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The Burl Ives Sing-Along Song Book: A Treasury of American Folk Songs & Ballads, 1963; Albad the Oaf. London: Abelard-Schuman, 1965; More Burl Ives Songs. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966; Sing a Fun Song. New York: Southern Music Publishing, 1968; Burl Ives: Four Folk Song and Four Stories, co-authored with Barbara Hazen. N.p.:
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs.
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Ives recorded the song for his album, The Versatile Burl Ives!, in 1961. This version was released as a single late in the year, and it became one of Ives' highest-charting hits early the next year. It made the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1962, peaking at number nine. [ 4 ]
All the same, Seeger claimed to have been present when Alan Lomax [63] first taught the song to Burl Ives for a CBS radio show [62] and their duet at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in 1993 was Ives' last public performance. [64] The song has also occurred as instrumentals:
Songs of the West (Decca DL 4179, 1961) is one of the several albums from the early 1960s that signalled Burl Ives's move away from folk music into country western and pop. In Ives's discography this album is immediately preceded by The Versatile Burl Ives! and followed by It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' , two Decca albums containing songs ...
"Funny Way of Laughin'" is a song written by Hank Cochran and performed by Burl Ives. It reached #3 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, #9 on the U.S. country chart, #10 on the U.S. pop chart, #18 on Canada's CHUM Chart, and #29 on the UK Singles Chart in 1962. [1] [2] It was featured on his 1962 album It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin'. [3]
Historical America in Song, released in 1950 by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, is an album set by folk singer Burl Ives.Each of the six albums consists of five 12-inch vinylite records, for a total of thirty 78 rpm records. [1]