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.
This song is a new reggae-tinged arrangement of Lauper's own Girls Just Want to Have Fun standard, with a musical tip of the hat to Redbone's Come and Get Your Love. The arrangement evolved as she experimented with the song's style over the course of the 1993-94 Hat Full of Stars Tour.