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40-Hour Week

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Critical reception
Track listing
Chart performance
Album Singles
Certifications
Personnel
Alabama Additional musicians
References

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| type = Studio
| artist = Alabama
| cover = Alabama - 40 Hour Week.jpg
| alt =
| released = January 1985
October 25, 1990 (re-released)
| recorded = September 1984 at The Music Mill, Nashville, TN^[1]
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| genre = Country
| length = 39:48
| label = RCA Records
| producer = Alabama
Harold Shedd
| prev_title = Roll On
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Christmas
| next_year = 1985
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| single1 = There's No Way
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| single2 = 40 Hour Week (For a Livin')
| single2date = April 17, 1985
| single3 = Can't Keep a Good Man Down
| single3date = August 9, 1985
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40-Hour Week is the ninth studio album from country music band Alabama. Released in 1985, the album included three songs that topped the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart and continued the band's dominance during the 1980s.

Two of the No. 1 tracks — "There's No Way" and the title track — became milestones in Alabama's recording career during 1985. When it reached the top of the chart on May 4, "There's No Way" became Alabama's 16th consecutive No. 1 single (excepting for the 1982 Christmas single "Christmas in Dixie"). The feat allowed Alabama to tie Sonny James' 14-year-old record for most No. 1 songs in as many consecutive single releases. Then, on August 3, "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" topped the chart, becoming Alabama's 17th-straight chart topper and allowing them to surpass James' record.

Among the album tracks, several of them praising the South, 40 Hour Week also features the ballad "I Want To Know You Before We Make Love", which became a major hit for Conway Twitty in 1987.

This was Alabama's only album from which all the singles had accompanying music videos.

Critical reception

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Track listing

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| headline = Side A
| title1 = 40 Hour Week (For a Livin')
| writer1 = Dave Loggins, Lisa Silver, Don Schlitz
| length1 = 3:18
| title2 = Can't Keep A Good Man Down
| writer2 = Bob Corbin
| length2 = 3:45
| title3 = There's No Way
| writer3 = Lisa Palas, Will Robinson, John Jarrard
| length3 = 4:11
| title4 = Down On Longboat Key
| writer4 = Dennis Morgan, Stephen Allen Davis
| length4 = 4:05
| title5 = Louisiana Moon
| writer5 = Larry Shell, Dan Mitchell
| length5 = 3:04
}}{{Tracklist
| headline = Side B
| title1 = I Want to Know You Before We Make Love
| writer1 = Becky Hobbs, Candy Parton
| length1 = 3:58
| title2 = Fireworks
| writer2 = Ronny Scaife, Phil Thomas, Kenny Durham
| length2 = 3:52
| title3 = (She Won't Have A Thing To Do With) Nobody But Me
| writer3 = Dean Dillon, Buzz Rabin, "Flash Gordon"
| length3 = 3:16
| title4 = As Right Now
| writer4 = Teddy Gentry, Greg Fowler
| length4 = 2:45
| title5 = If It Ain't Dixie (It Won't Do)
| writer5 = Jarrard, Kent Robbins
| length5 = 7:34
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Chart performance

Album

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	28
Canadian RPM Top Albums	69

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1985	"There's No Way"	1	2
	"40 Hour Week (For a Livin')"	1	1
	"Can't Keep a Good Man Down"	1	1

Certifications

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Personnel

as listed in liner notes^[1]

Alabama

Jeff Cook – electric guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "(She Won't Have a Thing to Do With) Nobody But Me"
Teddy Gentry – bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "As Right Now"
Mark Herndon – drums
Randy Owen – lead vocals, electric guitar

Additional musicians

Eddie Bayers – drums
Kenneth Bell – acoustic guitar
David Briggs – keyboards
Costo Davis – Kurzweil Synthesizer
Jack Eubanks – acoustic guitar
Gregg Galbraith – electric guitar
Roger Hawkins – drums
George (Leo) Jackson – acoustic guitar
Fred Newell – electric guitar
Larry Paxton – bass guitar
Willie Rainsford – keyboards
Brent Rowan – electric guitar
Ronnie Scaife – electric guitar
Milton Sledge – drums

Strings by the "A" Strings, arranged by Kristin Wilkinson.

References

1. ^¹{{cite AV media notes |title=40-Hour Week |others=Alabama |year=1985 |type=LP |publisher=RCA Records |id=5339}}
2. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r232|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review]

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