"Don't quit your day job" (1985)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:44:25 -0700, Tom Dalzell <slangman at PACBELL.NET> wrote:

>Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>Where did this come from? When?
>
>Lexis-Nexis takes us one year earlier:
>
>People, May 7, 1984
>
>Goodlow took home $500 cash, 10,000 shares of "penny stock,"
>which is worth $100 at most, and a plaque that reads "Don't Quit Your
>Day Job."

The bluegrass group The Country Gazette recorded an album in 1973 called
_Don't Give Up Your Day Job_.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7qktk6jxlkrf


--Ben Zimmer