Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician 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. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army and became a major star of CBS Radio. In the 1960s, he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughin'". Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Ives is often associated with the Christmas season. He did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Ives also worked on the special's soundtrack, including the songs "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", both of which continue to chart annually on the Billboard holiday charts into the 2020s. |
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Recordings (Results 126-150 of 449 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 89462 | 3/2/1956 | Ben back stay | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 89536 | 4/8/1956 | Wild rover no more | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 89537 | 4/8/1956 | Dying stockman ; Oh, the Springtime, it brings on the shearing ; Botany Bay ; The stockman's last bed ; The old bullock dray | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 89542 | 4/8/1956 | Click go the shears ; A nautical yarn | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 89544 | 4/8/1956 | The station cook | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100389 | 8/7/1956 | That's my heart strings (That's my boy) | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100390 | 8/7/1956 | The bus stop song-1 | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100391 | 8/7/1956 | It came upon the midnight clear | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100392 | 8/7/1956 | Oh, little town of Bethlehem | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100393 | 8/7/1956 | Silent night | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100394 | 8/7/1956 | Twelve days of Christmas | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100580 | 9/12/1956 | Girls of Coleraine | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100581 | 9/12/1956 | Kilgary mountain | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100582 | 9/12/1956 | Drink to me with only Thine | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100693 | 10/2/1956 | Molly Malone | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100694 | 10/2/1956 | The wandering of Old Angus | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100695 | 10/2/1956 | Mrs. McGrath | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100696 | 10/2/1956 | Women is angels | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100697 | 10/2/1956 | Bindemeers stream | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100921 | 11/5/1956 | Brennan on the Moor | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100922 | 11/5/1956 | Come back Paddy Reilly | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100923 | 11/5/1956 | Maid of the sweet brown Knowe | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100924 | 11/5/1956 | Three lovely lassies | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100925 | 11/5/1956 | She moved through the fair | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | 100930 | 11/6/1956 | Six miles from Bangor | Burl Ives | vocalist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Ives, Burl," accessed October 6, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/204836.
Ives, Burl. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/204836.
"Ives, Burl." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Ives, Burl, 1909-1995 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85135241
Wikidata: Burl Ives - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q315723
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/51875532
MusicBrainz: Burl Ives - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/086c1936-9eaa-4091-b140-ad33a51a3b71
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