9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)

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"9 to 5"
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Single by Dolly Parton
from the album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
B-side "Sing for the Common Man"
ReleasedNovember 3, 1980
Recorded1980
Genre
Length2:43
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Dolly Parton
Producer(s) Gregg Perry
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You"
(1980)		"9 to 5"
(1980)		"But You Know I Love You"
(1981)
Music video
"9 to 5" on YouTube

"9 to 5" is a song written and recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton for the 1980 comedy film of the same name. In addition to appearing on the film's soundtrack, the song was the centerpiece and opening track of Parton's album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs , released in late 1980.

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Released as a single in November 1980, the song garnered Parton an Academy Award nomination and four Grammy Award nominations, winning her the awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. For a time, it became something of an anthem for office workers in the US, and in 2004, it ranked at number 78 on the American Film Institute's '100 Years, 100 Songs'.

The song was accompanied by a music video that featured footage of Parton and her band performing, intercut with scenes from the film.

Background

The song was written for the comedy film 9 to 5 , starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Parton in her film debut; both the song and the film owe their titles to 9to5, an organization founded in 1973 to bring about fair pay and equal treatment for women in the workplace. [1]

The song is also featured in a musical theater adaptation of the film, featuring a book by the film's original writer, Patricia Resnick, and 20 additional songs written by Dolly Parton. The musical began showing previews in Los Angeles on September 9, 2008, and played on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre from April until September 2009 before touring. In 2012, a UK theatre tour of 9 to 5 began.

A few months before Parton's song and the film, Scottish singer Sheena Easton released a single called "9 to 5" in the UK. When Easton's song was released in the U.S. the following year it was renamed "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" to avoid confusion. Easton's single topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart three months after Parton's song left that spot. Despite similar titles, the two songs differ in lyrical themes. While Parton's song is about a working woman, Easton's song is about a woman waiting at home for her lover to return from work.

Rolling Stone called "9 to 5" Parton's "most transformative song", ranking it at number 7 on its list of the 50 Best Dolly Parton songs. [2]

Commercial performance

"9 to 5" reached number one on the Billboard Country chart in January 1981. [3] In February 1981, it went to number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary charts, respectively. It became Parton's first and only solo number one entry on the former, as Parton would later team up with Kenny Rogers on their number one duet "Islands in the Stream". [4] The song was certified gold on February 19, 1981, indicating shipment of 1,000,000 physical copies. It was certified platinum on September 25, 2017. [5] The song has accrued 500,000 digital downloads as of February 2019 in the United States after it was made available for download in the 21st century. [6]

Despite peaking at number 47 on the UK Singles Chart in 1981, it has sold 303,511 digital copies in the UK as of July 2014. [7] As of 2017, it is Parton's most downloaded track in the UK, totaling 340,800 downloads, while it has also been streamed 8.46 million times. [8] It remains popular on radio and in nightclubs throughout the UK and was spliced between "Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Child and "Eple" by Röyksopp for the Soulwax album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 .

The track also topped the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart, reached the Top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Sweden, South Africa, and Oceania, and was a Top 20 hit in the Netherlands.

Notes

This song is one of the few Billboard chart songs to feature the clacking of a typewriter. Parton has stated in numerous interviews that when she wrote the song, she devised the clacking typewriter rhythm by running her acrylic fingernails back and forth against one another. [9]

With "9 to 5", Parton became only the second woman to top both the U.S. country singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100 with the same single; the first was 1968's "Harper Valley PTA" by Jeannie C. Riley, which Parton had coincidentally covered in her 1969 album, In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) .

"9 to 5" served at the theme song for the mid-1980s sitcom of the same name which derived from the film. Phoebe Snow sang the theme for the four-episode premiere season, which aired in March and April 1982; however, Parton would be heard singing the theme for the sitcom's 1982–1983 run and for its 1986–1988 revival.

Songwriters Neil and Jan Goldberg filed a lawsuit against Parton, claiming that "9 to 5" was a copy of their 1976 song "Money World". In December 1985 the court ruled in Parton's favor. [10]

In 1985, the air freight company Emery Worldwide used the tune with advertising lyrics in some TV commercials. [11]

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren frequently used the song at campaign appearances during her 2020 presidential campaign, with it often playing when she took the stage. [12] [13] [14] [15] Reacting to the song's use, Parton's manager Danny Nozell said, "We did not approve the request, and we do not approve requests like this of (a) political nature." [16] The song was sung from the public gallery of the New Zealand Parliament by supporters of Green Party MP Jan Logie at the conclusion of her veladictory address, and is thus recorded in Hansard. [17]

In early 2021, Parton recorded a new version of the song titled "5 to 9" for a Squarespace advert in the Super Bowl LV. [18]

The song appeared in the opening scenes of the films The Love Guru (performed by Mike Myers on the sitar as his character Guru Pitka) and Deadpool 2 (with Deadpool himself using it in a sequence where he kills a series of people in his mercenary job, even starting the music by declaring "hit it, Dolly" immediately before).

"9 to 5" was also interpolated into the 2024 song "Powerful Women" by Pitbull, which features Parton herself re-recording the song's chorus alongside adding new lines. Pitbull later declared on X that it was "an honor to be collaborating with one of music's most powerful women". [19]

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "9 to 5"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [43] 3× Platinum210,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [44] 3× Platinum240,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [45] Platinum90,000‡
Norway (IFPI Norway) [46] Platinum60,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [47] 3× Platinum1,800,000‡
United States (RIAA) [5] 3× Platinum3,000,000‡
Streaming
Sweden (GLF) [48] 3× Platinum24,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

See also

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