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He also released "Used Cars", the theme song from the film of the same name. American country music singer Bobby Bare recorded a version with new lyrics, which became a hit single in 1963. 500 Miles Away from Home was originally released in December 1963 by RCA Victor. It was the debut studio album of Bare's career and his second with the label.
His biggest hits during this time included "Alimony" , "The Winner" , and "Drop Kick Me, Jesus " (an unusual Christian-football waltz, and a 1976 Grammy nominee for Best Country Song). Wynk Music brings to you 500 Miles Away From Home MP3 song from the movie/album Party Tyme - Country Male Hits 9 Karaoke Versions. Along with it if you are looking for a podcast online to keep you motivated throughout the week, then check out the latest podcast of Podcast. The Hooters recorded a version of this song with additional lyrics, dedicated to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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The record reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Fraternity erroneously credited Bill Parsons on the label. The same track, with the same billing error, peaked at No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1959. In 1965, an album of older recorded material, Tender Years (JM-6026), was released on the Hilltop label. That same year, the material was repackaged by Sears and released under the title Bobby In Song (SPS-115).
He also scored a #12 hit in 1972 with a version of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's pop hit "Sylvia's Mother", written by Shel Silverstein. In 2018, Japanese singer Kiyoe Yoshioka sang a Japanese version of the song, "500 Mairu" (500マイル) on her debut album Uta Iro. Bengali singer Anjan Dutt sung the song in Bengali called "Mr. Hall" in his 1997 album Keu Gaan Gaye. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. In 1985, Bare signed with EMI America Records where he scored three low-charting singles.
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Bare returned to RCA Victor in 1973 and the label released six studio discs through 1977. Among them was 1973's Bobby Bare Sings Lullaby's, Legends and Lies. The disc was his most successful album to chart the Top Country Albums list, climbing to the number five position. Between 1978 and 1983, he recorded seven studio albums with Columbia Records.
RCA originally distributed the project as a vinyl LP, with six songs on each side of the record. Decades later, it was re-released for music download and streaming purposes. In its original release, the album spent nine weeks on the American Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It peaked at number nine on the chart the week of February 28, 1964 and became his second top ten album on the chart. It also became Bare's second album to chart the Billboard 200, peaking at the number 133 position on February 8, 1964. Bobby Bare launched his career as a pop and rock singer with the 1958 top ten American single, "The All American Boy".
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The song appears on the 1961 eponymous debut album by The Journeymen; this may have been its first release. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.
Under Atlantic Nashville, he released the project Old Dogs with several other country artists. His most recent album was 2020's Great American Saturday Night. In the 1950s, Bare repeatedly tried and failed to sell his songs. He finally got a record deal, with Capitol Records, and recorded a few unsuccessful rock and roll singles. Just before he was drafted into the United States Army, he wrote a song called "The All American Boy" and did a demo for his friend, Bill Parsons, to learn how to record. Instead of using Parsons' later version, the record company, Fraternity Records, decided to go with Bare's original demo.
Bare's big break in country music came when Chet Atkins signed him to RCA Victor. Follow-up "Detroit City" reached No. 6 Country, No. 16 Hot 100, and in 1964 earned him a Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. Then a surge of hits followed, including "500 Miles Away from Home" (based on a traditional folk ballad written by Hedy West as "500 Miles") and Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds". In 1965 he received two further Grammy nominations for Best Country & Western Vocal Performance and Best Country & Western single for the latter song. In 1966, he received a yet another Grammy Nomination for Best Country & Western Male Vocal Performance for his song "Talk Me Some Sense".
Bare started to release novelty songs recorded live with selected audiences. One such song, "Marie Laveau", topped the country chart in 1974; the song was Bare's only #1 hit. It was co-written by his friends Silverstein and Baxter Taylor, who received a BMI Award for the song in 1975. Bare later recorded a children's album with his family, mainly of Silverstein songs, called Singin' in the Kitchen.
In 1980, he almost cracked the Top 10 with "Numbers", which came from his album Down and Dirty. On that album, Bare started to experiment with Southern rock, which continued with his following album, Drunk and Crazy . The next year, Bare returned to his country roots with his Rodney Crowell-produced album As Is, featuring the single "New Cut Road". In 1983, his duet with Lacy J. Dalton, "It's A Dirty Job", hit the Top 30. His last trip into the Top 30 came that summer with the novelty song "The Jogger".
Peter, Paul and Mary provided background vocals for them, as well. The song is generally credited as being written by Hedy West, and a 1961 copyright is held by Atzal Music, Inc. "500 Miles" is West's "most anthologized song". Some recordings have also credited Curly Williams, or John Phillips as co-writers, although Phillips admitted he had only rearranged it and "didn't deserve the credit". This extension has a feature called 'The Human Web' that silently re-downloads all the pages you've recently visited in your browser in the background to collect data, which causes you to be blocked.
Bare's album, Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies, became his most commercially successful album, finding him a new audience with pop radio once again playing his songs and also gaining a new following with college kids. These songs, all 14 written or co-written by Shel Silverstein, however, would become Bare's last Top 10 hits. In 1979, he started off Rosanne Cash's career in a big way by being her duet partner on the Top 20 hit "No Memories Hangin' Round".
In 1968, he recorded an album with a group from England called The Hillsiders. In 1969, he had a Top 5 hit with Tom T. Hall's "(Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn". In the early seventies, Bare recorded five studio albums for Mercury Records. His most successful was 1972's What Am I Gonna Do, which reached number 19 on the Top Country Albums chart.
It was nominated in Best Group category in Grammy Awards, but was declined by Bare himself. In 1977, Bare released an entire album of songs by songwriter Bob McDill called Me and McDill, which contained the popular hit "Look Who I'm Cheatin' On Tonight." Bobby Bare's first two albums, Detroit City and 500 Miles Away From Home, are combined on this single disc. Though there are some weak tracks on the disc, this is one of the strongest and most exciting collections of Bare's music, showcasing the songwriter in his earliest stages. He might not have perfected his sound, but it is thrilling to hear him sort it out.
It received positive reception from AllMusic in later years following its original release. Silverstein penned other songs for Bare including a Grammy-nominated hit, "Daddy What If", which he recorded with his five-year-old son, Bobby Bare Jr. The song was an immediate success as well, not only reaching No. 2 on the country charts, but nearly reaching the Top 40 on the pop charts.
