Question of the Week: What’s your favorite song about work?
Local Spins’ Question of the Week (Sept. 3, 2020)
What is your favorite song about work?
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THE READER RESPONSES:
Olivia Vargas – Todd Rundgren, “Bang on the Drum All Day”
Michael Packer – Hate it, but “Takin’ Care of Business.” Love it, “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” I know, neither is necessarily about work but they are the first that come to mind. Also, “Heigh Ho,” The Seven Dwarfs. “Working in the Coal Mine,” Lee Dorsey.
Steve Damstra – “Workin’ for a Livin’ “- Huey Lewis
Arthur Chrysler – “Working In The Coal Mine,” Lee Dorsey
Ted Smith – “Working in a Coal Mine,” Devo
Melodee Van Bogelen Horsford – “Blue Collar Man,” by Rush
Timmy Lee Vandyke – “Working On The Highway” Bruce Springsteen
Scott M. Bultman Sr. – “Working for a Living” by Huey Lewis is on target. Or “The Wall” by Pink Floyd.
Jim Marcusse – “Work Song” by Paul Butterfield (instrumental though)
John Wenger – Grateful Dead, “Maggie’s Farm”
Sol Krishef – I like “Workin Man (Nowhere to Go)” by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Brandon Wallace Muske – “Shine On” by May Erlwine.
Rachel Curtis Muffett – “Coal Miners Daughter” by Loretta Lynn
Lee Chase – The Clash, “Career Opportunities”
Matthew Farage – “Workin’ Man,” Rush
Scott Kelly – “Work Song”
Chad Michael Wedeven – Jimmy Eat World, “Work”
Goldie Stilson – “All Boots Aboard” by The Bootstrap Boys
John Crissman – “Cumberland Blues,” Grateful Dead
Greg S. Lewis – R.E.M., “Finest Worksong”
Nicholas James Thomasma – “Poverty Line” by The Bootstrap Boys
Rick Slachta – “Work To Do,” Average White Band
Brad Vredevoogd – “Workin’ for A Livin’ ” or “Working for the Weekend,” for sure.
James S. Gemmell – “Working Man” by RUSH. “Takin’ Care of Business” by BTO would be next.
Lin Otherlyn – Willie Nelson’s”On the Road Again” – “the life I love is makin’ music with my friends, I can’t wait t’ get on the road again…”
Devin Dely – “Nose on the Grindstone,” Tyler Childers
Mitch Mileski – “Inside Looking Out” by the Animals
RH Bear Berends – Woody Guthrie’s “Union Maid” of course! The original and the best!
Paul Harris – Merle Haggard’s “Working Man Blues”
Robert J. Lutz – “Luxury” by The Rolling Stones
Jay Jylkka – “Working In The Coalmine” or “Take This Job And Shove It”
Janet Lee Zahn – “Natural Resources,” Utah Phillips
Michele Mabele – “A Hard Day’s Night,” The Beatles
Futta S. Bucco – “Band the Drum All Day,” Todd Rundgren
Kyle Rasche – Croce’s “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues”
Jeffrey Chambers – “16 Tons” or “Wichita Lineman”
Daniel P. Hudelsohn – “We’re All Working for the Pharoah”
Scott Steiner – “Work to Do,” Isley Brothers
Roger Kintner – Muddy Waters, “Streamline Woman”
Joel Schultze – Godfather’s “Birth, School, Work, Death”
Roger Kintner – “Working Man,” Rush
Ric Sherwin – “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford
Linda Rankin – “5 O’clock World”
Daniel Parsons – “Back on the Chain Gang,” Pretenders
Don Clapham – “Bell Boy” from The Who’s “Quadrophenia.” Pete Townshend wrote the song but Keith Moon’s cockney vocals as the “bell boy” made it special.
Mark VandenBerge – Van Morrison, “I’ve Been Working”
Michael McLaughlin – Joshua Davis, “Workingman’s Hymn”
Chad Stanton – “Work Song,” The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Mick Lane – “Ordinary Man,” by Christy Moore & Conklin Ceili Band
Lee Chase – The Police, “Roxanne”
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