Word: burl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burl Ives (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). Start of a weekly show, with new & old ballads plus the Ives git-fiddle...
...program for tonight will feature a rebroadcast of an Eddie Condon jazz concert, the Mozart Piano Concerto number 17 in G major, and ballads by Burl Ives...
...what youthful horse-opera fans impatiently call "love stuff." What there is plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...
Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...