Word: burl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln's favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby troubadour Burl Ives first heard The Blue-Tail...
...Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only...
...followed it with the somewhat bigger Barbara Allen. Then she sang an old Irish song, and a Scotch ballad with a bit of a burr. For her encore she brought out a zither, and broke into the jingling Foggy, Foggy Dew, which another Barney Josephson find, tubby Troubadour Burl Ives, has made...
...long procession troop Susannah, Frankie & Johnnie, Captain Jinks, Casey Jones, Daisy with her answer true. And easy, engaging Ballad Singer Burl Ives throws in his own specialties-Foggy, Foggy Dew, Blue Tail Fly, and that luscious glimpse of Hobo Heaven, Rock Candy Mountain...
Soon afterward, Burl ambled over to CBS to sing on Back Where I Come From. A million listeners were soon tuning in regularly to hear the "Wayfarin' Stranger." Strumming a tentative chord or two, singing as though he were alone and were singing just to hear himself sing, Burl acquainted his listeners with such magic Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike...