9 to 5 (Sheena Easton song)

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"9 to 5", with text and lyrics by Florrie Palmer is the title of a popular song recorded by Sheena Easton in 1980, becoming her first major hit. The title of the song was changed to "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" for its North American release to avoid confusion with the Dolly Parton song of the same name: "9 to 5".

Parton's song is about female liberation (as is the film it was featured in), while Easton's song is about a woman who waits at home all day for her man to come home from work.

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The tune was featured in the 2004 movie Eurotrip as the Manchester United Supporters Club theme and was also played as part of a montage in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Bizarro Jerry" episode in which Kramer finds himself working 9 to 5 at Brand/Leland, and "The Butter Shave" episode in which George fakes a handicap at Play Now.

The song also features in a sketch in Not The Nine O'Clock News, in which Pamela Stephenson sings it in relation to her "husband", Rowan Atkinson. Atkinson, having come home from work, corrects Stephenson's lyrics ("I don't take the train, I take a bloody bus", Stephenson obligingly changes the lyrics), before revealing that "he spends all day with a whore" (again sung by Stephenson) and attempting to kill her. The sketch ends with Stephenson singing "and then he tries to strangle me".

In an episode of South Park ("Kenny Dies"), Eric Cartman briefly sings the song as he happens upon a truck that went off the side of a road.

On the season 26 finale episode of Saturday Night Live (host: Christopher Walken; musical guest: Weezer), in a Mango sketch, Mango (Chris Kattan) sings "Morning Train" as he's working out in his dressing room.

In the Drawn Together episode "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", Adam Corolla sings the song during a story in which Spanky Ham has left the Drawn Together house and taken a 9 to 5 job as a hostage negotiator.

The song was also featured in an advertisement for Connex Melbourne where a trainload of passengers take turns in singing a line from her song while the train pulls up at Burnley railway station. When the train stops, Sheena boards the train. One of the passengers says "Sheena!" Sheena then replies with a scream and the ad concludes with all the passengers singing the chorus of the song as a shot is shown of the train leaving the station.

Swedish-born Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreasson covered the song in Swedish, as "Han pendlar varje dag" (which means "He commutes every day") with the new lyrics by Olle Bergman, on her 1981 album "Angel of the Morning".

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Preceded by "Kiss on My List" by Daryl Hall and John Oates	Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 2, 1981	Succeeded by "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes