1000 Miles Away

Infobox Single
Name = 1000 Miles Away


Cover size =
Caption = "1000 Miles Away" Front cover
Artist = Hoodoo Gurus
Album = Kinky
A-side = "1000 Miles Away"
B-side = "I Think You Know"
Released = June, 1991 (Australia)
Format = 7" vinyl
CD Single
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:34
Label = BMG (Australia)
RCA (U.S.)
Writer = Dave Faulkner
Producer = Hoodoo Gurus
Certification =
Last single = "Miss Freelove '69"
(1991)
This single = "1000 Miles Away"
(1991)
Next single = "A Place in the Sun"
(1991)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = "1000 Miles Away"
Type = single


Cover size =
Lower caption = Back Cover
Border =

"1000 Miles Away" was a single by iconiccite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/about-hall-of-fame.php |title=ARIA Awards 2007: About Hall of Fame |publisher=ARIA Awards |accessdate=2007-11-20 ] cite web |title="ARIA presents the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame" |last=Pope |first=Mark |url=http://www.amcos.com.au/news/industry/news/070507_ARIA-HallofFame.pdf (PDF) |date=2007-05-07 |accessdate=2008-01-22 ] Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus which reached #37 on the ARIA Singles Charts. [cite web |url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?key=277779&cat=s |title=Australian Singles Charts "1000 Miles Away" |publisher=australian-charts.com |accessdate=2007-12-31 ] It was released on RCA Records in June, 1991 reaching #33 on the Australian singles chart;cite book |title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 |format=doc |last=Kent |first=David |authorlink= David Kent|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |accessdate=2008-02-19] and was written by Dave Faulkner.cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch&switchDet=Y |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=APRA |accessdate=2007-12-31] B side "I Think You Know" was also written by Faulkner.

The crew of Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS "Canberra" had an association with the song after they adopted it as their 'anthem'. Hoodoo Gurus played a concert including the Replenishment At Sea song "1000 Miles Away" on-board during their last voyage out of Fremantle to Fleet Base West, prior to its decommissioning in 2005. [cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/ships/canberra/decommission/sydney.html |title=Decommissioning Year HMAS "Canberra" |last=McLennan |first=Grant |publisher=RAN |accessdate=2008-02-19 Dead link|date=September 2008] Dead link|date=September 2008 [cite web |url=http://minister.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/4821/topstories/story14.htm |title=Ship's final mile |last=McLennan |first=Grant |publisher="Navy: the sailor's paper" |accessdate=2008-02-19 ]

The single was also released as a limited edition picture disc [ [http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=619922 1000 Miles Picture Disc] ] , on which the B-side is not listed but titled as 4 symbolic drawings: an eye, a light bulb, a horseshoe, and a circle with a line through it (for back cover see below right, when read using the Rebus Principle this becomes "I Think You Know"). It was also released as a cassette single with free 'Kinky' Hoodoo Gurus magazine.

The second B-side on the CD Maxi-single, "Stomp the Tumbarumba", was originally recorded by New Zealand musician, Johnny Devlin, in 1963. It featured an uncredited appearance by the Gibb brothers (Bee Gees) as backup singers [ [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/63.html Bee Gees Recordings] ] and reached #5 on the Sydney singles charts and #5 on the Brisbane charts the year of its release.

Track listing

7" Vinyl

# "1000 Miles Away" (Dave Faulkner) — 4:34
# "I Think You Know" (Faulkner) — 3:30

CD Maxi-single

# "1000 Miles Away" — 4:34
# "I Think You Know" — 3:30
# "Stomp the Tumbarumba" (Johnny Devlin, Joy Inman) — 3:05

Personnel

Credited to: [cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/603017 |title=Discogs entry on "Kinky" |accessdate=2007-12-31 ]
* Richard Grossman — bass, backing vocals
* Dave Faulkner — lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Mark Kingsmill — drums, percussion
* Brad Shepherd — guitar, backing vocals, harmonica

* Producer — Hoodoo Gurus
* Engineer — Alan Thorne
* Assistant Engineers — David Mackie, Robert Hodgson
* Mixer — Ed Stasium
* Mastering — Greg Calbi

References