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.
Although he scored 11 top-10 country singles, Take This Job and Shove It, written by David Allan Coe, was Paycheck's only No. 1. His other big hits included She's All I Got and Mr. Lovemaker. Born Donald Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio, the singer first recorded for Decca under the name Donny Young, then hit the Billboard charts as Johnny Paycheck in 1965 with A-11. Paycheck had four top-10 albums, including Take This Job and Shove It (Epic), which hit No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart in 1977. He also wrote Apartment #9, a top-50 country hit for Tammy Wynette in 1967.