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Work Your Proper Hours Day

Whistle while you work

What will you be listening to this Friday? Here's our Work Your Proper Hours Day chart, of long-hours related top pop tunes to give you a few suggestions:

1 Hard day's Night - The Beatles
2 Out of Time - Blur
3 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton (or Soulwax remix)
4 Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
5 No Time to Play - GURU
6 Workaholic - 2 Unlimited
7 Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
8 Thank God it's Friday - R Kelly
9 Ride on Time - Black Box
10 Leave Right Now - Will Young
11 Work - Bob Marley
12 Working for the Man - Roy Orbison
13 The Robots - Kraftwerk
14 Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello
15 We Don't Work For Free - Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five
16 Time Drags By - Cliff Richard & the Shadows
17 Work Hard - Depeche Mode
18 Working the Midnight Shift - Donna Summer
19 Big Boss Man - Elvis Presley
20 Go Now - Moody Blues
21 Workin' Overtime - Diana Ross
22 Friday on My Mind - the Easybeats
23 Just Who is the 5 O'Clock Hero? - the Jam
24 Time - Pink Floyd
25 I Want To Break Free - Queen
26 They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad - Allman Bros
27 Please Release Me - Engelbert Humperdinck

Get involved:

  • Calling all pop-trivia buffs! Let us know if you've got other tunes that belong in the workSMART chart. If we like them, we'll add them to the list. Email us at poppickers@worksmart.org.uk
     
  • Call the tune: If you listen to the radio at work, why not ring in to your radio station and request your favourite for Work Your Proper Hours Day? Or if check out the jukebox if you go for a drink after work with your colleagues
     
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