Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for September 18, 2021

Jay doesn’t look anything like Tony Orlando. And it’s not Dawn. So I wonder how many people get the reference.

I think the few times I double-shifted, I was single.

I don’t get it

The ribbon is for her first husband.

Awwwwww… She still wants him♡♡♡.

If I had that waiting at home, I NEVER would work late!

“‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree’ is a song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell, with Motown/Stax backing vocalist Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and her sister Pamela Vincent on backing vocals. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973.

The song is told from the point of view of someone who has ‘done his time’ in prison (‘I’m really still in prison and my love, she holds the key’) but is uncertain if he will be welcomed home.

He writes to his love, asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around the “ole oak tree” in front of the house (which the bus will pass by) if she wants him to return to her life; if he does not see such a ribbon, he will remain on the bus (taking that to mean he is unwelcome) and understand her reasons (“put the blame on me”). He asks the bus driver to check, fearful of not seeing anything.

To his amazement, the entire bus cheers the response – there are 100 yellow ribbons around the tree, a sign he is very much welcome.”

Wikipedia

I never gotten the impression that Jay worked an overly long schedule. Where I’ve worked, the computer gurus worked the same schedule as we engineers.

I remember that song as a hit. It was played non-stop for weeks. That is how old I am. lol

Don’t complain she still cares, it when you work late and they don’t notice that you have a problem.

Smile……

Glad I didn’t have a mouthful of coffee when I saw this.

I was five in 1973, and I remember my neighborhood had some yellow ribbons at the entrance of the subdivision for men returning from Vietnam.

That song and others by Tony Orlando and Dawn were on the radio CONSTANTLY in the 1970’s, it seemed! I don’t see how anyone could forget it, whether they wanted to or not. Of course I tend to assume everyone is somewhere in my age group, but as I’ve gotten older I realize more and more are younger, in some cases by a whole bunch!

When I remember it being used later the song was referred to as “almost forgotten”. I actually found that offensive, thinking “how could anyone forget that?” or “they’re assuming I forgot it too!” and I didn’t even care for it or Tony Orlando et al.