Labor Day with Archie Green

Workers of the world unite as we celebrate Labor Day with thoughts from shoeshiners young and old. Sha-na na-na, sha-na na-na na...

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Heigh-Ho From Snow White
The Music of Disney - A Legacy in Song, Walt Disney Records

Get a Job The Silhouettes
A Child's Celebration of Rock & Roll, Music for Little People

Don't Try to Keep up With the Joneses Dizzy Gillespie
Jambo Caribe, Verve

Big Boss Man Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed - 18 Greatest Hits, Motown

Funky Boss Beastie Boys
Check Your Head, Capitol

Detroit City Bobby Bare
The Essential Bobby Bare, RCA

It's A Living The Delevantes
Long About That Time, Rounder

Instrumental: A Hard Day's Night Bar-Kays
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968, Stax/Atlantic

SEGMENT: Shoeshiner

Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy Red Foley
Only Country 1950-1954, JCI

Work, Work, Work Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin', Arista

When Will We Be Paid Staples Singers
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Stax

Instrumental: Red Wing Joe Stephenson
Moonlight on the Colorado, Adobe

INTERVIEW: Archie Green

Cable Car Operator Dale Mead
Work's Many Voices - Vol.2, Arhoolie

Dark As A Dungeon Merle Travis
Folk Songs of the Hills, Capitol

Solidarity Forever Pete Seeger & the Almanac Singers
Talking Union, Folkways

Workin' Man Blues Merle Haggard
Greatest Hits Volume 1, Curb

Cumberland Blues Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers

Work Song Nina Simone
Nina Simone Anthology - The Colpix Years, Rhino

Give Me Back My Job Carl Perkins
The Oxford American Southern sampler

SEGMENT: Shoeshiner

Hard Working Man Blues Jay McShann & his Jazz Men
Kansas City Blues 1944-1949, Capitol

HOUR TWO

Sing As We Go Medley Percival Mackey & his Band
Music While You Work, Empress

Joe Hill Paul Robeson
Don't Mourn - Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, Smithsonian Folkways

Mr. President Have Pity on the Working Man Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise

Busted Ray Charles
Ingredients in a Recipe For Soul/Have A Smile With Me, Rhino

Beautician Blues Roy Brown
Blues Deluxe, Charley

Business Woman Camille Howard
Works Many Voices Vol. 1, Arhoolie

Instrumental: Shoe Shiner's Drag Jelly Roll Morton
Chicago: The Red Hot Peppers, Smithsonian Collection

SEGMENT: Shoeshiner

Shoe-Shine Boy Count Basie
Count Basie and the Kansas City 7, Impulse

Sixteen Tons Tennessee Ernie Ford
Only Country 1955-1959, JCI

Hey Boss Man Jay Stutes
Works Many Voices Vol. 1, Arhoolie

Mr. Charlie Pt. 2 Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins: Morning Blues - Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 8, Charly

Maggie's Farm Bob Dylan
Bringing it All Back Home, Columbia

Instrumental: Ouachita Run Alvin Youngblood Hart
Territory, Hannibal

Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land - The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways

Mojado Sin Licencia Flaco Jimenez
Mojado Sin Licencia, Arhoolie

SEGMENT: Shoeshiner

Lazy Bones Leon Redbone
No Regrets, Sugar Hill

Nice Work if You Can Get It Billie Holiday
The Billie Holiday Story Vol. 3, Columbia

Early to Bed Morphine
Like Swimming, Dreamworks/Ryko

End Bed: Work Song Duke Ellington
Black, Brown & Beige, Music Masters

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