Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away (Original Remastered)

The Hearbeats started out calling themselves "The Hearts" but changed their name in 1955 and in 1956 recorded what become one of the all-time great doo-wop numbers, "A Thousand Miles Away", which actually was a sales disappointment only reaching the #53 position that year. James Sheppard, a member of The Heartbeats, co-wrote the song and soon thereafter left to form his own group called Shep & The Limelights. Shep recorded an answer to this song in the form of "Daddy's Home" which went to #2 in April of 1961 causing many to relisten to this marvelous original.

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• Hearbeats
• A Thousand Miles Away
• James Sheppard
• Shep
• DooWop

[billchew450]

Lanny- another request- do you have " Pledging my Love " by Johnny Ace? I know

it's posted multiple times on YT, but with your research, i'd be interested in your take

on really happened backstage that fateful Christmas night.

[Nocaro]

@billchew450 Let me see what I can do about posting that song in the next few days or very soon at least. Thanks for the note.

[billchew450]

Lanny- do you have a clean version of Shake A Hand by Faye Adams?

[Nocaro]

@billchew450 Unfortunately, I have a very scratchy version on vinyl is all I have that I have not bothered to transfer to my hard drive.

[twinsis58]

E R YOU EYES FOTHEY HAD SUCH SMOOTH VOICES AS DID THE FLAMINGOES DOING "I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU. CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL JITTIN DANCERS, THE FLAMINGOES DANCING TO "JUMP CHILDREN

[twinsis58]

THEY HAD SUCH SMOOTH VOICES LIKE THE FLAMINGOES DOING" I ONLY HAVEYES FOR YOU" AND THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL JITTIN DANCERS CHECK THEM OUT DANCING TO THEIR SONG " JUMP CHILDREN"

[pitivaz]

who ever disliked this is an asswipe!



[Emaustone]

This song is special for me.

[jor99912]

Shep & The Lime lights must have love these guys.

[kidblast41]

I never got to see The Heartbeats during their heyday in the 1950's, but I did see Shep & the Limelites several times during the 1960's ... including a reprise of Shep & the Limelites at an Apollo Theater oldies show about a year before the murder of James Shepard near Bruckner Blvd. in the Bronx; Shep's cracky voice was a mere whisper of his former beautiful tenor lead.

[roughjustice2007]

56 years old.....and amazing now as the day it was released.

[unitels2]

jamacia queens new york high school is where it all started for theses guys**** they are just wonderful & full of doo wop as it should be****

[crazyromanian1]

@butlerjames106 Read a rumor in some book that Morris Levy of Roulette Records had Shep rubbed out.

[cassieann1000]

This is so wonderful, in 1955 and 1956 I was 5 and 6 years old but I remember both of these songs and I remember my older teenage sisters talking about the answer to the song when Daddy's Home came out. Beautiful when Jermaine Jackson recorded it back in like 1970 or something, he did a good version of it.