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"Five O'Clock World"
Single by Hal Ketchum
from the album Past the Point of Rescue
Released	1991
Genre	Country
Length	3:02
Label	Curb
Producer	Allen Reynolds, Jim Rooney
Hal Ketchum singles chronology

"Five O'clock World"
Single by The Vogues
Released	1965
Genre	Rock
Length	2:19
Label	Co & Ce
Writer(s)	Allen Reynolds
Producer	Nick Cenci
The Vogues singles chronology

"Five O'Clock World" (also known as "5 O'Clock World") is a 1965 single by The Vogues. It reached #4 in the charts, and is one of The Vogues' best-known hits along with "You're The One". The song is sung from the point of view of an urban worker who does not enjoy his job, but looks forward every day to 5:00 P.M., the time at which he goes home to see his girlfriend (or wife).

The arrangement of the Vogues' single was innovative and noteworthy. The song begins with a repeating modal figure on 12-string acoustic guitar (the sound reminiscent of medieval chanson, or contemporaries The Byrds), and swings into stride with a low brass drone, finger-snapping rhythm, and work-song shouts drenched in reverb. The bright baritone lead vocal by Bill Burkette is punctuated by strong countermelodies and harmonies from the group, and rises to a lilting yodel after the chorus, in anticipation of the after-work freedom promised in the lyric. A syncopated descending marimba figure carries the song out, one year before the Rolling Stones used the instrument to deliver the memorable hook in "Under My Thumb". The instrumental track was started from a demo brought in by producer Tony Moon, cut at RCA Studio B in Nashville. The vocal was then overdubbed in Pittsburgh at Co & Ce studios, with label co-head Nick Cenci. [^[1]]

Country singer Hal Ketchum covered the song on his 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue and released it as a single. The song peaked at #16 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1992. It was also covered by Bowling for Soup as a bonus track on some editions of their album Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies^[2]. Julian Cope also released a cover of the song in 1989 on his album My Nation Underground; Cope changed several of the lyrics and added in a section from the Petula Clark song "I Know a Place." (Both songs were released in 1965.)

"Five O'Clock World" was used in the soundtrack to the 1987 movie Good Morning Vietnam.^[3], also in the soundtrack to the 2003 movie Big Fish, and was heavily featured on the The Drew Carey Show as its opening theme song during the second season; various other covers of the song -- including the Bowling for Soup-recorded version -- were used as the show's theme from 2002 to 2004.

The song was also covered by the Dave Clark Five.

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] The Vogues

Chart (1965)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4

[edit] Hal Ketchum

Chart (1991-1992)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	16
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	21

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[0] ttp://http://www.jerryosborne.com/1-29-07.htm

[1] ttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=89905885&s=143441

[2] Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) - Soundtracks

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[edit] The Vogues

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