Artist	Song
Marvin Gaye	Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
from Number 1's: Marvin Gaye (2007)
Stevie Wonder	Living for the City
from Number 1's (2007)
Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child
from God Bless the Child - The Very Best of Billie Holiday (2006)
Elvis Presley	In the Ghetto
from The Essential Elvis Presley (Remastered) (2006)
The Rolling Stones	Street Fighting Man
from Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (2005)
Bing Crosby	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
from The Essential Bing Crosby (The Columbia Years) (2003)
Bob Marley	No Woman No Cry
from Legend (Remastered) [Bonus Tracks] (2002)
The Animals	We Gotta Get Out of This Place
from Retrospective (2005)
M.I.A.	Paper Planes
from Kala (2007)
Prince	Sign 'O' the Times
from Sign 'O' the Times (2007)
Wu-Tang Clan	C.R.E.A.M.
from Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five	The Message
from The Message (2005)
Jimmy Cliff	The Harder They Come
from Anthology (2003)
The Carter Family	No Depression (In Heaven)
from The Best of the Carter Family - 20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection (2005)
The Clash	Career Opportunities
from The Essential Clash (2003)
Rodney Atkins	These Are My People
from If You're Going Through Hell (2006)
John Mellencamp	Rain On the Scarecrow
from Scarecrow (2005)
The Spinners	Ghetto Child
from The Very Best of the Spinners (2007)
Billy Joel	Allentown
from Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (2002)
Spearhead	Hole in the Bucket
from Home (1994)
Anthony Hamilton	Ain't Nobody Worryin'
from Ain't Nobody Worryin' (2005)
Pulp	Common People
from Hits (2003)
Randy Newman	Mr. President (Have Pity On the Working Man)
from Good Old Boys (2005)
Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors
from The Essential Dolly Parton, Vol. 2 (1997)
The O'Jays	Survival
from The Ultimate O'Jays (2001)
Tracy Chapman	Talkin' Bout a Revolution
from Tracy Chapman (2005)

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At a time when you can barely turn on the TV without being sucked into a 24-hour news vortex chronicling the worst recession since World War II, we bring you the songs of the workingman and -woman, from the factory to the farm, from the Deep South to the South Bronx. At the depths of the Great Depression, our economy was still burly enough to launch [i]two[/i] versions of Tin Pan Alley songsmith Yip Harburg's flat-busted ballad "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" to #1, including crooner Bing Crosby's. (Rudy Vallee's chart-topping cover is also available on the iTunes store.) On the other side of the tracks, a good kid makes a bad mistake and pays a big price while the bass throbs under Stevie Wonder's slow-burning ire in the GRAMMY®-winning "Living for the City," from 1973's Album of the Year, [i]Innervisions[/i]. And if the gun blasts and cash register jingle of M.I.A.'s hip-hop-hustler smash "Paper Planes" sounds familiar, either you joined the Academy Award®-happy throng in flocking to see [i]Slumdog Millionaire[/i] or you recognize the song's central riff, borrowed from the Clash's "Straight to Hell." From Marvin Gaye to Dolly Parton, we've gathered all the hopes and hard times that money (or the lack of it) can bring . . . without blowing your budget.

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