Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons - 1955 - vinylrip
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- "Sixteen 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 Western Europe, where it gave Ford's version competition.
While the song is usually attributed to Merle Travis, to whom it is credited on his 1946 recording, George S. Davis, a folk singer and songwriter who had been a Kentucky coal miner, claimed on a 1966 recording for Folkways Records 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.
According to Travis, the line from the chorus, "another day older and deeper in debt", was a phrase often used by his father, a coal miner himself. This and the line, "I owe my soul to the company store", is a reference to the truck system and to debt bondage. Under this scrip system, workers were not paid cash; rather they were paid with non-transferable credit vouchers which could be exchanged only for goods sold at the company store. This made it impossible for workers to store up cash savings. Workers also usually lived in company-owned dormitories or houses, the rent for which was automatically deducted from their pay. In the United States the truck system and associated debt bondage persisted until the strikes of the newly formed United Mine Workers and affiliated unions forced an end to such practices.
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This is a rip from a original 7" or 12" vinyl that i have.
The perfect voice and style for this song. I'm not sure that Ford himself fully appreciated what an incredibly good voice he had.
I think if you think this is the pefect voice for this song you never heard the version of johnny cash.
Hannes Goldmann
I like Johnny Cash but I doubt that even privately he thought he could sing this song as well as Ford whose version caused a sensation toward the end of 1955. In the final analysis, however, it's all a matter of taste.
Just Awesome!
Love this song
Remember this history when people complain about the unions - the miners were indentured servants until they rose up against the owners and fought to be free men.
The majority of people only "parrot" back what they hear being said continuously around them. It's not like they're thinking for themselves.
the billboards first ever TOP ONE HUNDRED song, number one spot EVER in November 12, 1955. And this guy has that title for ever because in August 4,1958 billboard re named it to billboards HOT 100, no longer TOP 100- lol Just a fact bomb
This was recorded on a tape reel, DIRECTLY from the year 1955 itself from a radio, you can hear the announcer saying, " ...in the number one position" I was a baby then, so my baby voice was recorded too, also this tape has the song "Yellow Rose of Texas", and selections from "Swan Lake". Still have this tape reel today, inside the tape recorder's drawer.
I heard it today.. Loving it. and i read all the comments that says 5 years ago and thought , Are these people ever coming back here? are you alive?(:
'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...'
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LOVE THIS SONG
Thank you, poster, for the beautiful sound of your recording; I always loved the song. And thank you for this nice song history, it told me some detail I never knew before.
Great song
Cool
Mad Men
Thanks!!! great upload.
Have a Happy day!!!
Rika.
Esse é o famoso 16 toneladaaaaaas...
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Super !
Tennessee Ernie Ford with a picture of a Chevy
Alright then
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There's a brazilian version this by Noriel Vilela called "Esse é o famoso 16 toneladas".
muy buena canción ya sea en esta versión q es la original o la de alberto vazquez q no le pide nada
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Back to the Future
Kishore Kumar's Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si is an adaptation of this record.
It's about the MUSIC not the damn slideshow !
Not sure why you say 1955 Version.. Tennessee Ernie Ford Wrote and Recorded this song in 1955. It isn't a Version it's the Original.
Singing Walt Disney?
Lol! Just kidding on a good song :)
What's with the dumb car park?
This should've been in Fallout 4.
2018 South Park
I'm still waiting for my package from Amazon. It's a whole collection of Tennessee Ernie Ford CDs.
David Barker$$$
Bloody Harlan County USA.
Dumb slideshow of the same car over and over...
I lold hard at that
Pessada a Sound ... Arebbenta o/
Tennessee Ernie Ford with a picture of a Chevy
Alright then