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Genie | fifties popsongs that started as folk (146* d) | RE: fifties popsongs that started as folk | 26 Oct 14 |
Tennessee Ernie Ford's recording of "Sixteen Tons" was a country/pop crossover version of the more folky song attributed to Merle Travis in 1946 but which folk singer/songwriter George S. Davis, a former Kentucky coal miner, claimed to have in '30s as "Nine-to-ten tons." |