Sheena Easton ~ Morning Train 9 To 5 (Live)

Sheena Easton ~ Morning Train

"9 to 5", with lyrics by Florrie Palmer is the title of a popular song recorded by Sheena Easton in 1980, becoming her first gold single, peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1981. The title of the song was changed to "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" for its North American release to avoid confusion with the Dolly Parton song of the same name: "9 to 5". Both Easton's and Parton's songs went to #1 on both the U.S. pop and adult contemporary charts; Parton's song also hit #1 on the country music chart.
Parton's song is about female liberation (as is the film it was featured in), while Easton's song is about a woman who waits at home all day for her man to come home from work. The music video was filmed on the Bluebell Railway, a heritage line running between East and West Sussex in England. The video stars London and South Western Railway No. 488, a preserved LSWR 0415 Class locomotive.

The tune was featured in the 2004 movie EuroTrip as the Manchester United Supporters Club theme and was also played as part of a montage in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Bizarro Jerry" episode in which Kramer finds himself working 9 to 5 at Brand/Leland, and "The Butter Shave" episode in which George fakes a handicap at Play Now. Of note, David Mandel has writing credits on EuroTrip and the two Seinfeld episodes. Alec Berg holds writing credits on EuroTrip and "The Butter Shave."
The song also features in a sketch in Not The Nine O'Clock News, in which Pamela Stephenson sings it in relation to her "husband", Rowan Atkinson. Atkinson, having come home from work, corrects Stephenson's lyrics ("I don't take the train, I've taken the bus for fifteen years!", Stephenson obligingly changes the lyrics), before revealing that "he spends all day with a whore" (again sung by Stephenson) and attempting to kill her. The sketch ends with Stephenson singing "and then he tries to strangle me".
In an episode of South Park ("Kenny Dies"), Eric Cartman briefly sings the song as he happens upon a truck that went off the side of a road.
In an episode of the 1997 sitcom Soul Man, Anthony Clark's character begins to play the song on a church organ.
On the season 26 finale episode of Saturday Night Live (host: Christopher Walken; musical guest: Weezer), in a "Mango" sketch, Mango (Chris Kattan) sings "Morning Train" as he's working out in his dressing room.
In the Drawn Together episode "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", Jimmy Kimmel sings the song during a story in which Spanky Ham has left the Drawn Together house and taken a 9 to 5 job as a hostage negotiator.
The song was also featured in an advertisement for Connex Melbourne where a trainload of passengers take turns in singing a line from her song while the train pulls up at Burnley railway station. When the train stops, Easton herself boards the train. One of the passengers says "Sheena!" Easton then replies with a scream and the ad concludes with all the passengers singing the chorus of the song as the train is shown leaving the station.
Swedish-born Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreasson covered the song in Swedish, as "Han pendlar varje dag" (which means "He commutes every day") with the new lyrics by Olle Bergman, on her 1981 album "Angel of the Morning". This version also stayed at Svensktoppen for 9 weeks during the period 21 February-18 April 1982, with a 4th place as best result there [1].
In France, Sylvie Vartan also scored a significant hit with a "Morning Train" cover. Though her version is musically coherent, Vartan employs notably different lyrics, as evidenced by her recording's title, "Lamour c'est comme une cigarette" ("Love is like a cigarette").
It was revealed in the documentary John Peel's Record Box that British radio DJ John Peel loved the record so much that he kept two copies of it in a small wooden box of his 142 favourite singles. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]

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[lawidea]

It's a really sad song.

[ticks4ticks4]

EUROTRIP!

[principalflutist]

A wonderful song ---- great music and lyrics. Hard to beat --- voice and song.

[mjcassini]

Florrie Palmer didn't just write the lyrics - she wrote the music too.

[tyltat2020]

My baby !!!!

[OdoubleTO]

@boybrushedred18 lol I know, i was just watching a clip of that particular Seinfeld episode, the Kramer 'working' segment, and decided to look up the catchy tune. now I'm in love with this broad :D

[boybrushedred18]

Bizarro Jerry

[tyltat2020]

Sheena is soooo cute!!

[ichbifeuertrunk]

@freebird1974 Did you totally identify with the woman in the song?

[Schnucky621]

einfach toll!!!

[freebird1974]

When this song came out I was a little kid and it was MY FAVORITE SONG

[CandyHaleLinton]

@2ndAsstJizzMopper Uh..Yes Dear, it does. Do you mind?