Burl Ives News

So what's the Capital Region's favorite holiday song? Our Tournament of Carols, done in the spirit of basketball's March Madness, matched up 16 classic versions of favorite Christmas tunes in order to find out.

More than any other holiday, Christmas has a melange of myth, legend, and tradition attached to it.

There are so many things we could ask you.. and have on our blogs? What is your wish for Christmas? What would you LIKE for Christmas? I thought I'd ask what your favorite Christmas songs are every year.

For me, the Christmas holiday season always brings up different rock 'n' roll sounds in my mind - from pop to country, heavy metal to jazz.

When you think of all the holiday traditions in Houston you likely think of the Uptown Lights, or the Christmas tree in front of City Hall.

Evergreen giving Every year at about this time, Burl Ives warbles about silver and gold in the long-running TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." "How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on Earth," Ives intones in his purring baritone.

If I had to hazard a supposition on the matter I would guess that the favorite animated Christmas special of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and their followers would be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

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.