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The single spent three weeks on the UK chart reaching its highest position of number 52 by 24 July 1988.

In July 1988, following the success of the film Good Morning Vietnam, the song was re-released in the UK by A&M Records, with James Brown's ' I Got You (I Feel Good)' on the flip side.

It was later utilized again for the video game adaptation in 2005.

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Arnold McCuller made a version of the song for the soundtrack of the movie The Warriors from 1979.This song is featured in Vinyl, Bringing Out the Dead, Baby Driver and the video game Spec Ops: The Line Covers This version was ranked #358 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The single release was backed with 'Motoring'. It also charted in the UK peaking at number twenty-six on the chart. Included on their 1965 third album, Dance Party, 'Nowhere to Run' hit number eight on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, and number five on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. Holland-Dozier-Holland and the Funk Brothers band gave the song a large, hard-driving instrumentation sound similar to the sound of prior ' Dancing in the Street' with snow chains used as percussion alongside the tambourine and drums.īillboard described the song as a 'good dance beat piece of material which features a gospel piano and a wailin' vocal.' Cash Box described it as 'a hard-driving, fast-moving, raunchy bluesy stomper with a contagious teen-oriented, danceable beat.'