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.
It also yielded two of their best known hit singles,  Let It Ride  and  Takin' Care of Business . Randy had already written the core of Takin' Care of Business several years earlier as White Collar Worker while in The Guess Who, but that band had felt it was not their type of song.