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...Burl Ives Sings "Little White Duck" and Other Children's Favorites (Columbia). Big Daddy thrums his guitar and sings Mr. Froggie Went A-Courtin', The Grey Goose, and the rest, with a voice that is clear as a mountain stream and cozy as sitting by the fire. In the path of Burl's music, the weather of a child's mind seems to turn sunny, rapt, calm...
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger (Folkways). Only a tossed coin could choose between Burl Ives and Pete Seeger in folk-song appeal. Purists may find Seeger's numbers a shade more authentic or the twang of his guitar a trifle more personable...
...mildly, brilliant. He is the illegitimate son of a convicted killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
Holiday, U.S.A. (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Versatile Folk Singer-Actor Burl Ives sounds off on American song styles from 19th century tinkle-tankle to the latest Broadway specimens...
...many Oscars available (23 in all) that Gigi, winner of the Best Movie award, was able to dance off with eight subsidiary awards without really hogging the show. Best Actress Susan Hayward (7 Want To Live!) and Best Actor David Niven (Separate Tables) were popular favorites. Nobody disapproved of Burl Ives's Best Supporting Actor award either. Nor was the crowd too upset that Britain's Wendy Hiller was named Best Supporting Actress for her relatively small role in Separate Tables...