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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.
He began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched 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 then 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 Laughing". A popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s, Ives's best-known roles in that medium included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1949) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ives is often remembered for his voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which continues to air annually around Christmas.
He began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched 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 then 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 Laughing". A popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s, Ives's best-known roles in that medium included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1949) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ives is often remembered for his voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which continues to air annually around Christmas.
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Singing "Jesse James", "Cool Clear Water", "Billy The Kid", "John Henry", on the "John Wayne and Glen Campbell & The Musical West" tv movie, 1974.
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that June 14 is the anniversary of prominent folk singer and Academy Award-winning actor Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives who began as an itinerant singer and banjoist, and launched his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs.
I first became aware of Burl Ives in the Christmastime Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Videocraft International, Ltd.. when I was 8 years old.
Born: June 14, 1909 in Hunt City Township, IL
Died: April 14, 1995 in Anacortes, WA at age 85.
Burl Ives 20th-century minstrel and balladeer who brought new life and popularity to some of America's oldest folk music with songs of children, history, animals, insects and loves won and lost, died of complications related to cancer of the mouth April 14 at his home in Anacortes, Wash.
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0412322/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
"Burl Ives was one of six children born to a Scottish-Irish farming family. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a football coach when he enrolled at Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College in 1927. He dropped out in 1930 and wandered, hitching rides, doing odd jobs, street singing.
Summer stock in the late 1930s led to a job with CBS radio in 1940; through his "Wayfaring Stranger" he popularized many of the folksongs he had collected in his travels. By the 1960s, he had hits on both popular and country charts. He recorded over 30 albums for Decca and another dozen for Columbia. In 1964 he was singer-narrator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), an often-repeated Christmas television special. His Broadway debut was in 1938, though he is best remembered for creating the role of Big Daddy in the 1950's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) when it ran on Broadway through the early 1950s.
His four-decade, 30+ movie career began with Ives playing a singing cowboy in Smoky (1946) and reached its peak with (again) his role as Big Daddy role in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and winning an Oscar for best supporting actor in The Big Country (1958), both in 1958. Ives officially retired from show business on his 80th birthday in 1989 and settled in Anacortes, Washington, although he continued to do frequent benefit performances at his own request. Burl Ives died in 1995.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan < [login to see] .edu>
Spouse (2)
Dorothy Koster (16 April 1971 - 14 April 1995) ( his death)
Helen Payne Ehrlich (6 December 1945 - 17 February 1971) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
Trade Mark - His singing voice
Trivia (18)
1. Frequent benefits for Indian reservations, peace academies, Boy Scouts, environmental groups, arts foundations, children's medicine
2. Interred at Mound Cemetery, Jasper County, Illinois, USA.
3. Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle, the narrator of the classic Disneyland attraction "American Sings" (1974-1988) in Tomorrowland.
4. Was inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame on June 24th, 1994.
5. Received the DeMolay Legion of Honor in 1986.
6. Was initiated into DeMolay at the George N. Todd Chapter in Charleston Illinois, in 1927.
7. He was a 33rd Degree Mason.
8. Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio with the call sign KA6HVA. When he passed away, he became, in ham radio parlance, a "silent key."
9. During the first season The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) episode "Stimpy's Invention" featured a record, "Happy Happy Joy Joy," which contained a variety of spoken-word segments meant to parody some of Ives' albums from the 1960s. When Ives saw the episode, he contacted Ren and Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi and said that he would have been willing to do the voice over work for it.
10. A string of Ives' hit records, mostly for American Decca and primarily under the supervision of the legendary Owen Bradley, included such songs as "The Blue-Tail Fly" (his all-time biggest hit), "A Little Bitty Tear," "(It's Just My) Funny Way of Laughin'," "Mr. In Between" , "A Holly Jolly Christmas," and, of course, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.".
11. He died from complications of mouth cancer at his home in Anacortes, WA. His wife and three step-children were with him when he died.
12. He adopted a son, Alexander, with his first wife, Helen. When they separated in 1960, she got the custody. He also had three step-children with his second wife, Dorothy Koster: Kevin Murphy, Rob Grossman, and Barbara Vaughn; and five grandchildren.
13. An activist liberal Democrat, in 1952 he named fellow folk singer Pete Seeger and others as possible Communists to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) in order to avoid being blacklisted.
14. He strongly opposed the United States entering World War II until the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, after which he avidly campaigned for the US to declare war on Germany and Italy.
15. He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of DC Comics super-villain Hector Hammond (created in 1961), one of the Hal Jordan/Green Lantern's archenemies. Ives was 60 years old at the point. Eventually, Hammond was played by Peter Sarsgaard in Green Lantern (2011).
16. Son of Levi (1880-1947), born in Illinois, and Cordelia (née White) Ives (1882-1954), born in Indiana. Both died in Jasper County, Illinois.
17. Maternal grandson of Cyrus (1860-1938) and Sarah (née Flyn) White (1858-1928). Both were born in the state of Indiana and died in the state of Illinois.
18. His wife Dorothy Koster was an interior designer, and is not to be confused with the actress or the casting director of the same name.
Personal Quotes (1)
I was fortunate to be born into a family of Masons. Indeed, my older sister Audrey was Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Illinois. My DeMolay experience came very naturally because of my father and brothers. Thus was my youth enhanced."
Glen Campbell & Burl Ives
Singing "Jesse James", "Cool Clear Water", "Billy The Kid", "John Henry", on the "John Wayne and Glen Campbell & The Musical West" tv movie, 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5bUUq_pans
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I first became aware of Burl Ives in the Christmastime Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Videocraft International, Ltd.. when I was 8 years old.
Born: June 14, 1909 in Hunt City Township, IL
Died: April 14, 1995 in Anacortes, WA at age 85.
Burl Ives 20th-century minstrel and balladeer who brought new life and popularity to some of America's oldest folk music with songs of children, history, animals, insects and loves won and lost, died of complications related to cancer of the mouth April 14 at his home in Anacortes, Wash.
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0412322/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
"Burl Ives was one of six children born to a Scottish-Irish farming family. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a football coach when he enrolled at Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College in 1927. He dropped out in 1930 and wandered, hitching rides, doing odd jobs, street singing.
Summer stock in the late 1930s led to a job with CBS radio in 1940; through his "Wayfaring Stranger" he popularized many of the folksongs he had collected in his travels. By the 1960s, he had hits on both popular and country charts. He recorded over 30 albums for Decca and another dozen for Columbia. In 1964 he was singer-narrator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), an often-repeated Christmas television special. His Broadway debut was in 1938, though he is best remembered for creating the role of Big Daddy in the 1950's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) when it ran on Broadway through the early 1950s.
His four-decade, 30+ movie career began with Ives playing a singing cowboy in Smoky (1946) and reached its peak with (again) his role as Big Daddy role in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and winning an Oscar for best supporting actor in The Big Country (1958), both in 1958. Ives officially retired from show business on his 80th birthday in 1989 and settled in Anacortes, Washington, although he continued to do frequent benefit performances at his own request. Burl Ives died in 1995.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan < [login to see] .edu>
Spouse (2)
Dorothy Koster (16 April 1971 - 14 April 1995) ( his death)
Helen Payne Ehrlich (6 December 1945 - 17 February 1971) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
Trade Mark - His singing voice
Trivia (18)
1. Frequent benefits for Indian reservations, peace academies, Boy Scouts, environmental groups, arts foundations, children's medicine
2. Interred at Mound Cemetery, Jasper County, Illinois, USA.
3. Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle, the narrator of the classic Disneyland attraction "American Sings" (1974-1988) in Tomorrowland.
4. Was inducted into the DeMolay Hall of Fame on June 24th, 1994.
5. Received the DeMolay Legion of Honor in 1986.
6. Was initiated into DeMolay at the George N. Todd Chapter in Charleston Illinois, in 1927.
7. He was a 33rd Degree Mason.
8. Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio with the call sign KA6HVA. When he passed away, he became, in ham radio parlance, a "silent key."
9. During the first season The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) episode "Stimpy's Invention" featured a record, "Happy Happy Joy Joy," which contained a variety of spoken-word segments meant to parody some of Ives' albums from the 1960s. When Ives saw the episode, he contacted Ren and Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi and said that he would have been willing to do the voice over work for it.
10. A string of Ives' hit records, mostly for American Decca and primarily under the supervision of the legendary Owen Bradley, included such songs as "The Blue-Tail Fly" (his all-time biggest hit), "A Little Bitty Tear," "(It's Just My) Funny Way of Laughin'," "Mr. In Between" , "A Holly Jolly Christmas," and, of course, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.".
11. He died from complications of mouth cancer at his home in Anacortes, WA. His wife and three step-children were with him when he died.
12. He adopted a son, Alexander, with his first wife, Helen. When they separated in 1960, she got the custody. He also had three step-children with his second wife, Dorothy Koster: Kevin Murphy, Rob Grossman, and Barbara Vaughn; and five grandchildren.
13. An activist liberal Democrat, in 1952 he named fellow folk singer Pete Seeger and others as possible Communists to the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) in order to avoid being blacklisted.
14. He strongly opposed the United States entering World War II until the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, after which he avidly campaigned for the US to declare war on Germany and Italy.
15. He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of DC Comics super-villain Hector Hammond (created in 1961), one of the Hal Jordan/Green Lantern's archenemies. Ives was 60 years old at the point. Eventually, Hammond was played by Peter Sarsgaard in Green Lantern (2011).
16. Son of Levi (1880-1947), born in Illinois, and Cordelia (née White) Ives (1882-1954), born in Indiana. Both died in Jasper County, Illinois.
17. Maternal grandson of Cyrus (1860-1938) and Sarah (née Flyn) White (1858-1928). Both were born in the state of Indiana and died in the state of Illinois.
18. His wife Dorothy Koster was an interior designer, and is not to be confused with the actress or the casting director of the same name.
Personal Quotes (1)
I was fortunate to be born into a family of Masons. Indeed, my older sister Audrey was Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Illinois. My DeMolay experience came very naturally because of my father and brothers. Thus was my youth enhanced."
Glen Campbell & Burl Ives
Singing "Jesse James", "Cool Clear Water", "Billy The Kid", "John Henry", on the "John Wayne and Glen Campbell & The Musical West" tv movie, 1974.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5bUUq_pans
FYI CPT Don KempSFC Greg Bruorton CPT (Join to see) 1stSgt Eugene Harless MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-HardySSG Jon Hill SPC Douglas Bolton Debbie Pomeroy Cloud Kathlean KeeslerSGT Tim Fridley (Join to see) Michael Horne SSG David Andrews Sgt John H. Sgt David G Duchesneau SGT Mark Halmrast CW5 Jack Cardwell Cynthia Croft
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