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After this, he rewrote the lyrics to "White Collar Worker" with a new chorus and the title "Takin' Care of Business". The new lyrics also take a self-ironic glance at the idea of glamorous rock stars who do not really need to work, contrasted with working-class men, in a vein that prefigured Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" a decade later ...
Randy had heard DJ Daryl Burlingham say the day before a gig, "We're takin' care of business on CFUN radio", and he decided to insert the lyrics "takin' care of business" into the chorus where "white collar worker" previously existed. [14] Tim Bachman left the band in early 1974 shortly after the release of Bachman–Turner Overdrive II. Randy ...
The album's second and bigger hit single is "Takin' Care of Business". Though it never cracked the Top 10 on the US singles charts (reaching #12 in 1974), it became one of the band's most enduring anthems and stayed on the Billboard chart for 20 weeks. [3] Both singles reached #3 on the Canadian RPM chart.
The original studio version, recorded at Kaye-Smith Studios in Seattle, Washington, features prominent piano, played by Durkee in one take. Randy Bachman had repeatedly claimed that Durkee was delivering pizzas to the studio, and convinced the band upon hearing playbacks of "Takin' Care of Business" that the song needed a piano part that he could play.
Cash Box called it a "hard rocking outing" saying that "the vocals, both up front and background harmonies, hit the mark and blend perfectly with the music." [5] Record World said that "forceful, driving instrumental work comes to the forefront" and "gritty vocalizing clinches it."
"Takin' Care of Business" 3 14 — — — — — — — 12 "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" 1 4 3 6 1 3 1 1 2 1 RIAA: Gold [13] Not Fragile
2008: Guitar Magazine, Takin' Care of Business rated at number 10 in top 100 most covered songs; 2009: iTunes, Takin' Care of Business is the most downloaded song on iTunes; 2014: Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Inductee (as a member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive) [14]
Bachman–Turner Overdrive is the ninth studio album by Canadian rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive, released in 1984.It is the last BTO studio album of original material to date and the only one without Robbie Bachman on drums.