Edwin Starr, Twenty Five Miles | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 133^rd edition of Throwback Vibez (2022), we recollect and reflect on “Twenty Five Miles” by Edwin Starr.  

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome – we don’t discriminate ‘round here! In the 133^rd edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2022), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Twenty Five Miles”, performed by 🎙 Edwin Starr. 

“Come on feet, start movin’ / Got to get me there.” From the onset, 🎙 Edwin Starr is on autopilot on the 1960s soul gem, 🎵 “Twenty Five Miles”.  “Twenty Five Miles” commences his 1969 album, 💿 25 Miles with a surefire bang.  Honestly, could 25 Miles be named after something else beyond this top-10 pop hit (no. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100)? NOPE – it is his second-highest charting single behind his best-known record, 🎵 “War”.

In this hella funky soul cut, Starr is “Twenty five miles from home,” and has “been walking for three days / And two lonely nights.” Oh, nap!  Ultimately, despite his hurting feet and the time consumption, the fact that Edwin has an awesome woman waiting for him makes the journey worthwhile.  By the second verse, Starr has only fifteen miles, admitting, “I’ll be so glad to see my baby / And hold her in my arms one more time.” By verse three, he counts down from ten, reaching the five mile mark, asserting, “Although my feet are tired / I can’t lose my stride / I got to get to my baby again.” Clearly, this woman is the sugar honey iced tea! Of course, the crème de la crème, the crowning achievement of “Twenty Five Miles” is the infectious chorus. Also, those authentic, expressive, and high-flying vocals by Mr. Starr do not hurt the cause either, especially backed by lit vintage production work (those horns) .

🎙 Edwin Starr • 💿 25 Miles • 🏷 Motown • 🗓 1969

Edwin Starr, “Twenty Five Miles”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 133 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, John Alan Sperry, PIRO, LaFace, The Musical Hype, Pixabay]