Artist: Burl Ives
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
Lavender Blue
Year: 2000
Tracks: 25
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Year: 1995
Tracks: 19
The Nashville Years, Vol. 5
Year: 1993
Tracks: 28
The Nashville Years, Vol. 4
Year: 1993
Tracks: 31
The Nashville Years, Vol. 3
Year: 1993
Tracks: 30
The Nashville Years, Vol. 2
Year: 1993
Tracks: 27
The Nashville Years, Vol. 1
Year: 1961
Tracks: 28
Burl Ives - Country Gold
Year:
Tracks: 20
With his grandfatherly picture, Burl Ives parlayed his talent as a folksinger into a varied career as a radio receiver personality and stage and screen doer. After outgo his early 20s travel the country as an itinerant isaac Bashevis Singer, Ives moved to New York City in 1937. By the conclusion of 1938, he had made his Broadway debut, and he too american ginseng folk music songs in Greenwich Village clubs. In 1940, Ives began to appear regularly on radio, including his own present, The Wayfarin' Stranger, on CBS. Ives made his first records for Stinson, a belittled folk music label, then was signed to Decca, a major label. He made his motion-picture show debut in Smoky in 1946. In 1948, his first gear book, Wayfaring Stranger, was promulgated. In 1949, he had his first gear chart reach with "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)." The same class, he affected to Columbia Records. With the second Coming of the long-play record, Ives on the spur of the moment had a flurry of LP releases from his trey labels: The Wayfaring Stranger on Stinson; triplet volumes of Ballads & Folk Songs, Women: Folk Songs About the Fair Sex, Folks Songs Dramatic and Humorous, and Christmastide Day in the Morning on Decca; and Wayfaring Stranger, Take back of the Wayfaring Stranger, More Folk Songs, American Hymns, The Animal Fair and Mother Goose Songs on Columbia. He as well recorded a series of albums for Encyclopedia Brittanica Films under the boilers suit title Historical America in Song. In 1951, he strike the Top Ten with "On Top of Old Smoky." In 1952, he returned to Decca. While continuing to publish books and to do on Broadway and in the movies, Ives made a series of albums that included Enthronisation Concert, The Wild Side of Life, Men, Depressed to the Sea in Ships, In the Quiet of the Night, Burl Ives Sings for Fun, Songs of Ireland, Old Time Varieties, Chieftain Burl Ives' Ark, Aussie Folk Songs, and Cheers, all released in the second half of the fifties. In 1961, Ives orientated himself toward body politic euphony, resulting in the hit "A Little Bitty Tear," which made the Top Ten in both the pop and land charts. The single was contained on The Versatile Burl Ives. "Mirthful Way of Laughin'" was some other pop and land Top Ten in 1962; it appeared on It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' and won Ives a Grammy Award for Best Country Western Recording. He turned his attention in the first place to pic work from 1963 on, peculiarly with the Walt Disney studio. But he charted with Pearly Shells in 1964 and made a children's album, Chim Chim Cheree and Other Children's Choices, for Disney Buena Vista Records. At the end of the '60s, Ives returned to Columbia Records for The Times They Are A-Changin' and Softly and Tenderly. He gave up popular recording, but returned in 1973 with the res publica album Payin' My Dues Again. He as well continued to track record children's music and besides released respective religious albums on Word Records. Turning 70 in 1979, he became less active and eventually retired to Washington State. In the '90s, Decca and the German Bear Family label reissued many of his recordings.
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