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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.
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Albums
Folk Songs Dramatic and Humorous EP
Riders in Sky Single
Big Rock Candy Mountain Single
Popular Songs
- The Wonderful Crocodile
- The Horse of Demerara
- The Robin
- Johnny Doolan's Cat
- My Fine White Pony
- Where's Joe
- Oriole
- The Robin and the Chicken
- The Owl and the Pussycat
- Jim Johnson's Mule
- The Black and White Pigeon
- I Wonder as I Wander
- Killigrew's Soiree
- Old Bangham
- Tibby Dunbar
- Hush Little Baby
- From Here on Up, the Hills Don't Get Any Higher
- Git Along Little Doggies
- Oh, My Side
- The Almighty Dollar Bill
- Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil
- I Walk the Line
- Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down
- Royal Telephone
- Delia
- Mockin' Bird Hill
- Forty Hour Week
- Little Bitty Tears
- As I Went Out One Morning
- Oh Sally, My Dear
