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Burl Ives

A Broadway actor, film star, Grammy-winning musician, and longtime staple of Christmas playlists, Burl Ives was born on June 14, 1909, in Hunt City, Illinois. He later moved to New York City, where he made his Broadway debut in 1938 with a small role in The Boys from Syracuse. Three years later, Ives released his debut collection of folk songs, Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger. By the end of the decade, he'd also earned a pair of Top 40 hits with the Andrew Sisters duet "Blue Tail Fly" (which hit Number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1948) and the crossover single "Lavender's...