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...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 then did it have trouble. Hollywood wanted to fancy up the lyrics...
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...
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