The Life and Tragic Ending of Tennessee Ernie Ford 

Same here. I'm 69

Memories

Ya load 16 tons, whatta ya get?

I'm 66 and I love this song

@@doctorprepologedyedeyadede3542 Another day older and deeper in debt.

1:14 No kidding... I mean, "The United States Army Air Corpse" had rolling my eyes. Has the narrator heard of "air corpse" or "air corps"? If he told me he's heard of the "air corpse" before, I would really like to see a picture 🤣🤣

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His wife committed suicide and he drank himself to death, any time drugs or alcohol destroys life it’s a tragedy in my eyes. Making it to 72 while drinking heavily he probably would have lived to his 90s . Thank god Betty White didn’t do the same thing we would have missed almost 30 years of greatness if she died at 72

To me the tragedy is he song gospel songs yet never accepted the gospel himself. He never gained victory over his besetting sins. Something a born again Christian can and will overcome. At that point 72 or 172 is a drop on the bucket compared to eternity.

@@philipwheeler7317 that describes over half the entertainers of his time/era. (and virtually ALL of them now) Most of the ones who claimed they were * Christian or went to church merely did so to maintain a certain status within the eyes of the general public , or for Marketing reasons. At the end of the day they were still mostly drunks, addicts, adulterers, spousal abusers and cons. The highly subjective nature of making any form of spiritual claims and declarations is so fundamentally arbitrary that they may as well be written in AIR for all anyone actually knows. It's a delusion. Something a person convinces themself of for comfort or because they're indoctrinated into it and are repeating a vicious cycle of Monkey -See/Monkey Do. So. As for his sincerity concerning any particular gospel or religious observance, who knows. I know dying rich in your 70s isn't a tragedy at any rate. Whether or not you choose to repeat shit spouted from an ancient book of unknown authorship is just a social oddity really.

1:14 No kidding... I mean, "The United States Army Air Corpse" had rolling my eyes. Has the narrator heard of "air corpse" or "air corps"? If he told me he's heard of the "air corpse" before, I would really like to see a picture 🤣🤣

@@backalleycqc4790 The Air Corpse only came along when Boeing made the first 737 MAX.

He’s up there with all the greats. From the og rat pack to Freddie Mercury.

And your point is?

@@MS-lq2oq That no one is perfect, surely, only Him.

“Loved God”…..unfortunately, he seemed to also love Cutty Sark.

It wasn't as easy for people to be in your personal life back then. Nowadays we basically have 24-hour media on celebrities and even ourselves. But if your close friends or family members got in touch with the media or vice versa you were the talk of the month/year back then (depending on the topic of course)

I never knew either. Still love and miss him .

He seemed like he was so busy with EVERYTHING THAT HE DID, when did he have time to drink? Oh geez, his wife Betty drank before him, and then committed suicide, i wonder if she was the COZ of his drinking habits which eventually caught up to him.

More mispronounced words here than I could count.

Cheech & Chong: "Comprehension" becomes "Comprension"... humorous Remembering Famous People: "Merle" becomes "Merlee;" "Corps" becomes "Corpse;" "Bombardier" becomes "Bombarder"...pathetic

Yes, among many others. Like San Ber-Na-DEEN-Oh.

Thats what happens when a computerized voice is used as opposed to a real narrator!

Funny on lucy

Yeah and I think the comment about his death should’ve been DULL-es Airport not dool-es.

@@mikecagle984 are you sure it's not a real narrator? It doesn't sound computerized to me.

So encouraging to hear...you have a good future ahead of you Im sure.

Same I'm a history buff myself. A little older (22) than you, but keep it up history is one of the main subjects they teach us in school we actually take with us in the real world. You learn so many things through history good & bad I use them as advice sometimes and just because I love history I'll say something to someone and they won't even know what I'm talking about because they never heard of it or simply didn't pay attention. I research something new or you could say old everyday.

Wow usic and history are my best friends too!

Indeed!

Also not San Berandino. It's San Bernardino, Calif.

...and drink a cup of coffee or something. You sound sleepy...or bored.

Just to add onto the whole butchered words thing, it’s San Bernardino and Victorville. As a native Californian, this dude’s making me cringe with his mispronunciations of city names.

He also mispronounced "bombardier" as "bombarder."

@@kyled8713 And Lubbock. . . and lament. . . and subsequently. . . and more

Thank you, too many blunders in here, couldn't stand it. Dulls I suppose was Dulles Airport.

I listen to that song at work when im doing physical work.

But not as fast as dogs' lives.

we? you got a mouse in your pocket comrade?

Mr jingles 🤣

Not to be confused with Tennessee Tuxedo.

@@homoerectus744 LOL!

@Ben Chuft 😁😁😁😁😁😁

@Ben Chuft LoL Sadly as the years goes on, what you said becomes truer and truer 🥺

My god that was distracting. Where is this guy from? He seems to have never heard anyone utter the names of any US city.

Also, pretty sure this script was more or less reading word for word from the wiki article I read moments before clicking. Can't verify though, didn't finish the vid.

A brother from our church was dying from cancer, he was in excruciating pain in his last days but filled with inexpressible joy. Yes ppl do die happy 😊

Those who know Jesus Christ as their Reedemer and know their sins are forgiven enter into great joy.

I still have lots of his gospel songs,still listen to them.

Agreed, he is mispronouncing place names, simple words. Stress is placed in the wrong spot.

Such poor narration. Painful to listen too. Had to skip over parts, I couldn't take it all.

His album did not receive an Academy Award. That's for movies.

I respectfully disagree. Some have a sad life and the end is a relief

Merle Travis wrote 16 Tons

@@drvigg9083 Did not know that. Thanks for the correction.

Agree. Nice voice, but could improve. Also, he said "Victoriaville, California." It's Victorville.

I lost count of the mispronounced words and place names. Kind of sad, really.

@@jeandoten1510 I was a speech teacher and voice coach for several years, decades ago. If this narrator/presenter had delivered a speech this abysmal --- no matter how informative the content --- I'd have failed him/her flat out! Or at best, I'd have stopped the presentation mid-stream and requested the person enroll in my diction and voice coaching class.

@@michaelwascom62 I taught drama, music, and public speaking in addition to 1st grade. When I was in school I was an avid reader and often read and comprehended words that I didn't know how to pronounce. Since both my parents had large vocabularies I just didn't realize that the words I was reading were the same words that my parents used (crazy English spellings!) Still to me it's a sad thing that this young man apparently has never learned the proper pronunciation of so many everyday American words and place names. Maybe he can find a local Toastmaster's Club to get some support and advice.

@@jeandoten1510 Thank you for your response. I could not more agree with you. But SO MANY creators/posters of RU-vid videos appear to be barely literate. Some standards of etiquette and respect should be established. It appears, evidentially, any half-witted dolt-head can produce a RU-vid video. A sorry footnote to the genuinely laud-worthy and commendable efforts presented on RU-vid.

Exactly.

And that makes us happy how?

Happy for Mr. Ford.

It is not rude to call out his mistakes. It is called self improvement. He might be in the wrong line of work.

Was just interested because used to like his performances when I was a kid. The ending of life is sad, anyway. I knew that. I've never yet read or heard a biography where everybody was happy somebody died. I figured alcohol would be in it, not the drugs the famous rock stars died of. Still found the information interesting, bet he was happy lots of times, bet he helped people to be happy.

I was surprised too!

Sand, bear, and Dino? Is that near San BERN-ardino? One of California's best known cities? I wouldn't say anything but half a dozen times means you lack experience and don't want to be accurate, spreading disinformation is not too cool