SONG TITLES and SONGS about DISTANCES & TRAVEL

[LookOverYonder]

I'll try to get this topic started with these song titles about DISTANCES/TRAVELING   ...........

*Travelin' Man     Ricky Nelson   which made it to #1 in 1961

*I Ran (So Far Away)     Flock of Seagulls

For a different approach, songs about  DISTANCES/TRAVELING...........

*Walk Away Renee'     The Left Banke

*Ferry Across The Mersey     Gerry & The Pacemakers

Uh, I am sorry if I led off with songs which you may have wanted to post here. How about this....wait a while and then post it....or post it now ! You see, repetition is OKAY

Please understand, there's lots of freedom and latitude with this topic. Be creative....let's have plenty of laughs and plenty of wows like:  "Wow, I wish I had thought of that one!!" "Wow, that's a good one!!

[DarcyFarrow]

Night of the Swallow (Kate Bush):  "It's funny how/Even now you're miles away"

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Mexico" * Bob Moore Orchestra

Happy Cinco de Mayo / Moore was the orchestra music director for Monument records, Roy Orbisons label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZe23ed5Zgg&ab_channel=DanCasey

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle96 - If Moore was with Monument, that means Charlie McCoy was playing any harmonica. Have you ever heard his "Orange Blossom Special"? https://youtu.be/Ln2FtoMTbdc

[cm9889168]

"Hey There Delilah"

       by The Plain White T's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_m-BjrxmgI

[BobH07]

Get Out The Map:  Indigo Girls

[BobH07]

Wagon Wheel:  Old Crow Medicine Show

                            Darius Rucker

[DarcyFarrow]

"Scarlet's Walk" (Tori Amos)

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Baby Don't Go" * Sonny & Cher

 Seen them in concert at Melodyland, anaheim, Ca. in early 65'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QtosxByBA&ab_channel=Purdey.Child

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle96: Great add. And a great memory to have. Wow! I think I still have this 45.

[DarcyFarrow]

Too Far From Texas (Stevie Nicks)

[DarcyFarrow]

Man in a Suitcase (Police)

[sunluvngal]

A Thousand Miles from Nowhere - Dwight Yoakam

https://youtu.be/Tu3ypuKq8WE

[TheGent2U]

Convoy - C. W. McCall - his band was called the Fort Wayne Nuclear Power Plant. Musicians led by Chip Davis and Jackson Berkey - who then founded Mannheim Steamroller. What was the "-20-" at the end of the song? :smileywink: 

https://youtu.be/87r0CPQbFds

[ripvanwinkle96]

Rubber Duck?............

"Hummingbird" {don't fly away} * Seals & Croft

Being of the Bahá’í faith, they played concert for the retreats in the Texas hill country back in the 70-80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r5Sl6WouLU&ab_channel=Dennello%3ANorthernMinnesotaCreations

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle - the -20- (destination) is OMAHA!? The joke being that was where all of them actually lived. Chip Davis' American Gramaphone (Yes, that's how he spells it.) is still headquartered there.

[TheGent2U]

East Bound and Down - Jerry Reed  (Smokey and the Bandit)  https://youtu.be/IOgUaFkpS3Y

[TheGent2U]

"Ticket for the Wind" - John Stewart - (from Smokey & The Bandit 3) 

https://youtu.be/Hw1xBCzHNcU

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" * Loudon Wainwright lll

73'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4&ab_channel=RickRogan

[TheGent2U]

@ripvanwinkle96 - "Dead Skunk" - Love it! Great add!

[DarcyFarrow]

I'd Go the Whole Wide World (Monkees)

[ripvanwinkle96]

"500 Miles Away From Home" * Bobby Bare

Love this song since I was a kid,today I still like this country song. 63'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s6IccNRfjM&ab_channel=OldiesButGoodies

[DarcyFarrow]

Long Way Home (Monkees)

[ciptra38]

Midnight Train to Georgia:  Gladys Night & the Pips

[ciptra38]

Take the Long Way Home:  Supertramp

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Runaway Child, Running Wild" * Temptations

NYC - 1969, long version, psychodelic soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uNRGScc3I&ab_channel=Fran%C3%A7oisMiet

[DarcyFarrow]

Long Lonesome Highway (theme from Then Came Bronson)

[DarcyFarrow]

On the Road (John Denver)

[DarcyFarrow]

Fly Away (John Denver)

[TheGent2U]

Whitter Boulevard - Thee Midniters https://youtu.be/IdKdC6bRtos 

Fun fact: Whittier Boulevard goes from Whittier to Los Angeles. It enters Los Angeles via a bridge that crosses the Los Angeles River and the downtown railyards. You've all seen the Whittier Boulevard Bridge - star of movies, TV, and advertisements: 

[ripvanwinkle96]

"Concentration Moon" {wish I was back in the alley} * FZ & Los Mothers of Invention

I had an alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLAMJnsSxs0&ab_channel=mogsydog

I used to cruise Whittier blvd. sometimes with my Bro. who lived in Montebello, and belonged to the car club, "The Counts of Montebello." Also my G'ma lived in Whittier near the blvd. Actually Whittier was a pretty nice town.