The Talented Tennessee Ernie Ford Part Two
Individual life
Ernie and also Betty Ford in the house in 1962. Ford was wed to Betty Heminger from September 18, 1942, up until her fatality on February 26, 1989; they had 2 kids– Jeffrey Buckner “Buck” Ford (birthed January 6, 1950) as well as Brion Leonard Ford (birthed September 3, 1952 in San Gabriel, California– passed away October 24, 2008 in White House, Tennessee, of lung cancer cells at age 56).
Much less than 4 months after Betty’s fatality, Ford wed once again. On September 28, 1991, he came under extreme liver failing at Dulles Airport, quickly after leaving a state supper at the White House held already President George H. W. Bush. Ford passed away in H. C. A. Reston Hospital Center, in Reston, Virginia, on October 17– precisely 36 years after “Sixteen Tons” was launched, as well as someday timid of the very first wedding anniversary of his induction right into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Ford was interred at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California. His 2nd partner, Beverly Wood Ford (1921– 2001), passed away 10 years after Ernie and also her body was interred with her hubby’s.
DiscographyCds Year Cd Chart
Positions RIAA Tag United States Country
United States 1956 This Lusty
Land 12 Capitol Records Hymns
2 Platinum 1957 Spirituals 5 Gold Ford Favorites Ol’ Rockin
‘Ern 1958
Nearer the Cross 5
Gold The Star
Carol 4 Platinum
1959
Collect Round Good friend We Have 1960 Sing a Hymn with Me 23
Sixteen
Tons Sing a Spiritual with Me
Come
to the Fair 1961 Civil War Songs of the North Civil War Songs
of the South Looks
at Love Hymns
at
Home 67 1962 Mississippi Showboat
110 I
Love to Tell the Story 43 Publication of Favorite
Hymns 71 1963
Lengthy Long
Ago We Gather Together Tale
of
Christmas 14 1964
Terrific Gospel Songs Nation Hits Feelin’Blue Globe’s Best Loved
Hymns 1965 Allow Me Walk with Thee Sing We Now of
Christmas 31 1966 My Favorite Things Terrific
Place God Lives Bless
Your Pea
Pickin’ Heart 1967 Aloha Belief of Our Fathers 1968 Our
Garden of Hymns (w/ Marilyn Horne)
World of Pop as well as Country Hits O
Come All
Ye Faithful The Most Effective of Tennessee
Ernie Ford Hymns 1969 Tunes I Like to Sing
New age
Divine Holy 1970 America the
Beautiful 192 Whatever Is Beautiful 1971 Follow
with Me
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S People Album 1972
Mr. Words
and also Music Standin’in the Need of
Prayer
1973
Nation Morning 46 Sings About
Jesus 1974 Make A Joyful Noise 35 1975 Ernie Sings & Glen Picks
(w/ Glen Campbell )1976 His Great Love
For the 83rd Time 1977 He
Touched
Me Word Records
1978 Swing Wide Your Golden Gate 1979 Ramblin
‘
Down
Country Roads With
Tennessee Ernie Ford 1980 Inform
Me
the Old Story 1984 Maintain Looking Back 2014 Fantastic Grace:
14
Treasured Hymns 19 159 Gaither Music Songs
Year Solitary (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from exact same cd other than where suggested Chart
Positions Cd United States Country United States 1949 “Tennessee Border
”
/ 8 Non-album track
“Milk ‘Em In The
Morning
Blues”15 Ol’ Rockin ‘Em “Country Junction”/ 14
“Philadelphia Lawyer”Sixteen
Tons”Smokey Mountain Boogie” b/w” Country
Junction
“8 Ol’ Rockin’Em”Mule Train”/ 1 9
Sixteen Tons”Anticipation Blues”3 Ol’
Rockin’Em 1950 “The Cry Of
The Wild
Goose”b/w “The Donkey Serenade”2 15 Sixteen Tons”My
Hobby”b/w”I’ve Got To Feed ’em In The Morning
”
Non-album tracks”Ain’t
Nobody
‘s Business But My Own”(with Kay Starr )/ 5 22
”
I’ll
Never Be Free & “( with Kay Starr)
2
3″What This Country Needs”b/w”The
Lord’s
Lariat” (from Ol’ Rockin
‘
Em)”
Cincinnati Dancing
Pig”b/w
“Bright Lights and also Blonde
Haired Women “Both sides with The Starlighters”Little Juan
Pedro”b/w “Bryant’s Boogie””The Shotgun Boogie “/ 1 14
Ol’ Rockin’Em”I Ain’t Gon na Let It Happen( Say Goodbye To)”turn 1951
“Tailor Made Woman”(with Joe”
Fingers
“Carr)/ 8 Non-album tracks “Stack-O-Lee “(with Joe “Fingers “Carr
)”Ocean of Tears”(
with Kay
Starr)/ 15″You’re My Sugar”(with Kay
Starr)22 “Mr. and Mississippi “b/w”She’s My Baby “(from Ol’ Rockin’ Em)2 18 “The Strange Little Girl”/ 9″Kentucky Waltz” turn”Kissin ‘Bug Boogie”
b/w”Woman Is A Five Letter Word “12
“Hey Good Lookin ‘”b/w” Cool, Cool Kisses”
Both sides with Helen O’Connell”Rock City Boogie” b/w”Streamlined Cannonball”Both
sides with The Dinning Sisters”Christmas Dinner”
b/w “A Rootin ‘Tootin’Santa Claus”1952″Hambone”(with Bucky Tibbs) b/w
”
The Gandy Dancer’s Ball””Everybody’s Got A
Girl But
Me” A b/w”Put Your Arms Around Me””Snowshoe Thompson”
b/w “Fatback Louisiana USA”
”
Blackberry Boogie”b/w “Tennessee Local”(Non-album track)6 Ol’
Rockin
‘Em”Hog-Tied Over
You”b/w “False Hearted Girl” Both sides with Ella
Mae Morse Non-album tracks 1953″ I Don’t Know “b/w”Sweet Temptation
“”Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker”
b/w “Three Things (A Man Must Do)
“8”Don’t Start Courtin ‘In A
Hot Rod Ford “b/w”We’re A-Growin’Up”
Both sides with Molly Bee”Kiss Me Big”/ Ol’
Rockin’ Em”
Catfish Boogie”
turn 1954
“Honeymoon’s Over” b/w” This Must Be The Place”Both sides with Betty Hutton 16 Non-album tracks”
River Of No
Return”b/w” Give Me Your Word” 9 Ford Favorites”Ein
Zwei Drei”b/w” Losing You “Non-album tracks”Somebody
Bigger Than You Or I”b/w “There Is Beauty In
Everything” 1955″ The Ballad
Of
Davy Crockett”
b/w “Farewell” 4 5″His Hands”b/w”I Am A
Pilgrim”13 Spirituals” Sixteen Tons”/ 1 1 Ford Favorites 1956″You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry “78”That’s All”
b/w”Bright Lights as well as Blonde Haired Women”
(from Sixteen Tons )12 17 “Rovin’Gambler
“b/w”
John Henry”60 This Lusty Land!”
Rock as well as Roll Boogie” b/w”Call Me Darling, Call Me
Sweetheart”
(from Ford Favorites)Non-album track”
First Born”b/w” Have You Seen Her “46 Ford Favorites 1957”
Watermelon Song”/ 87″One Suit”93 “False Hearted Girl”
b/w”Lonely Man”
(from Bless Your Pea Pickin ‘Heart!)
This Lusty Land!”
In The Middle Of An Island “/ 23 Non-album track”Ivy League
“Bless Your Pea Pickin’Heart! 1958″
Bless Your Pea Pickin ‘Heart”b/w”Down Deep” “Sunday Barbeque”b/w
”
Love Makes The World Go Round”97″
Glad Rags”
b/w”Sleepin’ At The Foot Of The
Bed “( Non-album track)
100 1959
“Black-Eyed Susie”b/w” Code Of The Mountains “I Love You So Much It Hurts Me”Love Is The Only Thing “b/w”Sunny Side
Of Heaven” Non-album tracks 1960″O Mary Don’t You Weep”b/w”
Joshua Fit The Battle”Sing A Spiritual With Me “Little Klinker”
b/w” Jingle-O-The-Brownie”Non-album tracks” Bless This Land”b/w”
Lord Of All Creation”
1961″
Dark As A Dungeon”b/w”
His Love(Makes The World
Go
Round)”(Non-album track)This Lusty Land!”
Little Red Rockin’Hood”
b/w”I Got
ta Have My Baby Back”(from Ernie Looks At Love)
Non-album track
1962″Take Your Girlie To The Movies”
b/w”There’ll Be No New Piano Tunes On This Old Piano”Here Comes The
Tennessee Ernie
Ford
Mississippi Showboat “Work Song”
b/w”Rags as well as Old Iron “(from I Love You So Much It Hurts Me)Everything Is Beautiful” How Great Thou
Art”b/w”
Eternal Life”
(from God Lives!
)I Love To Tell The Story 1965 “Hicktown “b/w”Sixteen Tons” (from Sixteen Tons)
9
Non-album track
“Girl Don’t You Know “b/w”
Now It’s All Over”(from I
Love
You So Much It Hurts
Me
)Non-album
track”Sing We Now Of Christmas “B b/w” The Little Drummer Boy “Sing We Now Of Christmas 1966
“God Lives”b/w “How Great Thou Art” God Lives 1967
“Lahaina Luna”b/w”
Pearly
Shells “Aloha From Tennessee Ernie Ford”The Road”b/w “Hand-Me-Down Things “Non-album tracks
1968″Talk To The Animals “b/w” What A Wonderful World”
World Of Pop as well as Country Hits 1969 “Honey-Eyed Girl( That’s You That’s You)
“b/w”Good Morning, Dear”
54 The New Wave 1970″Rainy Night In Georgia “b/w “Let The Lovelight In Your Eyes Lead Me On”
Everything Is Beautiful 1971
”
Happy Songs Of Love
“b/w”Don’t Let The Good Life Pass You By”( from 25th Anniversary
Yesterday– Today) 58 Non-album track 1972″Pea-Pickin’Cook
” b/w”The Song”
(
Non-album track)
It’s A Ford 1973″
Printers Alley Stars”
b/w”Baby
“66 Nation Morning”
Farther Down The River (Where The Fishin’s
Good)”
b/w” You’ve Still
Got Love All Over You”
73 “Colorado Country Morning” C b/w” Daddy Usta Say” 70 1974″Sweet Child Of Sunshine”b/w”She Picked Up The Pieces”(Non-album track)”
I’ve Got Confidence “b/w”I would certainly Like To Be” (from Country Morning)Make
A
Joyful Noise 1975 “Come On Down”b/w “Bits as well as Pieces Of Life”(Non-album
track)52″ Baby” b/w”I would certainly Like To Be”
Both sides with Andra Willis 63 Nation
Morning”
The Devil Ain’t A Lonely Woman’s Friend”
b/w”Smokey Taverns, Bar Room Girls”96 Non-album tracks 1976 “I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train”b/w”Baby’s Home
“(Non-album track)95 For The 83rd Time”
Sweet Feelins” b/w”Dogs and also Sheriff John”* A” Everybody
‘s
Got a Girl But Me
“came to a head at No. 2 on the Capitol Records'” Top Country & Hillbilly”
ideal vendors listing in 1952. * B”Sing We Now of Christmas”came to a head at No. 2 on the RPM Top Singles graph in Canada
.
* C” Colorado Country Morning”
came to a head at No. 85 on the
RPM Country Tracks graph in Canada.
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