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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
I'd sung Sixteen Tons years before, but it hadn't been any blockbuster, and Merle Travis, who'd written it, had put it in an album of his songs. Nothing happened then either.
Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
They liked Sixteen Tons at Capitol, when I brought it over and suggested that they record it, but nobody threw a f... (more Tennessee Ernie Ford quotes)
Ernie's Great Gospel Songs LP with The Jordanaires was 1964's Grammy winner for Best Inspirational Recording.
In September of 1991, Ernie taped an extended television interview in Los Angeles with his long-time friend, Dinah Shore. Sadly, it was to be his last television appearance.
Ernie Ford's early successes as a radio personality led to his signing with Capitol Records in 1949.
Ernie... (more Tennessee Ernie Ford trivia)
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