Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purists, it is not really a folk song if it gets "mechanical reiteration" instead of being passed by mouth from generation to generation. But no American song in many a generation has got as much reiteration in such a short time, mechanical or otherwise, as Sixteen Tons...
...currently the No. 1 hit on almost every list. It has been called deeply American by some and dangerously radical by others. Where did it come from? Along with its creator, Songwriter Merle Travis, it came out of Kentucky, still a stronghold of American folk song...
...wrote the song for purely professional reasons," says Songwriter Travis...
...simply needed a song. The chorus is from a saying my Dad often used. He never saw real money. He was constantly in debt to the coal company. When shopping was needed, Dad would go to a window and draw little brass tokens against his account. They could only be spent at the company store. His humorous expression was, 'I can't afford...
...original music by Richard Brown. Though none of the cast takes, or indeed could take, his singing seriously, Brown's appealing tunes give the play cohesion and lightheartedness. The rousing reprise of the finale, "Flowers Are Dancing a Minuet," is slightly marred by sloppy choreography, but the song nevertheless is excellent...