The music video for the song became the first by a female artist to be placed in MTV’s “heavy rotation.” 8. She Works Hard for the MoneyĬo-written by disco queen Donna Summer, this 1983 hit was inspired by an encounter that Summer had with an exhausted rest room attendant at the famed Los Angeles restaurant Chasen’s. In 2007, Lewis re-recorded the song as a duet with country music superstar Garth Brooks. Workin’ for a Livin’Īccording to singer and composer Huey Lewis (of Huey Lewis and the News fame), this 1982 song was semi-autobiographical, describing past jobs he had before becoming a musician, including time spent as a truck driver, busboy and bartender. “I guess they’re all working … and waiting for the weekend.” 6. “I was wondering, where is everybody?” he later recalled. It soon dawned on him that much of the area was deserted. This 1982 hit by Canadian rock band Loverboy was inspired when guitarist and co-writer Paul Dean took a walk on the beach one Wednesday afternoon. The percussion in the verses is the sound of a typewriter, though when Parton originally wrote the song, she devised the clacking rhythm by running her acrylic fingernails back and forth against one another. Written and performed by Dolly Parton for the 1980 film of the same name, this ode to America’s office workers garnered Parton an Academy Award ® nomination and two Grammys. The band were so grateful, they dedicated their next two albums to Halper! 4. The working-class listeners of the city loved it, which resulted in the group landing their first U.S. Working ManĬleveland disk jockey Donna Halper played this Rush song on the air in early 1974, even though the group were unknown in the States at the time. ![]() As a bonus, there’s some fine picking from longtime Ricky Nelson / Elvis Presley guitarist James Burton. ![]() Merle Haggard’s famed 1969 country song features a lyric that extolls the virtues of hard work and sacrifice despite the resulting fatigue and stress of raising a large family. Shaking his head no, Ringo explained that he’d had “a hard day’s night.” 2. The title of this classic 1964 Beatles hit (in which John Lennon sings plaintively about “working like a dog”) came from a Ringo Starr malapropism when the drummer was asked one morning if he’d slept well. With Labor Day just around the corner, here are some interesting factoids about ten of the most iconic songs about working … and enjoying the fruits of your labors.
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