Sixteen Tons

Tennessee Ernie Ford | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002TY2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #561,624 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sixteen Tons

2. Shot-Gun Boogie

3. Bright Lights And Blonde-Haired Women

4. The Cry Of The Wild Goose

5. Milk 'Em In The Mornin' Blues

6. Catfish Boogie

7. Mule Train

8. Smoky Mountain Boogie

9. Philadelphia Lawyer

10. Country Junction

11. Anticipation Blues

12. Blackberry Boogie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Bear Family CD that gives us 25 Ford classics from the Capitol Records' originals., January 16, 2012

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J. Bynum (the southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixteen Tons (Audio CD)

Tennessee Ernie Ford / Sixteen Tons (Bear Family Records single CD): This Great single CD from Bear Family Records contains 25 of Ford's greatest songs from 1949 to 1959 (all of which are the original Capital Records recordings).
This is a Five Star CD

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I expected, and just perfect., May 9, 2010

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David Eaglesfield (Brookline, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sixteen Tons (Audio CD)

No opera singer, Ford is just a great natural bass-baritone and this CD sounds great. The title song is as catchy as ever. Its macho growling begs for comical, self-parodying treatment, but Ernie sings it straight, as it should be sung, yet with real compassion for rural workers trapped in dead end jobs.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sixteen Tons, February 20, 2006

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Cappy2006 "DVD Fanatic" (Prosser, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sixteen Tons (Audio CD)

I have heard this song from the time I was just a youngster. Ernie Ford is the greatest singer of this song with his deep resonating voice, his other secular songs, as well as his spirital songs. Sixteen Tons is the classic song of all time.