Geoff Castellucci -"Sixteen Tons" cover | First Time Reaction

[@Broomrider1492]

Geoff is pronounced Jeff. Your missing out on the video. This boy isn't hard on the eyes with a butter smooth bass voice. Big fan and patron. Love Geoffs' and his Acapella group VoicePlay that he a founding member of.

[@yudith.royo8]

Nooo, honey! You miss so much if you don't watch the original video! 😭 Apart from being one of the best bass singers today, he puts a lot of hard work and detail into his videos. And he's independent, no label backing or controlling what he does. He and Voiceplay (the acapella group he is also part of) are reactor-friendly, so you don't have to worry about copyright

[@Badger77722]

Geoff Castellucci is pronounced as Jeff Cas-tah-LOO-chee -- it's Italian, so the "cc" is pronounced as "ch". I agree with the other comments, you're missing a lot by not watching the original video. Both Geoff and the a cappella group he sings bass for, VoicePlay, are independent and won't block your reaction videos. VoicePlay is known as the "theater kids of a cappella", and Geoff takes the skills he's learned with them and uses it in his own videos, so the visual portion is often nearly as interesting as the vocal portion. What you probably don't realize is that EVERY vocal you hear in Geoff's songs are done by him - from the deep bass to the tenors in the harmonies. Geoff has a 5 octave range, and while this song doesn't show it all, it does show a fair portion of it. Geoff also makes all of the instrumental sounds in the video - he plays piano, and uses keyboard plug-ins to produce the sounds from the instruments he doesn't play. He also arranges, produces, directs, films, and edits his videos, and does the initial audio mix as well. The song was originally written in the late 1940s, and it's most well-known for a version featuring Tennessee Ernie Ford - that's where Geoff's snaps came from, as Ernie did that throughout his version as well. It's a song about the plight of coal miners in the early to mid 20th century, where the mines were the only employment many people had, so the mining companies had a monopoly on the labor force. The miners would be paid in "scrip", basically company money, not US currency, and the only place that would accept it was the "company store" - which could set any price it wanted to, since the miners couldn't spend their pay anywhere else. It's not a happy piece of American history, but it is an important one.