and the stage show is so funny and just a bit risqué but hey Dolly can just say things and we love her honesty . If only more stars had her heart of gold . She created Dollywood to help the folks she grew up and give them worthwhile jobs in an area of poverty. You really MUST watch the movies which is her creation and doesn't follow the direction you'd expect. . A songwriter producer, there ain't anything this woman can't do.
A feel-good movie, pointing out the fact that, if upper management would only listen to the lowly peons' thoughts and opinions, the workplaces might become better run and more productive❤!!!
Dolly didn’t write that song just about women in the workforce. She wrote it about everybody in the workforce. I highly suggest you watch the movie. It was a good one.
It can go for men and women. I grew up with all my parents working their fingers to the bone . We always had food on the table and a roof over our heads. They had an amazing work ethic
Yes, the song is for every worker. The movie, though, specifically focuses on women. The movie idea came first, Dolly wrote this song as the theme song for the movie.
I think society needs to stop diminishing men who choose to stay at home and raise their children, as well. Raising the next generation is arguably one of the most important jobs.
Men being the stay at home parent is great. As long as the child is cared for either parent is good. And well done to all single parents. Single dads can do a better job than some single mums. Atticus Finch is one of the best in fiction
Yep, exactly! There should be agency in the choices made and not forced into certain roles. A major problem now is its not sustainable to have only 1 working parent
The movie 9 to 5 came out in 1980 when we were still trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed. It failed. Women had almost no workforce protection, restricted access to promotion, even to the type of work they could apply for - want ads were still divided in "Men wanted" vs "Women wanted" and no pay equality. Harassment, including sexual harassment was not only tolerated, but blamed on the women. The movie was a comedy but definitely had something to say that is less familiar to todays young women (not saying all problems have disappeared). God bless Dolly for always being able to make a point accessible.
You explained that perfectly! It really is shocking how bad things used to be. I was in a work meeting in the early 90s that was all women. This was at a small company with very limited opportunities for advancement, so men didn't stay. The owner was a man and after he saw our meeting said he wanted to see us working not sitting around clucking like a bunch of hens. It was demoralizing, but there was nothing to do but accept it and carry on.
You are off with your timeline. It was made illegal in the 1960's :(I believe I remember specifically 1965) to pay women and men differently for the same work. Sexual Harassment law was already a 'thing' in the 1970's. Indeed the 80's were to lead to the Radical Feminist understanding of Sexual Harassment law (Instead of sex-neutral 'Rational Person', one gets a 'Rational Woman' standard) due to Catherine MacKinnon's legal and literary activism. Originally, sexual harrassment law was supposed to stop things such as "Sleep with me or you are fired /don't get that promotion" or repeated harassment that either physically endangered a woman or was the equivalent of a sustained bullying campaign (other laws concerning discrimination protected her right not to be denied promotion simply on the basis of her sex) now it's literally almost anything that can be stretched to be sexual in nature including such things as jokes not even directed at the one who 'takes offense' or (in a famous case) someone having a pic of his own wife in a bikini on his desk. So needless to say I think current sexual harrassment law is not only rife for abuse, sexist in its legal standards and often in its application, but also covers far too many minor incidents that should be handled individually or not even be a problem at all.
@ 50 years ago when I was in nursing school we were assigned to read an article that stated nursing would never be a truly respected profession until we started letting more men in. That still irks me. I’m not against men as nurses - have worked with many excellent ones throughout my long career. But the notion that women could not earn respect on their own merits was insulting.
@@janflewelling6277 You should try being a man in a technical job, esp one related to computers. It's repeated attacks on you (as a part of a group, sometimes the group of men, sometimes 'white men' or 'white and asian men')in the press saying your sexism and misogyny are the only reasons that more women aren't in tech jobs, despite 50 years of billions of dollars spent on women's only mentor programs, scholarships, movies and documentaries pushing 'the cause' and etc and even downright employment discrimination via af firmative action and now DEI, not to mention the almost total power of Human Resource divisions in most companies. Never, ever ever is it suggested in the corporate press, after literally decades of this shit, that men and women as groups might have DIFFERENT INTERESTS in general and that might account for most of the discrepency in numbers. Nope. Just blame men, blame men, hate on men , attack a largely mythical 'bro culture' (that might have existed once but hardly anymore) and hate on men.
@ There may have been laws on the books mandating equal pay for the same jobs, but the reality at the time was that employers did not hire women into equal jobs, or they changed the job descriptions just enough to justify the pay differences. Regarding workplace harassment, again, laws might have been on the books but enforcement is another matter. Women who lodged complaints were given performance reviews rating them as difficult to work with or substandard in their performance. I’m describing conditions in the 60s through the 70s, and to some degree in the 80s. I am not in a position to offer an opinion on some of the current issues you bring up. I think interpretation and application of laws can be at risk for abuse now as in the past, and a strong dose of common sense is needed on both sides. In fact I find it disheartening that we view gender equality as having competing sides since harmony and respect benefit everyone.
Daughter of a woman whose husband died when I was 2, on the night my younger sister was born. The reality of your family wasn’t in the cards for her, dude. 9 to 5. That’s my mom. So strong. So beautiful. Raised 3 girls on her own. All of us went to college. All of us worked 9 to 5. So proud of my family.
She wrote this song for the movie 9 to 5 which was her first movie. Jane Fonda was one of the producers besides acting in it and heard Dolly on the radio and thought, she'd be perfect for the roll of Doralee in the movie and Lily Tomlin agreed, and they asked her to join the project but Dolly also asked to have the ability to write songs for the movie if she did it and Dolly actually wrote this song clicking her acrylic nails back and forth because she thought it sounded like a typewriter and has a production credit for "nails" on the album. Incidentally, the electric guitar player with the long hair on the far right in the music video is her younger brother Randy Parton who has passed on.
I think more women started entering the 9 to 5 workforce in the 70s onward because either inflation made it impossible to be a single income household or because of a divorce or death of their husband, women had to become the sole provider for their children. Then it morphed into the career driven women who prioritized their careers over having a family. Now it is rare to see a woman being solely a mother and homemaker.
Women entering the workforce IS the reason you need two incomes to have a family nowadays. You double the amount of workers you half the average salary. Simple case of supply and demand.
@@tjj300 That assumes that there's only a fixed ratio of jobs (in proportion to the population). In reality, there's a much larger ratio of jobs needing to be filled today than there was 50 years ago (when I entered the workforce), because society/civilisation as a whole has much more complexity and range of available 'stuff' (goods _and_ services) than then. Western capitalism is structured around continual growth which both stimulates and is made necessary by this 'stuff expansion': it's a positive feedback effect which has the potential to snowball out of control, or abruptly collapse.
Yes, 9 to 5 is a movie from the 80s starring Dolly, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman. You should check it out. Just remember it was the 80 so the ideology and fashion is a piece of its own
I grew up in the 80s in a small midwestern town. My mom was the president of a company and my dad stayed home to raise my sister and me. At the time that was just normal for me, but looking back I realize I didn’t know anyone else with a stay-at-home dad like that. I think some of the “breakdown of the family structure” is necessary to make room for all different kinds of families - including families like mine, families with two same-sex parents, single parent families, etc. There isn’t just one way to create a family and equality is necessary across the board in order for any of these different family dynamics to function.
Perhaps meritocrity might be a better goal than equality since everyone is definitely not equal? Nature thrives on diversity, so inequality is not inherently bad. But, I agree with the general idea that the system should continue to be scrutinized and adjusted to try to achieve more fairness and opportunity.
@ you can fill in the blank with whatever word works best for you. I like equality, and what I mean by that is equal opportunity - not that everyone is equally qualified to do every job. But everyone should have the chance rather than being limited by outdated gender roles/expectations.
You and the wife need to kick back and watch the movie. I was never able to have kids, but I have seen enough to know that motherhood is the toughest job around. No time off and a lifetime commitment.
What's worse is that women who work are also responsible for a disproportionate amount of the traditional "women's work" of holding the family together and curating society. I drives me crazy when men get credit for "helping" with housework or child care, which implies that it's a choice for them, but required for women.
Yeah, I love the "women are destroying society because they are career-driven," without acknowledging that being a stay-at-home wife and mother is a rare privilege these days. A lot of families require two incomes to survive, but men like to pretend they're "The Provider" and therefore aren't responsible for the labor required to keep up a household and raise kids. They ignore the woman's financial contribution and disrespect their other contributions to making the man's life better, then men are all *shocked Pikachu* when women start opting out of what is a grossly imbalanced and unfair expectation that men are essentially entitled to their free labor. If men want to "fix society," they need to fix themselves and make themselves better partners so that women want to invest in home life and relationships again. A huge number of men these days are simply not worth a woman's time and energy -- better to be a cat lady than an overworked doormat.
In 1995 Dolly started a book giveaway "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library" - provides free books to children from birth to age 5 to ensure access to quality books, instill the importance of reading at the earliest possible time in a child's life with the goal of inspiring using imagination to teach independence through education to advance achievement of goals & dreams! To empower individuals to create their own path. She's also an author of several books, including one co-written with James Patterson. Although, the books she gives away are from authors from all walks of life. She's donated millions & millions to various charities throughout her whole career. There's street art in Nashville that says: In a world full of Jolenes, Be a Dolly!
Not only was there the movie and TV show they are currently talking and working towards a remake. I believe Dolly is part of the project and I'm very much looking forward to it!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Watch the movie. A lot of women, even those with children, started working full-time starting in about the 1960s. My mother was one of the few stay-at-home moms among my friends by the time I was a teenager in the 1970s. The stay-at-home moms were the ones who were Girl Scout leaders and PTA volunteers. And even my mom went back to work part-time for several years in the early 1970s. She once told me something that stuck with me: she said to never be completely dependent on a man, because that man would come to resent you for it, no matter how much he told you he wanted you to stay home and raise the children. That made me wonder what kind of an argument my parents had gotten into outside of my hearing! I was always more career-minded, never really wanting children, but desiring to make my mark on the world professionally instead. And the early years of my corporate career were definitely frustrating: I entered the workforce in 1979, right out of college, and there was still a lot of sexism in the workplace. Women were relegated to lower-ranked jobs unless they were sleeping with the boss, and all the top bosses in the big companies were men. Women on corporate boards tended to be there as tokens, and didn't really have much power. That was the world into which the movie by this name was released.
I wanted to be a stay at home mom but when they started school my husband insisted I get a job to help with bills. But he had a good paying job. 😢 my 2 sons are grown and live with me and take care of me. I’m 70 and have multiple health problems. My older son gave me 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren!! My husband passed in 2021. Love your show.
Dolly is an American treasure. Not only has she written wonder songs, she's such a wonderful person. Her actions speak volumes. She gives unselfishly. And, oh yea, she's smarter than the average bear!
She had a show and a movie called 9-5. The movie was hilarious! They literally kidnap and tie up the boss. I think over a promotion. It’s been a long time. But it was so funny!
It was funny & the song was cool. Dolly Parton had a good career but she wrote over 3000 songs. She will be known for both. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin & Dolly Parton were in the movie.
The movie 9-5 is one of the best comedies ever. Jane Fonda specifically chose Dolly to play a role in the movie even though Dolly had never acted. And she was perfect in it. Lily Tomlin was hilarious in the movie as well as the rest of the cast.
As a homeschooling Mom myself, super proud of you guys going that route. This is my last year to homeschool since my youngest is a Sr this year. By the end of this year will be 20 years!
Just to give another perspective on this working outside the home conversation. I know we all have different life experiences. I grew up knowing most women worked outside the home. They just worked in traditionally women's jobs: nurses, teachers, secretaries, and were basically invisable. In my neighborhood, most worked in the local cannery. There was one mom on my block who stayed home and watched all the kids not in school. As far as attitude, growing up in the 60's I remember overhearing my dad talk with his buddies, none of them acknowledged what their wives did. I don't care if they were a supervisor at their work, it was a "little job" that didn't mean anything to them. What happened in the 70's was women started saying, hey, I'm bringing in a 1/3 or a 1/4 of the income here, I want a say in how that's being spent. And then, with the women's movement, pushed to even being allowed to take a higher paying job. Women really were banned from a lot both socially and legally. (On one of the first wildfire hand crews to allow women thank you😊). Now contrast that to my grandmother and greatgrandmother, both of whom were nurses, their husbands not only respected their work, but because it was so physically demanding insisted on doing the heavy work at home because they didn't want their women worn out. In talking to a friend from the WWII era, she feels the war had a huge affect on changing attitudes. It's not only that men came home and wanted their jobs back and women didn't want to give up. But the horrors of that war...I've heard stories that I've never read in the history books. Women really did want to give their men everything just to ease the pain. We are a complex bunch. Raising children is literally the hardest job out there. But there are many ways to work that out. I've known several couples that both work, but work opposite shifts so one parent is always with the kids. Some women are great stay at home moms. Some dads are great stay at home dads. Is pay inequity still a thing? A bit, in traditional women's jobs. I was greatful about 20years ago for high unemployment as some men starting to apply for work where I was. Now I had 20 years experience and was well respected, but my boss had to give me a big raise, because these young men demanded more at an entry level salary than I was getting. So yes! Diversity in the workplace is great😂. Peace to you all.
50+ years old and all I have heard is how important a mom is and how hard of a job it is. Hardly ever hear about how hard it is for a mom to put a roof on a house.
Both are hard work. I saw what my mom sacrificed day in and day out to put a roof over my head while raising me on her own from the time I was a tween until my father finally stepped back up (sort of) at some point in my high school years, only for him to then bail out again before I graduated. She ain't perfect, but my mom is still my personal hero.
Dolly Parton is a national treasure. My favorite thing about her is that She was recently admitted to the rock and roll hall of fame. She tried to decline because she's been mostly a country/blue grass musician. She hadn't written anything from the rock genre but they admitted her anyway. So Dolly decided she needed to "earn it" so she went and wrote her first rock and roll song "Rockin".
Hey Gen Z! If any older folks try to gaslight you into believing y'all are lazy, this was a song, popular and relatable to Boomers at that time, about how much it sucks to work an *8 hour day, 5 days a week*
So raising the next generation is the most important job there is and we lost sight of that until now we have adults who can’t handle it because they were raised by daycare/nannies people who keep them safe but don’t necessarily care about who they become as a person.
It's not that I wanted to work after my husband and I had kids, but we knew we'd need two incomes if we ever wanted a house or to get ahead financially. I was raised to believe the wife has to pitch in and get a job to help her husband. Yes, it gutted me to return to work after only 6 weeks of maternity leave, but I felt that was my duty.
Beautiful idea of yours about men taking responsibility and accepting and appreciating women's in-home job. But you have to remember that even up until the early 70s women still didn't have enough rights to live on their own. In many respects we were still owned by our husbands. My mother got her first credit card under her name in 1976 women couldn't own property if they were married but couldn't hear it as a widow. There were a lot of restrictions in the workforce and in the social structure up through the 60s
HARD CANDY CHRISTMAS! What a perfect Dolly song to react to this time of year. It's from The Best Little Wh*rehouse in Texas sound track. Great (but sad) song.
The whole soundtrack of "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" is excellent, but "Hard Candy Christmas" is my favorite... "I Will Always Love You" is a close second
I love that song and it drives me nuts that after awhile it would only get air play between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, instead of year round because it is a song about overcoming heartache and not actually a Christmas song. I didn't know it was from the soundtrack to that movie though.
Speaking of...BP, there's a song, I think it is Blake Shelton, titled "shift work" ... not my personal fave, but it fits the theme of songs for the working class
Another great song praising all working folk is 40 hour week (for a living) by the band Alabama. Country music isn't my thing but thats a great song 🇺🇲
I watched this movie a few times. I was in my 20's when this came out. And I can say you and your wife would get a laugh watching. In the end all worked out but how they got their is freaking hilarious. Peace to you and yours. May the next year bring blessings to you both.
One of the best movies of all time. Funny, serious, and for the times it was made - spot on with the culture of women in the workforce. '9 to 5' with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonday, Lilly Tomlin, & Dabney Coleman.
9 to 5 was a movie, then it became a TV series and Dolly's sister (Rachel Dennison) played the part that Dolly played in the movie. It was Dolly's first acting gig and when she arrived on set she had memorized the entire script (everyone's lines), not knowing that she only needed to know her own lines. Isn't it interesting how the more things change, the more they sometimes stay the same. The message of the movie is still relevant today.
Dolly literally wrote this song on the set of the Movie 9-5 ditto for everyone else who's already spoken about the movie. The movie is definitely geared more towards women's rights.
This was written because of the clicking of her fingernails and she lit words to it ..And her nails are even credited on the album 😂😂… you should see the movie that goes with this track
Yes, and when she pitched it to Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, she used her fingernails for the rhythm. I just saw an interview with Jane recently where she recounted the story of that.
Nobody was yappingg about the patriarchy/the matriarchy when this movie and song came out. It was about women being allowed to have well-paying jobs and being rewarded for their work. I'm old enough to remember when women weren't even expected to do jobs other than teaching or nursing or maybe a secretary, but if they tried to be anything more, women were mistreated. And then, the women who stayed at home to raise kids and care for their families were in big trouble if their husband suddenly left or died. They were denied loans, denied credit cards, sometimes left destitute and homeless with their children. because you had to have a man to sign for everything. That was a thing. I'm fine with women staying home. I'm fine with women working. Do what's right for you and your family. Respect in every day, but women do need to at least have the ability to function if their partner dies or leaves, and also need the option to leave if they're being abused. But, that doesn't mean I'm a hyper-feminist. Good men are appreciated too.
Could not agree more with your perspective.. we proved that we are equally capable but at what cost to ourselves and our children.. were successful, yes, but utterly exhausted
A lot of woman work and raise children. My husband worked full time as well and we were partners raising our kids. We have been married for 43 yrs and raised 2 successful , loving great kids. Both are married too.
Dolly was actually already filming the movie. They didn't have the song for the movie so the movie bosses asked Dolly about writing the song because she was already a successful songwriter. She left the set and came back the next day with it and a "What do think?" Everyone was blown away. Yes, she used her fingernails to work out the beat because it sounded like the electric typewriter keys. Watch the movie! My favorite line was Dolly's, "I'll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot." 😂
I was a young professional back then and the words truly reflect how us women were treated in the workplace. Our talents and intellect were used but we were not given credit and couldn't get beyond the glass ceiling to get promotions or equal pay. I literally applied for a position within the place I worked but they hired a male with zero experience and no more education, started him out earning more money than me and then I was asked t9 train him for the supervisor job. When I went to speak to the boss, and ask why this inexperienced man started out earning much more than I was earning after 2 years, he literally told me and I quote, "He's a man and has to support a family." Well, I was a single woman on my own and I was ANGRY.
I don't hear anything about women in the song. The song is only about Workers and whether it's 9 to 5 or 7:30 to 4 doesn't really matter. I can see you going there because of the visuals Now the movie, it was about women. Give a watch when you can great comedy.. The change in society? I'm an old man. I lived through it. What changed was wages. Wages were just fine in the 50s, 60s and at least most of the 70s. You could house, feed, educate, and "heal" a family on a single income back then. That went away with Reagan.
If there's one topic that country music excels at it's blue color work! Johnny Paycheck - "Take this Job and Shove it" Merle Haggard - "Working Man Blues" Sammy Kershaw - "National Working Woman's Holiday" Alabama - "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')" (long overdue to react to Alabama!) Johnny Cash - "Oney" Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
"9 to 5" was the first openly feminist film, about women office workers and the travails they have to go through. It's a comedy and a damn good one; despite being nearly 45 years old, it's still completely relevant. Dolly Parton in her first role, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman as every a hole, butt-grabbing, sexist boss that ever lived. It's a work comedy, a revenge flick, and a clever polemic on discrimination in the workplace. I highly recommend it to every male who thinks woman have "nothing to complain about" because we're "put on a pedestal" and "get all the advantages".
I love that you are doing these older country songs today. LOVE IT! Dolly is a Goddess! 9 to 5 was a movie. And you are correct, this was when women started working. And now, 40 years later, women still make less on average than men. It's crazy. You, like me, we're a child in the 80s. Our generation was the first generation where there was a needed for two income households. Women had to go to work. And that was the beginning of the family breakdown.
The movie is hilarious. I agree with you on the breakdown of the family, but this movie isn't really about that, it's about everyone. AND their boss WAS out to get them lol
If you're 44, that movie came out the year you were born. The workplace was very different 4+ decades ago, and not in a good way for women. I got married at 19 and moved to a new city. I applied for a very similar job to the one I'd had previously and one of the questions I was asked was, "What kind of birth control are you using?" That was a perfectly legal question to ask back then. About a year and a half later, I was pregnant and working in a different job. When I announced my pregnancy the first thing they said was, "We don't have maternity leave, so we won't be holding your job for you". (This was before maternity leave was a legal requirement where I live.) They also made me stop working 6 weeks before my due date, because they were scared I'd go into labour at work and they'd have to deliver the baby! (Talk about not understanding the way birth works, especially a first birth.) We won't even really talk about harassment, but you know that clip where Dolly is on the floor picking stuff up and the guy is looking down into her chest? I had a teacher in junior high who did that with the girls in all his classes. Everyone noticed it, the girls all talked about it. Nothing was ever done. Some things really needed to change. It's very easy to idealize the past. Would you like to live in the US of the 1950s? Maybe not. But I'm sure there are people out there, idealizing it. They weren't the people who were affected by the things that went on then.
There were some things from that time that were good. Family values, community, neighbors being neighbors, etc, that is less now, and I dont think that's been good, but DEFINITELY a lot that needed to change.
I love Dolly!! 🦋She's just so adorable.❤ She played at one of our family reunions down in Tennessee. She grew up around Sevierville, TN, the city named after my five-time great-grandfather, General John Sevier, a Revolutionary War hero who was the governor of Tennessee six times over. We have our Sevier family reunions down south in Sevierville. The movie 9 to 5 was so funny!!
Islands in the streams was written by the Bee Gee's as well as the title song to the 1979 movie Grease. Dolly wrote 9 to 5 for the movie by the same name she plays it using her long nails as percussion. She supposed to have written over 2000 to 3000 songs. Dolly wrote a song not to be released until 2045 ✌️.❤
Back in the day working. Meant something to us people raised by the Greatest Generation. They made the world free. But, they were poor folks in the Great Depression. Rosy the Riveter. This is where it came from. Look up burning bras.
I've seen Dolly sing this a capella and she uses her acrylic nails to play the typewriter rhythm. I remember the show from when I was a kid and watching in now would be interesting.
Eric's wife: "Curate society." Awesome wording! And it definitely helps when men recognize and encourage their wives gifts and talents in addition to raising the kids and making home a home. For believers, there are so many unhealthy men who put women down in more than one way or area in life and God made her with gifts HE wants her to use for His kingdom and His glory and to uplift others outside the home in the community and if one is a believer the community in a church fellowship as well.
Society is definitely different. Way too many things to go into. I will say, if I was thirty years younger today, I don't think I would want to have children.
You're right. Women should be given props for all they do to contribute to society. I know people say that being a mother is the hardest job in the World, but on that note I'll refer you to Bill Burr. 😉
Dolly Parton's tv series called Heartstrings. Eight stories using her songs celebrating family, faith, love and forgiveness come to life in this series inspired by Dolly Parton's iconic country music catalog. On Netflix I believe.
The movie 9-5 was my first exposure to dolly paeton.she's been in a bunch of movies,and every one of them is sensational.she just lights up a room whatever project she's working on
The movie 9 to 5 with her,Lily Tomlin,Jane Fonda and Dabney Coleman hilarious
and the stage show is so funny and just a bit risqué but hey Dolly can just say things and we love her honesty . If only more stars had her heart of gold . She created Dollywood to help the folks she grew up and give them worthwhile jobs in an area of poverty. You really MUST watch the movies which is her creation and doesn't follow the direction you'd expect. . A songwriter producer, there ain't anything this woman can't do.
@@maureentaphouse5206and it was a tv show
Great movie. Very funny
A feel-good movie, pointing out the fact that, if upper management would only listen to the lowly peons' thoughts and opinions, the workplaces might become better run and more productive❤!!!
Yes. Such a great movie.
Dolly didn’t write that song just about women in the workforce. She wrote it about everybody in the workforce. I highly suggest you watch the movie. It was a good one.
It can go for men and women. I grew up with all my parents working their fingers to the bone . We always had food on the table and a roof over our heads. They had an amazing work ethic
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Yes, the song is for every worker. The movie, though, specifically focuses on women. The movie idea came first, Dolly wrote this song as the theme song for the movie.
Great movie! 🎥
9-5 was a movie
Dolly is a national treasure. She has a program called Imagination Library where she has gifted over quarter million childrens books.
@@jimaustin687 260+ million actually according to the imagination library’s official website. Crazy. Amazing.
I think society needs to stop diminishing men who choose to stay at home and raise their children, as well. Raising the next generation is arguably one of the most important jobs.
And I think you should see if you can find the movie and watch it. It's very good.
Men being the stay at home parent is great. As long as the child is cared for either parent is good.
And well done to all single parents. Single dads can do a better job than some single mums.
Atticus Finch is one of the best in fiction
Yep, exactly! There should be agency in the choices made and not forced into certain roles. A major problem now is its not sustainable to have only 1 working parent
Fun fact: Dolly recorded her clicking her nails for the percussion on this song.
I was coming here to say same. The “typewriter “ is her clicking her nails together.
She said in an interview that her nails made it into credits. 😄
So smart
The movie 9 to 5 came out in 1980 when we were still trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed. It failed. Women had almost no workforce protection, restricted access to promotion, even to the type of work they could apply for - want ads were still divided in "Men wanted" vs "Women wanted" and no pay equality. Harassment, including sexual harassment was not only tolerated, but blamed on the women. The movie was a comedy but definitely had something to say that is less familiar to todays young women (not saying all problems have disappeared). God bless Dolly for always being able to make a point accessible.
You explained that perfectly! It really is shocking how bad things used to be. I was in a work meeting in the early 90s that was all women. This was at a small company with very limited opportunities for advancement, so men didn't stay. The owner was a man and after he saw our meeting said he wanted to see us working not sitting around clucking like a bunch of hens. It was demoralizing, but there was nothing to do but accept it and carry on.
You are off with your timeline. It was made illegal in the 1960's :(I believe I remember specifically 1965) to pay women and men differently for the same work. Sexual Harassment law was already a 'thing' in the 1970's. Indeed the 80's were to lead to the Radical Feminist understanding of Sexual Harassment law (Instead of sex-neutral 'Rational Person', one gets a 'Rational Woman' standard) due to Catherine MacKinnon's legal and literary activism. Originally, sexual harrassment law was supposed to stop things such as "Sleep with me or you are fired /don't get that promotion" or repeated harassment that either physically endangered a woman or was the equivalent of a sustained bullying campaign (other laws concerning discrimination protected her right not to be denied promotion simply on the basis of her sex) now it's literally almost anything that can be stretched to be sexual in nature including such things as jokes not even directed at the one who 'takes offense' or (in a famous case) someone having a pic of his own wife in a bikini on his desk. So needless to say I think current sexual harrassment law is not only rife for abuse, sexist in its legal standards and often in its application, but also covers far too many minor incidents that should be handled individually or not even be a problem at all.
@ 50 years ago when I was in nursing school we were assigned to read an article that stated nursing would never be a truly respected profession until we started letting more men in. That still irks me. I’m not against men as nurses - have worked with many excellent ones throughout my long career. But the notion that women could not earn respect on their own merits was insulting.
@@janflewelling6277 You should try being a man in a technical job, esp one related to computers. It's repeated attacks on you (as a part of a group, sometimes the group of men, sometimes 'white men' or 'white and asian men')in the press saying your sexism and misogyny are the only reasons that more women aren't in tech jobs, despite 50 years of billions of dollars spent on women's only mentor programs, scholarships, movies and documentaries pushing 'the cause' and etc and even downright employment discrimination via af firmative action and now DEI, not to mention the almost total power of Human Resource divisions in most companies. Never, ever ever is it suggested in the corporate press, after literally decades of this shit, that men and women as groups might have DIFFERENT INTERESTS in general and that might account for most of the discrepency in numbers. Nope. Just blame men, blame men, hate on men , attack a largely mythical 'bro culture' (that might have existed once but hardly anymore) and hate on men.
@ There may have been laws on the books mandating equal pay for the same jobs, but the reality at the time was that employers did not hire women into equal jobs, or they changed the job descriptions just enough to justify the pay differences. Regarding workplace harassment, again, laws might have been on the books but enforcement is another matter. Women who lodged complaints were given performance reviews rating them as difficult to work with or substandard in their performance. I’m describing conditions in the 60s through the 70s, and to some degree in the 80s. I am not in a position to offer an opinion on some of the current issues you bring up. I think interpretation and application of laws can be at risk for abuse now as in the past, and a strong dose of common sense is needed on both sides. In fact I find it disheartening that we view gender equality as having competing sides since harmony and respect benefit everyone.
Daughter of a woman whose husband died when I was 2, on the night my younger sister was born. The reality of your family wasn’t in the cards for her, dude.
9 to 5. That’s my mom. So strong. So beautiful. Raised 3 girls on her own. All of us went to college. All of us worked 9 to 5.
So proud of my family.
It was a movie starring Dolly Parton, Lili Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dabney Coleman.
It's hilarious! 😂
She wrote this song for the movie 9 to 5 which was her first movie. Jane Fonda was one of the producers besides acting in it and heard Dolly on the radio and thought, she'd be perfect for the roll of Doralee in the movie and Lily Tomlin agreed, and they asked her to join the project but Dolly also asked to have the ability to write songs for the movie if she did it and Dolly actually wrote this song clicking her acrylic nails back and forth because she thought it sounded like a typewriter and has a production credit for "nails" on the album. Incidentally, the electric guitar player with the long hair on the far right in the music video is her younger brother Randy Parton who has passed on.
I think more women started entering the 9 to 5 workforce in the 70s onward because either inflation made it impossible to be a single income household or because of a divorce or death of their husband, women had to become the sole provider for their children. Then it morphed into the career driven women who prioritized their careers over having a family. Now it is rare to see a woman being solely a mother and homemaker.
Women entering the workforce IS the reason you need two incomes to have a family nowadays. You double the amount of workers you half the average salary. Simple case of supply and demand.
@@tjj300 That assumes that there's only a fixed ratio of jobs (in proportion to the population). In reality, there's a much larger ratio of jobs needing to be filled today than there was 50 years ago (when I entered the workforce), because society/civilisation as a whole has much more complexity and range of available 'stuff' (goods _and_ services) than then. Western capitalism is structured around continual growth which both stimulates and is made necessary by this 'stuff expansion': it's a positive feedback effect which has the potential to snowball out of control, or abruptly collapse.
Dolly has been making these hits for a long, long time. The girls from Appalachia sure do know how to sing. And they are good looking too. 😍🤩
Great lungs but the biggest heart ❤
Yes, 9 to 5 is a movie from the 80s starring Dolly, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman. You should check it out. Just remember it was the 80 so the ideology and fashion is a piece of its own
9 to 5 is more of a white collar job!!!
The movie (9 to 5) is as old as you are - a dark and very funny comedy with Dolly, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dabney Coleman, from 1980.
In Brazil the title of the film was "How to Eliminate Your Boss"😅
DARK!??? It was nonstop laughter! Peace out Debbie downer...
I grew up in the 80s in a small midwestern town. My mom was the president of a company and my dad stayed home to raise my sister and me. At the time that was just normal for me, but looking back I realize I didn’t know anyone else with a stay-at-home dad like that. I think some of the “breakdown of the family structure” is necessary to make room for all different kinds of families - including families like mine, families with two same-sex parents, single parent families, etc. There isn’t just one way to create a family and equality is necessary across the board in order for any of these different family dynamics to function.
Perhaps meritocrity might be a better goal than equality since everyone is definitely not equal? Nature thrives on diversity, so inequality is not inherently bad. But, I agree with the general idea that the system should continue to be scrutinized and adjusted to try to achieve more fairness and opportunity.
@ you can fill in the blank with whatever word works best for you. I like equality, and what I mean by that is equal opportunity - not that everyone is equally qualified to do every job. But everyone should have the chance rather than being limited by outdated gender roles/expectations.
You and the wife need to kick back and watch the movie. I was never able to have kids, but I have seen enough to know that motherhood is the toughest job around. No time off and a lifetime commitment.
Was just going to say that! I love that movie it was so funny! 😂
Yeah. It is a lifetime job. And it's the most painful one. Nothing hurts you like your kids. Nothing makes you more proud, either.
Dolly wrote this song on her lunch hour one day while filming this movie. Such a funny movie to sit down and watch.
The movie 9 to 5 is hilarious and it's Dolly's first acting role in a film. She's hilarious in it!
The movie is HILARIOUS and worth a watch for anyone who enjoys a laugh.
9 to 5 is white collar hours. Blue collar start around 6 to 230. This is one hell of a movie. You will love it.
Most white collar doesn't work 9 to 5 either. More like 8 to 5 or more. Paid lunch is mostly a thing of the past.
Right! I'm at work 6am to 5pm. I live an hour away, I'm at work more than at home. Shite ain't right
What's worse is that women who work are also responsible for a disproportionate amount of the traditional "women's work" of holding the family together and curating society. I drives me crazy when men get credit for "helping" with housework or child care, which implies that it's a choice for them, but required for women.
Yeah, I love the "women are destroying society because they are career-driven," without acknowledging that being a stay-at-home wife and mother is a rare privilege these days. A lot of families require two incomes to survive, but men like to pretend they're "The Provider" and therefore aren't responsible for the labor required to keep up a household and raise kids. They ignore the woman's financial contribution and disrespect their other contributions to making the man's life better, then men are all *shocked Pikachu* when women start opting out of what is a grossly imbalanced and unfair expectation that men are essentially entitled to their free labor.
If men want to "fix society," they need to fix themselves and make themselves better partners so that women want to invest in home life and relationships again. A huge number of men these days are simply not worth a woman's time and energy -- better to be a cat lady than an overworked doormat.
In 1995 Dolly started a book giveaway "Dolly Parton's Imagination Library" - provides free books to children from birth to age 5 to ensure access to quality books, instill the importance of reading at the earliest possible time in a child's life with the goal of inspiring using imagination to teach independence through education to advance achievement of goals & dreams! To empower individuals to create their own path. She's also an author of several books, including one co-written with James Patterson. Although, the books she gives away are from authors from all walks of life. She's donated millions & millions to various charities throughout her whole career. There's street art in Nashville that says: In a world full of Jolenes, Be a Dolly!
Not just in the USA but all over the world.m
And that program has now given away 200 million books.
Not only was there the movie and TV show they are currently talking and working towards a remake. I believe Dolly is part of the project and I'm very much looking forward to it!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Isn't there also currently a show on Broadway of 9 to 5? I'm sure there WAS such a show on Broadway but I don't know if it's still playing.
Watch the movie. A lot of women, even those with children, started working full-time starting in about the 1960s. My mother was one of the few stay-at-home moms among my friends by the time I was a teenager in the 1970s. The stay-at-home moms were the ones who were Girl Scout leaders and PTA volunteers. And even my mom went back to work part-time for several years in the early 1970s. She once told me something that stuck with me: she said to never be completely dependent on a man, because that man would come to resent you for it, no matter how much he told you he wanted you to stay home and raise the children. That made me wonder what kind of an argument my parents had gotten into outside of my hearing! I was always more career-minded, never really wanting children, but desiring to make my mark on the world professionally instead. And the early years of my corporate career were definitely frustrating: I entered the workforce in 1979, right out of college, and there was still a lot of sexism in the workplace. Women were relegated to lower-ranked jobs unless they were sleeping with the boss, and all the top bosses in the big companies were men. Women on corporate boards tended to be there as tokens, and didn't really have much power. That was the world into which the movie by this name was released.
Remember, single women are in the workforce too.
I wanted to be a stay at home mom but when they started school my husband insisted I get a job to help with bills. But he had a good paying job. 😢 my 2 sons are grown and live with me and take care of me. I’m 70 and have multiple health problems. My older son gave me 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren!! My husband passed in 2021. Love your show.
Dolly is an American treasure. Not only has she written wonder songs, she's such a wonderful person. Her actions speak volumes. She gives unselfishly. And, oh yea, she's smarter than the average bear!
this was such a pop culture phenomenon... I saw this movie when it came out...I was ten😜 but its what everyone was talking about...
I was 10 too when I saw it @ the movies. Little did I know @ 10 everything Dolly sung about would be relevant to me too 🧐
@@philburton2223 right!!!???
The song stands on its own but the movie "9 to 5" is a classic comedy. Both are just great.
She had a show and a movie called 9-5. The movie was hilarious! They literally kidnap and tie up the boss. I think over a promotion. It’s been a long time. But it was so funny!
It was funny & the song was cool. Dolly Parton had a good career but she wrote over 3000 songs. She will be known for both. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin & Dolly Parton were in the movie.
Wasn't her sister, Rachel Dennison, the star of the TV show?
I love Dolly. She is not only talented she is an amazing person.❤
The movie 9-5 is one of the best comedies ever. Jane Fonda specifically chose Dolly to play a role in the movie even though Dolly had never acted. And she was perfect in it. Lily Tomlin was hilarious in the movie as well as the rest of the cast.
As a homeschooling Mom myself, super proud of you guys going that route. This is my last year to homeschool since my youngest is a Sr this year. By the end of this year will be 20 years!
(fun fact) ... this came from the MOVIE "9 to 5" ... a comedy from the 70s ... and its STILL funny !!
It was from 1980.
Just to give another perspective on this working outside the home conversation. I know we all have different life experiences. I grew up knowing most women worked outside the home. They just worked in traditionally women's jobs: nurses, teachers, secretaries, and were basically invisable. In my neighborhood, most worked in the local cannery. There was one mom on my block who stayed home and watched all the kids not in school. As far as attitude, growing up in the 60's I remember overhearing my dad talk with his buddies, none of them acknowledged what their wives did. I don't care if they were a supervisor at their work, it was a "little job" that didn't mean anything to them. What happened in the 70's was women started saying, hey, I'm bringing in a 1/3 or a 1/4 of the income here, I want a say in how that's being spent. And then, with the women's movement, pushed to even being allowed to take a higher paying job. Women really were banned from a lot both socially and legally. (On one of the first wildfire hand crews to allow women thank you😊). Now contrast that to my grandmother and greatgrandmother, both of whom were nurses, their husbands not only respected their work, but because it was so physically demanding insisted on doing the heavy work at home because they didn't want their women worn out. In talking to a friend from the WWII era, she feels the war had a huge affect on changing attitudes. It's not only that men came home and wanted their jobs back and women didn't want to give up. But the horrors of that war...I've heard stories that I've never read in the history books. Women really did want to give their men everything just to ease the pain. We are a complex bunch. Raising children is literally the hardest job out there. But there are many ways to work that out. I've known several couples that both work, but work opposite shifts so one parent is always with the kids. Some women are great stay at home moms. Some dads are great stay at home dads. Is pay inequity still a thing? A bit, in traditional women's jobs. I was greatful about 20years ago for high unemployment as some men starting to apply for work where I was. Now I had 20 years experience and was well respected, but my boss had to give me a big raise, because these young men demanded more at an entry level salary than I was getting. So yes! Diversity in the workplace is great😂. Peace to you all.
This song fits the film perfectly. Their boss is as chauvinistic as it gets.
50+ years old and all I have heard is how important a mom is and how hard of a job it is. Hardly ever hear about how hard it is for a mom to put a roof on a house.
Both are hard work. I saw what my mom sacrificed day in and day out to put a roof over my head while raising me on her own from the time I was a tween until my father finally stepped back up (sort of) at some point in my high school years, only for him to then bail out again before I graduated.
She ain't perfect, but my mom is still my personal hero.
Dolly Parton is a national treasure. My favorite thing about her is that She was recently admitted to the rock and roll hall of fame. She tried to decline because she's been mostly a country/blue grass musician. She hadn't written anything from the rock genre but they admitted her anyway. So Dolly decided she needed to "earn it" so she went and wrote her first rock and roll song "Rockin".
She did a rock album for the Hall of Fame, but she has written many songs for other rock artists. That is what she was inducted for.
Hey Gen Z! If any older folks try to gaslight you into believing y'all are lazy, this was a song, popular and relatable to Boomers at that time, about how much it sucks to work an *8 hour day, 5 days a week*
I think women should do what they want! Most people have to rely on two incomes.
So raising the next generation is the most important job there is and we lost sight of that until now we have adults who can’t handle it because they were raised by daycare/nannies people who keep them safe but don’t necessarily care about who they become as a person.
It's not that I wanted to work after my husband and I had kids, but we knew we'd need two incomes if we ever wanted a house or to get ahead financially. I was raised to believe the wife has to pitch in and get a job to help her husband.
Yes, it gutted me to return to work after only 6 weeks of maternity leave, but I felt that was my duty.
Many know Dolly wrote “ I will always love you”. Both beautiful women sang it perfectly. Whitney & Dolly.
This reminded me how much I loved this movie. Thanks for dusting it off and playing it
Beautiful idea of yours about men taking responsibility and accepting and appreciating women's in-home job. But you have to remember that even up until the early 70s women still didn't have enough rights to live on their own. In many respects we were still owned by our husbands. My mother got her first credit card under her name in 1976 women couldn't own property if they were married but couldn't hear it as a widow. There were a lot of restrictions in the workforce and in the social structure up through the 60s
Not all women are married. Who's going to pay the bills if they don't work.
This movie is about single working gals.
Great song i worked in manufacturing for 40 years with women and men and we all ran machines and we all were paid the same
Dolly telling Dabney Coleman that she would turn him from a rooster to a hen was great.
HARD CANDY CHRISTMAS! What a perfect Dolly song to react to this time of year. It's from The Best Little Wh*rehouse in Texas sound track. Great (but sad) song.
The whole soundtrack of "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" is excellent, but "Hard Candy Christmas" is my favorite... "I Will Always Love You" is a close second
I love that song and it drives me nuts that after awhile it would only get air play between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, instead of year round because it is a song about overcoming heartache and not actually a Christmas song.
I didn't know it was from the soundtrack to that movie though.
9 to 5 is typically a white-collar worker or an office worker most blue-collar workers are shift workers or construction workers etc.
Speaking of...BP, there's a song, I think it is Blake Shelton, titled "shift work" ... not my personal fave, but it fits the theme of songs for the working class
You need to watch the movie with your wife….it is still hilarious! Way to go Dolly!
The movie 9 To 5 is an absolute classic!!! It starred Dolly, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman. R.I.P DABNEY COLEMAN!!!
Loved how she incorporated her nails as an instrument 😂❤
9 to 5 is white collar (office) work
Blue collar (labor) works shifts like 5am to 1pm, 11pm to 7am, etc
Another great song praising all working folk is 40 hour week (for a living) by the band Alabama. Country music isn't my thing but thats a great song 🇺🇲
I love this movie & I love Dolly!
"People call me a dumb blonde. I don't let it bother me none, because I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde"
There was a major motion picture made to this song. It was about a boss holding women back from getting promotions and how they handled it.
9-5 was a star filled movie, and it was a lot of fun.
We need a BP movie channel. Movies to check out 9-5, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Gambler, Coward of The County, Pure Country.
Joyful, joyful with Queen Latifah
Yes check out those movies…the best songs are in the best little whorehouse in Texas!
I watched this movie a few times. I was in my 20's when this came out. And I can say you and your wife would get a laugh watching. In the end all worked out but how they got their is freaking hilarious. Peace to you and yours. May the next year bring blessings to you both.
One of the best movies of all time. Funny, serious, and for the times it was made - spot on with the culture of women in the workforce. '9 to 5' with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonday, Lilly Tomlin, & Dabney Coleman.
He and Mrs. Pegasus would enjoy it, I think.
@@ruthlafler5622 Most definitely.
Oh and the 'typewriter' sound in the song? That was Dolly, playing 'her acrylic nails' ...
9 to 5 was a movie, then it became a TV series and Dolly's sister (Rachel Dennison) played the part that Dolly played in the movie. It was Dolly's first acting gig and when she arrived on set she had memorized the entire script (everyone's lines), not knowing that she only needed to know her own lines.
Isn't it interesting how the more things change, the more they sometimes stay the same. The message of the movie is still relevant today.
Dolly literally wrote this song on the set of the Movie 9-5 ditto for everyone else who's already spoken about the movie. The movie is definitely geared more towards women's rights.
9 to 5 is a hilarious movie. I highly recommend watching it. This is actually in my top 10 favorite Dolly songs.
This was written because of the clicking of her fingernails and she lit words to it ..And her nails are even credited on the album 😂😂… you should see the movie that goes with this track
Dolly wrote this in like 30 minutes to an hour.
Yes, and when she pitched it to Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, she used her fingernails for the rhythm. I just saw an interview with Jane recently where she recounted the story of that.
Dolly Parton American hero
Dolly is an American legend and nobody is going to tell me diferent! She is a great writer and singer! She's a great American! ❤😊
Nobody was yappingg about the patriarchy/the matriarchy when this movie and song came out. It was about women being allowed to have well-paying jobs and being rewarded for their work. I'm old enough to remember when women weren't even expected to do jobs other than teaching or nursing or maybe a secretary, but if they tried to be anything more, women were mistreated. And then, the women who stayed at home to raise kids and care for their families were in big trouble if their husband suddenly left or died. They were denied loans, denied credit cards, sometimes left destitute and homeless with their children. because you had to have a man to sign for everything. That was a thing.
I'm fine with women staying home. I'm fine with women working. Do what's right for you and your family. Respect in every day, but women do need to at least have the ability to function if their partner dies or leaves, and also need the option to leave if they're being abused. But, that doesn't mean I'm a hyper-feminist. Good men are appreciated too.
One of the best movies ever!! 👒🤣
The typewriter sound was discovered by Dolly sliding her nails back and forth!
One her most famous songs ever!
Could not agree more with your perspective.. we proved that we are equally capable but at what cost to ourselves and our children.. were successful, yes, but utterly exhausted
A lot of woman work and raise children. My husband worked full time as well and we were partners raising our kids. We have been married for 43 yrs and raised 2 successful , loving great kids. Both are married too.
Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again released 1977
Dolly was actually already filming the movie. They didn't have the song for the movie so the movie bosses asked Dolly about writing the song because she was already a successful songwriter. She left the set and came back the next day with it and a "What do think?" Everyone was blown away. Yes, she used her fingernails to work out the beat because it sounded like the electric typewriter keys. Watch the movie! My favorite line was Dolly's, "I'll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot." 😂
I was a young professional back then and the words truly reflect how us women were treated in the workplace. Our talents and intellect were used but we were not given credit and couldn't get beyond the glass ceiling to get promotions or equal pay. I literally applied for a position within the place I worked but they hired a male with zero experience and no more education, started him out earning more money than me and then I was asked t9 train him for the supervisor job. When I went to speak to the boss, and ask why this inexperienced man started out earning much more than I was earning after 2 years, he literally told me and I quote, "He's a man and has to support a family." Well, I was a single woman on my own and I was ANGRY.
Housewife IS a profession and deserves a high degree of respect.
Housewife and mother is entitled to double the respect.
I don't hear anything about women in the song. The song is only about Workers and whether it's 9 to 5 or 7:30 to 4 doesn't really matter.
I can see you going there because of the visuals
Now the movie, it was about women.
Give a watch when you can great comedy..
The change in society? I'm an old man. I lived through it. What changed was wages. Wages were just fine in the 50s, 60s and at least most of the 70s.
You could house, feed, educate, and "heal" a family on a single income back then.
That went away with Reagan.
If there's one topic that country music excels at it's blue color work!
Johnny Paycheck - "Take this Job and Shove it"
Merle Haggard - "Working Man Blues"
Sammy Kershaw - "National Working Woman's Holiday"
Alabama - "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')" (long overdue to react to Alabama!)
Johnny Cash - "Oney"
Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"
Nine to five are not blue collar hours JMO
"9 to 5" was the first openly feminist film, about women office workers and the travails they have to go through. It's a comedy and a damn good one; despite being nearly 45 years old, it's still completely relevant. Dolly Parton in her first role, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman as every a hole, butt-grabbing, sexist boss that ever lived. It's a work comedy, a revenge flick, and a clever polemic on discrimination in the workplace. I highly recommend it to every male who thinks woman have "nothing to complain about" because we're "put on a pedestal" and "get all the advantages".
You have to watch 9 to 5 . It was hilarious and also true in a way.
Need to watch this, the best little Whorehouse in Texas, steel magnolias and joyful noise.
You'll see why everyone loves dolly. She's incredible
I love that you are doing these older country songs today. LOVE IT! Dolly is a Goddess! 9 to 5 was a movie. And you are correct, this was when women started working. And now, 40 years later, women still make less on average than men. It's crazy.
You, like me, we're a child in the 80s. Our generation was the first generation where there was a needed for two income households. Women had to go to work. And that was the beginning of the family breakdown.
About a million years ago I got mom tickets to Kenny Rogers and Dolly opened and she was fantastic! She was so charming that I became a lifelong fan.
It’s a movie called 9-5 and it’s soooo funny!!!!
The movie is hilarious. I agree with you on the breakdown of the family, but this movie isn't really about that, it's about everyone. AND their boss WAS out to get them lol
Love this song. It was also a Movie she was in too.
Thank you for sharing the props you gave to women and mothers in this song. ❤
Dolly is just the best. This song was an ANTHEM for working women everywhere.
The majority of people have no option. One salary can't support a family anymore.
If you're 44, that movie came out the year you were born. The workplace was very different 4+ decades ago, and not in a good way for women. I got married at 19 and moved to a new city. I applied for a very similar job to the one I'd had previously and one of the questions I was asked was, "What kind of birth control are you using?" That was a perfectly legal question to ask back then. About a year and a half later, I was pregnant and working in a different job. When I announced my pregnancy the first thing they said was, "We don't have maternity leave, so we won't be holding your job for you". (This was before maternity leave was a legal requirement where I live.) They also made me stop working 6 weeks before my due date, because they were scared I'd go into labour at work and they'd have to deliver the baby! (Talk about not understanding the way birth works, especially a first birth.) We won't even really talk about harassment, but you know that clip where Dolly is on the floor picking stuff up and the guy is looking down into her chest? I had a teacher in junior high who did that with the girls in all his classes. Everyone noticed it, the girls all talked about it. Nothing was ever done. Some things really needed to change. It's very easy to idealize the past. Would you like to live in the US of the 1950s? Maybe not. But I'm sure there are people out there, idealizing it. They weren't the people who were affected by the things that went on then.
There were some things from that time that were good. Family values, community, neighbors being neighbors, etc, that is less now, and I dont think that's been good, but DEFINITELY a lot that needed to change.
I love Dolly!! 🦋She's just so adorable.❤ She played at one of our family reunions down in Tennessee. She grew up around Sevierville, TN, the city named after my five-time great-grandfather, General John Sevier, a Revolutionary War hero who was the governor of Tennessee six times over. We have our Sevier family reunions down south in Sevierville. The movie 9 to 5 was so funny!!
so the typewriter sound in the song is Dolly clicking her acrylic nails together, and yes there is a movie called 9 to 5. SO GOOD.
Dolly is an international treasure. She is so cute. That lovely smile
Islands in the streams was written by the Bee Gee's as well as the title song to the 1979 movie Grease. Dolly wrote 9 to 5 for the movie by the same name she plays it using her long nails as percussion. She supposed to have written over 2000 to 3000 songs. Dolly wrote a song not to be released until 2045
✌️.❤
Back in the day working. Meant something to us people raised by the Greatest Generation. They made the world free. But, they were poor folks in the Great Depression. Rosy the Riveter. This is where it came from. Look up burning bras.
I've seen Dolly sing this a capella and she uses her acrylic nails to play the typewriter rhythm. I remember the show from when I was a kid and watching in now would be interesting.
Gotta do "Little Bitty Pissant Country Place" from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Dolly is amazing.
Eric's wife: "Curate society." Awesome wording! And it definitely helps when men recognize and encourage their wives gifts and talents in addition to raising the kids and making home a home. For believers, there are so many unhealthy men who put women down in more than one way or area in life and God made her with gifts HE wants her to use for His kingdom and His glory and to uplift others outside the home in the community and if one is a believer the community in a church fellowship as well.
Society is definitely different. Way too many things to go into. I will say, if I was thirty years younger today, I don't think I would want to have children.
You're right.
Women should be given props for all they do to contribute to society.
I know people say that being a mother is the hardest job in the World, but on that note I'll refer you to Bill Burr. 😉
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Dolly Parton's tv series called Heartstrings. Eight stories using her songs celebrating family, faith, love and forgiveness come to life in this series inspired by Dolly Parton's iconic country music catalog. On Netflix I believe.
The movie 9-5 was my first exposure to dolly paeton.she's been in a bunch of movies,and every one of them is sensational.she just lights up a room whatever project she's working on