#Working in the Coal Mine

[infinitemonkeytheory]

Lee Dorsey (December 24, 1924 December 1, 1986) was an Afro-American pop/R&B singer during the 1960s. Much of his work was produced by Allen Toussaint with instrumental backing provided by the Meters.

Born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name "Kid Chocolate" and was quite successful.

Dorsey met songwriter/producer Allen Toussaint at a party in the early 1960s, and was signed to the Fury record label. The song that launched his career was inspired by a group of children chanting nursery rhymes - "Ya Ya" went to number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He recorded other songs for Fury before the label folded, and Dorsey went back to his car repair business.

Toussaint later came back on the Amy label and began to work with Dorsey once again. From 1965 to 1969 Dorsey put seven songs in the Hot 100, the most successful of which was "Working in the Coal Mine" in 1966. It was to be his second and last Top Ten song. In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey's last entry in the singles chart. It was later a hit for the Pointer Sisters under the title, "Yes We Can Can".

Dorsey appeared on an album with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, which led to more recordings on his own with ABC Records in the late 1970s. In 1980, Dorsey opened for English punk band The Clash on their U.S. tour.

Dorsey contracted emphysema and died in New Orleans in 1986, at the age of 61.

Dorsey's songs have been covered by artists as diverse as Petula Clark ("Ya Ya Twist," a 1962 French version of "Ya Ya") and Devo ("Working in the Coal Mine").

He is referenced in the Beastie Boys' song lyrics for "Sure Shot" - "...everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey."

[fhear]

Working in the Coal Mine

[guerrilla-operator]

Devo // Working In The Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey cover)

Well, I been working in a coal mine Going down, down Working in a coal mine Whew, about to slip down

[6ar]

I just wanted to draw them in a hot spring

EDIT: I changed it to the original because there's literally nothing, and kremy looked silly in his 4k!ds entertainment Inc. issued speedo

[orb-the-watchman]

Can't relate to any of the Children in Poppy Playtime. Listen if I was like 8 or 9 and Hasbro wanted to experiment on me to turn me into fucking Rainbow Dash I'd be like hell yeah brother slice away

[salonmalden]

pokemon beta character bio with ages...btw...

note: 71 is for charon (the galactic scientist from platinum)

[so-very-small]

the inherent g/t between a miner and a canary

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Man, what I wouldn't give for an Invincible-style Spidey series. We could have perfection if they would just hand it over. But alas. You wouldn't even have to change much either, Peter and Mark are basically the same dude. Some more redraws below cause I had fun with this one.

But for real this is like my last one. Maybe I'll do another Conner AU one when season 3 comes out but then idk. These are fun but I'd rather not trace-redraw with my poor mangled finger and instead focus on like developing my own art and whatnot. Anyways uh HEY LOOK SFPIBER-BAM

[aquaregiaart]

Maglor (+ closeup of alternate version,) a gift for dear @samarqqand.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

How do you know when you need to quit your job?

Honestly I'm not sure. Some friends suggested I do so after my boss yelled at me, others when he tried to shoot me with an arrow, yet others when they failed to pay me and several more when they denied having existed as a business entity and at least one other when the building I worked at was torn down along with much of the company town, leaving nothing but a crater where my job once was.

But as a typical American worker, I don't have much choice but to show up every day and do my job despite such things.

[voltairineandviolethaze]

For might was right when Caesar bled upon the stones of Rome, And might was right when Joshua led his men o’er Jordan’s foam, And might was right when German troops poured down through Paris gay, ‘Twas the logic of the ancient world, ‘tis the gospel of to-day. You must prove your right by deeds of might, of splendor and renown, If you would march through flames of hell to dash opponents down. If need be, die on scaffold high, in morning’s mist of gray, For liberty or death is still the logic of to-day.

- “General” Alexander Bradley’s ballad echoed by the UMWA coal miners of the 1897 Strike

[sapphia]

martyn/jimmy team up next so that martyn can dedicate his season to keeping jimmy alive to break the curse

[6ar]

[Gideon, Kremy, and Frost] x [next image]

[Template is from Elite, a Spanish Netflix drama]

[byjove]

The same crowd that defended Jason Aldean’s racist tone-deaf Try That in a Small Down and bemoaned him being a victim of cancel culture are boycotting Tyler Childers because he released a music video poignantly depicting a gay working class love story. I wonder if they’d start writhing if they heard Willie Nelson’s Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other.

[digital999placebo]

so.. smiles. anyone remember my golden age boxing au?