnath Bhattacharya, better known as Kumar Sanu (born 20 October 1957), is a leading Indian playback singer of Bengali background, popular for rendering his voice in Bollywood movies of the 1990s and early 2000s.

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Lament

A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form.

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List of number-one singles of 1962 (France)

This is a list of the French singles & airplay chart reviews number-ones of 1962.

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List of train songs

A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads.

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Lonnie Donegan

Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians.

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Look at Us

Look at Us is the debut album by American pop duo Sonny & Cher, released in 1965 by Atco Records.

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Nick Cave

Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor, best known as the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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Peter and Gordon

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No.1 smash "A World Without Love".

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Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.

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Peter, Paul and Mary (album)

Peter, Paul and Mary is the first album by American music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1962 on Warner Bros. Records.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Reba McEntire

Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.

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Repetition (music)

Repetition is important in music, where sounds or sequences are often repeated.

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Richard Anthony (singer)

Richard Anthony, born Ibrahim Richard Btesh (13 January 1938 – 19 April 2015), was a French singer from Cairo, Egypt.

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Rise Up Singing

Rise Up Singing is a popular group singing songbook conceived, developed, and edited by Annie Patterson and Peter Blood.

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Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Sadhana Sargam

Sadhana Sargam (born 7 March 1969) is a playback singer of Indian cinema with a career spanning over three decades.

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Samishii Nettaigyo

is Wink's fifth single.

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Shining Time Station

Shining Time Station is an American children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Stark Sands

Stark Bunker Sands (born September 30, 1978) is an American film, stage and television actor.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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Takako Matsu

, born, on June 10, 1977 in Tokyo, is a Japanese actress and pop singer/songwriter.

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Terry Callier

Terrence Orlando "Terry" Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American jazz, soul, and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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The Brothers Four

The Brothers Four is an American folk singing group, founded in 1957 in Seattle, Washington, known for their 1960 hit song "Greenfields".

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The Highwaymen (country supergroup)

The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of the genre's biggest artists, known for their pioneering influence on the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.

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The Hooters

The Hooters are an American rock band from Philadelphia.

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The Innocence Mission

the innocence mission, an indie folk band composed of Karen Peris (née McCullough) and her husband and fellow guitarist, Don Peris, and Mike Bitts (bass guitar) was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when the members met during a Catholic school production of Godspell.

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The Journeymen

The Journeymen was an American folk music trio in the early 1960s, comprising John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, and Dick Weissman.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The Persuasions

The Persuasions are an a cappella group that began singing together in Brooklyn, New York in the mid-1960s.

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The Seekers

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.

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The Seldom Scene

The Seldom Scene is an American bluegrass band formed in 1971 in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Waldemar Matuška

Waldemar Matuška (July 2, 1932 – May 30, 2009) was a Czechoslovak singer who became popular in his homeland during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Wink (Japanese band)

was a J-pop female duo in the late 1980s and early-to-mid-1990s composed of and.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Miles

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