Flashback: See Tennessee Ernie Ford's Go-Go Take on 'Sixteen Tons'

Whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to take a hugely popular country-folk song about a Kentucky coal miner from 1955 and a decade later re-work it into a groovy dance tune, complete with go-go dancers and trademark finger snaps, well, bless their pea-pickin’ heart.

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Source: RollingStone
Link: Flashback: See Tennessee Ernie Ford's Go-Go Take on 'Sixteen Tons'