Burl Ives News

Sting has released "If On a Winter's Night." Long story short: I'm a Jew with discerning musical tastes - and a weird and inexplicable thing for Christmas music.

Billboard's Holiday Songs chart ranks airplay of seasonal tracks on U.S. adult contemporary radio.

Once upon a time, you could tell when Christmas was coming because of the holiday-themed ads on TV.

Charlie Brown barely celebrated Thanksgiving when Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer came knocking.

Charming young lady, with sharp tongue and vocabulary of a seasoned longshoreman, who carries in her handbag worn and tattered membership cards to the Mayflower Society and Daughters of the American Revolution, for which her dues are in arrears.

Television 'Tis the season for cloying festive specials Let the reindeer games begin! This year marks the 45th anniversary of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Burl Ives name should sound familiar to you. His voice is heard throughout the 1964 movie "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer." Burl Ives has been singing Have a Holy, Jolly Christmas longer than I have been alive, but I believe I have heard it every Christmas of my life.

For a second year in a row, the Heartland Young Professionals will present the annual Sebring Christmas parade, starting at 7 p.m. Friday in downtown Sebring, so bring your folding chairs and have fun.

The characters may be talking animal puppets, but director Wes Anderson has never made a movie more recognizably his own than Fantastic Mr.

THE POWER AND THE PRIZE is a film about corporate warfare mixed with romance, in the tradition of other mid-'50s business-themed films such as EXECUTIVE SUITE and WOMAN'S WORLD .

Review by Thumper: Thumps from 1 to 5: Thump of 4.5 The film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is "Ferocious and fascinating.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:32 a.m. On a trip to Gadsden this week, I lost the Chattanooga radio station I was listening to, changed to Huntsville and lost that one too.

With his grandfatherly image, Burl Ives parlayed his talent as a folksinger into a wide-ranging career as a radio personality and stage and screen actor.

It`s been difficult for me to disassociate Boulder's Big Daddy Bagels from the 1958 film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Even on a second or third viewing, Spike Lee's Inside Man makes engrossing viewing, with Clive Owen's voice supplying a second layer of scratchy stubble.

Walk around downtown Montpelier on a rainless day, and you might come across street musicians playing Southern old-time music on fiddles and banjos.

Walk around downtown Montpelier on a rainless day, and you might come across street musicians playing Southern old-time music on fiddles and banjos.

Anacortes school Superintendent Chris Borgen, left, accepts a $15,000 donation from the Skagit Community Foundation, in memory of Burl Ives, to complete the sound system at Brodniak Hall.

Anacortes school Superintendent Chris Borgen, left, accepts a $15,000 donation from the Skagit Community Foundation, in memory of Burl Ives, to complete the sound system at Brodniak Hall.

An old LP on the Columbia's "Harmony" label from the 60's I would guess- found at a car boot sale this week for a few pence.