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"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [2] Travis first recorded the song at the Radio Recorders Studio B in Hollywood, California , on August 8, 1946.
Sixteen Tons album cover. Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop chart in 1955 with his rendering of "Sixteen Tons", a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament. Merle Travis had first recorded it in 1946. It reflected experiences of the Travis family in the mines at Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [12]
The album, with Travis accompanied only by his guitar, contains his two most enduring songs, both centered on the lives of coal miners: "Sixteen Tons" and "Dark as a Dungeon". [1] "Sixteen Tons" became a No. 1 Billboard country hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955 [3] and has been recorded many times over
Here Comes the Tennessee Ernie Ford Mississippi Showboat "Work Song" b/w "Rags and Old Iron" (from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me) Everything Is Beautiful "How Great Thou Art" b/w "Eternal Life" (from God Lives!) I Love to Tell the Story: 1965 "Hicktown" b/w "Sixteen Tons" (from Sixteen Tons) 9 Non-album tracks "Girl Don't You Know"
Pages in category "Tennessee Ernie Ford songs" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Sixteen Tons; Y. You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry
Sixteen Tons" is a 1947 song by Merle Travis which was also recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Sixteen Tons or 16 Tons may also refer to: Music
"Sixteen Tons" was previously a hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Big Light" is an Elvis Costello song from his album King of America, released the previous year and "Let Him Roll" is from Guy Clark's debut, Old No. 1.
"Sixteen Tons", the song about the misery of coal mining, is credited as being written in 1946 by country singer Merle Travis, who was the first to record it. However, Davis much later claimed that Travis based it on a song of his called "Nine-to-ten tons" (or, in some tellings, "Twenty-One Tons") written in the 1930s.