Burl Ives Lyrics
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1. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
2. White Christmas
3. Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
4. Silver Bells
5. Twelve Days Of Christmas
6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
7. The Little Drummer Boy
8. What Child Is This?
9. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
10. Winter Wonderland
11. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
12. Silent Night
Other Songs A Little Bitty Tear A Little Bity Tear Aunt Rhody Aura Lee Big Rock Candy Mountain Billy Brown Blue Tail Fly Buckeye Jim By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Call Me Mr. In-between Careless Love Christmas Can't Be Far Away Clementine Colorado Trail Cowboy's Lament Darlin' cory Diesel smoke, dangerous curves Down In The Valley Drunken Sailor El Tamborilero Empty Saddles Fairest Lord Jesus Fooba Wooba John Fooba-Wooba John For Me and My Gal Frankie and Johnny Froggie Went A-courtin Funny Wat Of Laughing Funny Way Of Laughin Funny Way Of Laughing Ghost Riders In The Sky Goober Peas Green grass of home Green, Green Grass of Home Happy birthday Jesus Holly Jolly Christmas Home On The Range Homeward Bound How Deep Is the Ocean How Great Thou Art Hullabaloo Belay I know an old lady It came upon the midnight clear Jingle Bells Jingle Jingle Jingle John Henry Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) Leather-Winged Bat Leave Her, Johnny Little Green Apples Little Mohee Little White Duck Lollipop Tree Mary Ann Regrets Mocking Bird Hill Mother Goose Song Mr. In-Between Mr Rabbit My Heart Stood Still New York Girls Now Is the Hour O Little Town of Bethlehem On the Front Porch On Top Of Old Smokey On Top Of Old Smoky Pearly Shells Polly Wolly Doodle Rolling Home Roving Gambler Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Finale) Snowbird Song of the Islands Sweet Betsy from Pike Sweet by and by Tam Pierce (Widdecombe Fair) The Big Rock Candy Mountain The crawdad Song The Donut Song The Doughnut Song The Foggy Foggy Dew The fox The Golden Vanity The Little Engine That Could The Little White Duck The Loveliest Night of the Year The Man on the Flying Trapeze The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year The Old Rugged Cross The Prisoner's Song The Riddle Song The Same Old Hurt The Sow took The Measles The Ugly Bug Ball The wild side of life There's Always Tomorrow Ugly Bug Ball [From Summer Magic] Venezuela Walzing Matilda We Are Santas Elves We Wish You a Merry Christmas We're a Couple of Misfits [Soundtrack Version] What a friend we have in Jesus Wild Side of Life
Other Songs A Little Bitty Tear A Little Bity Tear Aunt Rhody Aura Lee Big Rock Candy Mountain Billy Brown Blue Tail Fly Buckeye Jim By The Light Of The Silvery Moon Call Me Mr. In-between Careless Love Christmas Can't Be Far Away Clementine Colorado Trail Cowboy's Lament Darlin' cory Diesel smoke, dangerous curves Down In The Valley Drunken Sailor El Tamborilero Empty Saddles Fairest Lord Jesus Fooba Wooba John Fooba-Wooba John For Me and My Gal Frankie and Johnny Froggie Went A-courtin Funny Wat Of Laughing Funny Way Of Laughin Funny Way Of Laughing Ghost Riders In The Sky Goober Peas Green grass of home Green, Green Grass of Home Happy birthday Jesus Holly Jolly Christmas Home On The Range Homeward Bound How Deep Is the Ocean How Great Thou Art Hullabaloo Belay I know an old lady It came upon the midnight clear Jingle Bells Jingle Jingle Jingle John Henry Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) Leather-Winged Bat Leave Her, Johnny Little Green Apples Little Mohee Little White Duck Lollipop Tree Mary Ann Regrets Mocking Bird Hill Mother Goose Song Mr. In-Between Mr Rabbit My Heart Stood Still New York Girls Now Is the Hour O Little Town of Bethlehem On the Front Porch On Top Of Old Smokey On Top Of Old Smoky Pearly Shells Polly Wolly Doodle Rolling Home Roving Gambler Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Finale) Snowbird Song of the Islands Sweet Betsy from Pike Sweet by and by Tam Pierce (Widdecombe Fair) The Big Rock Candy Mountain The crawdad Song The Donut Song The Doughnut Song The Foggy Foggy Dew The fox The Golden Vanity The Little Engine That Could The Little White Duck The Loveliest Night of the Year The Man on the Flying Trapeze The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year The Old Rugged Cross The Prisoner's Song The Riddle Song The Same Old Hurt The Sow took The Measles The Ugly Bug Ball The wild side of life There's Always Tomorrow Ugly Bug Ball [From Summer Magic] Venezuela Walzing Matilda We Are Santas Elves We Wish You a Merry Christmas We're a Couple of Misfits [Soundtrack Version] What a friend we have in Jesus Wild Side of Life
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives as an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching 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 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 Laughin'". Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the film noir Day of the Outlaw (1959).
Ives is often associated with the Christmas season. He did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Ives also worked on the special's soundtrack, including the songs "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", both of which continue to chart annually on the Billboard holiday charts into the 2020s.
Birth Name: Burl Icle Ivanhoe IvesIves began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching 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 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 Laughin'". Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the film noir Day of the Outlaw (1959).
Ives is often associated with the Christmas season. He did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Ives also worked on the special's soundtrack, including the songs "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", both of which continue to chart annually on the Billboard holiday charts into the 2020s.
Born: June 14, 1909 in Hunt City, Illinois, U.S.
Died: April 14, 1995 (at age of 85) in Anacortes, Washington, U.S.
Spouse(s): Helen Peck Ehrlich (m. 1945; div. 1971)
Dorothy Koster Paul (m. 1971)
Children: 1
Genre(s): Country music, blues, folk, Christmas, traditional pop
Instrument(s): Vocals, guitar, banjo
Occupation(s): Musician, singer, actor, author
Active From: 1929-1993