Written by Merle Travis, but made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford and Johnny Cash.. + Informações

Odetta and Tennessee Ernie Ford Sing Woody Guthrie and Pastures of Plenty and Merle travis Nine Pound Hammer. + Informações

Some people say a man is made outta mud A poor man's made outta muscle and blood Muscle and blood and skin and bones A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul" You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain Fightin' and trouble are my middle name I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store If you see me comin', better step aside A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don't a-get you then the left one will You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store Merle Travis. + Informações

"Sixteen Tons" Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons," a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and the rock and roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store... With a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement by Ford's musical director, Jack Fascinato, "Sixteen Tons" spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. It became Ford's 'signature song.'. + Informações

Sixteen Tons (16 tons) is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year. A 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts, while another version by Frankie Laine was released only in the United Kingdom, where it gave Ford's version some stiff competition. A dispute exists regarding the authorship of "Sixteen Tons". While the song is generally attributed to Merle Travis, to whom it is credited on his 1947 recording, George S. Davis, a folk singer and songwriter who had been a coal miner in Kentucky, claimed when he was recorded for Folkways in 1966 to have written the song as "Nine-to-ten tons" in the 1930s. Davis' recording of his version of the song appears on the albums George Davis: When Kentucky Had No Union Men and Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian. In 1955 Sixteen Tons was recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford,In the late 1970s, as a CAF colonel, Ford recorded the organization's theme song "Ballad of the Ghost Squadron." Over the years, Ford was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for radio, records, and television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990. *********************************** 16 tons/George S. Davis ???+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Some people say a man is made out of mud A poor man's .... + Informações

JC performs his remake of the #1 classic by Tennessee Ernie Ford from 1955 on the 21st Annual Music City News Country Awards. From his 1987 album "Johnny Cash is Coming To Town.". + Informações

Title describes it all. + Informações

Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons.. + Informações

There is some controversy about whether Merle Travis actually wrote this song, which he recorded in 1953. George Davis (1906-1992), known as the "singing miner of Hazard, Kentucky," claimed to have written the song as "Nine to Ten Tons" some time earlier. Tennessee Ernie Ford had a big hit with the song when it was released as the B-side of a song called "You Don't Have to be a Baby to Cry" in 1955. The many others who have recorded the song include Johnny Desmond (1955), Frankie Laine (1955), The Weavers (1956), Eddy Arnold (1956), Kate Smith (1958), Homer & Jethro (1960), Jimmy Dean (1961), Bo Diddley - 1961, Lorne Greene - 1965, Stevie Wonder (1966), Tom Jones (1967), Eric Burdon (1990), Johnny Cash, Leon Russell, The Platters, and Big Bill Broonzy. You can see a playlist of my mining songs here: www.youtube.com For lyrics and chords of my songs, see my website: www.raymondcrooke.com. + Informações

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Merle Travis was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter. A unique stylist, he was respected and prominent with originals such as "Sixteen Tons" crossing over as popular standards in the hands of other artists. He even played two different vital and indirect roles in the development of rock & roll, and was no slouch as a recording artist, with his own share of chart hits and novelty songs.. + Informações

Eric Burdon performs his 1990 version of the "Joe Versus the Volcano" title song Sixteen Tons. Originally written in 1947 by Merle Travis and made a #1 hit in 1955 by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford.. + Informações

Greaseballs (Zagreb) www.myspace.com Obrada pjesme "Sixteen Tons" ...tekst: Davor Viduka...../1946 country singer Merle Travis / 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford / Frankie Laine. Travis claimed authorship of the song, but a competing claim was made by George S. Davis. Pjesmu su svirali i obra?ivali: Stan Ridgway, Eels, Eric Burdon, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley, George S. Davis, Frankie Laine, Swingersi, Memento Mori & mnogi drugi.. + Informações

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A wondrous cover of a song that will always be associated with Tennessee Ernie Ford by a man who has earned his OBE through the years, Sir Tom Jones. The song itself was first recorded by country singer Merle Travis in 1946, and he also claimed authorship of it although this has been disputed through the years.. + Informações

Sixteen Tonnes - Luke and Leon at Chandlers Open Mic. + Informações

A little somethin' in the wee hours of the morn' before headin' off to work. www.brennonjohn.com. + Informações

Very obscure Merle Travis Song, ...Travis Pickin what Merle's fans called it, people like Chet Atkins, Tennessee Ernie, Johnny Cash and many more artist were influenced by Merle. dan. + Informações

A beautiful song, from 1947. + Informações

I think of this song every labor day... My own banjo arrangement of an old favorite. Lots of splicing and a little humor upfront... BTW, I think this would be a great song to play in the upcoming movie for Suzanne Collins" Hunger Games when they show the hard life in the coal mines in "District 12" Come and Listen Young Fellows So Young and So Fine And Seek Not Your Fortune in the Dark Dreary Mine It will form as a habit and seep in your soul til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal. Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the danger is double and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines. I hope when I'm gone,...my body will blacken and turn into coal...etc.. + Informações

Richie Milton's Sixteen Tons revisited. + Informações

Thomascows version "Sixteen Tons" is a song about a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis. A 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts, while another version by Frankie Laine was released only in the United Kingdom, where it gave Ford's version some stiff competition. Travis claimed composing the song, while a challenging claim was made by George S. Davis.. + Informações

Johnny Cash - Dark as a dungeon. + Informações

16 Tons - cover by The Glade. Sixteen Tons is performed live unplugged at Bryggarsalen, October 2010. Join The Glade on Facebook - www.facebook.com More info on The Glade: www.TheGladeOnline.com. + Informações

Merle Travis. + Informações