#music, Thursday’s Middle of the Week Music: «Get a Job»

I’ve always loved music, even tried my hand at making music and played guitar and sang in several garage bands as a kid. Later I took to jazz and began playing the bass with a few musicians and got further and further into composing (which I still do but only for the background music of my videos http://www.YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera) but maybe I will go back to song writing again this year… 

In any event, I love music and this song, «Get a Job» (released in 1957) which will conclude today’s music cycle, has always been somewhat of a favourite of mine and now I find out that it has been a fave of a lot of people. For example, the group Sha Na Na (not from the 50’s but from 1969) got their name from this song and apparently the former East Timorese President and Prime Minister «Xanana» Gusmão got his name from the band Sha Na Na…

«Get a Job» became part of several movies like: American Graffiti, Trading Places, and Stand by Me, and The Silhouettes performed in the movie Joey (released in1969)… The group is really a one-hit wonder as they never were able to place another song on the hit parade. They disbanded in 1968 but reunited and performed until 1993. 

I hope you like the song, I think just about everyone has heard it, either as an oldie-goldie or from one of the movies…

Cheers…