“I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said ‘It’s been a hard day… and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, …night!” So we came to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’.”
In a interview, he said that they had worked all day and night on a job: The title of the song originated from something that Ringo Starr said. To this day, it’s one of Disney’s most loved and recognisable songs and still holds a special place in the hearts of workers the world over. The phrase “Heigh-Ho” was first recorded in 1553 and is defined as an expression of “yawning, sighing, languor, weariness, disappointment” and is sung on a daily basis by a group of seven dwarfs as they as they come home from (and go to) work in a mine with diamonds and rubies, in Walt Disney’s first feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Seven Dwarfs, Disney, “Height Ho” (1937) So, as it’s Friday, we thought we’d bring you a little musical treat in the form of the 12 Most Iconic Songs About Work. Happy Friday Recruiters!
After love, sex, alcohol, money, cars and religion, work has been the single most popular subject of pop songs for decades – how we hate it, why we need it, office politics, how the grass is always greener on the other side, and why many of us hate the thought of Monday morning.