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 401-425 of 449 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | NA 13554 | 5/24/1965 | Santa Claus is comin' to town | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13555 | 5/24/1965 | Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13556 | 5/24/1965 | Winter wonderland | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13561 | 5/25/1965 | The story of Bobby Lee Trent | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13562 | 5/25/1965 | The little drummer boy | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13577 | 5/26/1965 | Frangipani | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13578 | 5/26/1965 | Christmas is a birthday | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13583 | 5/27/1965 | Girl sittin' up in a tree | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13584 | 5/27/1965 | Salt water guitar | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13585 | 5/27/1965 | Christmas child (loo, loo, loo) | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13592 | 5/28/1965 | White Christmas | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13593 | 5/28/1965 | Christmas can't be far away | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13594 | 5/28/1965 | I heard the bells on Christmas | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13595 | 5/28/1965 | Silver bells | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13890 | 1/17/1966 | Medicine man | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13891 | 1/17/1966 | Here she comes (There she goes) | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13892 | 1/17/1966 | The sixties | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13893 | 1/18/1966 | baby is gone | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13894 | 1/18/1966 | Somebody is watching over me | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13895 | 1/18/1966 | Mean, mean man | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13896 | 1/19/1966 | Back to Nashville, Tennessee | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13897 | 1/19/1966 | Don't forget your paddle-O | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13898 | 1/20/1966 | Girlie magazine | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13899 | 1/20/1966 | Once upon a time | Burl Ives | vocalist | |||
Decca | NA 13902 | 1/21/1966 | My favorite dream | Burl Ives | vocalist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Ives, Burl," accessed November 12, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/204836.
Ives, Burl. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 12, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/204836.
"Ives, Burl." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 12 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Ives, Burl, 1909-1995 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85135241
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