Its amazing that this song is still relevant to this day. especially in the wake of the crumbling middleclass and the rise of unsustainable consumer debt
That was my thought, too. We thought we were putting those times behind us, once, but now they are back. I just about cried when I saw what the Frito Lay people were striking over - those are conditions that were outlawed back when Carnegie's mills had them. 100 years and it's all come back around, and this time I don't know what can save us.
I saw Eric Burdon and War in '68 in San Francisco on this line up, Mongo Santamaria, The Everly Brothers, Eric Burdon and War, and The Who headlined. Pretty fantastic show.
This was recommended to me after telling someone that I had been listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford. Seriously, this blew me away! What an awesome cover! (Have never seen the movie) Love me some Eric Burdon!
Wow, his voice seems so different in this track. Its hard to believe this is the guy who sang House of the Rising Son and Please Don't Let Me be Misunderstood, or even Spill the Wine. Sounds great, just different than when he was younger.☺
Really odd the history of this song - written WAY long ago, repopularized almost a dozen times since the late 40s... and you can't find a SINGLE version that isn't awesome ^_^
Lots of people don't know that, The reason he owes his soul to the company store. Back in day the mine owners would pay workers in money they printed up and if you bought what you needed at a company owned store which was the only place that tinder was good. You still owed for stuff just getting enough to get by. So you only had a chance to stay a slave to him cause you had no way to better yourself. Had kin over in those mines. The only way they got out was to move to another part of country with family members.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store If you see me comin', better step aside A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don't a-get you Then the left one will You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store
Was living in Austin Texas around 1986 and went out one night to a small club I had driven by on occasion (nothing special) and went in....can't remember the cover charge, maybe 5 or 10 bucks. As I remember it , I Had no idea who was playing, just saw a sign said something like live entertainment(this place was off the beaten path,not on 6th street or anything).....just needed to be out of the house for a bit. Maybe a hundred people or so in there maybe a little more....the band comes out complete with a couple of pretty backup singers....music starts(I believe it was drink my wine but been many years ago) and out walks Eric Burden!! My jaw hits the floor..... The sound is phenomenal and his band was too.... He walks out to the middle of stage stands there for a second and then takes out a bandana and cerimoniously ties it around his forehead and starts singing(awesome)....too cool and then next thing a serious fight brakes out in the middle of club ....he doesn't blink an eye(and neither did I just moved back to put my back against the wall) or miss a beat and the show goes on....set ends .... Comes back out....starts up again and a song or two in the whole left side of the sound system dies....he doesn't skip a beat, and goes on to finish the show flawlessly....they(including the band) were so great that I would have stood there through a fire and flood if they would have let me.....
This song is a trilogy of BADASS! First off... Eric Burden was one of the Dopest badass’ ever... second. this song, which is probably the greatest working mans song to ever been made is fucking badass too... and third, it’s a song that was made for the most BADASS TOM HANKS/MEG RYAN MOVIE EVER!!! JOE VS. THE VOLCANO FOR LIFE!!! FIGHT ME!!!
Love the movie and this song esp this version. And my big dummy head just realized oh THAT Eric Burdon of the Animals. Another version thats good is the Platters.
I remember watching this when it was playing on the tv decided to try it I heard it was a flop but decided to try it compare to some of today's films this is actually a good film. It had some of my favorite actors in that time Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, even Ossie Davis Tom Hanks was also good. In fact I later found out this had Meg Ryan as his Romantic Interest that me and my family consider this the first of what we call Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan Trilogy.Also the song is really catchy.
This is a kick ass job on the classic. My personal favorite version is Red Skovine featuring a sinister sounding organ although I can't say I have heard any version of this song that I didn't like. It is just a great song. One more note. If you haven't seen Joe Versus the Volcano, it is worth a look.
Carajo la mejor voz del rockN'Roll y que sonido del video, realmente gracias por subir cosas de calidad adelante sorprendeme de nuevo, spamanator felicidades
Eric, yer still gannin' man. I've got that recording you made in Morton Sounds, Blyth with the Mike Carr Five. And that allnighter in the arcade with the Kansas City Five and Terry Lightfoot the rock and roll clarinet player!! Keep on swingin' Nick
Thanks for uploading this. I didn't even know a video had been made for this. It's a brilliant song. I only wish they'd used two counts of the same lower-octave riff at 2:31 before going to the higher one, which is how it appeared in the film (I've got this song on my MP3 player so it's something I've always wished they did, not something I've suddenly thought of after watching this :)
I am very happy to see this for the first time, I didn't know eric burdon had done this song I've heard many times in my life, and his version, in my view at least, is the best ever, many thanks eric, for all your tunes!
@@thisguy9672 After reading your comment, I played ZZ Tops version & you must be joking. Compared to Eric's powerful voice & great moves, ZZ sounds like he's got laryngitis & so sick he can barely even move to the beat. Not knocking ZZ ---just a bit worried about him because I have also liked him.
Dayum,,that is freaking outstanding
Joe Versus The Volcano is a kickass movie! This is the best intro song of a movie ever
Agreed ...The James bond intro to H*E*L*P ! comes to mind
This is what good rock and roll can do fora song. A touch of jazz, a lot of classic, touch your soul music. Thanks Eric.
Eric's voice is amazing!
Yes
This version deserves way more views.
I love this movie, and Eric's rendition of this classic song!
Me too
@@elisabethaxelsson4736 what's the name of the movie
Me three ! Nyuk nyuk nyuk
@@edivasilev8821 Joe Versus the Volcano
This is my favorite version 😍
I've had this song stuck in my head for about a week, but at least it's Eric Burdon. 🤷♀️ I've had a crush on him for at least 55 years. ❤️
I have this version of the song on my iPod. I was actually playing it in the car on my way to work today. God, I need to find another job!
I hope you found that “new” job buddy😂
Ditto
we need an update haha
Somehow I never heard this. Didn't see the movie. Eric Burdon kills it. Best version.
Yeah, great job Eric, I love your voice.
Eric is the best & always has been the best
Burdon is just a rocker he's full of awesomeness !!!! Can't say enough awesomeness about Eric burdon !!!!
Amen!
Its amazing that this song is still relevant to this day. especially in the wake of the crumbling middleclass and the rise of unsustainable consumer debt
Back then it was half the population now it's like 80%!!!
That was my thought, too. We thought we were putting those times behind us, once, but now they are back. I just about cried when I saw what the Frito Lay people were striking over - those are conditions that were outlawed back when Carnegie's mills had them. 100 years and it's all come back around, and this time I don't know what can save us.
Calling from 2024 to tell you it is worse
i love this song for his voice and the rythmn
I had never seen this version either, he is such a versatile vocalist.Love it!
All versions of this song are awesome
Loved this movie. The music was a big part of that love.
I saw Eric Burdon and War in '68 in San Francisco on this line up, Mongo Santamaria, The Everly Brothers, Eric Burdon and War, and The Who headlined.
Pretty fantastic show.
Wow!!!!!
Joe vs. The Volcano. Great movie
The best cover on 16 tons ever
This was recommended to me after telling someone that I had been listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford. Seriously, this blew me away! What an awesome cover! (Have never seen the movie) Love me some Eric Burdon!
Burdon is simply in a class of his own. No one sounds like him. He sounds like no one else. I would say that's pretty damn original.
I am sorry for being rude. But all those things mean the same thing.
@@kinetic2245 I'm sorry ... is a distinctive voice more accurate? He could sing the British National Anthem and I would know it was him.
How cool! First I heard Eric Burdon's version of this song or saw this video. I never saw the movie either.
Awesome song for an awesome movie! I can watch it over and over.
Never saw the movie but I like the song. T. E. Ford
Personally my favorite version of the song.
That suit is f*cking awesome.
Isn't the suit awesome.
I first heard this song by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This the best, What a voice!! Great video.
This is the best song ever
One of my favorite movies
Me too! Hard to believe so many years have passed since it was made.
"I tell you one thing, though. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna take this luggage with us!"
Love that movie =)
awesome sax solo!
I think it’s Brandon Fields (Tower of Power, Dave Weckyl Band)
I knew Eric Burdon was cool when I was 8 years old, lol! This is GREAT! He's like 70! ;P
this song was a classic when it was new
one off the best songs ever
Best version of this song.
I have not seen this for a long time.....Love it and love my Eric
Actually recorded in the 80's, a few years before the movie came out. I put this one in my "Animals" playlist.Thanks 4 for uploading.
not true. i worked on the recording of this. it was around the same time as the movie.
@@martylester5089 Oh, OK. That would be 1990, then.
@@trfesok yep. happened over the course of 2 days.
Wow, his voice seems so different in this track. Its hard to believe this is the guy who sang House of the Rising Son and Please Don't Let Me be Misunderstood, or even Spill the Wine. Sounds great, just different than when he was younger.☺
Unfortunately. his original voice was gone by 1980. Too much booze and drugs. He's been sounding like Tom Waits ever since.
excellent vocals, Eric
Great photography & editing too.
Coolest thing I ever saw!!!
Burdon is THE MAN!
Yes
I think this is the best version of ''16 Tons".
Those guitar licks are sharp enough to slice with and then there's the awesome Sax work ...never get tired of this cut
We need more catalogs, Joe.
---well then please order some!
Seriously underrated film
@@StreetHierarchy I'm not gonna argue you that with you!
My favorite Tom Hanks movie. Love to play it back to back with Castaway for contrast. Favorite version of this song.
Great song, great movie.
Best version ever!
Antigonie z no, this song belongs to Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Yuuurp! Most powerful at the very least
If you haven't already, try Beck and Gibbons version.
timeless classic song!
Thanks for posting this. Great version of a great
song!
So good!
I Always like this song
one of best covers I heard .. respect! 8-) + epic movie
This rocks all kinds of awesome.
Minhas duas paixões juntas Eric Burdon e tom Hanks !
I remember that. Super cool version!!
epic song epic movie epic video thanks
Really odd the history of this song - written WAY long ago, repopularized almost a dozen times since the late 40s... and you can't find a SINGLE version that isn't awesome ^_^
Lots of people don't know that, The reason he owes his soul to the company store. Back in day the mine owners would pay workers in money they printed up and if you bought what you needed at a company owned store which was the only place that tinder was good. You still owed for stuff just getting enough to get by. So you only had a chance to stay a slave to him cause you had no way to better yourself. Had kin over in those mines. The only way they got out was to move to another part of country with family members.
Excellent version of 16 Tons!
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you
Then the left one will
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Was living in Austin Texas around 1986 and went out one night to a small club I had driven by on occasion (nothing special) and went in....can't remember the cover charge, maybe 5 or 10 bucks.
As I remember it , I Had no idea who was playing, just saw a sign said something like live entertainment(this place was off the beaten path,not on 6th street or anything).....just needed to be out of the house for a bit.
Maybe a hundred people or so in there maybe a little more....the band comes out complete with a couple of pretty backup singers....music starts(I believe it was drink my wine but been many years ago) and out walks Eric Burden!! My jaw hits the floor..... The sound is phenomenal and his band was too....
He walks out to the middle of stage stands there for a second and then takes out a bandana and cerimoniously ties it around his forehead and starts singing(awesome)....too cool and then next thing a serious fight brakes out in the middle of club ....he doesn't blink an eye(and neither did I just moved back to put my back against the wall) or miss a beat and the show goes on....set ends ....
Comes back out....starts up again and a song or two in the whole left side of the sound system dies....he doesn't skip a beat, and goes on to finish the show flawlessly....they(including the band) were so great that I would have stood there through a fire and flood if they would have let me.....
Armadillo World Headquarters ? Maybe
One of my favs n choreography is great
This song is a trilogy of BADASS! First off... Eric Burden was one of the Dopest badass’ ever... second. this song, which is probably the greatest working mans song to ever been made is fucking badass too... and third, it’s a song that was made for the most BADASS TOM HANKS/MEG RYAN MOVIE EVER!!!
JOE VS. THE VOLCANO FOR LIFE!!!
FIGHT ME!!!
lovely Eric
Thank you!!!!!!
good stuff
Thank you. I have learned something.
Deedee: "What's wrong with you?"
Joe: "I'm losing my sole (soul)."
Great Eric.B
Thanks For Sharing
wooww!!
16 tons... one of my favorite song... for your information ;-))
This is cool ...I never knew ,,,that Eric did this.
Love the movie and this song esp this version. And my big dummy head just realized oh THAT Eric Burdon of the Animals. Another version thats good is the Platters.
OMG i really love rock n roll
i really like the west feeling funny in egypt
Happy 101st birthday, Tennessee Ernie Ford. RIP
amazing tune - thanks for uploading
I remember watching this when it was playing on the tv decided to try it I heard it was a flop but decided to try it compare to some of today's films this is actually a good film. It had some of my favorite actors in that time Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, even Ossie Davis Tom Hanks was also good. In fact I later found out this had Meg Ryan as his Romantic Interest that me and my family consider this the first of what we call Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan Trilogy.Also the song is really catchy.
This is a kick ass job on the classic. My personal favorite version is Red Skovine featuring a sinister sounding organ although I can't say I have heard any version of this song that I didn't like. It is just a great song. One more note. If you haven't seen Joe Versus the Volcano, it is worth a look.
Wow... what a character.
Great Video!!!! My son Joe fell into Mt. St. Helen's Valcano and for his birthday I was looking for some video ideas. This is great. Love it.
Pero que muy guapa mûsica Eric APASALOBIEN
What an animal!
Carajo la mejor voz del rockN'Roll y que sonido del video, realmente gracias
por subir cosas de calidad adelante sorprendeme de nuevo, spamanator felicidades
Eric, yer still gannin' man. I've got that recording you made in Morton Sounds, Blyth with the Mike Carr Five. And that allnighter in the arcade with the Kansas City Five and Terry Lightfoot the rock and roll clarinet player!!
Keep on swingin'
Nick
Thanks for uploading this. I didn't even know a video had been made for this. It's a brilliant song. I only wish they'd used two counts of the same lower-octave riff at 2:31 before going to the higher one, which is how it appeared in the film (I've got this song on my MP3 player so it's something I've always wished they did, not something I've suddenly thought of after watching this :)
They also don't include the guitar intro from the movie.
"You know how long I've wanted to know what would happen if I did that?!"
este cara é muito louco canta demais
Eric Burden was only supposed to be in his 40s when this was recorded, but he looks at least 10 years older.
Well he would've been 49, which is almost 10 years older than 40!
great tune!
Great!
Great song, fun movie
What a cool ass joint.
Step aside the badsss EB scores big-time w this video; great sax solo and strong guitar chords; listen to this song werkly
Damn! That is one smokin' hot old man!
great song!!!!!!!!!
Круто.... Это не завывания "Платтерс", это блюз и про шахтёров!
very catchy song :D
I am very happy to see this for the first time, I didn't know eric burdon had done this song I've heard many times in my life, and his version, in my view at least, is the best ever, many thanks eric, for all your tunes!
longtime beachbum ZZ Top does a pretty kick ass version
@@thisguy9672 After reading your comment, I played ZZ Tops version & you must be joking. Compared to Eric's powerful voice & great moves, ZZ sounds like he's got laryngitis & so sick he can barely even move to the beat. Not knocking ZZ ---just a bit worried about him because I have also liked him.
I have the original 16 Tons 78 record written and recorded by Merle Travis and the 45 single recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955.
Totally tasteful remake of Tennessee Ernie Ford's original. Also, it kicks some serious ASS!!!
Sorry, just had a "brain cloud" :-)
That is. Fucking. Awesome!