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- DIED. Ernest ("Tennessee Ernie") Ford, 72, avuncular,
- pipe-puffing country singer whose recording of Sixteen Tons,
- Merle Travis' paean to the workingman, was one of the
- biggest-selling hits of the 1950s; in Reston, Va. While Ford's
- first big success was the country single Mule Train in 1949, he
- especially loved singing hymns and spirituals and sold more than
- 24 million gospel-music albums. Host of television variety shows
- in the 1950s and '60s, Ford played the down-home philosopher,
- spouting witticisms like "I'm as nervous as a long-tailed cat
- in a room full of rocking chairs."
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