Editing Burl Ives (section)

===1930s–1940s===
Ives traveled about the U.S. as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his [[banjo]]. He was jailed in [[Mona, Utah]], for [[vagrancy (people)|vagrancy]] and for singing "[[Foggy Dew (English song)|Foggy Dew]]" (an English folk song), which the authorities decided was a [[bawdy song]].<ref>''Wayfaring Stranger'' pp. 129–132.</ref> Around 1931, he began performing on [[WBOW]] radio in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]]. He also went back to school, attending classes at Indiana State Teachers College (now [[Indiana State University]]).<ref>''Wayfaring Stranger'' p. 145.</ref> In 1933, Ives also attended the [[Juilliard School]] in New York. He made his Broadway debut in 1938 with a small role in [[Rodgers and Hart]]'s hit musical, ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]''. In 1939, he joined his friend and fellow actor [[Eddie Albert]], who had the starring role in ''The Boys from Syracuse'', in Los Angeles. The two shared an apartment for a while in the [[Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles|Beachwood Canyon]] community of Hollywood.

In 1940, Ives named his own radio show, ''The Wayfaring Stranger'', after one of his ballads. Over the next decade, he popularized several traditional folk songs, such as "Foggy Dew", "[[The Blue Tail Fly]]" (an old [[Blackface minstrelsy|minstrel]] tune now better known as "[[Jimmy Crack Corn]]"), and "[[Big Rock Candy Mountain]]" (an old [[hobo]] song). He was also associated with the [[Almanac Singers|Almanacs]], a folk-singing group which at different times included [[Woody Guthrie]], [[Will Geer]], [[Millard Lampell]], and [[Pete Seeger]]. The Almanacs were active in the [[American Peace Mobilization]] (APM), a far left group initially opposed to American entry into [[World War II]] and [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s pro-Allied policies. They recorded such songs as "Get Out and Stay Out of War" and "Franklin, Oh Franklin".<ref name="revival">{{cite journal |first1=Ron |last1=Eyerman |first2=Scott |last2=Barretta |title=The Folk Music Revival in the United States |journal=[[Theory & Society]] |location=New York City |volume=25 |issue=4 |date=August 1996 |pages=501–543 |doi=10.1007/BF00160675|s2cid=142024250 }}</ref>

In June 1941, after the [[Operation Barbarossa|Axis invasion of the Soviet Union]], the APM abandoned its pacifist stance and reorganized itself into the pro-war American People's Mobilization. Ives and the Almanacs rerecorded several of their songs to reflect the group's new stance in favor of US entry into the war. Among them were "Dear Mr. President" and "Reuben James" (the name of a [[USS Reuben James (DD-245)|US destroyer sunk by the Germans]] before the official US entry into the war).<ref name="revival"/>

In early 1942, Ives was drafted into the [[U.S. Army]]. He spent time first at [[Camp Dix]], then at [[Camp Upton]], where he joined the cast of [[Irving Berlin]]'s ''[[This Is the Army]].'' He attained the rank of corporal.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} When the show went to Hollywood, he was transferred to the [[Army Air Force]]s. He was honorably discharged, apparently for medical reasons, in September 1943. Between September and December 1943, Ives lived in California with actor [[Harry Morgan]]. In December 1943, Ives went to [[New York City]] to work for [[CBS Radio]] for $100 a week.<ref>{{cite book|last=U.S. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws|title=Subversive Infiltration of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry: Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Second Congress, on Subversive Infiltration of Radio, Television, and the Entertainment Industry, March 20, 26, April 23, and May 20, 1952, Part 2|location=Washington|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gTRtp_huMwC|pages=205–228|chapter=Testimony of Burl Icle Ives, New York, N.Y.}}</ref> In 1944, he recorded ''The Lonesome Train'', a ballad about the life and death of [[Abraham Lincoln]], written by [[Earl Robinson]] (music) and Lampell (lyrics).

In 1946, Ives was cast as a singing cowboy in the film ''[[Smoky (1946 film)|Smoky]]''.<ref>[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/43959 Burl Ives Biography], ''Sitcoms Online''.</ref>

In 1947, Ives recorded one of many versions of "The Blue Tail Fly", but paired this time with the popular [[Andrews Sisters]] (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne). The flip side of the record was a fast-paced "I'm Goin' Down the Road". Ives hoped the trio's success would help the record sell well, which it did, becoming both a best-selling disc and a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' hit.<ref>{{cite book| title=Swing It! The Andrews Sisters Story| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HqkeBgAAQBAJ&q=Swing+It!+The+Andrews+Sisters+Story| last=Sforza| first=John| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| date=January 13, 2015| page=111| edition=reprint| isbn=978-0813148977| access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref>

His version of the song "[[Lavender Blue]]" became his first hit and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] after Ives introduced it in the 1949 film ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]''.

Music critic [[John Rockwell]] said, "Ives' voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccinian]] vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity. And it moved people".<ref>{{cite book| first=John| last=Rockwell| title=Outsider, John Rockwell on the Arts, 1967–2006| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrKByWgDc-kC&q=ives+voice&pg=PA548| date=May 1, 2009| publisher=Hal Leonard Corp| page=479| isbn=978-0879103675}}</ref>