GBHR - Groovy reacts to Geoff Castellucci SIXTEEN TONS | Low Bass Singer Cover
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A new song I have never heard before! Lets go!!
Tennessee Ernie Ford is a legend and I hope I've done his classic tune "Sixteen Tons" justice in this re-imagining of it. Thanks for watching!
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"Sixteen Tons" was Originally performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford and his version is brilliant and iconic. I first heard this song in the title sequence of "Joe Vs The Volcano" when I was but a wee babe. You don't know that movie? Tom Hanks + Meg Ryan + giant suitcases + orange soda = hilarity.
This version of "Sixteen Tons" was produced and arranged by me. Don't bother teasing me about it in the comments, I'm already busy in the gym working on my spaghetti arms.
Audio Mix by Ed Boyer.
Production Manager: Kathy Castellucci
Filmed @ PattyCake Productions Studios -
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I was 12 in 1963 and my history teacher was teaching us about the way mines had been run using this song. He told us about company stores, how the miners weren't paid in dollars but in scrip so the only place that they could shop, rent a home, see a doctor were the ones the mine owners either approved of or they owned them. If you didn't have enough scrip, you had to sign an IOU so you really did owe your soul to the company store. My dad had Tennessee Ernie Ford's album with this on it and I felt pretty brilliant telling my folks about the history lesson.
I'm sorry you're sick! I am glad your feeling better! Time for a little "Geoffquake" medicine!
I'm old enough to remember hearing Tennessee Ernie Ford singing this song, so when I discovered VoicePlay and then that Geoff did solo work, I was thrilled to see him perform an 'oldie' that I knew so well. And it remains one of my very favorite of his songs, it absolutely remains true to the original spirit of the song and yet reenvisions it at the same time with lots of changes to the arrangement and and the fun vibe of the mining tools being used as percussive instruments. Plus, he sings it even lower, since Ford was a baritone rather than a bass. And as much as I love hearing Geoff's subharmonics, I think it's great that this is one that is definitely a deeply bassy version without them, performed using strictly 'chest voice'.
Glad you're feeling better, hope you get the other 20% back soon.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was huge in the 1950s and 1960s. It wasn't actually written by him, but it was made popular by him.
I'm glad you're feeling better. I was hoping nothing major happened. Keep getting plenty of rest and you should get that last 20% in no time.
This song is about the hardships of working in the mines before unions and better working conditions existed. It was a hard time for them.
Little fun tidbit. The camera shakes were accidental, but Geoff left them in and created another exciting effect.
Glad you are feeling better!!! ❤
Apparently it's Geoff's wife who gets him to muscle up and strip down "for the fans". Thank you, Kathy!
Welcome back!
I found Geoff with this song. He led me to VoicePlay. Instantly became a patron to both. Then added PattyCake Productions to my list. Love their series The Villains Lair.
Another song that I suggested to Geoff. Again, I don't think he did it just because I asked, but I was so happy he did.
Glad you're feeling better, welcome back! Lots of favourite songs from Geoff, and the most favourite changes according to the mood I'm in😉
This is the first song of Geoff's that i heard and that led me to VoicePlay's Oogie Boogie's Song. I went down the Rabbit Hole and now my name is Alice!😂
My go to soung(s) are Sixteen Tons and Big Bad John love both of those songs originals and Geoffs remakes! You earned a sub from me too!! Glad you are feeling better.
I think this one is great! And it has nothing to do with Geoff showing off his guns, I swear...😏
I spend the whole video watching his arms flex😅
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I watch this vid mostly because Geoff looks gorgeous in it, and he sounds fantastic. But the truth is, I hate the song.
I’m old enough, and have the right family history, to understand that it’s dark AF.
Most people get that it’s about coal mining. What they don’t understand is what the coal companies were doing when this was wrote.
They needed miners at the mine, and in the days of horse and buggy, that meant you had to live close. The mining companies built entire towns. They would "rent" the houses to their workers. They also owned and ran the only store in town.
Lastly…they didn't pay in American money. They paid in script which was only good for the rent and at the company store or with the company doctor.
They kept the prices high enough that people hardly broke even. If the miner had an injury or illness where he couldn't mine for a few days, the family was in debt instantly. If the family had a son, they might send him in for his father but the kids weren't going to be able to pull the father's weight.
The system was designed to trap not only the miners, but their children as well as they'd be expected to pay off any debt their parents owed if they died. If there were no kids that could take over the job, the company would evict them with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. If it was winter and the next town was a three day walk 🤷♀️ sucks to be you. It was outright slavery.
Usually, the only out was to run off in the night with whatever they could carry but there was likely only one road out. The company knew the nearest town and had the transportation to beat you there if they didn't find you on the road. And there were pretty harsh laws about running out on debt.
Which explains "St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store" - The miner doesn't want to die in debt and leave it on their family.
It's a grim song about a truly evil situation that existed.
I grew up hearing this and Big Bad John all through my childhood. When the depression hit, my grandfather and dad had to leave the farm and work in the mines to keep the farm from going under. My dad was 12 and had to go underground. My grandfather had worked for a short time in a train so got to drive the ore train. They both lived through cave-ins.
They got out as soon as possible,probably in the middle of the night. My dad had two fingers deformed by a beating. He would only say it was guards hired by the miners. They moved the family to No Cali and worked in a lumber town and once again had to live in a company house and the only store was the company store. When they retired, they had to move out of the company housing. But the only store in town was still owned by the company.
The precursor to the Payday advance racket.