Tennessee Ernie Ford Sixteen Tons Vinyl

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Tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons vinyl.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the vinyl release of sixteen tons on discogs. Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons vinyl discogs. Capitol records f3262 format. Vinyl lp compilation reissue stereo country.

Capitol records f 3262 format. Capitol records x 6007 series. Capitol records f3262 format. Starline x 6007 format.

Armed with a box of fan mail cliffie stone convinced capitol head lee gillette to allow ernie to record sixteen tons and gillette agreed. Tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons you don t have to be a baby to cry. Folk world country style. Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons 1955 scranton pressing vinyl discogs.

View credits reviews tracks and shop for the vinyl release of sixteen tons on discogs. Sixteen tons was his biggest hit featured on this album selling over one million recordings and holding the no. Check out sixteen tons by tennessee ernie ford on amazon music. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1955 scranton pressing vinyl release of sixteen tons on discogs.

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. 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. Ernest jennings ford began his career singing country music on the radio later adopting the name tennessee ernie. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the vinyl release of sixteen tons on discogs.

1 position on the billboard country music charts for ten weeks. Vinyl 7 tennessee ernie ford sixteen tons 1955 vinyl discogs. 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.