There was this song called by a guy named Tennessee Ernie Ford?

Question

the song was called 16 Teen tons something like that but anyways my question is a rock band out of seattle a few years back did a remake of that song I had a demo of their band but i want to know if they ever made an album and if they did where can i get it oh yeah the band name was A Rock And Roll Band

Answer 1

Wikipedia listed some of the artists that remade this song... Perhaps it was one of these? Eels sounds like the most likely...

The song has been covered by a wide variety of musicians. In 1955 it was recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford and hit Billboard's Country Music charts in November and held the #1 position for ten weeks, then crossed over and held the #1 position on the pop music charts for eight weeks.[1] Other examples include a rock version released by Eels on their live album "Sixteen Tons (10 Songs)" (2005), a country version released by Johnny Cash on his live album "The Best of Johnny Cash in Concert" (1995), a version with a rock edge by Tom Jones that became a hit in 1967, a blues-rock version recorded in 1972 by CCS, a slow, jazzy version released by Stan Ridgway on the album Anatomy (1999), and a traditional roots country version released by Corb Lund on the album Modern Pain (1995). A folk-punk version was also performed by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb.

Answer 2

actually- "sixteen lots" is a song regarding the existence of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 via American united states of america singer Merle Travis and released on his field set album individuals Songs of the Hills here 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. A 1955 version recorded via Tennessee Ernie Ford reached variety one interior the Billboard charts, on a similar time as yet another version via Frankie Laine became into released purely interior the united kingdom, the place it gave Ford's version opposition

Answer 3

IDK
Sixteen tons and whatta you get
Another day older and deeper in debt