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Infobox person| name = Burl Ives| image = Burl Ives by Van Vechten.jpg| caption = Burl Ives in 1955, photo by Carl Van Vechten | birth_name = Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives| birth_date = Birth date|1909|6|14| birth_place = Hunt City, Illinois , U.S.| death_date = Death date and age|1995|4|14|1909|6|14| death_place = Anacortes, Washington , U.S.| occupation = Actor, singer, writer| years_active = 1935–93| spouse = Helen Peck Ehrich (1945& ndash;71) Dorothy Koster Paul (1971& ndash;95) Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909ndashApril 14, 1995) was an United States|American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Giacomo Puccini|Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. And it moved people."John Rockwell, quoted in book review of Outsider, John Rockwell on the Arts, 1967-2006 , by John Rockwell, the New York Times Book Review, 24 December 2006, p. 13.
Life and career
Early life
Ives was born in 1909 near Hunt City, Illinois|Hunt City , an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois , the son of Levi "Frank" Ives (1880& ndash;1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" White (1882& ndash;1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was at first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others. One day Ives was singing in the garden with his mother, and his uncle overheard them. He invited his nephew to sing at the old soldiers' reunion in Hunt City. The boy performed a rendition of the folk ballad " Barbara Allen (song)|Barbara Allen " and impressed both his uncle and the audience.Burl Ives, Wayfaring Stranger , New York: Whittlesey House, 1948, pp. 15& ndash;20.
Ives had a long-standing relationship with the Boy Scouts of America . He was a Lone Scouts of America|Lone Scout before that group merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1924.Lone Scout Foundation, "How the Lone Scouts of America Came To Be": http://www.lonescouts.net/002_how_lsa_came_2_b.htm link. The collection of his papers at the New York Library for the Performing Arts includes a photograph of Ives being "inducted" into the Boy Scouts in 1966.Guide to the Burl Ives Papers, 1913-1975, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/pdf/THEIVES.pdf link. Ives received the organization's Silver Buffalo Award , its highest honor.NNDB: Tracking the Entire World: Silver Buffalo: http://www.nndb.com/honors/823/000043694/ link. The certificate for the award is hanging on the wall of the Scouting Museum in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.The World of Scouting Museum at Valley Forge: Our Collection: http://www.worldofscoutingmuseum.org/collection.html link. Ives often performed at the quadrennial Boy Scouts of America jamboree, including the 1981 jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, where he shared the stage with the Oak Ridge Boys .John C. Halter, "A Spirit of Time and Place," Scouting Magazine , September 2004: http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0409/a-sprt.html link. There is a 1977 sound recording of Ives being interviewed by Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree at Moraine State Park, Pennsylvania; on this tape he also sings and talks about Scouting , teaching, etc.WorldCat: OCLC No. 28143341: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28143341& referer=brief_results link. Ives is also the narrator of a 28-minute film about the 1977 National Jamboree. In the film, which was produced by the Boy Scouts of America, Ives "shows the many ways in which Scouting provides opportunities for young people to develop character and expand their horizons."WorldCat: OCLC No. 5641115: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5641115& referer=brief_results link.
From 1927-29, Ives attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College (now Eastern Illinois University ) in Charleston, Illinois , where he played football.Betsy Cole, "Eastern Mourns Burl Ives," Daily Eastern News , 17 April 1995. During his junior year, he was sitting in English class, listening to a lecture on Beowulf , when he suddenly realized he was wasting his time. As he walked out the door, the professor made a snide remark, and Ives slammed the door behind him.Ives, Wayfaring Stranger pp. 108& ndash;109. Sixty years later, the school named a building after its most famous dropout.Associated Press, "Eastern Illinois University Honors Famed Dropout Burl Ives," St. Louis Post Dispatch , 3 May 1990, p. 71. Accessed via NewsBank. Ives was also involved in Freemasonry from 1927 onward. http://www.scottishrite.org/visitors/gf.html#bic Burl Ives Collection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite .
On July 23, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana , Ives did 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.Tony Russell, Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921-1942 , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 17, 369.
1930s–1940s
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo . He was jailed in Mona, Utah , for vagrancy (people)|vagrancy and for singing “ Foggy, Foggy Dew ,” which the authorities decided was a bawdy song . Wayfaring Stranger pp. 129–132. Around 1931 he began performing on WBOW (AM)|WBOW radio in Terre Haute, Indiana . He also went back to school, attending classes at Indiana State Teachers College (now Indiana State University ). Wayfaring Stranger p. 145.
In 1940 Ives began his own radio show, titled The Wayfaring Stranger after one of his ballads. Over the next decade, he popularized several traditional folk songs, such as “ Foggy, Foggy Dew ” (an English/Irish folk song), “ Blue Tail Fly ” (an old American Civil War|Civil War tune), and “ Big Rock Candy Mountain ” (an old hobo ditty). He was also associated with the ' Almanac Singers ' (Almanacs), a folk singing group which at different times included Woody Guthrie , Will Geer and Pete Seeger . The Almanacs were active in the American Peace Mobilization (APC), an anti-war group opposed to American entry into World War II and Franklin Roosevelt 's pro-Allied policies. They recorded such songs as 'Get Out and Stay Out of War' and 'Franklin, Oh Franklin'.'Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century' by Paul Kengor (2010)
In June 1941, the APC re-organized itself into the pro-war American People's Mobilization . Ives and the Almanacs re-recorded several of their songs to reflect the group's new stance in favor of US entry into the war. Among them were ' Dear Mr. President ' and ' Reuben James '(name of a US destroyer sunk by the Germans before US entry into the war).
In early 1942, Ives was drafted into the U.S. Army . He spent time first at Camp Dix , then at Camp Upton , where he joined the cast of Irving Berlin|Irving Berlin's This Is the Army . He attained the rank of corporal.Citation needed|date=December 2009 When the show went to Hollywood, he was transferred to the Army Air Force . He was discharged honorably, apparently for medical reasons, in September 1943. Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor Harry Morgan (who would later go on to play Officer Bill Gannon in the 1960s version of Jack Webb 's TV show Dragnet (series)|Dragnet , and Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H ). In December 1943, Ives went to New York City to work for CBS radio for $100 a week."Testimony of Burl Icle Ives, New York, N.Y. on May 20, 1952," Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Second Congress, Second Session on Subversive Infiltration of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry . Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1952. Part 2, p. 206.
On December 6, 1945, Ives married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich."Burl Ives Weds Script Writer," New York Times , December 8, 1945, p. 24. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Their son Alexander was born in 1949.Citation needed|date=December 2009 In 1945 Ives was cast as a singing cowboy in the film Smoky (1945). http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/43959 Burl Ives Biography, Sitcoms Online .
His version of the 17th century English song " Lavender Blue " became his first hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its use in the 1949 film, So Dear to My Heart .
1950s: Communist blacklisting
Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels and Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties.Michael D. Murray, Encyclopedia of Television News , Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. p 18. Accessed via Ebrary In 1952 he cooperated with the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) and agreed to testify. He stated that he was not a member of the Communist Party USA|Communist Party but that he had attended various union meetings with fellow folk singer Pete Seeger simply to stay in touch with working folk. He stated: "You know who my friends are; you will have to ask them if they are Communism|Communists .""Testimony of Burl Icle Ives ...," Hearings before the Subcommittee ..., pp. 205& ndash;228.
Ives's statement to the HUAC ended his blacklisting, allowing him to continue acting in movies. But it also led to a bitter rift between Ives and many folk singers, including Seeger, who accused Ives of betraying them and the cause of cultural and political freedom in order to save his own career. Ives countered by saying he had simply stated what he had always believed. Forty-one years later, Ives reunited with Seeger during a benefit concert in New York City. They sang "Blue Tail Fly" together.Dean Kahn, "Ives-Seeger Rift Finally Ended with 'Blue-Tail Fly' Harmony: Skagitonians Ives, Murros Were on Opposite Sides," Knight Ridder Tribune Business News from Bellingham Herald , Washington, 19 March 2006, p. 1. Accessed via ProQuest ABI/Inform.
1950s–1960s
Ives expanded his appearances in films during this decade. His movie credits include East of Eden (film)|East of Eden , "Big Daddy" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Desire Under the Elms (film)|Desire Under the Elms , Wind Across the Everglades , The Big Country , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ; Ensign Pulver , the sequel to Mister Roberts (1955 film)|Mister Roberts ; and Our Man in Havana , based on the Graham Greene novel.
1960s–1990s
In the 1960s Ives began singing country music with greater frequency. In 1962 he 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 Laughing".
Ives had several film and television roles during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962 he starred with Rock Hudson in The Spiral Road , which was based on a novel of the same name by Jan de Hartog . In 1964, he played the genie in the movie The Brass Bottle with Tony Randall and Barbara Eden. Also in 1964, Ives played the narrator, Sam the Snowman, in the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated television special , Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer . The yearly rebroadcast of the popular seasonal television special has forever linked Ives to the Christmas season.
Ives performed in other television productions, including Pinocchio (1968 TV program)|Pinocchio and Roots (TV miniseries)|Roots . He starred in two television series: O.K. Crackerby! (1965–66), which co-starred Hal Buckley , Joel Davison and Brooke Adams (actress)|Brooke Adams , and The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969–72). O.K. Crackerby! , which was about the presumed richest man in the world, replaced Walter Brennan 's somewhat similar The Tycoon (TV series)|The Tycoon on the ABC schedule from the preceding year. Ives occasionally starred in macabre-themed productions. In 1970, 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. In 1972, he 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.
Ives and Helen Peck Ehrlich were divorce d in February 1971." Burl Ives Divorced ," New York Times , 19 February 1971, p. 27. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers Ives then married Dorothy Koster Paul in London two months later.UPI, " Burl Ives Weds ," Evening Sentinel , Holland, Michigan, 17 April 1971, p. 3. Accessed via Access NewspaperARCHIVE In their later years, Ives and Dorothy lived in a waterfront home in Anacortes, Washington|Anacortes , in the Puget Sound area, and in Galisteo, New Mexico , on the Turquoise Trail. In the 1960s, he had another home just south of Hope Town on Elbow Cay , a barrier island of the Abaco Islands|Abaco s in the Bahamas .Citation needed|date=December 2007 In honor of Ives's influence on American vocal music, on October 25, 1975, he was awarded the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit.cite web |url = http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/gleeclub/MEMBERS_merit.html |title=The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit Recipients This award, initiated in 1964, 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 expression."
Ives lent his name and image to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's "This Land Is Your Land — Keep It Clean" campaign in the 1970s. He was portrayed with the program's fictional spokesman, Johnny Horizon .
Ives' " A Holly Jolly Christmas " and " Silver and Gold " are now considered Christmas standards some 45 years after they were first featured in the 1964 CBS-TV presentation of the Rankin & Bass stop-motion animated family special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer . Johnny Marks had composed the title song (originally an enormous hit for singing cowboy Gene Autry ) in 1949, and producers Rankin & Bass retained him to compose the TV special's soundtrack. Ives voiced Sam the Snowman, the banjo-playing "host" and narrator of the story, explaining how Rudolph used his "nonconformity," as Sam refers to it, to save Christmas from being cancelled due to an impassable blizzard. The following year, Ives re-recorded all three of these Johnny Marks hits, which Ives had sung in the TV special, but with a more "pop" feel than in the TV special. He released them all as singles for the 1965 holiday season, capitalizing on their previous successes.
Burl Ives was seen regularly in television commercials for Luzianne tea for several years during the 1970s and 1980s when he was the company's commercial spokesman.
Death
Ives was a renowned pipe smoker; the cover of his first album depicted a pipe and a fishing hat with the words "Burl Ives" in between. He also smoked cigars. In the summer of 1994 he was diagnosed with oral cancer after being hospitalized for back surgery. After several operations he decided against having further surgery. In April 1995 he fell into a coma . Ives died of complications of Oral cancer|mouth cancer on April 14, 1995 at his home in Anacortes, Washington ; http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/15/obituaries/burl-ives-the-folk-singer-whose-imposing-acting-won-an-oscar-dies-at-85.html? pagewanted=all& src=pm NY Times Ives obituary he is interred in Mound Cemetery in Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois .Richard Severo, " Burl Ives, the Folk Singer Whose Imposing Acting Won an Oscar, Dies at 85 ," New York Times , 15 April 1995, p. 10. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1S1-9199504150897195.html from encyclopedia.com
Broadway roles
Ives's Broadway theatre|Broadway career included appearances in The Boys From Syracuse (1938–39), Heavenly Express (1940), This Is the Army (1942), Sing Out, Sweet Land (1944), Paint Your Wagon (musical)|Paint Your Wagon (1951–52), and ''Dr. Cook's Garden (1967). His most notable Broadway performance (later reprised in a 1958 movie) was as "Big Daddy" Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955–56), written specifically for Ives by Tennessee Williams .Citation needed|date=March 2007
Author
Ives's autobiography, The Wayfaring Stranger , was published in 1948. He also wrote or compiled several other books, including ''Burl Ives' Songbook (1953), Tales of America (1954), Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing (1956), and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook (1962).
Popular culture references
The Ren & Stimpy Show 's first season episode "Stimpy's Invention" featured a record, " The Ren & Stimpy Show#Music|Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy ", which parodied Ives' singing style and re-created some of his crusty dialogue from The Big Country and Summer Magic . Also, Ren has a little of Ives' tone in his voice, though he's mostly inspired by Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.
Ives is known to Star Wars fans for his role as the narrator in the 1984 in film|1984 made-for-TV film Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure .
The Christmas film Elf (film)|Elf , starring Will Ferrell , features a snowman resembling the character Ives voiced in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer , voiced by Leon Redbone .
In The King of Queens episode "Baker's Doesn't", Arthur ( Jerry Stiller ) is talking to Spence ( Patton Oswalt ) and decides not to write a new Christmas song, but a new Hanukkah song instead because "all they have is ' I Have a Little Dreidel|Dreidel, Dreidel ' and The Chanukah Song|that Adam Sandler song ". He says that their song has nothing new to say that hasn't been said a thousand times by Burl Ives, God rest his soul. Plus I have no idea if he's dead or alive."
Director Wes Anderson included a number of songs (among them "Buckeye Jim") by Ives on the soundtrack for his 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox .
A Collection of Ballads and Folk Songs (1945, Decca A-407, 4 records, 10& nbsp;inch, 78 rpm, reissued in 1950 as A Collection of Ballads and Folk Songs, Volume 1 , Decca DL 5080, 10& nbsp;inch 33 1/3 rpm)
Ballads and Folk Songs, Volume 2 (1946, Decca A-431, 4 records, 10& nbsp;inch, 78 rpm, reissued in 1949 as Decca DL 5013, 10& nbsp;inch, 33 1/3 rpm)
A Collection of Ballads, Folk and Country Songs, Volume 3 (1949, Decca A-711, 3 records, 10& nbsp;inch, 78 rpm, reissued in 1950 as Decca DL 5093, 10& nbsp;inch, 33 1/3 rpm)
The Wayfaring Stranger (1949, Stinson SLP 1, 10& nbsp;inch, 78 rpm, reissued circa 1954 as Blue Tail Fly and Other Favorites , Stinson SL 1 same catalog number, 12& nbsp;inch, 33 1/3 rpm)
Animal Fair: Songs for Children (1949, Columbia MJV 59, 2 records, 10& nbsp;inch, 78 rpm)
'' Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites (1959, Harmony HL 9507, reissued circa 1963 as Harmony HS 14507 simulated stereo, reissued again in 1974 as Columbia C 33183 simulated stereo)
Ballads (Burl Ives album)|Ballads (1959, United Artists UAL 3030/UAS 6030)
Return of the Wayfaring Stranger (1960, Columbia CL 1459, 12& nbsp;inch, 33/13 rpm)
Burl Ives Sings Irving Berlin (1960, United Artists UAL 3117/UAS 6117)
Manhattan Troubadour (1961, United Artists Records UAL 3145/UAS 6145, reissued with two fewer songs as Burl Ives Favorites , 1970, Sunset SUS 5280)
The Best of Burl Ives (1961, Decca DX 167/DXS 7167 simulated stereo, 2 records, reissued in 1973 as MCA 4034 simulated stereo, 2 records)
The Versatile Burl Ives! (1961, Decca DL 4152/74152)
Songs of the West (Burl Ives album)|Songs of the West (1961, Decca DL 4179/74179, reissued as MCA 196)
'' It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' (1962, Decca DL 4279/74279)
Burl Country Style (1962, Decca DL 4361/74361)
Spotlight on Burl Ives and the Folk Singers Three (1962, Design DLP/SDLP 156)
Sunshine in My Soul (1962, Decca DL 4329/74329)
Songs I Sang in Sunday School (1963, Word W-3229-LP/ WST-8130-LP)
Burl Ives and the Korean Orphan Choir Sing of Faith and Joy (1963, Word W-3259-LP/WST-8140-LP)
'' Singin' Easy (1963, Decca DL 4433/74433)
'' The Best of Burl's for Boys and Girls (1963, Decca DL 4390/74390 simulated stereo, reissued in 1980 as MCA 98 simulated stereo)
Walt Disney Presents Summer Magic (1963, Buena Vista BV 3309/STER 4025)
That's Where My Baby Used to Be / Bury the Bottle With Me (1968, 7 in., 45 rpm, Decca 32282)
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / Maria, If I Could (1968, 7 in., 45 rpm, Columbia 4-44508)
Santa Mouse / Oh, What a Lucky Boy I Am (1968, 7 in., 45 rpm, Columbia 4-44711)
Gingerbread House / Tumbleweed Snowman (c. 1970, 7 in. 45 rpm, Big Tree BT-130)
The Best Is Yet to Come & Stayin' Song / Blue Tail Fly (1972, 7 in., 45 rpm, MCA 1921)
Mrs. Johnson's Happiness Emporium / Anytime You Say (1973, 7 in., 45 rpm, Decca 33049)
The Tail of the Comet Kohoutek / A Very Fine Lady (1974, 7 in., 45 rpm, MCA 40175)
It's Gonna Be a Mixed Up Xmas / The Christmas Legend of Monkey Joe (1978, 7 in., 45 & 33 1/3 rpm, Monkey Joe MJ1)
A Visit from St. Nicholas|The Night Before Christmas / Instrumental (1986, 7 in., 45 rpm, Stillman/Teague STP-1013)
Radio work (selected)Vincent Terrace, ''Radio's Golden Years: The Encyclopedia of Radio Programs, 1930-1960 , San Diego: Barnes and Company, 1981, pp. 43, 147; John Dunning, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio , New York: Oxford University Press, p. 123; Dave Goldin, RadioGOLDINdex : http://www.radiogoldindex.com/frame1.html link. Unless otherwise noted, the information in this section comes from these sources
Back Where I Came From , CBS (30 September 1940 & ndash; February 28, 1941)
''The Wayfarin' Stranger , CBS & WOR (1941& ndash;1942, 1946& ndash;1948)James R. Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood Songsters: Singers Who Act and Actors Who Sing , 2nd ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 0-415-94333-7, p. 403
Burl Ives Coffee Club , CBS (5 July 1941 & ndash; January 24, 1942)
The Columbia Workshop , CBS
*"Roadside" (March 2, 1941)
*"The Log of the R-77," second installment of Twenty-Six by Corwin (May 11, 1941)
*"The People, Yes," third installment of Twenty-Six by Corwin (May 18, 1941)
*"A Child's History of Hot Music" (March 15, 1942)
G. I. Jive , military radio (c. 1943)James R. Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood Songsters , 2nd ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003, p. 404
Columbia Presents Corwin , CBS
*"The Lonesome Train" (March 21, 1944)
*"El Capitan and the Corporal" (July 25, 1944)
The Theatre Guild on the Air , ABC
*"Sing Out, Sweet Land" (October 21, 1945)
Hollywood Star Time , CBS
*"The Return of Frank James" (March 10, 1946)
The Burl Ives Show , Syndication (1946& ndash;1948)
Hollywood Fights Back , ABC (November 2, 1947)
The Kaiser Traveler , ABC (24 July & ndash; September 4, 1949)
Burl Ives Sings , Syndication (1950s)
==Theater appearances (selected)Internet Broadway Database: Burl Ives Credits on Broadway: http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp? ID=46295 link. Unless otherwise noted, this database is the source of the information in this section
Pocahontas Preferred (1935–1936) Guide to the Burl Ives Papers, 1913& ndash;1975 , New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/pdf/THEIVES.pdf link
I Married an Angel (1938)
The Boys from Syracuse (23 November 1938 & ndash; June 10, 1939)
Heavenly Express (18 April & ndash; May 4, 1940)
This Is the Army (4 July & ndash; September 26, 1942)
Sing Out Sweet Land (December 27, 1944 & ndash; March 24, 1945)
She Stoops to Conquer (1950)"Old Play in Manhattan," Time , January 9, 1950,
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811683,00.html link
Knickerbocker Holiday (1950)"Along the Straw Hat," New York Times , July 30, 1950, p. X3. Includes photo of Ives. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1951)"Along the Straw Hat Trail," New York Times , September 2, 1951, p. 54. Includes photo of Ives. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Paint Your Wagon (musical)|Paint Your Wagon (12 November 1951 & ndash; July 19, 1952)
Show Boat (1954)L.F., "The Theatre: 'Show Boat,' New York Times , May 6, 1954, p. 44. Includes photograph of Ives and co-stars. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (March 24, 1955 & ndash; November 17, 1956)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (television special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
O.K. Crackerby! (1965& ndash;1966)
Pinocchio (1968 TV program)|Pinocchio (1968)
Alias Smith and Jones “The McCreedy Bust” (1971)
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (1969& ndash;1972)
Roots (TV miniseries)|Roots (1977)
Little House on the Prairie: The Hunters (1977)
The New Adventures of Heidi (1978)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)
Films
Smoky (filme de 1946)|Smoky (1946)
Estação West (1948)
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
Sierra (film)|Sierra (1950)
East of Eden (film)|East of Eden (1955)
The Power and the Prize (1956)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (film)|Desire Under the Elms (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Our Man in Havana (film)|Our Man in Havana (1959)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
The Spiral Road (1962)
Summer Magic (1963)
The Brass Bottle (1964)
Ensign Pulver (1964)
'' Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
The McMasters (1970)
'' Baker's Hawk (1976)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
Earthbound (1981 film)|Earthbound (1981)
White Dog (1982)
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984)
Uphill All the Way (1986)
Two Moon Junction (1988)
Alex Saves Christmas (2011) (songs)
Concerts (selected)
Royal Winsor, New York City, April 28, 1939John Martin, "The Dance: Folk Fetes," New York Times , April 23, 1939, p. 128. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Town Hall, New York City, December 1, 1945
Opera House, San Francisco, February 9, 1949"Burl Ives to Be in S. F. February 9," San Mateo Times , San Mateo, CA, January 29, 1949, p. 5. Accessed via Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Columbia University, New York City, 19 October 1950Display ad, New York Times , October 8, 1950, p. X3. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Royal Festival Hall, London, 10 May 1952"Burl Ives Packs London Hall," New York Times , May 11, 1952, p. 95. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Albert Hall, London, 20 October 1976UPI, "Ives Returns to London," Syracuse Herald Journal , Syracuse, NY, October 1, 1976, p. 33. Accessed via Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Reuben F. Scarf's house, Sydney, Australia, GROW Party, 1977.cite book | author = Keogh, C.B. | authorlink = Cornelius Keogh |url = http://publishing.yudu.com/Freedom/Actiz/GROWcomesofageaceleb/resources/ | title = GROW Comes of Age: A Celebration and a Vision& #33; | year = 1979 | publisher = GROW Publications | location = Sydney, Australia | isbn = 0909114013 | oclc = 27588634
Royal Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool,1979 accompanying The Spinners.
Chautauqua, New York, 1982 ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50929161? tab=details VHS)
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, April 27, 1990Associated Press, "Eastern Illinois University Honors Famed Dropout Burl Ives," St. Louis Post-Dispatch , May 3, 1990, p. 71. Accessed via NewsBank
Mt. Vernon, Washington, February 1993 ( http://www.amyhindman.com/amy_history.html VHS)
Folksong U.S.A., 92nd Street Y, New York City, 17 May 1993Stephen Holden, "The Cream of Folk, Reunited for a Cause," New York Times , May 19, 1993, p. C15. Includes photo of Ives, Seeger, and others. Accessed via ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Bibliography
''The Wayfarin' Stranger: A Collection of 21 Folk Songs and Ballads with Guitar and Piano Accompaniment . New York: Leeds Music, 1945.
Wayfaring Stranger . New York: Whittlesey House, 1948 (autobiography)
Favorite Folk Ballads of Burl Ives: A Collection of 17 Folk Songs and Ballads with Guitar and Piano Accompaniment . New York: Leeds Music, 1949
Burl Ives Song Book . New York: Ballantine Books, 1953
Sailing on a Very Fine Day . Chicago: Rand McNally, 1954
Burl Ives Folio of Australian Songs , collected and arranged by Percy Jones, 1954.
Song in America: Our Musical Heritage , co-authored with Albert Hague. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, n.d.
Tales of America . Cleveland: World Publishing, 1954
"Introduction" to Paul Kapp's A Cat Came Fiddling and Other Rhymes of Childhood , New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956
The Ghost and Hans Van Duin excerpt from Tales of America . Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1956
Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing . New York: Ballantine Books, 1956
http://www.scottishrite.org/what/educ/journal/jan-feb07/ci.html Article in Scottish Rite Journal
sww|Burl Ives
AcademyAwardBestSupportingActor 1941-1960GoldenGlobeBestSuppActorMotionPicture 1943-1960 Persondata | NAME = Ives, Burl | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = June 14, 1909 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Hunt City, Illinois , U.S. | DATE OF DEATH = April 14, 1995 | PLACE OF DEATH = Anacortes, Washington , U.S. DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Burl Category:American actors Category:American film actors Category:American folk singers Category:American buskers Category:American banjoists Category:Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners Category:Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners Category:Actors from Illinois Category:Actors from Indiana Category:Indiana State University alumni Category:Deaths from oral cancer Category:People from Anacortes, Washington Category:People from Jasper County, Illinois Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Gennett recording artists Category:Okeh Records artists Category:Columbia Records artists Category:Bell Records artists Category:Decca Records artists Category:Cancer deaths in Washington (state) Category:People associated with the Boy Scouts of America Category:1909 births Category:1995 deaths
