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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs.
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- Burl Ives collection, 1919-1965
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Burl Ives was a singer, actor and Oscar-winning narrator who starred in The Big Country and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He also sang folk songs, recorded albums and voiced Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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- Hunt City, Illinois, USA
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- Anacortes, Washington, USA
Burl Ives (1909–1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades. He began as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually becoming a major star of CBS Radio. Ives was a film actor in the 1940s and 1950s, and in the 1960s had hits in country music. His voice-over work in Christmas specials ...
YearSingleChart Positions(us [2])Chart Positions(us Ac)1948"Blue Tail Fly" (With The Andrews Sisters ...24—1949" Lavender's Blue (Dilly Dilly)" (With ...16—1949" Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)"21—1951"On Top Of Old Smoky" (With Percy Faith ...10—Burl Ives. Actor: The Big Country. Burl Ives was one of six children born to a farming family in Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, the son of Cordellia "Dellie" (White) and Levi Franklin Ives. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4.
- June 14, 1909
- April 14, 1995
Burl Ives - A Collection Of Folk Songs And Ballads - Complete LP (1946). Recorded 1945/1946 Decca Recording Studio Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th. St., New York City - Burl Ives (vcl solo/gt...
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Apr 15, 1995 · Burl Ives, the beloved balladeer who sang so convincingly of being a wayfaring stranger that he instead became a longtime friend, died Friday.
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Apr 15, 1995 · Burl Ives, whose sweet, strong, mournful way with folk ballads made him an international singing star in the 1940's and whose earthy acting won him an Academy Award in the 1950's, died yesterday...
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