Sixteen Tons

~ Recording by Ned Beatty

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.6Sixteen Tons2:30Ned BeattyMusic of Coal: Mining Songs From the Applachian CoalfieldsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Lonesome RecordsCD071

Relationships

bass:Jeff D’Angelo
cornet:Matt Margucci
guitar:Danny Ferrington
Ronny Cox (US actor and musician)
percussion idiophone [hammer]:Beverly D'Angelo
washtub bass:Ned Beatty
vocals:Ned Beatty
Beverly D'Angelo
Dub Cornett
recording of:Sixteen Tons

Sixteen Tons

lyricist and composer:Merle Travis
publisher:American Music, Inc.
Campbell Connelly & Co. Ltd.
referred to in medleys:Way Out West (K-Tel mix/medley) (order: 6)
later parody versions:16 Months
Diamond Dog Hole
Sixteen Tons (Parody)
Sixteen Tons (yiddish parody)
later translated versions:Dieciséis toneladas
Seksten tonn
Sexton ton
Sie hieß Mary Ann
Zestien ton
靜心等
is the basis for:Seize tonnes
נח היה איש צדיק ותמים
adaptations:16 Tons