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1965: Tennessee Ernie Ford released another version of the song, "Sixteen Tons '65" (with largely the same lyrics as his first recording of the song, but with a substantially different musical arrangement) on a French EP of the same name. 1966: Stevie Wonder recorded a version influenced by Motown and soul music on his Down to Earth album.
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, [1] his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners.
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]
There is a recording of a performance of Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis before a live audience. At the beginning of this track, he rambles a bit about how he hated this song from the time he wrote it until the Tennessee Ernie Ford version sold 2 million copies, then Merle LOVED it! That strongly implies that Merle collected royalties on those ...
A second video, United Breaks Guitars: Song 2 was released on YouTube on August 18, 2009. [7] [8] The song takes a closer look at Dave Carroll's dealings with Ms. Irlweg and targets the flawed policies that she was forced to uphold. The third song, "'United We Stand' on the Right Side of Right," was released on March 1, 2010, as a humorous coda ...
On Super Bowl Sunday, Beyoncé finished her myriad Verizon-encouraged attempts at “breaking the internet” with the announcement of a new album and the drop of two singles, the “real-live ...
Instead of extending the first section, one adaptation extends the third section. Here, the twelve-bar progression's last dominant, subdominant, and tonic chords (bars 9, 10, and 11–12, respectively) are doubled in length, becoming the sixteen-bar progression's 9th–10th, 11th–12th, and 13th–16th bars, [citation needed]
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