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ALBUMBlow Ye Winds (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, July 1, 1956) - SingleBurl Ives
Albums by Burl Ives
ALBUMA Twinkle In Your EyeBurl Ives
ALBUMA Little Bitty TearBurl Ives
ALBUMTimeBurl Ives
ALBUMSings Softly and Tenderly Hymns and SpiritualsBurl Ives
ALBUMThe Times They Are a-Changin'Burl Ives
ALBUMHave a Holly Jolly ChristmasBurl Ives
ALBUMOn The Beach At WaikikiBurl Ives
ALBUMMy Gal SalBurl Ives
ALBUMRudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Original 1964 TV Soundtrack)Burl Ives
ALBUMBurl Ives Sings Pearly Shells And Other FavoritesBurl Ives
Burl Ives's Popular Music Videos
A Holly Jolly Christmas
Burl Ives
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Burl Ives
Foggy, Foggy Dew (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, March 22, 1953)
Burl Ives
Artist Playlists
Burl Ives Christmas Essentials
The film star and folk singer’s yuletide recordings remain timeless.
Artist Biography
Burl Ives was an award-winning actor, folk singer, and banjo player who helped popularize folk music in America.
∙ Beginning in 1940, Ives hosted the CBS radio show The Wayfarin’ Stranger, bringing folk music into homes throughout the country, until he joined the Army in 1942.
∙ Along with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, he was a member of The Almanac Singers, a political folk group active in the 1940s.
∙ His 1949 hit “Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly),” from So Dear To My Heart, was nominated for an Academy Award, and he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 1958’s The Big Country.
∙ At the 1963 Grammy Awards, he won Best Country & Western Recording honors for his song “Funny Way of Laughin’.”
∙ “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” from the beloved 1964 stop-motion TV special Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, was his biggest hit and a Top 40 song in over a dozen countries.
∙ Ives was awarded Illinois’ highest honor, The Order Of Lincoln, in 1976.
Hometown
Hunt City, IL, United States
Genre
Country