Folk singer Burl Ives used Christmas to cross over to the mainstream with his rendition of 'A Holly Jolly Christmas,' which became a pop hit in 1965 and a country holiday staple in the decades since.
WDOK-FM Star 102 in Cleveland flipped its radio format at 7 a.m. today to all Christmas music during the Jen and Tim Show.
Dec. 20—Billboard's Hot 100 songs chart saw a slight change this week, with Mariah Carey regaining the #1 spot, with her modern-day holiday classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You." Carey hit the top ...
According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby ...
Burl Ives, who hoboed with Woody Guthrie and won Academy Awards, was that rare artist whose life was as interesting as the lives he sang about. Ives died yesterday morning at his Seattle home after a ...
In the early 1970s, radio listeners would occasionally hear a disc jockey play a 45-rpm single with the reedy voice of one of America’s best known balladeers singing of his love for a small New Mexico ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. Ives began as an itinerant singer ...
SHEBOYGAN – Well-known singer and actor Burl Ives had Sheboygan County as a grooming ground for his musical education in his formative years. In 1933, according to Katie Reilly of the Sheboygan County ...
Although music has always been near and dear to Grizzly Prospectors!’s sole member Parker Reece Yates, he didn’t officially consider himself a musician until the summer of 2005. “The creative juices ...