Working at the Woolco Manager Trainee Blues

The incredibly rare Buddy and The Boys Classic Working at the Woolco Manager Trainee Blues from the mid 1970's.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Woolco
• Manager
• Trainee
• Buddy
• Boys

[MrSanshar]

who sang this?

[Mikester61]

@MrSanshar Buddy and the Boys, from Nova Scotia , Canada.

[russfromdodge]

Love this tune!!!...A Cape Breton classic for sure..Thanks for posting!!

[timon924]

That was great!! My first job outta high school was at the Woolco store at Capilano mall in Edmonton. And ya, the only edible thing from the Red Grille was the fries!

[RClaffieJr]

I heard this song as the Kmart Mgr Trainee Blues

[Sheri451]

I miss Woolco. We had one in my hometown, we shopped there for practically everything. Then came Wal-Mart ,(That's what it was called at first) and it was BYE BYE Woolco! BYE BYE Woolworth. towns became ghost towns, malls are shutting down thanks to F*****G WAL MART!

[pluggan1]

@silverdonaldcameron ....I suggest the florescent lighting/plastic spoons/psychedelia of the chips and gravy implicit in the song ...may well have more pertinence than you envision ...considering the raison d'etre of the celebration....wise move I'd say....

[silverdonaldcameron]

@pluggan1 I'm speaking at the Bras d'Or Lakes Biosphere celebration on Sept 17/11, and Max MacDonald will be hosting. I think I may just start my talk by quoting this song to get everyone started with a laugh.

[pluggan1]

@silverdonaldcameron ..indeed a valuable posting....God Bless them...controlled hilarity...that could shift on a dime to something profoundly beautiful....and in it's own context ...Workin' at the Woolco ..was a thinly disguised social statement......Either way a nice and necessary fit to a great era in establishing that classic music now more or less taken for granted.

[silverdonaldcameron]

@pluggan1 I remember Ralph Dillon and Berkeley Lamey were in that band, too. It was absolutely fabulous. That first clicking sound that introduces the song was Dave Harley, aka General John Cabot Trail, tapping out the theme with a fingernail -- on his teeth. Mikester, thanks so much for posting this.

[freethoughtmusic]

Wow! I still laugh at the "Attention Woolco Shoppers" bit. What a laugh, thanks for posting.

[landrykkb]

@debbiwi56 A lineup like that would be a dream to see just for 1 weekend,that's for sure.