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Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
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entertainment · American musician and actor (1909–1995) · street artist · banjoist · singer · autobiographer · writer · stage actor · film actor · songwriter · voice actor · television actor · also Burl Ives, Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Ives
Born 14 June 1909 · Died 14 April 1995 · Q315723
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2026· 7 entries
Cornwall Live: Much-loved St Ives DJ and music producer died after building fall
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Falmouth Packet: Appeal launched in memory of St Ives DJ who 'brought music and soul' to dancefloors
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The Times of India: At 11, Greg Ives swept floors and cleaned tools in his family's Michigan garage. Years later he helped bu
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Atwood Magazine: Interview: Grace Ives on Independence, Inner Critics, and Her Bold, Restless Third Album, ‘Girlfriend’
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Public attention spiked: 4,094 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.7× the usual 607, with 0 article edits.
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Released album “The Wayfaring Stranger: Selected Singles & Album Tracks 1941–62”.
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “A Holly Jolly Christmas”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits and Finest Performances”.
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27 years after his death, "A Holly Jolly Christmas", made the Billboard Year-End chart
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Christmas for Kids”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Christmas With Burl Ives”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “The Very Best of Burl Ives”.
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2014· 2 entries
Released album “Man About Town”.
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Released album “Return of The Wayfaring Stranger”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Forever Burl Ives, Vol. 02”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Christmas Eve”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Genius of Folk”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Troubador”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Burl Ives”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “The Collection”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Burl Ives”.
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Released album “Uforglemmelige Klassikere”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Lavender Blue: Songs of Charm, Humour & Sincerity”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Christmas Collection: The Best of Burl Ives”.
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Released album “Another Day, Another Year”.
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Released album “20 Gospel Favorites”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “The Best of Burl Ives: A Little Bitty Tear”.
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Released album “A Twinkle in Your Eye”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1995· 4 entries
At his home in Anacortes, Washington; he was 85 years old
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Died 1995-04-14.
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Released album “America’s Folk Singer”.
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Released album “30 Beloved Songs of Faith”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “A Little Bitty Tear”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “A Little Bitty Tear: The Nashville Years 1961-1965”.
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Ives, by then using a wheelchair, reunited with Seeger during a benefit concert in New York City, having reconciled years earlier
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Released album “The Magic Balladeer”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites”.
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1989· 1 entry
Ives officially announced his retirement from show business on his 80th birthday
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1987· 1 entry
Ives was elevated to the 33rd and highest degree, and was later elected the Grand Cross
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “The Legend”.
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1982· 1 entry
Ives played Carruthers, a dog trainer, in Samuel Fuller's controversial and critically acclaimed film White Dog
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Burl's for Boys and Girls”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “We Americans: A Musical Journey With Burl Ives”.
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1976· 1 entry
Ives was featured as a main character in Little House on the Prairie season 3 episode 10 titled "The Hunters"
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1974· 1 entry
Ives voiced the main host, Sam Eagle, an Audio-Animatronic
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1972· 1 entry
Appeared as old man Doubleday in the episode "The Other Way Out" of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, in which his character seeks a gruesome revenge for the murder of his granddaughter
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Time”.
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1970· 1 entry
For example, he played the title role in The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever, in which his character attempts to harvest human organs from unwilling donors
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “The Times They Are A‐Changin’”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “The Big Country Hits”.
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Released album “Christmas Album”.
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Twelve Days of Christmas”.
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Released album “Burl Ives Sings”.
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1965· 3 entries
Released album “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas”.
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Released album “On The Beach At Waikiki”.
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Released album “My Gal Sal”.
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1964· 7 entries
Released album “Original Sound Track and Music from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”.
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Was "established to bring a declaration of appreciation to an individual each year who has made a significant contribution to the world of music and helped to create a climate in which our talents may find valid expressi
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Released album “True Love”.
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Played the genie in the movie The Brass Bottle with Tony Randall and Barbara Eden
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Released album “Burl Ives Sings Pearly Shells and Other Favorites”.
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Released album “Scouting Along With Burl Ives”.
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Released album “Chim Chim Cheree and Other Childrens’s Choices”.
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1963· 3 entries
Released album “Burl”.
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Released album “Walt Disney Presents Burl Ives’ Animal Folk”.
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Released album “Singin' Easy”.
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording (1962).
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Released album “It’s Just My Funny Way of Laughin’”.
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Released three songs that were popular with both country music and popular music fans: "A Little Bitty Tear", "Call Me Mister In-Between", and "Funny Way of Laughin'"
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1961· 4 entries
Released album “The Versatile Burl Ives”.
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Released album “Songs of the West”.
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Released album “The Best of Burl Ives”.
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Sang the folk song, "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" for a short film of the same name produced by the National Film Board of Canada
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Big Country (1959).
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1958· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for The Big Country (1958).
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Released album “Australian Folk Songs”.
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1957· 1 entry
Released album “Christmas Eve With Burl Ives”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Down to the Sea in Ships”.
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1953· 1 entry
Released ep “Folk Songs Dramatic and Humorous”.
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1952· 2 entries
Released album “Christmas Day In The Morning”.
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Which purportedly was also attended by a young John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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1949· 1 entry
Released album “Ballads and Folk Songs, Volume II”.
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1946· 1 entry
Ives was cast as a singing cowboy in the film Smoky
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1945· 2 entries
Ives, then 36, married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich
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Released ep “Big Rock Candy Mountain / Blue Tail Fly / Old English Folk Songs”.
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1944· 2 entries
Released album “The Wayfaring Stranger”.
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Recorded The Lonesome Train, a ballad about the life and death of Abraham Lincoln, written by Earl Robinson (music) and Lampell (lyrics)
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1942· 1 entry
Appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army and became a major star of CBS Radio
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1940· 1 entry
Ives named his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, after one of his ballads
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1939· 1 entry
Joined his friend and fellow actor Eddie Albert, who had the starring role in The Boys from Syracuse, in Los Angeles
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1933· 1 entry
Also attended the Juilliard School in New York
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1929· 1 entry
In Richmond, Indiana, Ives made a trial recording of "Behind the Clouds" for the Starr Piano Company's Gennett label, but the recording was rejected and destroyed a few weeks later
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1909· 2 entries
In Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois, near Newton, to Levi "Frank" Ives (1880–1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" (née White; 1882–1954)
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Born 1909-06-14.
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