Labor of Love: the finale
5 days ago
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We end our honoring Labor Day with another little-known song about unions and labor, but one that is not from a musical. And while it's little-known today (bordering on unknown...), it was very well known in its day. Which in this case is 1981. (There was an earlier version a few years before, in 1978.)
It's a TV commercial for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
"Quaint" and "endearing" may be the best way to describe it, but impactful, as well. The fact that they actually made a second version is testament to that.
Oh, okay, we have to have an encore. Because it's this. Pete Seeger performing the famous song by Woody Guthrie, "Union Maid." And yes, you may not know that's its name, but you know it.
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