The Mysterious Life and Tragic Ending Of Burl Ives
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- The Mysterious Life and Tragic Ending Of Burl Ives.
Burl Ives, born on June 14, 1909, was an American singer, actor, and folk music icon. Renowned for his booming bass-baritone voice and captivating stage presence, Ives left an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. Hailing from Jasper County, Illinois, he began his career as a wandering troubadour, performing at various venues and developing a deep appreciation for folk music. His rich and resonant voice soon caught the attention of audiences and industry professionals alike, leading him to achieve great success in both music and acting.
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I am so glad that his Christmas song "A Holly, Jolly Christmas" is still played every year on the radio. It always seems to put me in a good mood.
I have a Santa doll that sings Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. I love it.
I LOVE Holly Jolly Christmas!
Tradition!
We listened to his children’s songs when I was young, and now I’m so grateful to let my 5 month old great granddaughter lister to his wonderful kids songs, like the grey goose. God Bless him for his legacy.
About 1950 Burl Ives came to Australia and entertained troops preparing for deployment to Korea. This was at the Ingleburn Army Camp theatre and I was in the audience as a 10 year old with my family. My father was in the Army and families were invited. I have not forgotten the occasion nor Burl Ives.
WOW - - - In the late forties, Ives signed the petition of the Committee for the First Amendment, organized by William Wyler, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and John Houston, to protest the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation of the Hollywood Ten. He supported the presidential candidacy of Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace. In 1950, their appeals exhausted, the Hollywood Ten went to jail. As the “hot” Korean war began, anti-Communist hysteria intensified. Entertainment executives from the movie and broadcasting industries met in New York and announced their patriotic decision not to hire anyone suspicious or controversial. Over President Truman’s veto, Congress passed the McCarran and Smith Acts requiring the registration of “subversives” and making it illegal for them to have passports and travel. Ives found himself listed as a suspected Communist sympathizer in Red Channels, a booklet put out by ex-FBI agents, to help employers “vet” entertainers. To be removed a performer had to formally renounce his previous beliefs, humiliate himself by publicly declaring he or she had been a “dupe,” and denounce his associates by name before Congress (a ceremonial requirement because the names of former Communists were already known to the F.B.I and the legislature). Ron Cohen quotes a letter Ives received in September 1950 from the administration of Washington University, where he was scheduled to perform, stating that the university had received some protests challenging his loyalty. “Of course Washington University ‘steadfastly maintained that academic freedom, which means the intellectual freedom of its employees, must not be infringed,’ but, since the, ‘ Communist Party does not allow its members this kind of freedom’ the University ‘ will not allow members of that Party to use its classrooms and platforms’” (The Rainbow Quest, p. 80). Ives replied by defending his support of unions and other causes (as he had in his autobiography, The Wayfaring Stranger, first published in 1949). He denied having ever been a Communist. It was not known what, if any, other pressures were put on Ives; from 1950 to 1952, it was not uncommon for people to be shadowed by agents and interrogated at home. Ives’s rendition of “On Top of Old Smoky” made the top ten of the hit parade, but folk music was not heard on television. In 1951, the Weavers, hitherto very popular, abruptly lost all their bookings because of blacklisting.
My father was the Director of Student Activities and ran the Student Union at Western IL. U. Burl Ives brother lived and farmed in Macomb IL, Burl would make surprise visits to see his brother. He would approach dad and 1 day / Night he would do a free concert in the Mississippi Room, those in attendance would have a blast, me included. Burl was kind generous man, and I am so happy, I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Ives.
Your so blessed , I would have loved to seen him in concert and meet him , thanks for sharing .
What an honor 💙
Burls sister was my second grade teacher ( Mildred Russell) and came to my small South school in Arlington Heights and sing in the hall for us in 1946. Jan Behrens
I love Burl Ives , his songs always put me in good place . I thank his voice is so soothing and relaxing it always makes me happy . Thank you I didn't know this much about him .
Just saw the movie "The Big Country" loved his acting!! Also his singing
I think the scene with him chewing out the other rancher is one of the best scenes in a movie I have ever seen. (I'm 66) The way his lip quivers while bawling them out is a great show of emotional acting.
As a kid, I grew up, listening to his music, because my grandmother loved his singing. Especially his Holiday albums. Also his narration for “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the red nose reindeer”.
I too grew up watching Frosty the Snowman , The Abominable Snowman, And Frosty the Snowman. I'm 60 now but still have a soft spot for his voiceovers. Gives me warm shivers❤❤❤
At the very end of his career, Ives was scheduled to sing at a final folk concert. Pete Seeger was scheduled to sing at the same concert but said he wanted to go on at at different time then Ives. At the rehearsal, Ives was too sick to play guitar & was in a wheelchair. When he tried to wheel himself onto the stage, Ives was too sick to make the marks on the stage. When it came time for Ives to make his performance, everyone was surprised & amazed to see Pete Seeger wheeling Ives onto the stage. Then Seeger accompanied Ives on his 5-string banjo. Later, Seeger said it was time to forget & forgive.
That's a nice story.
Too bad it wasn't sooner. But better late than never.
Thanks for that story.
That's me saying thanks. Grew up on Burl Yves and Harry Belafonte.
Rest in peace, you made me very happy with his Christmas songs. I consider him the best Christmas singer ever.
Whenever I hear the the term “Americana”, Burl Ives immediately comes to mind.
He was very talented, I have most of his albums and was a great story teller.May he RIP
What a fabulous saying, he packed his dreams, just fantastic, I am 74 and have heard that saying before.
I love his version of A Little Bitty Tear Let Me Down !
Me too!
My dad used to sing that one. That, and Put Your Sweet Lips a Little Closer to the Phone.
Spoiled my Act as a Clown!
@@marknewton6984 song was in 1993 film. TRUE ROMANCE
His acting in Cat-Roof was superb!
I'm 80 yrs old and grew up listening to Burl Ives, who can forget his voice and his intilling memories with Frosty the Snoman, Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, and Have a Holly JOlly Christmas and many more. quick wit and charm loving memories in my heart and mind thank you Burl for them. God Speed. ECF
For me, growing up in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia now) in the 50's.
Burl Ives provided the music of my young years.
I loved his voice and his story telling ability.
Although, in my teens, I gravitated towards Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and that ilk.
I continued to love Burls voice and recounteur.
There was a bit of Mark Twain in Burl.
His most charming and moving expression of compassion in the 1962 movie "The Spiral Road" has never been exceeded. It was so gentle that it was resurrected by Sean Connery in "Indiana Jones, The Last Crusade" to a great effect.
A classic voice and a terrific actor brilliant in The big country
Burl Ives Wins Supporting Actor: 1959 Oscars
Thank you for this video. I do wish you you stop using the clickbait “tragic ending” in your video titles. It dishonors the legacy of those artists.
True. It's absurd how often the "tragic" theme is borrowed. Death in general tends to be tragic, but Ives managed to reach age 86.
Won't be christmas if I don't listen to his songs. Thank you
Thank you thank you for this.i love that man he is and was every that is good about our country.
Still my favorite singer of Christmas songs.
In the mid 1950's, I adored his "Bear and the Ball and the Parasol." I was 6. I think I still have that record.
Can't replicate his voice. So unique.
I was somewhat surprised to hear he passed away in Anacortes Washington. This is my home state. It would have been great to have met him at least once. Rest well sir.🙏
His acting was incredible.
He won an Oscar for his role in 'The Big Country' - a fact not mentioned here.
I grew up on Burl Ives. Love him with a passion❤❤❤
If this was a tragic ending, I guess we're all headed that way.
What a Wonderful man truly Heavenly sent unique in every way his singing and acting was magical.
My father used to work with Burl as part of a small dance band out of Elkhart Lake, Wi. This was back in the 1940's before he was that well known.. He was beloved by all the band members, who used to refer to him, affectionately, as "Ferdie". He was a great guy.
He was among the first to record "Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer, too. He did not write it. I have taught from his collections for 60 years and sung many of them. His children's songs are not specifically for children. He collected sea shanties and my students love them. He recorded The Oxdriver's Song, a historical reminiscence of the first teamsters who drove oxen carts with goods over the entire nation before the railroads. He definitely screwed over many of his early allies during HUAC & claim authorship of songs he didn't write (Big Rock Candy Mountain for one). He was
a mixed bag. None will forget his marvelous performance as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. There was a picture of him with Luana Patton and Bobby driscoll from So Dear to My Heart. I'll have to watch it again.
When a some enters public domain it can be re arranged and then that arrangement belongs to you and you are identified as the composer.
Example: Greenback Dollar written by Hoyt Axton. Hoyt found this song in the public domain and recorded his version with acoustic guitar. The Kingston Trio liked it and got permission from Hoyt to do their rendition using Hoyts demo. The rest is history. It was a smash hit.
Big rock candy mountain's plad it loud on a London bus today😁👍 top big FELLA 🙏💯🇬🇧 great in film also,
Sad i was when he died.
Great memories he left.
🙏🎬🧐💪🤩💓😘
Burl Ives was also a very talented actor.
He deserves an Oscar for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
@@marknewton6984 I agree 👍
@@user-bn4se4bk5b Was there ever a Big Daddy like him? Great movie.
A fond part of my childhood as a child of the sixties
After hearing"Big rock candy mountains" and"Were have all the flowers gone",i was sold.Wish there were more Burl Ivesses,he had courage.
I remember when he and his wife moved from the LA area to Washington and he had been a active freemason for at the time in the early 90s , 50 years and his SoCal lodge asked the Washington lodge near him to present him his 50 year pin , which they gladly did
I always thought he was very sexy. I love his voice. Considering he was a lifelong smoker he died of oral cancer age 85, just 2 months before his 86th birthday. He lived a long life and with enormous fame and fortune...a long life despite his smoking habits and morbid obesity.
Indeed 85 not to many people get to that. Loved him and still he lives on we can lisen to him when ever we want.
Loved him. Wonderful man.
I enjoyed his music for years
July 2023 👍💕🇨🇦
Holly Jolly Christmas is the perfect example of his great voice.
The title of this piece is inappropriate and does not fairly reflect the life of Burl Ives, who rose from a very humble beginning to an international star who was loved by at least two generations of Americans. He was caught up in the horrors of the McCarthy era, as were so many fine Americans, but he survived that as well. Although he died of cancer at 85, that's hardly the point of his life. His accomplishments should be reflected in the title of this video.
This channel always heads up its bios "the life & tragic ending of..."
RIP
Burl Ives
(1909-1995)
No matter what urban legends say he was not a victim of the blue tailed fly. So Jimmy crack corn.
Top man Very much missed❤
Actually , he is americas first popular (pop) star, r.i.p. burl!
Loved Burl Ives. Still lisen to him today. my favored big rock candy mountain. and so many more.
As a huge metal fan, I have to get my Burl Ives fix every so often.
Too bad that Burl Ives needs to be put down
I like him with Haley Milles in Polly Anna. He sang The Ugly Bug Ball. He was a delightful actor and singer.😅🎶🎶🎶🐛🐛🎶🍄🇱🇷
One of the very best entertainers ever.
I lived a ways up the road from him in 69. He kept horses at the same stable as my folks had ponies..i think....maybe they just rented them. Not entirely sure. I was all of 4 at the time. All I truly remember was meeting him one time. He put me on one of his horses. I also remember him building a helicopter pad at his house way down the road from our house. Know he had many major stares in the day landing there over the year we lived there. Miss him I remember him treating me as an adult even as young as I was
You should include locations, where he grew up, where to college. And what tragic ending? Seems pretty normal to me.
This channel always heads up its bios that way.
This video is very full of minutiae, detail, anda thorough recounting of Burl Ives life, so im betting the part of the title that states that Burl had a tragic death is also clickbait, and not true. I find the actual content about Burl Ives life to be fascinating enough. You didnt need that ridiculous title....ok, mouth cancer is not a good way to go. But, what a life.
After listening to this I love burl Ives even more
He was able to distinguish the difference between the radical left and real American values even then
That album cover is terrifying
I daw a complete set of his songs in a huge folder in the local HMV record store.
I regret not buying it.
Odd no mention was made of Burl Ives having reached the 33rd Degree status with the Scottish Rite.
the truth of his success
@@christopherallen9580 And sadly not mentioned in this video.
Nor of his acting Oscar for 'The Big Country.'
I thought his most powerfull performances were as a heavy, Cat on a hot tin roof. Big country.
Burl lves, and Edmund Fitzgerald are my favorites
He looks like the guy in the cartoon with Yukon Cornelius
Mr. Ives was America personified!
It really is an actual untruth when you use a headline like that. I don't remember you using the word communist here?
i/we followed him early 60's. before i knew my dad, J Ferd, idolized him and when sister conected a call in request for radio show, said dedicated to him fave song/Waffaring stranger. Dad said met at presidential dinner for soldiers, i not got date but recording should be in library of his , mountian music buddies in , motor pool.infantry besides the other military bands,choir, and Burle Ives. but headliner was Jubilee singers. i do many tune of or like him in my practice of my Repyouguitar...other family friend passed think knew of him and Pete. Banjoist Billie Faire. ?
I didn't learn what party he became disenchanted with.
@7 mins 19-20 seconds: you said, “Burt Ives”. The correct first name is: BURL
He went to DANCE ON THE WIND BECAUSE LOVE NEVER DIES. 🎉
"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity!"
-- Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Deserves an Oscar!
No mention of his movie roles? Where was he born? Which “party” didn” t live up to his ideals? Why leave this detail out?
his Dylan covers were tragic
B.I. was also a tough SOB. Undoubtably genteel, but an undominable will.
Glad he wasn't a far left loon.
Burl Ives was a patriotic American, hence his rejection of the American Communistic Party lines and their American shill, Pete Seeger. Burl Ives was a multi-talented artist. I grew up hearing his voice singing folk music and seeing him perform in motion pictures. He was superb at both venues.
Seeger was no shil for anyone. He, too, left the party when it became clear that it wasn't what he had thought it was. Pete stood for working people, the underdog, women's rights. He
did a huge service when he created a movement to clean up the Hudson river in the 80's & now it is swimmable. Both of these men were remarkable and those of us who sing their music can't thank them enough for their service.
ALL HIS MUSIC WAS JEMS ,R.I.P. BURL, MR.IN-BETWEEN
if pete seeger could forgive burl for what he did and became, so can i. thanks pete, thanks burl.
Sorry...i missed what is the "tragic ending" part? He died at age 85 after living a full and successful life.
Tragic ending??
A decent overview of his life, nothing earth shattering. But the tin-ny, jagged voice of the narration is jarring to listen to. I'm guessing it's an AI generated thing? A slight accent, but I don't think any actual accent would repeatedly say "ill-loose-strious", or melodic as "mella-dick". So many of these homemade docs always lose something when they don't use a real voice actor, or someone who can just read enjoyably.
If Seeger was alive today no doubt he would champion the palistinien terrorists, As good a person as he was , his naivity was that much greater. A wonderful artist,& a true shlomeil.
good morgen freeman impersonation
Was it he who sang... Pearly shells on the sea shore?/
Very interesting, and talented man, but your narration is impossible to listen to for no more than a couple minutes, and leaves a lot to be desired.
the first attempt to access this video put me on a 3.5 minute ad for some fat burning concoction a fat woman had invented. There was no place to click "Skip."
My God, I HATE these AI robot narratives. The "ill-loose-treus town hall". Just hire your bum of a brother in law for $20 to read the narration. They are getting better but that worries and scares me even more. Watch the "60 Minutes" story (Oct 8 2023) about AI and listen to the "Father of AI" scientist's dire warnings about what he has (and now seriously regrets) created.
"Renowned for his booming bass-baritone voice" ... yeah, I don't think so. Tenor.
I don’t understand why people with Great singing voices smoke so stupid
This narrator is awful AI. can’t say ‘ing’ only ‘in’ and saying he ‘toured his vast homeland’ sounds like their talking about ‘mother’ Russia. My god how bad / dangerous will AI get?
These “voices” make me ill. But if I was an enterprising Cypriot living in Prague I might try this too. As those tortured animals who served as phonograph needles for The Flintstones would say, “It’s a living.” I turned to this story to see if the rumor is true that Ives didn’t like children. I mentioned this to a family that was related to him. They strongly denied it. So there must have been something to it. 😆
These “voices” make me ill. But if I was an enterprising Cypriot living in Prague I might try this too. As those tortured animals who served as phonograph needles for The Flintstones would say, “It’s a living.”
I turned to this story to see if the rumor is true that Ives didn’t like children. I mentioned this to a family that was related to him. They strongly denied it. So there must have been something to it. 😆
"Illoostrious" got to me.
@@martinphilip8998 might you be confusing him with W. C. Fields who famously hated working with children?
@@alicethephoenix4766 Fields was envious of the attention Baby Leroy got. It was actually in the obit I read for Ives. I met someone who married into that family and she swore that it wasn’t true. She seemed angry that I’d even been half aware.
I'm glad that he rejected Communism!
Is this a very natural-sounding machine-made voice that almost pronounces words correctly? Or just some guy who don't know English?
Some guy that don't know English? 😂
It mispronounced “illustrious” twice.
@@DH-ve5bl He misprounces a lot of things.
A machine. Blah!!!
Just like the commenter who doesn’t know English !
Was he a racist?!? We wanna know!!
illustrious
ĭ-lŭs′trē-əs
He ratted out Pete Seeger
Good.
Burl was great!