Posted on 11/24/2015 12:19:38 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Burl Ives - the true wayfaring stranger! What an enchanting album!
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Side A:
John Henry - 00:00
Billy the Kid - 02:57
Fare Thee Well, O Honey - 05:29
Mah Lindy Lou - 08:00
Mule Train - 10:49
The Worried Man Blues - 13:32
Side B:
Greer County Bachelor - 16:14
Lilly Munroe - 19:14
Old Blue - 22:00
Ballanderie - 23:49
Lord Randall - 24:20
Riders in the Sky - 27:37
Wayfaring Stranger - 30:47
Woolie Boogie Bee - 32:00
Liner notes:
Burl Ives began singing at age five, when he entertained at a soldiers' reunion. He has been entertaining ever since. Taken early with wanderlust, Ives left Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at the end of his sophmore year and took off on assorted journeys, literally singing for his supper. En route, through the Alleghenies and along various rivers, Ives listend to other singers, learning their songs and building a base of his enormous repertoire.
He returned to school for his junior year and most of the senior session. Then, two months before graduation, Ives took off again, never to return. He spent the next two years as an itinerant troubadour, carrying his guitar in a bright yellow case and his clothes in a black valise.
Inevitably, Ives drifted toward New York City, where he settled down, appearing on occasional radio programs and on the stage. Then he was asked to appear on "Forecast", a series of experimental programs designed by the Columbia Broadcasting System. His own segment, called "Back Where I come From", proved so popular that it launched a regular Ives series. Later, Ives starred as "The Wayfaring Stranger", the title of his autobiography and of an earlier Columbia Collection (CL 628).
Although he has never given up singing, Burl Ives has expanded his performing range considerably. For his dramatic work in the motion picture, "The Big Country", he won an Academy Award in 1958 His performance in "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" on both stage and screen was widely acclaimed. He has also been seen on stage in "This Is The Army" and "Sing Out, Sweet Land", and many motion pictures, including "Thunderhead", for which his song "Ballad of Thunderhead" received a special citation.
But the Wayfaring Stranger has never strayed far from his first love, the songs and ballads of our country. He continues to sing these plaintive, lovely tunes in recitals and concerts everywhere. This collection offers vintage Ives, a handful of his favorite songs and two that stem from the folk tradition, "Mule Train" and "Riders In The Sky", both big hits a decade ago. All are sung in his inimitable manner and promise rich rewards for everyone who enjoys the music of America.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A classic folk album by Burl Ives (vocal and guitar), The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger (Columbia Records C-186) is an 78-rpm set consisting of four 10-inch discs.[1] Released in 1949, the album was concurrently presented as a 10-inch LP, assigned the catalog number CL-6058. On February 28, 1955, Columbia expanded to 12 inches The Wayfaring Stranger (monaural catalog number: CL 628; 1964 simulated-stereo catalog number: CS 9041), a Burl Ives album dating back to 1941, originally containing twelve tunes and initially called Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger. Included in the 1955 collection were all nine songs from The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger. In August 1960, Columbia, using a slightly shortened title, Return of the Wayfaring Stranger, released a 12-inch LP of 13 different selections recorded by Burl Ives between 1949 and 1951. The 12-inch versions of The Wayfaring Stranger and Return of the Wayfaring Stranger were transferred to CD format by Collectables Records on November 14, 2000. Each disc contains bonus tracks. Currently, both CDs are in print.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Wayfaring_Stranger
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I think Ives was a member of the communist party along with Will Geer and others at the time.
Ives was implicated for being a commie or having ties to the Party. He appeared before the HUAC and named names for which he was ostracized by Seeger and other true commies for many years.
Ives was never proven to have been a communist party member despite strong ties to the Party members and other far leftists of that period. Shortly before their deaths many decades later Ives and Seeger made up.
I would suggest that Ives, while probably a strong leftist, used the folk singing community to advance his career. I think he was more interested in selling records and furthering his acting career than advancing communist or far-left propaganda.
Burl Ives? Homosexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Thanks.
Burl Ives did a kid’s record with songs like Little White Duck and Big Rock Candy Mountain, Froggy Went a Courtin’ that I remember from when I was was little.
Lefties tried to use this music to convert the masses.
It didn’t really work.
The real deal, whom the lefties stole from such as the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers were way better anyhow. The Harry Smith Anthologies have the real deals, as opposed to the slick and warmed over folk stuff from the 50’s and 60’s.
Carter Family who were the true pioneers and head and shoulders best compared to the lefties that came later were flawed people who were true patriots and conservative God-fearing people.
Sadly Rock n Roll morphed in to Rock did work to make us a leftist Godless society.
I have an old lp of The Weavers, and that sort of pop type of folk leaves me cold. It didn't help that they were always trying to uh weave in some sort of leftist message. Seeger wasn't actually a bad songwriter, but it's more neo-folk than real folk.
Never read anything about that. Where did you read or hear of that? He did have a wife and three children. He was also a 33 degree Mason for what it's worth.
Yes.
I liked and still like Woody Guthrie.
I thought he was quite a genius til I heard the Carter Family. And Jimmie Rodgers.
Guthrie, though, fully acknowledged The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers as his models.
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