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'How I Met Your Mother' revived The Proclaimers' 1988 hit '500 Miles' for a new audience

The Proclaimers' "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)" took 19 years to top the charts. In 2007 "How I Met Your Mother" used it for one ...
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Name That Song: The 500 Miles One

I used to really like that song. I had 2 Proclaimers casette tapes, and used to play them all the time. Then they got the song to 'hit' with a video & placement in Benny & Joon, and it got ...