Ampersand Mixtape 2: Weekend Special

Where does Workers’ Day come from?

Why do we have weekends? What should we listen to on weekends?

And why is Brenda Fassie’s first hit song essential for your weekend?

This month’s Ampersand mixtape has all those answers, and many more you didn’t know you needed to know.

Plus of course the best selection of songs to make those weekdays and weekends sound … special.

Playlist:

1. Sweet Charles – Yes It’s You
2. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – Mother’s Love
3. Working Week – Venceremos – We Will Win
4. Baaba Maal – Casamance Nights
5. Bokani Dyer – Tiya Mowa
6. Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
7. Joseph Malik – I Quit My 9 to 5 (feat. Niki King & Chris Greive)
8. Martha & the Muffins – Women Around the World at Work
9. Norma Jean – Heaven Help the Working Girl
10. The Dwarf Chorus – Heigh-Ho
11. Zazi – Sebetsa
12. The Silhouettes – Get a Job
13. The Miracles – Got a Job
14. Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
15. Cam’ron – I Hate My Job
16. The Commodores – Assembly Line
17. Johnny Clegg & Juluka – Work For All
18. Billy Bragg – There Is Power in a Union
19. Linton Kwesi Johnson – More Time
20. Brenda & the Big Dudes – Weekend Special
21. The Dynamics – This Weekend
22. Nonku Phiri – Things We Do on the Weekend
23. Fatboy Slim – The Weekend Starts Here
24. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
25. De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”
26. Earl Sweatshirt – Sunday (feat. Frank Ocean)
27. Kasai Allstars – As They Walked Into The Forest On A Sunday, They Encountered Apes Dressed as Humans
28. Jacques Coursil – Frantz Fanon 1952

Charles Leonard is a journalist, podcaster, editor, DJ, vinyl record collector and music archivist. He has been a journalist for 36 years and have worked across print, radio, TV, online and podcasts for a wide range of media houses, both as reporter and editor.