answers WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN:
Burl Ives; a breed of dog; Paris; 1957 REMEMBER WHEN: 1955 IMPOSSIPUZZLES: 147, 258 and 369 WORDWISE: B WHO AM I: Sissy Spacek 10 QUESTIONS: 1 Octopussy, 2 Greenland, 3 Kew (in London), 4 An island in the middle of the Tyne (near Elswick), 5 Damian Hinds, 6 Animation, 7 Evelyn Waugh, 8 Tartare sauce, 9 Ray Davies, 10 Raffia
As we pass through Motor City, once again the same radio station is blaring Have A Holly Jolly Christmas sung by
Burl Ives. It's early November and Doc and I are as giddy as two seven-year olds, belting out the lyrics to the classic song, laughing all the way--to Mag-na-port.
And to close, here are the hit Christmas tunes of the 2017 Holiday Season: All I Want For Christmas Is You by Carey; Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee; It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by Andy Williams; The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) by Nat King Cole; A Holly Jolly Christmas by
Burl Ives; Last Christmas by Wham!; Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano; Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms; Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow by Dean Martin; and Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry.
That's singer/actor
Burl Ives in the center and author MacKinlay Kantor at far right.
The legitimacy of popular folk was further enforced by emerging conceptions of the personal integrity that could be gained through folk performance, a departure from a collective "social" authenticity that was characteristic of earlier understandings of folk as "people's music." As
Burl Ives asserted in a 1954 article, "folk music is made up by just anybody who can; it is music used by people as their own personal musical expression" (p.
But there have been few celebrations of horrid beings since
Burl Ives sang The Ugly Bug Ball in Disney's film Summer Magic back in 1963.
* The revival's roots in the 1930s and 1940s, when singers such as Woody Guthrie, Josh White, and
Burl Ives moved to New York, drawn by performance opportunities and the progressive political climate.
He said: "Everyone was a huge
Burl Ives fan and I was fascinated by his playing.
BORN Edward Fox, actor, pictured, 1937; Al Green, soul singer, 1946; Peter Davison, actor, 1951; Stephen Byers, former Labour MP, 1953; Garry Kasparov, former chess champion, 1963; Ricky Schroder, actor, 1970 Wilf Mannion, Middlesbrough and England footballer, pictured, 2000; Anthony Newley, British actor and singer, 1999;
Burl Ives, folk singer/actor, 1995; John Stonehouse, British politician, 1988.
In 1995, Oscar-winning actor-singer
Burl Ives died in Anacortes, Washington, at age 85.
Lloyd, and
Burl Ives in the popularizing of this song.
It was while she was remastering an ancient
Burl Ives Christmas album, about 15 years ago, that she decided she needed to rethink her career choice and went back to school.