Stan Rogers - White Collar Holler

[@linengray]

I used to play this song when I was driving to work at HP. Lifted my spirits every day.

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

It took me about 35 years to find out who sang this! I am just glad to live in the era of search engines.

[@mjh5437]

Shazam is the best app for doing that

[@fattyproductions]

truly one of the saddest deaths in folk music history

[@johnnyrebel5259]

We all end up in the same boat I'll see you there brother :^)

[@happypapi1903]

There is a bit of a rumor/legend that he was helping people off the plane before it burst into flames, so if this is true, he died a hero. Still tragic though. All caused by an arcing electrical line in the toilet flush motor on a DC9 jetliner.

[@HonorMacDonald]

"Distinct lack of this song on KZbin." Thank you kindly for seeing to that. :)

[@louswire]

Was this little ditty was just a few years ahead of it's time or what?

[@evelinaaquafina5630]

Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight Some woman who's my wife tells me not to be late I kiss the kids goodbye, I can't remember their names And week after week, it's always the same And it's Ho, boys, can't you code it, and program it right Nothing ever happens in the life of mine I'm hauling up the data on the Xerox line Then it's code in the data, give the keyboard a punch Then cross-correlate and break for some lunch Correlate, tabulate, process and screen Program, printout, regress to the mean Then it's home again, eat again, watch some TV Make love to my woman at ten-fifty-three I dream the same dream when I'm sleeping at night I'm soaring over hills like an eagle in flight Someday I'm gonna give up all the buttons and things I'll punch that time clock till it can't ring Burn up my necktie and set myself free Cause no'one's gonna fold, bend or mutilate me

[@KingAmroth]

in (this) life of mine

[@BlackSunshine1231]

Oh the memories, I heard this on the Dr Demento show many years ago. When I was just a school boy Dr Demento was on my local radio station on Sunday nights/Monday Mornings starting at 12:00 midnight and I wasn't allowed to be up that late on a school night so I persuaded my mother to record the show for me every weekend on her sterio onto cassette tapes and the next day I'd enjoy the show, some of the best songs I'd dub onto cassette(we had a dual cassette recorder), white collar holler was one of my favorites, as well as Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes, Dead Puppies, Shel Silverstein, Boot to The Head, Klingons on the Starboard Bow just to name a very few, such original tunes were big time earworms of the day, and now they are nostalgic memories. (sigh)

[@lking8263]

+BlackSunshine1231 ~ Now I know where I heard this. Fish heads and dead puppies...I had forgotten them.

[@KincadeCeltoSlav]

+LD King remember

[@swistedfilms]

I was lucky to have the show come on at 9 PM on KFOG in the San Francisco bay area back in my teens. It was my first exposure to things like Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Tom Waits. A lot of people don't realize that Dr. D was more than a conduit for Weird Al; he was part of a cultural education for me.

[@StephenShankland]

Didn't realize until later in life how big a deal culturally Dr. Demento was. Weird Al Yankovic, Laurie Anderson, Tom Lehrer... so much stuff that wouldn't fit on regular radio back in the day.

[@mjh5437]

@@StephenShankland Wolfman Jack!

[@wendyhess484]

I've got such a soft spot for this song; they used to play it all the time on the KSJN morning show in Minneapolis when I lived there in the 1980s. Have always regretted missing my chance to hear him play live in the early 1980s; he died just a few months after that from smoke inhalation on an airplane that caught fire. One of the best folk singers ever.

[@mjh5437]

Chokng to death on smoke must be one of the worst ways possible to go,a bit like drowning,I would rather die instantly.

[@IISPLURAL]

stan rogers has ruined every other version of this song for me, after this version all others just seems mediocre.

[@NK73080]

He does it to every other song- people cover it, but it’s impossible to do better

[@rkbartlettservices]

This song was my introduction to Stan Rogers and my God was I not disappointed to dig deeper into his store of music. RIP, taken way too soon

[@motthebug]

This has aged well :)

[@christianv-h3278]

This is basically a -sea- land shanty. Truly beautiful stuff, this guy was a legend. RIP Stan Rogers.

[@monkmchorning]

The syncopation and harmony says more of a slave work song to me.

[@johnpatterson8697]

It's an office shanty

[@theminorityshack7071]

Its somewhat equivalent to a field caller, or chain gang song

[@b22091]

I have looked for this for years! Thanks OP!!!!

[@firedjinndragon]

The sound reminds me of Tennessee Ernie Ford

[@happypapi1903]

Hello Stan, what's happening? Yeaaah, we need to have a little talk about those TPS reports, mmkay? So you can just go ahead and put the new cover sheet on those from now on, mmkay? You got the memo right? Greaat.

[@GlennBrockett]

I think I last heard this one about 25 years ago... still gets stuck in my head.

[@kevintillman7862]

Thanks. KPFT Houston for turning me on to this

[@PHJimY]

Here was Stan's inspiration for his modern day work song. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zpm8mal9gtaqjLs I first heard it on "Blues, Rags & Hollers" by Koerner, Ray & Glover.

[@TheLASingleGuy]

This song goes out to everyone else who's as sick of their job as I am.

[@mjh5437]

If you had no job at all and no money at all you would get even more sick of it pretty quickly too.

[@Castleclear1]

This Stan Rogers recording is one of my favorites. Thank you for posting this!

[@hawkhillindustries]

thanks! I caught a piece of this yesterday on the radio and just googled "xerox line folk song." yours was the 2nd result.

[@KudryavkaRidesAgain]

Same for me as my predecessors. The holler of Programmers.

[@st0a]

The blues of our ancestors 🙂

[@patrickmalone5446]

Thanks for posting this! I only heard it once on Dr. Demento in the 80s.

[@1775Dreamer]

Raise your hand if you're "old-school" enough to know what that tone they sing at 1:47 is...

[@michaelscody]

@@lynnemm7513 Dial up modem connecting.

[@michaelscody]

@@lynnemm7513 could be. Still sounds like a modem to me.

[@gavinmillar]

@@michaelscody He died about 6 years before the internet was invented.

[@michaelscody]

@@gavinmillar Modems were in use long before the internet. That was how we connected to individual computers for dial up access. The first modems were introduced in the late 1950's

[@linengray]

Having worked with both modems and punch card machines it is neither. It is just a wooh as a change up in the song.

[@swordofdoom1517]

Damn good song

[@Sublette217]

I owe a nod to the late, lamented WHFS 102.3 FM, Bethesda, Maryland, for introducing me to this wonderful tune.

[@MyEditorFriend]

Thanks. I had never heard of Stan Rogers until about three years ago. Stan and I were born the same year, but I'm from South Florida. This is hysterical for me, since this is the kind of work I do. "Can't you program it right?" Some days...

[@Kenjock3000]

Me too. Earlly 80's on CBC radio it was my introduction to Stan. RIP Stan.

[@kwaping]

Friggin' awesome.

[@Staiduk]

(Chuckle) I hear how much fun you're having singing this song, Stan. Rest easy, lad - you will never be forgotten.

[@taurnguard]

Thanks to the Dr. Demento Show for introducing me to this song. :)

[@007bistromath]

who else came here because somebody threw it down as a shitpost about googlers unionizing

[@BrianGloberman]

As true now as it was in early 1980s.

[@mjh5437]

Timeless

[@johnpatterson8697]

groovy

[@DreFromMaine8472]

Heard this on Dr. D. in the summer of '93!

[@bouncebackwithbrigid]

immortal coding

[@MisterRedBird]

Anyone know what this kind of song is called?

[@FatalPandaman]

Mr. Red Bird If by kind you mean style, then acapella or sing along I suppose.

[@randybenjamin5685]

it's in the title : " Holler" it's a riff on old Working songs, harvesting cotton and such.

[@seththomas9105]

This is a work "holler". Used a lot by track gangs in the US in the 19th and 20th centuries up until the early 1970s.

[@brettmacdonald853]

Folk music is whats shes called

[@wherewolfprime]

This is a filk song - as noted in SF/F collections of same in book form, CD/tape form and in late night filker meets!!!

[@robbiedaug]

I like the "rufff" lol.

[@SuezWSuezW]

Great, thx for this!

[@FreGZile]

absolute classic !

[@FirstNameLastName-is6yb]

Sounds like a Black work song to me.

[@Jourell1]

Yes, it's a deliberate reference to the "field holler" style of singing

[@hippyjoe]

Fat jew

[@feelsman7837]

@@hippyjoe lmfao

[@NK73080]

@@feelsman7837 master yoda what happened

[@wegottagetoutofthisplace610]

Rush Limbaugh If he was black

[@Cyclingbluenoser]

one of his best!