Tennessee Ernie Ford - Shenandoah

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An Exclusive TEF Enterprises MemoryClip From The Ford Show Archives

Channel: Music
Uploaded: May 29, 2007 at 11:57 am
Author: TEFSHOW

Length: 00:02:57
Rating: 4.99
Views: 108405

Tags: Tennessee Ernie Ford Shenandoah

Video Comments:
CHOBBSC6 (January 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm)
both versions have their own way of choking me up. simply beautiful, love them both.
littlebeartoe (January 1, 2009 at 8:08 pm)
Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter.
Hi-yo, you rolling river.
Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter.
Hi-yo, I'm bound to roll 'cross the wide Missouri.

Oh, Shenandoah, I have a notion.
Hi-yo, you rolling river.
To sail across a stormy ocean.
Away, I'm bound away, 'cross the wide Missouri.
catmelodeon (December 30, 2008 at 9:07 am)
This is great.
It seems to me though that the sound is "pumped up" a bit to accentuate the bass - contrary to Paul R.'s recording which sounds more natural to me.
The whole setting is a bit too Walt Disney for me.
But what a voice!!
TEF or PR? Matter of taste, really.
Liam987hebbo (December 30, 2008 at 3:48 am)
Both men are beyond great as singers.
For me Paul had the greater love for his fellow man (A true heart of gold).This is why Paul singing has to move deeper in the heart than Ernie.
Paul Robeson A Man A Voice My Hero.
jocwalk (December 29, 2008 at 12:07 am)
Sorry, but I don't think there's any comparison. Ernie Ford had a much fuller, smoother voice with far greater vocal control: simply flawless. This is not to say Robeson was bad. On the contrary, he was good but Ernie Ford was in a class all by himself. There will never be another Ernie Ford.
oxusriver (December 29, 2008 at 5:36 am)
I think Ernie fords version is better because being white he has a more authentic voice seeing as its about traveling west into a new world by the pioneers,just as old man river by a white man sounds contrived as apposed to the authentic voice of the black mans struggle
sung by Paul Robeson.
jocwalk (December 29, 2008 at 8:52 am)
I don't think white or black has a thing to do with it. There were thousands upon thousands of WHITE indentured servants. Ernie Ford simply had a more natural sounding, polished voice than Robeson, in my opinion. His singing flowed whereas Robeson's sounded more forced to me. Simply look and listen at how relaxed Ernie is in this video. A singer can't get away with that unless he has tremendous vocal control.
oxusriver (December 29, 2008 at 8:58 am)
its got everything to do with colour,or the point I was making had.you could feel empathy for Paul Robeson singing old man river, you got to sense the frustrations of his race , how would you like me singing a foreign national anthem, do you get what I'm saying now
oxusriver (December 28, 2008 at 8:02 am)
what a great song , listened to it about fifty times in two days.
beautifull and poetic.
shadowolfblue (December 28, 2008 at 6:03 am)
TEF...a great tribute to a great song and artist he admired.