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On Jun 14, 1909: #BurlIves, American folk singer ("A Little Bitty Tear"; "Silver And Gold"), actor (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), and snowman (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), born in Hunt City, Illinois (d. 1995).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🕊️🤍 -
Oh Mary Don't You Weep 😭
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Oh Mary Don't You Weep 💐
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Burl Ives:
🎵 Big Rock Candy Mountain (from Sing Out Sweet Land)https://burl-ives.bandcamp.com/track/big-rock-candy-mountain-2
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#Gay #Communist and #UnionActivist! Grampa Walton — #WillGeer: a #Radical with Woody Guthrie, et al
"[Will Geer] began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats.
"Geer was also the lover of #GayActivist #HarryHay. In 1934, Hay met Geer at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to #RadicalGay #Activism in the person of '#Clarabelle,' a #DragQueen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police.
"Geer made his Broadway debut as Pistol in a 1928 production of Much Ado About Nothing, created the role of Mr. Mister in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, played Candy in John Steinbeck’s theatrical adaptation of his novella Of Mice and Men, and appeared in numerous plays and revues throughout the 1940s. From 1948 to 1951, he appeared in more than a dozen movies, including Winchester ’73, Broken Arrow, Comanche Territory (1950) and Bright Victory.
"Geer became a member of the #CommunistParty of the United States in 1934. Geer was also influential in introducing Harry Hay to organizing in the Communist Party.
"Geer became a dedicated activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like #BurlIves and #WoodyGuthrie (whom he introduced to the People’s World and the #DailyWorker; Guthrie would go on to write a column for the latter paper). In 1956, the duo released an album together on Folkways Records, titled Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie. In his biography, fellow organizer and gay rights pioneer Harry Hay described Geer’s activism and outlined their activities while organizing for the strike. Geer is credited with introducing Guthrie to #PeteSeeger at the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ benefit Geer organized in 1940 for #MigrantFarmWorkers.
"Geer did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut with the Group Theatre (New York) studying under Lee Strasberg.
"Geer was blacklisted in the early 1950s for refusing to testify before the House Committee on #UnAmerican Activities. As a result, Geer appeared in very few films over the following decade. Notable among them was Salt of the Earth which was produced, directed, written, and starring blacklisted Hollywood personnel and told the story of a miners’ #strike in New Mexico from a pro-#union standpoint."
#TheWaltons #GrandpaWalton #GBLTQ #GBLTQActors #Activists #RedScare
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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town 🎅🏻
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Silver & Gold ✨
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Oh Mary Don't You Weep 💐
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Silver & Gold 🥇
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“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1966) features Boris Karloff as The Narrator and Thurl Ravenscroft as The Singer. And “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1964) features narration by Burl Ives
#RetroView #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer #BorisKarloff #ThurlRavenscroft #BurlIves #HappyHolidays -
NOW PLAYING: Burl Ives - "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
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NOW PLAYING: Burl Ives - "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
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Are you related or connected to Burl Ives? Ives-676 on WikiTree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34cc9u6omNg&list=PLEqK4ICkQWXRAd3T3hEAch0yAO9UL8plB
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#CollaborativeGenealogy
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Those people celebrate the Rudolph anniversary, and I celebrate #BurlIves ...as does #JohnnyCash here, with a medley of Burl's hits (A Little Bitty Tear, Mary Don't You Weep, Goober Peas and Lorena) after introducing Burl as a balladier. Could have called him a folk singer, but no--balladier. Well done, Johnny.
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#HashtagGames
#RejectedComfortFoodASongPeas peas peas peas
Eatin' goober peas
Goodness how delicious
Eatin' goober peas -
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#HashtagGames
#MakeASongTrivialA little bitty tear didn't let me down.
I went on with my act as a clown
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#WiggleJiggleOrGiggleASongOrPoemPeas peas
Peas peas
Eatin' Giggle Peas
Goodness, how delicious
Eatin' Giggle Peas! -
André De Toth's Day of the Outlaw (1959), a fine intelligent complex 50s western. Starts as a typical "ranchers against farmers" story with a romantic triangle and becomes something quite different. Fine performance by Tina Louise.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2024/06/day-of-outlaw-1959.html
#50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #westerns #AndreDeToth #BurlIves #RobertRyan #TinaLouise
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#HashtagGames
#PeanutButterAndJellyASongOrPoemGoodness how delicious--Jelly and Goober Peas! #BurlIves #JohnnyCash
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The Nightmare Before A Holly Jolly Christmas
#MashupHorrorFilmsAndSongs #12DaysOfHalloween #HashTagGames #HollyJollyChristmas #BurlIves #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas @hashtaggames
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CW: Big rock candy mountain - Burl Ives
A song about paradise: the paradise of someone's dreams, never quite to be reached.
George McClintock wrote the song as a sarcastic pastiche of the Roaring Twenties, Burl Ives had the hit with a bowdlerised version.
The song inspired a real-life Big Rock Candy Mountain resort, near Marysville in Utah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7kT-4HXorg
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And our #SundayFunnies leading men are Burl Ives, Jimmy Mathers, Eddie Hodges and James Stacy (also pictured are Hayley MIlls and Deborah Walley)
#SummerMagic #BurlIves #JimmyMathers #EddieHodges #JamesStacy #Disney -
The holiday season is winding down, but the SEASON OF BURL IVES is heating up.
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I wondered if @great78 at @internetarchive had recordings that fit the odd hashtag of the day,
#songsormoviesaboutcorn
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Sure it does! From #Rachmaninoff to #BurlIves! ( Which reminds me that #TomLehrer once wrote, "Some people don't even care if Jimmy crack corn," but I doubt that was ever released on a 78 RPM record. -
Finally got through “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958) last night after an aborted attempt a year or two back. It gets a lot better after the first 10-15 minutes. (At least until the ending.) Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman get most of the hype, but Burl Ives really makes this movie.