Soul Walk: Edwin Starr Marches Into Pop And R&B Top Tens With ‘Twenty-Five Miles’

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Soul Walk: Edwin Starr Marches Into Pop And R&B Top Tens With ‘Twenty-Five Miles’

The protagonist in a new hit song of February 1969 was getting desperate. “I’ve been walking for three days, two lonely nights,” he told us. “You know that I’m mighty mad…but I got a woman waiting for me, gonna make this trip worthwhile.” Twenty-five miles to go, then 15, ten, five…he could hear his baby calling his name, he’d got to keep on walkin’ and his feet couldn’t fail him now. His determination would pay off. That soulful single-mindedne…