This is my life currently- Working 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton Parton wrote this for the 1980 film of the same name. The film (which was Partons acting debut) starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Parton, and Dabney Coleman and dealt with life in an American office, where the workday was 9am to 5pm. She wrote the song while the movie was filming. In a 2009 interview with 60 Minutes, she talked about the unlikely inspiration for this song: her fingernails. She had very long, acrylic nails, and discovered that when she rubbed them together she could create a rhythm that sounded like a typewriter, and since the movie was about secretaries, she was able to use that sound to compose the song on the set. She even played her fingernails as part of the percussion sound when she recorded the track. This song won the 1981 Grammys for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance, Female; it also received a Grammy nomination for Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. It also won the Peoples Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Song. This was a huge crossover hit for Parton, who expanded her audience to the world of mainstream Pop. Years later, many Country music artists, especially female singers like Faith Hill and Shania Twain, followed Partons lead and made headway on the Pop charts. At different points in the song, you can hear the sounds of some tapping followed by a bell. This was the sound of a typewriter, which was the tool of the trade for secretaries in 1980. The bell told the typist that she was nearing the end of the page and needed to return the carriage to the left and start a new line. Typewriters were eventually replaced with word processors and computers, making these sounds obsolete. Sheena Eastons #1 hit Morning Train (Nine To Five) was released as 9 to 5 outside of America. In the States, the title was changed to avoid confusion with Partons song. This song got the Andy Samberg treatment in at 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live where in a Digital Short, they turned the song into Stumblin. The bit featured Samberg and Paul Rudd Stumbling all over Manhattan to a reworked version of this song. Paul McCartney, who was the musical guest on the show, appears in the short doing a very random tiny harmonica solo.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:30:01 +0000
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