Today is the birthday of Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (1909-1995). This beloved American figure began his life as an itinerant folk-singer in the early 1930s, rising to enough prominence that by 1940 he had his own radio show The Wayfaring Stranger, on which he popularized such old American standards as “Big Rock Candy Mountain”, “Foggy, […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:44AM on June 14, 2013