Burl Ives was one of six children born to a Scottish-Irish farming family. He first sang in public for a soldiers' reunion when he was age 4. In high school, he learned the banjo and played fullback, intending to become a football coach when he enrolled at Eastern Illinois State Teacher's College in 1927. He dropped out in 1930 and wandered, hitching rides, doing odd jobs, street singing...See full bio »
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Love and Equity
(1969)
(performer: "Three Little Piggies" - uncredited, "I Was Born About Ten-Thousand Years Ago" - uncredited, "Seven Great Towns Of Greece" - uncredited, "The Tea Tax" - uncredited)
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A Tall Tale of Prater Beaseley
(1969)
(performer: "On Springfield Mountain" - uncredited, "Devilish Mary" - uncredited)
1950Sierra
(writer: "THE WHALE SONG", "SARAH THE MULE" / performer: "HIDEAWAY", "END OF THE ROAD", "THE WHALE SONG", "SARAH THE MULE", "BLACK ANGUS MCDOUGAL", "DRIFT ALONG")
1948Station West
(performer: "A Stranger in Town" - uncredited, "The Sun Shining Warm", "A Man Can't Grow Old" - uncredited)
1948Green Grass of Wyoming
(writer: "The Ballad of Thunderhead" / performer: "The Ballad of Thunderhead", "I Married a Wife I Wish I Were Single Again", "Where, Oh Where Is Dear Little Susie Way Down Yonder in the Papaw Patch")
Unsold pilot: In 1965, he co-starred in a pilot for a proposed ABC comedy series called "My Man St. John", about a billionaire who hires a man to tutor his kids and finds that his new tutor could care less about his wealth and influence. The pilot was produced by Abe Burrows.
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I was fortunate to be born into a family of Masons. Indeed, my older sister Audrey was Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Illinois. My DeMolay experience came very naturally because of my father and brothers. Thus was my youth enhanced.
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Trivia:
Burl Ives was the voice of Sam the Eagle, the narrator of the classic Disneyland attraction "American Sings" (1974-1988) in Tomorrowland.
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