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The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song "In the Still of the Night." [ 1 ] They were formed in 1954 and continued performing until 1994. When it was formed, the group consisted of six members, which was eventually cut down to five.
"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.
The lyrics as given in The Scottish Students' Song Book of 1897 are as follows: [2] Sing Ho! for a brave and a valiant bark, And a brisk and lively breeze, A jovial crew and a Captain too, to carry me over the seas, To carry me over the seas, my boys, To my true love so gay, She has taken a trip on a gallant ship Ten thousand miles away. Refrain
The Five Satins' original version was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings—published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) [5] —and ranked No. 90 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [6]
"A Thousand Miles" is written in the key of B major and composed with a tempo of 95 beats per minute. [5] Carlton wrote the song's piano riff in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia; her mother, who had been listening to her, said, "Vanessa, that's a hit song."
Shep and the Limelites was an American doo-wop trio of the early 1960s, [1] composed of James "Shep" Sheppard (September 24, 1935 – January 24, 1970), Clarence Bassett (March 13, 1936 – January 25, 2005) and Charles Baskerville (July 6, 1936 – January 18, 1995).
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