Precious metals such as gold and silver are often sold by the troy ounce. Many people dont realize that an ounce of gold (and other precious metals) is weighed in a different weighing system called troy weights. A troy ounce is heavier than the typical ounce found at the grocery store.
Get a Job (song) For the Gossip song, see A Joyful Noise (Gossip album). Get a Job is a song by the Silhouettes released in November 1957. It reached the number one spot on the Billboard pop and R&B singles charts in February 1958.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Country singer Johnny PayCheck, the hard-drinking hell-raiser best known for his 1977 working man's anthem Take This Job and Shove It, has died at 64. PayCheck had been bedridden in a nursing home with emphysema and asthma.