Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas (Grave Tribute)
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- Опубліковано 2 гру 2023
- Burl Ives Ivanhoe Ives was born on June 14, 1909 in Hunt City Illinois and sadly passed away on April 14, 1995 in Anacortes, Washington.✝️
Better known as Burl Ives, he was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.🎶🎥
His genres of music was Country music, Blues, Folk, Christmas and Traditional pop.🎶
In Burl Ives early years he went to college at Eastern Illinois State Teachers College. now (Eastern Illinois University) from 1927 to 1930. At the time, his intentions were to become a high school football coach.📚🏈
While at Eastern, he was a member of the football team and a member of the Charleston Chapter of the Order of DeMolay.
However, during a “Beowulf” lecture in his English class, Ives decided to stop pursuing his degree and he wanted to become a singer.🎙️🎶
Ives pursued his career as a singer, traveling across the United States as a freelance musician.
After Ives gained fame and recognition as a singer, he would occasionally do shows and benefits for the students at Eastern for years.
On April 27, 1990, the singer performed for a sold-out crowd in Dvorak Concert Hall the night before the arts studio was dedicated to him.
Ives had a standing ovation as he performed some of his famous hits.❤️
Burl Ives is also a US veteran.🇺🇸
In 1942 he was drafted and served in the US Army and served during World War II.
After serving his country proudly, he returned to his love of acting and music.❤️🎶🎙️🎥
The song “A Holly Jolly Christmas” was written by Johnny Marks on February 5, 1964 and was recorded by Burl Ives in November 1964☃️
Burl Ives is laid to rest in Mound Cemetery in Hunt City, IL.✝️🙏
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Hello Joseph, My name is Andrea Murphy and I am one for Burl’s grandchildren. I just wanted to tell you how lovely it is that you did this for Burl. It is so wonderful to see that someone as young as you remembers our Papa Burl and took the time to do such a meaningful tribute to him. Thank you a million times over, you brought a smile and an itty bitty tear to my face. May you and your family have a Holly Jolly Christmas this and every year.
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OMG THANK YOU Andrea!!!❤️🥲
That means so much coming from you and your family.🙏
The pleasure was all mine.❤️
I have been doing grave tributes since I was 10. and this year I decided I should do a Christmas tribute.✝️🎶 and the first person that came to mind was Mr. Burl Ives.❤️
Here is my email address.💻
josephsrocknrolladventures@gmail.com
If you email me there with your contact info, I’ll be sure to send you an autograph picture and some of my stickers along with pictures I’ve taken at his grave.📷
Thank you so much again and merry Christmas to you and your family.🎄⛄️
It's wonderful what you do, full of emotion every time. Looking forward to meeting you in 2024, Mr.Joseph’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Adventures
Thank you so much for the kind words Frederic!! ❤️
Yes, looking forward to your visit to this side of the pond.✈️🎶
Burl was a folk singer who knew Woody Guthrie too. He also knew Pete Seeger Joe.
I’ve been reading up on him, and they literally could make a movie about his life.🙏❤️🎞️
@@Josephs-Rocknroll-Adventures oh for sure. Watch Bound For Glory starring David Carradine about Woody Guthrie's life.
@@alangray9117 i’m definitely going to. I’m going to write that down and look it up.❤️🎞️
@@Josephs-Rocknroll-Adventures let me know what you think. Great classic flick.
@@alangray9117 To me he is the best folk singer around.🎶❤️
I have not seen this movie and I just found it but it’s not available on my Firestick.😞
But I just found it for sale on eBay so I’m going to buy it. 📬