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Topic: Burl Ives

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Santa Claus,  Carmen Miranda
Favorite author(s):Jules Verne,  Virginia Woolf
Favorite era(s):1940s
Favorite great leader(s):Oliver Cromwell
Likes to wear:Vinyl
Favorite movie(s):The Great Escape,  Toy Story
Listens to:Folk,  Bob Dylan,  Frank Sinatra
Ultimate fantasy(s):Getting a divorce,  Being Dolly Parton's slave
Favorite time of year:Christmas
Favorite political figure(s):Oliver Cromwell
Favorite quote(s):"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Disco is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art."
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer

Not only do we have Burl Ives and Cesar Romero redux, but if that weren't enough to make any mere mortal ecstatic with joy, we also have Lee Majors!
Movie stills feature Burl Ives, Jack Carson and Dame Judith Anderson, along with Taylor and Newman… while the play pics feature Mr.
Burl Ives' ho-ho's float through the loud-speaker and curl through the frosty air around us.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Cavanagh, former accompanist to Randy Sparks and Burl Ives, sings backup vocals, co-writes some of the tunes and plays instrumental leads and fills on mandolin, banjo, guitar or fiddle.
In the second half of his career he became a folk performer in the New York scene, hanging out with folkies like Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives and bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Alan then worked on CBS radio for some years presenting such folk singers as Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and Josh White.
Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker

Burl Ives is a genie who Tony Randall releases from a Brass Bottle.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Burl Ives was perhaps the greatest interpreter of folk songs in the twentieth century with his impeccable timing and melodious voice.
The '64 ending also includes a very nice GE end tag featuring photos of Burl Ives and all of the voice cast wishing the viewer a Very Merry Christmas.
Stasheff is a Burl Ives looking writer of fantasies with a political undertone--popular enough in Russia to have been laboriously typed into "samizdat" editions.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Burl Ives- I Know an Old Lady.
This link gives you 1 minute and 24 seconds of the Rudolph special, with Burl Ives portraying the snowman right smack dab in the middle.
 
 
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