Song of the Day 12/7: The O’Jays, “For the Love of Money”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on December 7, 2022

The Trump organization was found guilty of fraud and tax evasion, and though CFO Allen Weisselberg threw himself on the grenade, not a soul alive believes he did it on anybody’s orders but Trump’s.

This Philly soul classic is credited to three people — it grew out of a jam session — but Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff were along for the ride. It’s bass virtuoso Anthony Jackson’s percolating riff that makes this a much-sampled funk classic and propelled an edited version to No. 9 on the Hot 100 in 1974. It’s so good I can overlook the fact that it was used as the theme song to Trump’s game show gig, “The Apprentice.”

One artist actually used the song in a political context: Todd Rundgren covered it with Utopia on his 1982 anti-Reagan album “Swing to the Right.”

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  1. bamboozer says:

    Love this song, used to sing it in a band or two.