Tobacco's but an Indian weed -- Little Mohee -- Psalm III -- Confess Jehovah -- Old hundred -- The seven joys of Mary -- The Indian Christmas carol -- Mother goose nursery rhymes -- Mr. Froggie went a ...

CHARLESTON — Burl Ives is a household name for baby boomers and their parents alike. A film star, television actor, theater performer and, above all, a folk singer, Ives enjoyed a prolific, 50-plus ...

In the early 1970s, radio listeners would occasionally hear a disc jockey play a 45-rpm single with the reedy voice of one of America’s best known balladeers singing of his love for a small New Mexico ...

Irwin Silber, who helped spark a resurgence of interest in American folk music during the 1950s and '60s with Sing Out!, the magazine he founded and edited for nearly two decades, and who publicly ...

CHARLESTON — The legacy of an Eastern Illinois University alumnus will come to life this week at the Third Annual Embarras Valley Film Festival. Singer-actor Burl Ives is the focus of this year’s ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. Ives began as an itinerant singer ...