The song topped the charts in both the UK and the US, and both the American and British singles of “A Hard Day’s Night” as well as the American and British albums of the same title, all held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964 – the first time any artist had accomplished this feat.īachman Turner Overdrive, “Taking’ Care of Business” (1974) The song featured prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles’ first feature film, A Hard Day’s Night, and was on their album of the same name. “I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said ‘It’s been a hard day… and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, …night!” So we came to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’.” In a interview, he said that they had worked all day and night on a job: The title of the song originated from something that Ringo Starr said. To this day, it’s one of Disney’s most loved and recognisable songs and still holds a special place in the hearts of workers the world over. The phrase “Heigh-Ho” was first recorded in 1553 and is defined as an expression of “yawning, sighing, languor, weariness, disappointment” and is sung on a daily basis by a group of seven dwarfs as they as they come home from (and go to) work in a mine with diamonds and rubies, in Walt Disney’s first feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The Seven Dwarfs, Disney, “Height Ho” (1937) So, as it’s Friday, we thought we’d bring you a little musical treat in the form of the 12 Most Iconic Songs About Work. Happy Friday Recruiters! This song is super NSFW.After love, sex, alcohol, money, cars and religion, work has been the single most popular subject of pop songs for decades – how we hate it, why we need it, office politics, how the grass is always greener on the other side, and why many of us hate the thought of Monday morning. You can’t feel like anything less than a boss with this one bumpin’. A$AP Ferg is serving dark, stormy, badass vibes. You need some no nonsense to get you through it, and if part of your motivation is fueled by anger, all the better. You’re at your wits end, you’re exhausted and you’ve got an hour left on the clock. come in with the extra funky vocal hook, so “Working for It” works for all occasions. Skrillex helped make the beat extra bad, and THEY. Not that this sexual anthem can’t be motivating for office hours. ZHU brings that heat for the bedroom, which is a different kind of work, but definitely worth putting the time in for. Just because the sun is down doesn’t mean your work is over. This deeper cut from his debut solo album Off the Wall will keep you working around the clock and help you take that energy out of the office and into the night club. Michael Jackson is the ultimate radio work machine, and his beats are some of the funkiest ever laid to wax. Speaking of working since childhood, the King of Pop wasn’t even 10 when he scored his first record deal. Michael Jackson – “Working Day and Night” Now she hires her own maids, and things are working out.
She’s come a long way from being a maid for South Florida’s affluent population. Iggy Azalea flew one way to Miami from her native Australia when she was just 16, and she’s been hustling in the American streets ever since.
Sometimes, you’re pushed into the work life early. In 2013, she dropped this club anthem for all the beautiful girls and boys who know what it takes to go big. Britney Spears has been working since she was a child on the Mickey Mouse Club. She works so hard she had a famous meltdown, but even 2007 couldn’t stop her legend.