I always love the original, but this is a truly cool alternative!!!! And Mr. Ford shows what a truly gifted performer that he is!!! Times were different in 1965 than they were when the song was originally done, and it's likely he had to make adjustments to keep up. The go-go dancers add something very interesting to the performance, too!!! It has a different vibe than the original 1955 song, but it is fantastic on its own terms!!!
Even though I wasn't born until the very end of '66 I grew up listening to Tennessee Ernie, as well as others from the time, and even before, but now I'm not sure which version of this song I like better.. This one or the original.
Those dancers crack me up. I'm 62, grew up in So CAL, and none of my friends ever danced like that. That was just a Hollywood deal. Hollywood was so out of touch back then, and they still are if you ask me. We would mock some of these dances sometimes, if we had a dance partner we weren't fond of. It was all a joke to us.
Honestly, I wonder what Tennessee Ernie Ford actually thought of this presentation of such a great song. Maybe some tv producer or agent talked him into this saying he has to get hipper and he said 'okey okey. bring on the dancing girls and jack up the temo'. Regardless, he's still got one of the world's most iconic voices!
He did actually record this version on to a 7", which is what he is miming to. My dad had it, gave it to me and someone stole it from my record box. I see a lot of people don't much like this, but it is a real piece of its time, very bizarre and I have loved it since I was a kid. Luckily I kept a digital copy of the record, but would love to track it down again. There is also a similar reversion of Shake Rattle and Roll by Big Joe Turner, which I love to bits.
Ernie recorded an "updated" version of his classic 1955 hit for Capitol in January 1965; it was released at the time {#5425, one of Ford's rarest Capitol "45" issues} he "plugged" it on this performance of the "PALACE". It wasn't reissued until its inclusion on the 1994 CD box set, "Masters 1949-1976".
Go St Peter's basketball! I use "sixteen tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford (several versions including Jeff Beck and ZZ Top), and Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (that cigarette)" by Commander Cody and the lost planet airmen; as my Saint Peter's Peacocks theme songs: besides their original team theme song, "oh when the saints go marchin' in"!!
I never knew that T.E. Ford would have been that liberal with this song changing it into a rock and roll hit. It sounds hip. I grew up listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Christian hymns, but rock and roll? After 19 years since his death I find that to be a surprise.
I prefer the original, but it was cool to see that he made an effort to make his classic song popular with a younger crowd 9 years after it originally came out.
«Теннесси» Эрни Форд в 1955-м сделал «Sixteen Tons» знаменитой. Он же ее спустя десять лет и похоронил, записав «обновленную», так называемую Hipper («тазобедренную»), или Go-Go версию. Вот он здесь, в субботней программе «Hollywood Palace», с деффками отжигает, игриво виляя тазобедренным суставом. Что вынудило Эрни встать на этот скользкий путь? Эрни, который всю жизнь пел псалмы и христианские гимны? Как если бы, к примеру, Кобзон вдруг решил «Где-то далеко...» спеть в духе «Хава Нагила», - задорно и с подтанцовками. Выглядит форменным издевательством над смыслом. А ведь текст очень серьезен, и даже трагичен, и не предполагает такого откровенного глумления над ним. Ведь «Sixteen Tons», по сути, - песня довольно мрачная в своей безысходности, - о суровом «гномике» из Кентукки, обреченном всю жизнь рубить уголёк в вечном сумраке, пока не сдохнет, - от «черной» чахотки (Black Lung) или под завалом. Работа чертовски тяжелая, норма выработки - большая (в тоталитарном сталинском СССР была в полтора раза ниже). Постоянные штрафы, сокращенная рабочая неделя и «временные» увольнения на период простоя, ясное дело, без оплаты. Плюс - система «Clean Up», обязательная уборка после смены, занимавшая немало времени. Профсоюзы - под запретом. Медстраховки - нет. Пенсии - нет. Жилье - комнатка в лагерном бараке, принадлежащем хозяину шахты. Платят мало, и не «вечнозелеными» баксами, а «Coal company scrip» - корпоративными жетонами-купонами, которые можно отоварить исключительно в магазинах угледобывающей компании, прозванных «Pluck me» (Обдери меня), поскольку цены в них - намного выше, чем в независимых розничных магазинах, порой настолько, что доходы компании от торговли на порядок превышали доходы от самой угледобычи. Вообщем, долговая кабала, тоска и безнадега. Весьма близкий по смыслу «неполиткорректный» перевод: В день, когда родился, тьма висела кругом. В руки, блин, лопату - и в шахту бегом. Шестнадцать тонн - моя норма, грузи, не ссы! День ползёт за днём, словно вши в трусы. Видишь, я иду? Отступи на шаг! Все давно мертвы, кто не сделал так. Тот кулак чугунный, этот - вовсе стальной, Любому череп раскрою, кто пошутит со мной. Шестнадцать тонн - моя норма, хоть плачь, хоть пой! Я забил на солнце, мой дом - забой. Апостол Петр, не зови, мне не место в раю - Грёбаная шахта съела душу мою...
Джонни Кэш спел в рамках жОстко заданного формата - «брутального гламура». А наиболее близкое эмоциональное соответствие - у Perry Nunley, скомного парня из богом забытого городка Литтлтон, штат Колорадо, которого, увы, мало кто знает.
DoctorBoogie если человек известен всему миру, то он не может петь правильно? песня - это произведение искусства, которое предполагает некоторою художественность. следуя вашей логике лучше вообще рассказать историю своими словами и не со сцены, а прямо на улице случайному прохожему.
Naturally the original has the most weight and hasn't got one single iota of vacuity. Yet Tom Jones did spring to mind automatically when I heard his more projected baritone slicing through the increased tempo. Plaudits for him to tamper with a classic (that is arguably his own anyway :D) and it's enjoyable. Tom Jones's voice is less agile now, but who cares if he sings some songs differently. If an artist changes with the times it advocates canniness and insight.
there is room for both versions; especially in today's climate con'trollers gaslighting-soup of a world order government 👁️👎 Always no rules for them & total compliance for *us* 🙄 🏁🤺🤬ts.
+Hans Tun. Fuck Hans Tun. This is the greatest version of the greatest song ever made by Merle Travis. Perfected by Tennesee Ford, and the go go girls were a perfect addition. WAY better than that ZZ Top and Jeff Beck travesty piece of shit version
Tennessee Ernie's hit record with this song is considerably slower, with more appropriate vocal interpretation (and, of course, sans the dancers). This was a new arrangement-and I can't imagine why he agreed to do it.
that stage design! I'm thinking string art (nails on board + colorful string= good times) also--- "...I just can't believe it , I can't believe it, the things I can do with a spirograph!"
Almost like a preview of "Stomp." Reminds me of The Andy Griffith Show episode where the young pop singer Keevy Hazleton returns to his hometown of Mayberry looking for inspiration. Finds it in the form of a sweet ballad about the place by Aunt Bea and her best friend. Gives it the revved up treatment in an on camera rehearsal much like the one here. After vociferous and poignant objection by the ladies Hazleton records it for the real show note for note as the original ballad's arrangement. As far as I'm concerned Hazleton knocked both versions out of the park. And so did Ford.B.W.
The 1965 Capitol single is even more garage band inspired than this live take would suggest. And the flip side, the satire Hicktown proves that the good Professor Ford was far more on top of things than any paisley elitism might allow.
I remember when he recorded that . I was 7. I just got through educating a snot nosed kid what will happen if his generation doesn't start thinking in self sufficiency mode instead of how they are now. I told him if they didn't get their heads on right that they would all be working for a multi national corporation like Samsung, Toyota, or worse. He came back with "what's wrong with working for Samsung?" I had to try and bring my 65 years down where a 17 year old would understand it. I used "me" for the corporation and explained what it would be like living in an economic vacuum. I finally got him to understand that if everyone worked for me, that I could pay them whatever I wanted. I would therefore own the stores, and basically their life. I thought about this song and told him to listen to it. It's the first time I've heard it in years. I forgot how powerful Ernie Ford's voice was. It's like you are hearing something stronger than man.
actually, listen to Bobby Darin's version around 67 or 68; now THATS a swingin version! In my opinion, the best version too. Bluesy and with a heavy beat like this clip. Check it out!!
What is really cool is that Ernie realized there was a new audience and was eager to revamp his very classic hit song to put it into a new context to reach out to a new audience. Brilliant!! Forward thinking and very progressive...
The song is about a somber time. Adding flash and flare just kills the heart of it.
True
True statement; the original recording delivers the message more appropriately. Just the same, I have to admit I enjoyed this upbeat version.
No doubt ... show biz has a way of fcking up everything righteous.
"go go version"
I mean, it's very clear why they changed the version. But... Whatever
Wow, I actually remember posting this. 13 years...damn....
I always love the original, but this is a truly cool alternative!!!! And Mr. Ford shows what a truly gifted performer that he is!!! Times were different in 1965 than they were when the song was originally done, and it's likely he had to make adjustments to keep up. The go-go dancers add something very interesting to the performance, too!!! It has a different vibe than the original 1955 song, but it is fantastic on its own terms!!!
"I was born one morning; it was drzzlin' rain / Go-go dancin' is my middle name..."
Tennessee Ernie was a class act. I've never seen this hilarious 60s version but it's perfect. That guy had a voice!
Hot damn, I love this crazy version of Sixteen Tons. It really swings.
Do the swim.
A LITTLE native INFLUENCE-WOW!!
A musician can do anything they want and that’s the true mark of their talent! Don’t type cast this man as he could doit all like so many of his era!!
I hate to admit it, but I really like this version. Didn't know Ernie could swing!
Yeah, thats the style of the good old days. Simply Rocking and Unbeatable!!
Love this guy-always have
Even though I wasn't born until the very end of '66 I grew up listening to Tennessee Ernie, as well as others from the time, and even before, but now I'm not sure which version of this song I like better.. This one or the original.
Those dancers crack me up. I'm 62, grew up in So CAL, and none of my friends ever danced like that. That was just a Hollywood deal. Hollywood was so out of touch back then, and they still are if you ask me. We would mock some of these dances sometimes, if we had a dance partner we weren't fond of. It was all a joke to us.
you are 100% spot on. Hollywood would everyone saying "groovy" constantly on TV shows. No young people were ever talking like that. Ha.
Honestly, I wonder what Tennessee Ernie Ford actually thought of this presentation of such a great song. Maybe some tv producer or agent talked him into this saying he has to get hipper and he said 'okey okey. bring on the dancing girls and jack up the temo'. Regardless, he's still got one of the world's most iconic voices!
AHHHH...As much as I like Tennessee Ernie Ford, gimme the original of Sixteen Tons.
This song is awesome! I have been hearing it since 1974. LUIZ FERNANDO - RIO DE JANEIRO - BRASIL
This was a week and a half before I was born. Interesting version.
Man, those girls are the perfect addition to this.
He did actually record this version on to a 7", which is what he is miming to. My dad had it, gave it to me and someone stole it from my record box. I see a lot of people don't much like this, but it is a real piece of its time, very bizarre and I have loved it since I was a kid. Luckily I kept a digital copy of the record, but would love to track it down again. There is also a similar reversion of Shake Rattle and Roll by Big Joe Turner, which I love to bits.
hi. Would you consider emailing a digital copy? Would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
It was on the b side of his hit "Hicktown"
Big Joe turner is my favorite too.
Ernie recorded an "updated" version of his classic 1955 hit for Capitol in January 1965; it was released at the time {#5425, one of Ford's rarest Capitol "45" issues} he "plugged" it on this performance of the "PALACE". It wasn't reissued until its inclusion on the 1994 CD box set, "Masters 1949-1976".
Go St Peter's basketball! I use "sixteen tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford (several versions including Jeff Beck and ZZ Top), and Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (that cigarette)" by Commander Cody and the lost planet airmen; as my Saint Peter's Peacocks theme songs: besides their original team theme song, "oh when the saints go marchin' in"!!
Times and tastes were changing and Ernie musta figured if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
This is completely precious! Thanks for uploading it.
Excellent arrangements, superb choreography, and, of course, Tennessee's performance is brilliant!!
This version really sound just like a 50's dance riff, you wouldn't believe the song talks about work if you weren't listening to the lyrics.
The moment when Ernie says: "get out that hole" instead of "god bless my soul"
Crazy version🤣🤣so funny🤣🤣🤣😂
I like this version too🤭👏
Omg. So cute even in 2019..
I never knew that T.E. Ford would have been that liberal with this song changing it into a rock and roll hit. It sounds hip. I grew up listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Christian hymns, but rock and roll? After 19 years since his death I find that to be a surprise.
I actually really like this. Would be an awesome song to swing dance to
thats sooo cool, sounds like the cramps!!! GREAT!!!
The original is a classic of course, but I like it! Props to Ernie Ford for trying something new.
This is fucking awesome.
Works real well !! Fun and you can dance to it !!!
👏👏
this kicks ass!!!!
I prefer the original, but it was cool to see that he made an effort to make his classic song popular with a younger crowd 9 years after it originally came out.
"Some things are left well enough alone". So this is what they meant.
Want you to know, this was a hit back in mexico as well.
Such unusual version!
I definitely like the look of the girls in those days. They left something for the imagination . . .
О, барышни великолепны.
Как говорил слуга Дон Жуану : " Вам только пятку барышни увидать , а остальное вам нарисует ваше воображение.
fantastic version of a classic hit
This song is so fire
Fantastic! Voice, beat, espri and engagement! T-Ford FTW...
Мой папа давал на гора 16 тонн.Дети и внуки шахтеров, с праздником!
Go-go was like their dubstep
... I like this...
I'll take the original version any day.
«Теннесси» Эрни Форд в 1955-м сделал «Sixteen Tons» знаменитой. Он же ее спустя десять лет и похоронил, записав «обновленную», так называемую Hipper («тазобедренную»), или Go-Go версию. Вот он здесь, в субботней программе «Hollywood Palace», с деффками отжигает, игриво виляя тазобедренным суставом. Что вынудило Эрни встать на этот скользкий путь? Эрни, который всю жизнь пел псалмы и христианские гимны? Как если бы, к примеру, Кобзон вдруг решил «Где-то далеко...» спеть в духе «Хава Нагила», - задорно и с подтанцовками.
Выглядит форменным издевательством над смыслом. А ведь текст очень серьезен, и даже трагичен, и не предполагает такого откровенного глумления над ним. Ведь «Sixteen Tons», по сути, - песня довольно мрачная в своей безысходности, - о суровом «гномике» из Кентукки, обреченном всю жизнь рубить уголёк в вечном сумраке, пока не сдохнет, - от «черной» чахотки (Black Lung) или под завалом.
Работа чертовски тяжелая, норма выработки - большая (в тоталитарном сталинском СССР была в полтора раза ниже). Постоянные штрафы, сокращенная рабочая неделя и «временные» увольнения на период простоя, ясное дело, без оплаты. Плюс - система «Clean Up», обязательная уборка после смены, занимавшая немало времени. Профсоюзы - под запретом. Медстраховки - нет. Пенсии - нет. Жилье - комнатка в лагерном бараке, принадлежащем хозяину шахты. Платят мало, и не «вечнозелеными» баксами, а «Coal company scrip» - корпоративными жетонами-купонами, которые можно отоварить исключительно в магазинах угледобывающей компании, прозванных «Pluck me» (Обдери меня), поскольку цены в них - намного выше, чем в независимых розничных магазинах, порой настолько, что доходы компании от торговли на порядок превышали доходы от самой угледобычи. Вообщем, долговая кабала, тоска и безнадега.
Весьма близкий по смыслу «неполиткорректный» перевод:
В день, когда родился, тьма висела кругом.
В руки, блин, лопату - и в шахту бегом.
Шестнадцать тонн - моя норма, грузи, не ссы!
День ползёт за днём, словно вши в трусы.
Видишь, я иду? Отступи на шаг!
Все давно мертвы, кто не сделал так.
Тот кулак чугунный, этот - вовсе стальной,
Любому череп раскрою, кто пошутит со мной.
Шестнадцать тонн - моя норма, хоть плачь, хоть пой!
Я забил на солнце, мой дом - забой.
Апостол Петр, не зови, мне не место в раю -
Грёбаная шахта съела душу мою...
DoctorBoogie
Johnny Cash спел правильно! Посмотрите.
Джонни Кэш спел в рамках жОстко заданного формата - «брутального гламура». А наиболее близкое эмоциональное соответствие - у Perry Nunley, скомного парня из богом забытого городка Литтлтон, штат Колорадо, которого, увы, мало кто знает.
DoctorBoogie если человек известен всему миру, то он не может петь правильно? песня - это произведение искусства, которое предполагает некоторою художественность. следуя вашей логике лучше вообще рассказать историю своими словами и не со сцены, а прямо на улице случайному прохожему.
DoctorBoogie hgggykjtyyy🐃🐯🐆🐆🐆🐷🐖🐃🐂🐆
А мне понравилось. Девки двигаются ловко, так расейские не могут.
1:05 Awesome !!!
Fantastic.
thanks for mentioning Teresa's version. Wonderful. 實在非常有意義，又好聽。謝謝
Magnifique !!!
Naturally the original has the most weight and hasn't got one single iota of vacuity. Yet Tom Jones did spring to mind automatically when I heard his more projected baritone slicing through the increased tempo.
Plaudits for him to tamper with a classic (that is arguably his own anyway :D) and it's enjoyable.
Tom Jones's voice is less agile now, but who cares if he sings some songs differently. If an artist changes with the times it advocates canniness and insight.
Thank you for uploading this. You are a hero.
This is pretty sweet!
Columbia Records is right across the street from the Hollywood Palace on Vine Street. I've been there.
There is no problem with different versions of songs. If you dont like it stick to the other one.
there is room for both versions; especially in today's climate con'trollers gaslighting-soup
of a world order government 👁️👎
Always no rules for them & total
compliance for *us* 🙄
🏁🤺🤬ts.
Wow!
this is soooo much better than the original... lovvve
desgraciadamente, esta la tuvo que cantar muchas veces mi querido abuelo, aquí en MADRID(ESPAÑA), POR LOS DE SIEMPRE, "LOS INQUISIDORES".
What a cheerful song! :)
I thoroughly SECOND that.
Those of you who think The Jonas Brothers could never match the art of Ernest Jennings Ford, raise your hand.
This is feeling a bit like Schindler's List on Ice ..... Who thought about adding go go dancers to these lyrics? :)
+Hans Tun. Fuck Hans Tun. This is the greatest version of the greatest song ever made by Merle Travis. Perfected by Tennesee Ford, and the go go girls were a perfect addition. WAY better than that ZZ Top and Jeff Beck travesty piece of shit version
+bobitussin X It is a song about debt bondage...and wtf?
Hans, it's 1:27 am and i am laughing so hard after reading your comment i can't breathe and i can't stop laughing.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love the comment! Laughing my ass off here. Now all i can see is Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes on ice skates doing jumps and spins. LOL!!!
crazy cool!!
Tennessee Ernie's hit record with this song is considerably slower, with more appropriate vocal interpretation (and, of course, sans the dancers). This was a new arrangement-and I can't imagine why he agreed to do it.
Money is a good motivator. There are a lot of songs out there with remakes where the new music didn't match the lyrics.
Sensational!
that was totally awesome!
thank you-
this is great! ty
There’s no way this song could be bad with him singing it !!!!!!! Stray cats before the stray cats !
ty amazing again ty
This is jus one of our company songs. Lov'n♡ it. Enjoy Eleanor MExo . . . Feb11.13
Proof that TEF loved a good remix.
heard this in mad men , epic
Perfeito. Isso é música.
that stage design!
I'm thinking string art (nails on board + colorful string= good times)
also--- "...I just can't believe it , I can't believe it, the things I can
do with a spirograph!"
Que bien se oye...
dope dope dope!!
That mustache is priceless...:) anyway, one of my all time favourite songs, the theme is a little wierdo, but it's a kickass verison...:)
so true today
"Let's do a high budget version of a song I wrote about being destitute"
my grate uncle really knew how to do things right
wow, I dont know what to think...
the go-go dancers give the song an authentic, mine town feel.
Me gusto la versión n_n
WERK, ms ernie!
GUAUAUAUA I LIKE SO MUCH
Almost like a preview of "Stomp." Reminds me of The Andy Griffith Show episode where the young pop singer Keevy Hazleton returns to his hometown of Mayberry looking for inspiration. Finds it in the form of a sweet ballad about the place by Aunt Bea and her best friend. Gives it the revved up treatment in an on camera rehearsal much like the one here. After vociferous and poignant objection by the ladies Hazleton records it for the real show note for note as the original ballad's arrangement. As far as I'm concerned Hazleton knocked both versions out of the park. And so did Ford.B.W.
The 1965 Capitol single is even more garage band inspired than this live take would suggest. And the flip side, the satire Hicktown proves that the good Professor Ford was far more on top of things than any paisley elitism might allow.
I remember when he recorded that . I was 7. I just got through educating a snot nosed kid what will happen if his generation doesn't start thinking in self sufficiency mode instead of how they are now. I told him if they didn't get their heads on right that they would all be working for a multi national corporation like Samsung, Toyota, or worse. He came back with "what's wrong with working for Samsung?" I had to try and bring my 65 years down where a 17 year old would understand it. I used "me" for the corporation and explained what it would be like living in an economic vacuum. I finally got him to understand that if everyone worked for me, that I could pay them whatever I wanted. I would therefore own the stores, and basically their life. I thought about this song and told him to listen to it. It's the first time I've heard it in years. I forgot how powerful Ernie Ford's voice was. It's like you are hearing something stronger than man.
Weird version of that song... but... Damn! That man had a hell of a voice!
actually, listen to Bobby Darin's version around 67 or 68; now THATS a swingin version! In my opinion, the best version too. Bluesy and with a heavy beat like this clip. Check it out!!
Weirdly cool.
What is really cool is that Ernie realized there was a new audience and was eager to revamp his very classic hit song to put it into a new context to reach out to a new audience. Brilliant!! Forward thinking and very progressive...
This is an interesting curiosity, but he totally effed up the song with this bizarro arrangement. I just LOVE the original though..
This was obviously a bad idea, but it is fun to see now.
Понравилось, очень!!! Вдохновеная танцовщица - украшение клипа!
@BelfastAtheist yeah , i think it was in season 2 , at the end of one of the episodes
Have you heard the brazilian version by Noriel Vilela? THAT is the best!!!!
That's it. I've died and gone to hell...
Hahaaa
rock