Tennessee Ernie Ford

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.