Eric Burdon - Sixteen Tons - Joe Versus the Volcano Theme

Eric Burdon performs his 1990 version of the "Joe Versus the Volcano" title song Sixteen Tons.
Originally written in 1947 by Merle Travis and made a #1 hit in 1955 by "Tennessee" Ernie Ford.

[@bleep77]

Joe Versus The Volcano is a kickass movie! This is the best intro song of a movie ever

[@David-yw4uv]

Agreed ...The James bond intro to H*E*L*P ! comes to mind

[@afzalbugs]

100% agree. This is Tom Hanks’ most underrated movie, and the opening scene with this song is masterful.

[@srich2002]

This is what good rock and roll can do fora song. A touch of jazz, a lot of classic, touch your soul music. Thanks Eric.

[@ImmortalfireTheMod]

I love this movie, and Eric's rendition of this classic song!

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Me too

[@edivasilev8821]

@@elisabethaxelsson4736 what's the name of the movie

[@David-yw4uv]

Me three ! Nyuk nyuk nyuk

[@林明弘-y1f]

@@edivasilev8821 Joe Versus the Volcano

[@georgefranklin5686]

Dayum,,that is freaking outstanding

[@lt1bird348]

Eric's voice is amazing!

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Yes

[@robertamcguffin3446]

This version deserves way more views.

[@doncolor3473]

This is my favorite version 😍

[@jccw227]

I have this version of the song on my iPod. I was actually playing it in the car on my way to work today. God, I need to find another job!

[@PaulieWalnuts1776]

I hope you found that “new” job buddy😂

[@janiceonley5842]

Ditto

[@MicioB]

we need an update haha

[@NPoetic]

Yeah, great job Eric, I love your voice.

[@annietiques1803]

I've had this song stuck in my head for about a week, but at least it's Eric Burdon. 🤷‍♀️ I've had a crush on him for at least 55 years. ❤️

[@jimilee4660]

Somehow I never heard this. Didn't see the movie. Eric Burdon kills it. Best version.

[@supwitraids]

Its amazing that this song is still relevant to this day. especially in the wake of the crumbling middleclass and the rise of unsustainable consumer debt

[@davidleethompsoniii8263]

Back then it was half the population now it's like 80%!!!

[@avedoncarol4280]

That was my thought, too. We thought we were putting those times behind us, once, but now they are back. I just about cried when I saw what the Frito Lay people were striking over - those are conditions that were outlawed back when Carnegie's mills had them. 100 years and it's all come back around, and this time I don't know what can save us.

[@FuImaDragon]

Calling from 2024 to tell you it is worse

[@amyhill4692]

Burdon is just a rocker he's full of awesomeness !!!! Can't say enough awesomeness about Eric burdon !!!!

[@aureliatribegurl226]

Amen!

[@mikewheeler4566]

I had never seen this version either, he is such a versatile vocalist.Love it!

[@rayyoung2858]

Eric is the best & always has been the best

[@deniseandrews4481]

This was recommended to me after telling someone that I had been listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford. Seriously, this blew me away! What an awesome cover! (Have never seen the movie) Love me some Eric Burdon!

[@pmccachren]

Never saw the movie but I like the song. T. E. Ford

[@TXgamePRO]

i love this song for his voice and the rythmn

[@phillipwalker6517]

I first heard this song by Tennessee Ernie Ford. This the best, What a voice!! Great video.

[@SantoRedentor]

All versions of this song are awesome

[@kenliss]

I saw Eric Burdon and War in '68 in San Francisco on this line up, Mongo Santamaria, The Everly Brothers, Eric Burdon and War, and The Who headlined. Pretty fantastic show.

[@gladysgazi2918]

Wow!!!!!

[@FallaciousGee]

That suit is f*cking awesome.

[@janiceonley5842]

Isn't the suit awesome.

[@fjccommish]

Loved this movie. The music was a big part of that love.

[@sunnchilde]

We need more catalogs, Joe. ---well then please order some!

[@StreetHierarchy]

Seriously underrated film

[@coke8045]

@@StreetHierarchy I'm not gonna argue you that with you!

[@jwatchorn]

One of my favorite movies

[@creativeplanetjanet]

Me too! Hard to believe so many years have passed since it was made.

[@jamesanthony8438]

"I tell you one thing, though. Wherever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna take this luggage with us!" Love that movie =)

[@SteveinatorV1]

awesome sax solo!

[@Guy-em4ck]

I think it’s Brandon Fields (Tower of Power, Dave Weckyl Band)

[@Tonithenightowl]

Burdon is simply in a class of his own. No one sounds like him. He sounds like no one else. I would say that's pretty damn original.

[@kinetic2245]

I am sorry for being rude. But all those things mean the same thing.

[@tonithenightowl1836]

@@kinetic2245 I'm sorry ... is a distinctive voice more accurate? He could sing the British National Anthem and I would know it was him.

[@chancewebster7953]

Joe vs. The Volcano. Great movie

[@davinciyeager]

excellent vocals, Eric Great photography & editing too.

[@chronicdeist]

Awesome song for an awesome movie! I can watch it over and over.

[@marsunes6170]

How cool! First I heard Eric Burdon's version of this song or saw this video. I never saw the movie either.

[@IgorStepochkin]

The best cover on 16 tons ever

[@commanderfox0123]

one off the best songs ever

[@Shadow-Walker-13]

this song was a classic when it was new

[@trfesok]

Actually recorded in the 80's, a few years before the movie came out. I put this one in my "Animals" playlist.Thanks 4 for uploading.

[@martylester5089]

not true. i worked on the recording of this. it was around the same time as the movie.

[@trfesok]

@@martylester5089 Oh, OK. That would be 1990, then.

[@martylester5089]

@@trfesok yep. happened over the course of 2 days.

[@CamieRaeShivers]

This is the best song ever

[@awaken77]

timeless classic song!

[@peterrabbit2965]

Great song, great movie.

[@riviswim]

Coolest thing I ever saw!!!

[@Pandyofthewoods]

I think this is the best version of ''16 Tons".

[@David-yw4uv]

Those guitar licks are sharp enough to slice with and then there's the awesome Sax work ...never get tired of this cut

[@SilvioBonilha]

So good!

[@Anthonyo1]

Burdon is THE MAN!

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Yes

[@SaucerheadTharp]

Best version of this song.

[@janiceonley5842]

I Always like this song

[@roberta26able]

lovely Eric

[@sandrablum1370]

I have not seen this for a long time.....Love it and love my Eric

[@emilyannthevioletghost715]

Personally my favorite version of the song.

[@mafra61]

Thanks for posting this. Great version of a great song!

[@munstrumridcully]

Wow, his voice seems so different in this track. Its hard to believe this is the guy who sang House of the Rising Son and Please Don't Let Me be Misunderstood, or even Spill the Wine. Sounds great, just different than when he was younger.☺

[@tlatosmd]

Unfortunately. his original voice was gone by 1980. Too much booze and drugs. He's been sounding like Tom Waits ever since.

[@ripperap]

Great Eric.B

[@antigoniez3045]

Best version ever!

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

Antigonie z no, this song belongs to Tennessee Ernie Ford.

[@StreetHierarchy]

Yuuurp! Most powerful at the very least

[@hockeyteam1954able]

If you haven't already, try Beck and Gibbons version.

[@acla9000]

I remember that. Super cool version!!

[@janiceonleycimmeneli3894]

One of my favs n choreography is great

[@noahjell]

epic song epic movie epic video thanks

[@Redlance71]

My favorite Tom Hanks movie. Love to play it back to back with Castaway for contrast. Favorite version of this song.

[@Scarlett4Zanzibar]

I knew Eric Burdon was cool when I was 8 years old, lol! This is GREAT! He's like 70! ;P

[@Surfintunes70]

good stuff

[@MrAmpsycho]

Deedee: "What's wrong with you?" Joe: "I'm losing my sole (soul)."

[@banq0o]

one of best covers I heard .. respect! 8-) + epic movie

[@oldrvr]

Excellent version of 16 Tons!

[@longtimebeachbum8759]

I am very happy to see this for the first time, I didn't know eric burdon had done this song I've heard many times in my life, and his version, in my view at least, is the best ever, many thanks eric, for all your tunes!

[@thisguy9672]

longtime beachbum ZZ Top does a pretty kick ass version

[@Slinkygal]

@@thisguy9672 After reading your comment, I played ZZ Tops version & you must be joking. Compared to Eric's powerful voice & great moves, ZZ sounds like he's got laryngitis & so sick he can barely even move to the beat. Not knocking ZZ ---just a bit worried about him because I have also liked him.

[@gaoutlaw]

This rocks all kinds of awesome.

[@Bluesrainbluesrainbow]

wooww!!

[@autumn24cat]

Thank you!!!!!!

[@xsellsbrod]

16 tons... one of my favorite song... for your information ;-))

[@612gideon]

Thanks For Sharing

[@mrmcclear]

Wow... what a character.

[@brianwilson8516]

What an animal!

[@chancewebster7953]

Happy 101st birthday, Tennessee Ernie Ford. RIP

[@asialaguna]

great tune!

[@2Scribble]

Really odd the history of this song - written WAY long ago, repopularized almost a dozen times since the late 40s... and you can't find a SINGLE version that isn't awesome ^_^

[@TheLightbright01]

Lots of people don't know that, The reason he owes his soul to the company store. Back in day the mine owners would pay workers in money they printed up and if you bought what you needed at a company owned store which was the only place that tinder was good. You still owed for stuff just getting enough to get by. So you only had a chance to stay a slave to him cause you had no way to better yourself. Had kin over in those mines. The only way they got out was to move to another part of country with family members.

[@brokeautoentertainment4035]

This song is a trilogy of BADASS! First off... Eric Burden was one of the Dopest badass’ ever... second. this song, which is probably the greatest working mans song to ever been made is fucking badass too... and third, it’s a song that was made for the most BADASS TOM HANKS/MEG RYAN MOVIE EVER!!! JOE VS. THE VOLCANO FOR LIFE!!! FIGHT ME!!!

[@helmutscheinert]

Great!

[@wingplum]

Thank you. I have learned something.

[@IgorStepochkin]

That is. Fucking. Awesome!

[@EiligeIntuition]

Coooooool!

[@redgaridose]

great song!!!!!!!!!

[@claudiabrandofreitas7363]

Minhas duas paixões juntas Eric Burdon e tom Hanks !

[@phoenixleex]

You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store If you see me comin', better step aside A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don't a-get you Then the left one will You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store

[@davidleethompsoniii8263]

This is cool ...I never knew ,,,that Eric did this.

[@Musixland]

amazing tune - thanks for uploading

[@Jazzbonick]

Eric, yer still gannin' man. I've got that recording you made in Morton Sounds, Blyth with the Mike Carr Five. And that allnighter in the arcade with the Kansas City Five and Terry Lightfoot the rock and roll clarinet player!! Keep on swingin' Nick

[@takipaki123]

very catchy song :D

[@Switcharoo12]

Magic

[@MadMan731]

Great song, fun movie

[@CameoCollections]

Great Video!!!! My son Joe fell into Mt. St. Helen's Valcano and for his birthday I was looking for some video ideas. This is great. Love it.

[@javierfueyo6871]

Pero que muy guapa mûsica Eric APASALOBIEN

[@frankroger1551]

Great

[@sunnchilde]

"You know how long I've wanted to know what would happen if I did that?!"

[@TopTellyFan]

Thanks for uploading this. I didn't even know a video had been made for this. It's a brilliant song. I only wish they'd used two counts of the same lower-octave riff at 2:31 before going to the higher one, which is how it appeared in the film (I've got this song on my MP3 player so it's something I've always wished they did, not something I've suddenly thought of after watching this :)

[@voxpox1850]

They also don't include the guitar intro from the movie.

[@elektra1984]

OMG i really love rock n roll i really like the west feeling funny in egypt

[@takipaki123]

very nice

[@robertforster8984]

Eric Burden was only supposed to be in his 40s when this was recorded, but he looks at least 10 years older.

[@HellaGust]

Well he would've been 49, which is almost 10 years older than 40!

[@criticasevera8501]

Carajo la mejor voz del rockN'Roll y que sonido del video, realmente gracias por subir cosas de calidad adelante sorprendeme de nuevo, spamanator felicidades

[@BeavisOfArabia]

Pretty cool.

[@robertwillett9204]

Nice.

[@dopfunk]

What a cool ass joint.

[@KaristaSwiss]

how many people can relate to this song Lol :)

[@dmansfieldlife]

This is a kick ass job on the classic. My personal favorite version is Red Skovine featuring a sinister sounding organ although I can't say I have heard any version of this song that I didn't like. It is just a great song. One more note. If you haven't seen Joe Versus the Volcano, it is worth a look.

[@deanthomas5371]

Love the movie and this song esp this version. And my big dummy head just realized oh THAT Eric Burdon of the Animals. Another version thats good is the Platters.

[@lizatanzawa7910]

Damn! That is one smokin' hot old man!