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My 90 year old parents listened to him some. He was also into some Christmas movies.
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Not to mention the cameo in Animal House
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Wasn't he in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"? Big Daddy?
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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.
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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.
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He was in the movie The Big Country.
Good role.
Good role.
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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.
My mother was a fan of his.
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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.
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.
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.
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Put his 78s on 33 and it’s the soundtrack for a horror movie!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.
If we still had them (and a record player) I would try that.
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You don't have a record player ! How can you listen to the latest music ,listen to a radio?
