Fans of the classic Christmas special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" may not realize star Burl Ives is an Illinois native.

Let's face it, the holiday season doesn’t officially begin until that familiar shimmer of snow appears on screen and Sam the ...

After Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Willy McBean and His Magic Machine, Larry D. Mann left Canada for Hollywood and got ...

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been a fixture on national TV every year since 1964. But not many people know that the animated narrator of the show has a direct connection to the Northwest. Burl ...

Burl Ives, who hoboed with Woody Guthrie and won Academy Awards, was that rare artist whose life was as interesting as the lives he sang about. Ives died yesterday morning at his Seattle home after a ...

As a songwriter, Johnny Marks had a pretty good career. Although he penned 25 notable songs and is in the Songwriter’s Hall ...

Folk singer Burl Ives used Christmas to cross over to the mainstream with his rendition of 'A Holly Jolly Christmas,' which became a pop hit in 1965 and a country holiday staple in the decades since.

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 ...

According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby ...