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[Raul-02]

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I remember him being popular in the late 50's and early 60's.

 

[Torvy]

My 90 year old parents listened to him some. He was also into some Christmas movies.

 

[jaxs]

It's a toss up which I enjoy more,his songs or acting. East Of Eden with James Dean was a classic that showcased Ives'.

 

[Raul-02]

He was also into some Christmas movies.

Not to mention the cameo in Animal House

 

[Yander]

"So dear to my heart" Classic Disney, one of my favorite Disney movies.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Wasn't he in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? Big Daddy?

 

[scaredychicken]

I'm pretty sure that in about 1972 when I was 8, I received a Captain Burl Ives Greatest Hits vinyl album. It was my FIRST album that was personally mine, and I kinda cherished it.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[KennyG]

Ives was a very complex, interesting person that the public didn't really see. He was born in a small town in central Illinois near where I grew up. He was college football player, a WW2 veteran, a dedicated communist (until he flipped during the red scare hearings in the 1950's). He's best known for simple folk songs that almost seem like kids songs, but he was a much more sophisticated composer and musician.

 

[MossRoad]

He was in the movie The Big Country.

Good role.

 

[Oaktree]

I also seem to recall him in a movie called Summer Magic in the early 60s. Don't remember much about it, my sisters wanted to see it but weren't old enough to go alone so I got volunteered.
My mother was a fan of his.

 

[Alan W.]

I remember the voice for the snowman on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

 

[Bird]

He was in the movie The Big Country.

Good role.

Yes, I liked that movie, and have watched it more than once. And the first live professional stage act I ever went to see was Burl Ives in "Joshua Been and God" in Dallas when I was about 20 years old; more than 60 years ago. It was a one man show in which he played a preacher who put himself on equal footing with God.

 

[Jstpssng]

Boy, did I ever read the headline wrong!!! I thought somebody had gotten TBN confused with the "Personals" section of the local newspaper.

I remember Burl Ives mostly as the snowman in "Rudolph...", we also had a couple of 78 rpm kids records by him, but I don't remember what he was singing.

 

[MossRoad]

Boy, did I ever read the headline wrong!!! I thought somebody had gotten TBN confused with the "Personals" section of the local newspaper.

I remember Burl Ives mostly as the snowman in "Rudolph...", we also had a couple of 78 rpm kids records by him, but I don't remember what he was singing.

Put his 78s on 33 and it’s the soundtrack for a horror movie!

 

[Jstpssng]

Put his 78s on 33 and it’s the soundtrack for a horror movie!

If we still had them (and a record player) I would try that.

 

[jaxs]

If we still had them (and a record player) I would try that.

You don't have a record player ! How can you listen to the latest music ,listen to a radio?