{"id":2259,"date":"2015-09-04T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T21:43:39","slug":"workin-it-with-labor-day-friday-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2259","title":{"rendered":"Workin&#8217; It With Labor Day Friday Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DET-JazzFest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2260 \" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DET-JazzFest.jpg\" alt=\"DET JazzFest\" width=\"240\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DET-JazzFest.jpg 262w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DET-JazzFest-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>Labor Day Weekend is here, the official end of Michigan&#8217;s all-too-short summer.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Day also coincides with the opening of college football season, and the buzz over the re-build in Ann Arbor, and the re-<em>load<\/em> in East Lansing. Plus, the kids will (finally?) head back to school-and won&#8217;t Tuesday morning be fun!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Labor Day celebrates The American Worker. So for this week&#8217;s Friday Songs, here&#8217;s a Keener Countdown of the Top 5 songs about work. Enjoy the weekend, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>#5. Jersey Boys checking in, this Four Seasons song from 1966, was later a hit for The Spinners in &#8217;79.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sfpm2I0dev8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sfpm2I0dev8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#4. The great Sam Cooke, with a song he wrote that went all the way to #2, in time for Labor Day, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (Live)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kDq-AjPtU6Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>#3. Tommy James was just &#8220;makin a livin&#8217;..&#8221;, he wrote it, produced it, and you made it Top 5 on Keener in 1971.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmS_arelR-M\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmS_arelR-M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#2. The Beatles, who could have been a Top 5 on the own! We picked a favorite, the title song to their first movie!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beatles - A Hard Day&#039;s Night - Official Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70QfHtKdh_0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>#1. Lee Dorsey, top 10 in the summer of &#8217;66. Because somewhere along the line, over Labor Day weekend, you&#8217;ll be kickin&#8217; back, lovin&#8217; life and need a groove. And there a few grooves better than a New Orleans groove!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Working in the Coal Mine - Lee Dorsey\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Dy2tuF915E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry Labor Day Weekend is here, the official end of Michigan&#8217;s all-too-short summer. Labor Day also coincides with the opening of college football season, and the buzz over the re-build in Ann Arbor, and the re-load in East Lansing. Plus, the kids will (finally?) head back to school-and won&#8217;t Tuesday morning be fun! Of course, Labor Day celebrates The American Worker. So for this week&#8217;s Friday Songs, here&#8217;s a Keener Countdown of the Top 5 songs about work. Enjoy the weekend, everyone! #5. Jersey Boys checking in, this Four Seasons song from 1966, was later a hit for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[104,414,417,416,175,418,415],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-four-seasons","tag-labor-day-weekend-music","tag-lee-dorsey","tag-sam-cooke","tag-the-beatles","tag-tommy-james","tag-top-5-work-songs","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}