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 fol.
Tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons vinyl.
Starline x 6007 format.
Ernest jennings ford began his career singing country music on the radio later adopting the name tennessee ernie.
Capitol records f 3262 format.
Capitol records f3262 format.
Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons 1955 vinyl discogs.
Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons 1955 scranton pressing vinyl discogs.
Tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons you don t have to be a baby to cry.
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1 position on the billboard country music charts for ten weeks.
It would be the b side of a country blues swinger titled you don t have to be a baby to cry a tune that gillette and others at the label believed would be ernie s biggest hit yet.
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This is a collector s choice sweep through ernie s groundbreaking uptempo sides that featured not only his unique window rattling baritone but instrumental contributions from merle travis speedy west moon mullican and jimmy bryant.
Capitol records f3262 format.
Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons vinyl discogs.
Sixteen tons was his biggest hit featured on this album selling over one million recordings and holding the no.
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25 tracks include milk em in the morning blues country junction anticipation blues mule train shot gun boogie rock city boogie hambone blackberry boogie davy crockett sixteen tons and catfish boogie.
Folk world country style.
Pickwick 33 records spc 3268 format.
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Armed with a box of fan mail cliffie stone convinced capitol head lee gillette to allow ernie to record sixteen tons and gillette agreed.
Capitol records f 3262 format.