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Re: Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons

Yeah, also forgot Hank Thompson... and my Dead Old Mama's favorite packing song: And A Six Pack to Go--

BTW I was living in Nashville when in 1955 when "Sixteen Tons" came out and can remember seeing Old Ern sing it at Ryman Auditorium on "The Grand Old Opry."

Might as well throw in Ernest Tub's Waltz Across Texas

Also one of my Dead Old Pappy's after the war favorites: Hank Locklin's Fraulein

Plus Frankie Laine's Ghost Riders In the Sky

Ken Curtis And The Sons Of Pioneers What Makes A Man To Wander

Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with the Sons of the Pioneers Cowboy song tribute

And Kitty Wells' It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.

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Mom and Dad are laughing up in Heaven for my Dead Old Mama’” & “Dead Old Pappy’s” above when I was to have written “Dear Old Mama’s” & “Dear Old Pappy’s”—