I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
| I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) | |
|---|---|
| The Proclaimers | |
| publication | 1988 (United Kingdom) 1993 (United States) |
| length | 3:33 (Original Version 1988) 3:42 (Re-release 2007) |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock (celtic rock) |
| Author (s) | Pete Wingfield , Charlie Reid, Craig Reid |
| album | Sunshine on Leith |
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) is the title of a song by the Scottish band The Proclaimers . It was first released in 1988 on the album Sunshine on Leith .
Emergence
Rumor has it that this song was inspired by Amy Austin, who was a childhood friend who lived in Leith near the brothers.
Trivia
In 1993 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was used as the soundtrack for the feature film Benny & Joon . The popular film helped to make the song known in the United States and thus enabled the first international rise in the charts. It is often claimed that this song was a 1990 hit, due to the huge boom of the time.
The song is very popular in Scotland. Every time the Scottish national football team scores, it is played and the fans sang along. This also happens to the Scottish National Rugby Union team when they score a point at Murrayfield Stadium. The Scottish dart player Robert Thornton also uses the song as running-in music at tournaments.
The SV Werder Bremen also used the song for several years as Tormelodie. When SV Werder scores a goal in the Weserstadion , the typical foghorn sounds, followed by the chorus of the song.
The Proclaimers played it on July 6, 2005 at Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push at Murrayfield Stadium as a token of the conclusion to The Long Walk To Justice .
In 2006 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was shown as a cutaway gag in the episode " You May Now Kiss the… Uh… Guy Who Receives " of the 4th season of Family Guy .
The song was also used as the theme song for the Swedish television program High Chaparall .
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was always in the flashbacks 1994-2007 episode " Arrivederci, Fiero " of How I Met Your Mother of the cassette tape played, as the audio cassette in the player of the Pontiac Fiero of Marshall Eriksen stuck stayed. It was played again in the episode " The Caffeine Trip " as road trip music for Ted and Marshall. It was also played in the closing credits of the British comedy Burke & Hare .
On September 11, 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the original version from 1988 at number 50 of the worst songs of all time (100 Worst Songs Ever).
The song was also very popular in Spain in the late 1990s thanks to a television commercial . It was the reference song of the television advertising of Retevisión (now ONO ) it was one of the first telecommunications companies in Spain, after the liberalization of the sector in 1997. The first television advertisements were shown with the original voice, later the text was translated into Spanish and sent to the company personalized.
The cover version by Steven Curtis Chapman was played on February 18, 2010 by NASA as a wake-up call on the International Space Station and on the STS-130 on the 12th day of flight .
In 2011, The Proclaimers played the song in the Scottish film Rock in the Park , which was recorded during the Edinburgh annual rock festival known as " T in the Park ". In 2012 the song was played several times in the movie The Wedding of Our Biggest Friend . It also appears in the film and in the credits of the British feature film Angels' Share .
At the end of the fourth season of Doctor Who a video was released in which the entire crew including numerous actors and the brothers of The Proclaimers dance to the song. The video was widely distributed on the Internet and was viewed several million times on Youtube.
“I'm Gonna Be” is part of the film musical Sunshine on Leith (2014), which is based on songs by the Proclaimers. In the closing sequences, the protagonist Davy and his girlfriend Yvonne sing the song in a public square after they have reconciled.
In 2014 it appeared in an advertisement for Ferrero's children's bars.
Chart placements
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) debuted in the British singles chart in 11th place in 1988. After a great film success in which I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was used as the soundtrack , the song first rose in 1993 the international charts. The re-released version from 2007 debuted at number 26 in the UK and number 7 on the Billboard Eurochart Hot 100 .
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
40 (19 weeks) | 19th |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
5 (15 weeks) | 15th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
36 (3 weeks) | 3 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
1 (13 weeks) | 13 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
3 (20 weeks) | 20th |
Cover version
The track I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) has been covered many times:
- 1994 - Down By Law , released on the album Punk Rock Academy Fight Song
- 1997 - Fuckin 'Faces , released on the album Licht & Schatten
- 1997 - Toy Dolls , released on the album One More Megabyte
- 2003 - Steven Curtis Chapman , released on the album All About Love
- 2004 - Spunge , published in their cover album That Should Cover It!
- 2005 - Koopa (band) , released as B-side on album No Trend
- 2006 - Najwa Nimri , released on the album Walkabout
- 2007 - The Proclaimers starring Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin (i.e. Peter Kay and Matt Lucas ), released slightly modified ("I would roll 500 miles") as an official comic relief single (proceeds went entirely to the foundation ); they performed the song together on Red Nose Day
- 2009 - Alexander Rybak , released on the album Fairytales
- 2009 - MxPx , released in the album On The Cover II
- 2009 - Scotsman George Donaldson of the Celtic Thunders , released on the album Take Me Home
- 2010 - The Proclaimers with all current and some former cast and crew members of Doctor Who (music video recording for wrap party and farewell to David Tennant )
- 2010 - The song was parodied by the Fringemunks to recap the episode White Tulip , the FBI TV show Fringe .
- 2012 - Kenny And The Scots, released under the title I Would Walk 500 Miles
- 2013 - Andreas Gabalier with Samu Haber , released on the album Home Sweet Home
- 2018 - Voxxclub, 500 miles
- Played by Maxïmo Park , live on BBC Radio 1 .
- Played by Phish on December 30, 1997 at Madison Square Garden in a duet with Tom Marshall.
- Played by The MacDonald Brothers in The X Factor .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dartsdatabase.co.uk: Robert Thornton Player Profile. Retrieved January 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Live 8 / Concert Programs - Edinburgh, Murrayfield Stadium In: Wikipedia
- ↑ Matthew Wilkening: 100 Worst Songs Ever - Part Three of Five. AOL Radio, accessed December 22, 2010 .
- ↑ Retevision - Spot telefono a las estrellas. (Flash Player required) In: YouTube. Retrieved June 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Chronology Of Wakeup Calls. (PDF; 703 kB) NASA, p. 68 , accessed on June 18, 2011 .
- ^ Doctor Who - Entire Cast & Crew 500 Miles Special. In: YouTube. DalekQueen, March 29, 2012, accessed on August 9, 2020 (English, “2,770,954 views” at the time the itemization was inserted).
- ↑ I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Covers of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) on Whosampled.com
- ↑ DavidWuMusic.com - Website of the Fringemunks. Retrieved June 14, 2011 .
- ↑ DavidWuMusic.com - White Tulip. (MP3; 5.4 MB) Archived from the original on March 13, 2013 ; Retrieved June 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Andreas Gabalier | Home Sweet Home - International Special Edition . In: www.universal-music.de . ( universal-music.de [accessed on May 29, 2017]).