To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

40 Hour Week (For a Livin')

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')"
Single by Alabama
from the album 40-Hour Week
B-side"As Right Now"
ReleasedApril 17, 1985 (U.S.)
RecordedSeptember 6, 1984
GenreCountry
Length3:20
LabelRCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)Dave Loggins
Don Schlitz
Lisa Silver
Producer(s)Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"There's No Way"
(1985)
"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')"
(1985)
"Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
(1985)

"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" is a song written by Dave Loggins, Don Schlitz and Lisa Silver, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in April 1985 as the second single and title track from Alabama's album 40-Hour Week.[1]

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    2 547
    912
    110 657 777
  • Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')
  • "40 Hour Week (For A Livin')" - Alabama (Lyrics in description)
  • MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - DOWNTOWN (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Transcription

About the song

The song, a salute to America's blue-collar workers, became Alabama's 17th No. 1 song on August 3, spending one week atop the chart. The end of the song includes a few bars from "America the Beautiful."

Country music historian Bill Malone, in his liner notes for Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection, wrote that "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" "...is a rare country music tribute to American workers. (It) probably owes its popularity as much to its patriotic sentiments as to its social concern." Malone also noted that, with few exceptions, "almost no one in country music has spoken for the industrial laborer," one of the main groups of workers Alabama salutes in this song. "This straightforward homage gives the contemporary worker the respect that the Reagan years denied him," Malone concluded.[2]

The song was used by NBC Sports over the closing credits during its broadcast of Super Bowl XX on January 26, 1986. Highlights of the Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs were shown when the refrains mentioning those cities or areas were sung. Highlights of Steelers fans in Three Rivers Stadium were used for the "West Virginia coal miner" refrain, since many residents of West Virginia are Steelers fans.

Music video

A music video was filmed for the song, depicting people working various blue-collar jobs. It was directed by David Hogan and has aired on CMT and Great American Country.

Alabama vs. Sonny James

"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" is one of the songs central to a point of contention among country music historians. Alabama is frequently billed as having the longest uninterrupted No. 1 streak in the history of the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart, with 21 songs peaking atop the chart between 1980 and 1987, "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" being the song that set the new standard."[3]

However, the band's 1982 Christmas single, "Christmas in Dixie," peaked at No. 35, bringing about the point of contention. Sonny James, a country music superstar in the 1960s and 1970s, had previously set the standard of most Billboard No. 1 songs with 16 straight without a miss in any single release.

Some sources, including the Alabama Music Hall of Fame web site, state that the failure of "Christmas in Dixie" snapped Alabama's streak before achieving parity with James. Others — such as Joel Whitburn's "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005" — disregard non-No. 1 Christmas singles (such as "Christmas in Dixie") in determining chart-topping streaks and consider Alabama to have surpassed the record.

Several hard-core country fans were quick to point out the discrepancy, but Billboard magazine writer Paul Grein responded, "Only a Scrooge would count that against them."[3] James, on the other hand, attended a celebratory gathering for Alabama's accomplishment and graciously conceded the claim of having the most No. 1 songs without a miss.[4]

Charts

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
  2. ^ Malone, Bill, "Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection" ((booklet included with Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection 4-disc set). Smithsonian Institution, 1990), P.73.
  3. ^ a b Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-8230-7553-2)), p. 426-427
  4. ^ Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music" (HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN 0-06-273244-7)), p. 161
  5. ^ "Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  6. ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1985". Billboard. Retrieved June 10, 2021.

Further reading

  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
This page was last edited on 28 November 2022, at 10:09
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.