This article is about the song. For the film, see Take This Job and Shove It (film). For the album, see Take This Job and Shove It (album).
"Take This Job and Shove It"
Single by Johnny Paycheck
from the album Take This Job and Shove It
B-side
"Colorado Kool-Aid"
Released
October 1977
Recorded
August 24, 1977
Genre
Country
Length
2:35
Label
Epic 50469
Songwriter(s)
David Allan Coe
Producer(s)
Billy Sherrill
Johnny Paycheck singles chronology
"I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)" (1977)
"Take This Job and Shove It" (1977)
"Georgia in a Jug" (1978)
"Take This Job and Shove It" is a 1977 country music song written by David Allan Coe and popularized by Johnny Paycheck, about the bitterness of a man who has worked long and hard with no apparent reward. The song was first recorded by Paycheck on his album also titled Take This Job and Shove It. The recording hit number one on the country charts for two weeks, spending 18 weeks on the charts.[1] It was Paycheck's only #1 hit.
Its B-side, "Colorado Kool-Aid," spent ten weeks on the same chart and peaked at #50.[1]
Coe's recording was released in 1978 on his album Family Album. Coe also recorded a variation of the song called "Take This Job and Shove It Too" on his 1980 album I've Got Something to Say. It included the line "Paycheck, you may be a thing of the past." Coe was annoyed that people assumed that Paycheck had written the song, even though the single released by Paycheck, and subsequent album, both credit Coe as the song's composer.
The song inspired a 1981 film of the same name.
A cover version also appears on Bedtime for Democracy by Dead Kennedys. Another cover version, "Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee", performed by Canibus with Biz Markie, appears in the film Office Space. Chuck Barris and the Hollywood Cowboys performed a modified version of the piece as Barris's swan song when The Gong Show was kicked off NBC in 1978.
^ abWhitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
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