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  2. sblake's avatar sblake Says:

    January 15, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    Parton wrote this for the 1980 film of the same name. The film (which was Parton’s acting debut) starred Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Parton, and Dabney Coleman and dealt with life in an American office, where the workday was 9am to 5pm. She wrote the song while the movie was filming. In a 2009 interview with 60 Minutes, she talked about the unlikely inspiration for this song: her fingernails. She had very long, acrylic nails, and discovered that when she rubbed them together she could create a rhythm that sounded like a typewriter, and since the movie was about secretaries, she was able to use that sound to compose the song on the set. She even played her fingernails as part of the percussion sound when she recorded the track.
    This song won the 1981 Grammys for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance, Female; it also received a Grammy nomination for Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. It also won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Song

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      January 16, 2011 at 10:15 am

      sblake,
      I never did like Dolly Parton until I saw this movie. Fingernails! Who would expect that? It does like like the old days of radio when the sounds were made with the most unlikely things. Reminds me of Monty Python and the coconut shells.


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