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Mike Rowe records holiday song with John Rich, Oak Ridge Boys

By Karen Butler   |   Nov. 25, 2021 at 10:57 PM
Mike Rowe has contributed vocals to the new holiday song, "Santa's Gotta Dirty Job." File Photo by Martin Fried/UPI The Oak Ridge Boys arrive at the 2016 Country Music Awards in Nashville. File Photo by John Sommers II/UPI John Rich, of the country music duo Big and Rich, visits victory lane at the Charlotte Motor Speedway before the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Race in Concord, North Carolina in 2012. File Photo by Nell Redmond/UPI

Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Dirty Jobs star and occasional opera singer Mike Rowe has recorded a holiday song with country music artists John Rich and The Oak Ridge Boys.

"Couple weeks ago, under circumstances too weird to explain, John Rich and I decided to record a song for Christmas," Rowe posted on social media Wednesday.

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"America's not having a great time right now, and we thought a song like this might help put a smile on our collective face. It's called Santa's Gotta Dirty Job, and I'll warn you right now -- the chorus is an earworm that's gonna be tough to shake," he added. "It's a dirty little ditty that you can download for $1.29, and I hope you will, because 100 percent of the net proceeds are divided equally between mikeroweWORKS and Folds of Honor, two great charities that are making a difference in the lives of skilled tradespeople and families of veterans."

A music video for the song is expected to be released next week.