Best interpretation of "Sixteen Tons"?

[liberaltrucker]

Tennessee Ernie Ford:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU&feature=related

Platters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fElQRznYseM&feature=related

Johnny Cash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHeU6fSA_s&feature=related

I love 'em all! But to me, The Platters is best.

Your thoughts?

[hlthe2b]

1. Ooh... can't listen now, but wil come back to it...

I love this song! Nostalgia time in a big way!

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I always associate it with Tennessee Ernie Ford...

[Gman]

3. Tennessee Ernie Ford

To me that song IS Tennessee Ernie Ford.

[abq e streeter]

4. never heard the Platters do this before--pretty damn impressive

I have a couple of live Joe Ely versions (with Bobby Keys on sax) that are very very hip... ( But I'm WAY too low-tech to know how to post them)

[liberaltrucker]

9. Shouldn't be too difficult

There's a DU Group to help:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=242

[blitzen]

5. The original....Merle Travis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yYYPZ0Iak

[liberaltrucker]

7. Dude that wrote it knew it best. Thanks.

Missed it on YT.

:)

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. Johnny Cash

I admit to being biased......

[lapfog_1]

8. My dad used to play the Tennessee Ernie Ford version

when I was but a small child. I never knew what the lyrics meant until much later.

[liberaltrucker]

10. My Grandfather "owed his soul to the company store"

In the 1930's. So I knew even as a toddler the meaning.
Grandma made sure of it! That's why I'm an Alabama liberal.

[On the Road]

11. I Had a Long-Time Coworker

who grew up in West Virginia. Her father worked for a mining company and they lived in a company town. He was paid in company scrip instead of cash and they shopped in a company store. Those days are not that far away.

[liberaltrucker]

12. They're not at all

If my own Senator Shelby has his way, those days are our future.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. My dear liberaltrucker!

Well...I've just listened to them...

My favorite?

I have to go with Tennessee Ernie Ford...To me, he's the classic version!

Otherwise, Johnny Cash!

I have to say that the Platters kind of gussied it up a bit too much for me...

Just didn't care for their version...Though their lead singer does have a terrific voice!

Good to see you tonight!

:hi:

:hug:

[liberaltrucker]

15. Guess we'll agree to disagree

:hug:

:loveya:

[demwing]

14. Check out the Eric Burton version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6m1qgnUw74

From the Tom Hanks film Joe vs the Volcano


very bluesy

[yellowdogintexas]

16. Ernie is the original but the most unique and my favorite is Brave Combo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmr5lXyow7I

[HuckleB]

17. Tennessee Ernie...

[Berry Cool]

18. Hey, this is DU!

I thought for sure Dennis Kucinich would blow the competition away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmYhTYLbno

[liberaltrucker]

19. Just a (hopefully) humorous aside for tonight

"I gulp sixteen brews, what do I get,
a big hangover still in debt".

No, not sixteen. If I did, I wouldn't be able to type!

A couple. OK, a few nips at a local West Memphis, AR bar.

I'm off duty till noon Sunday CST.