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BOX 1 Biographical Materials, 1948-1965
Published and unpublished articles by and about Burl Ives. Also includes press releases.
Unpublished Autobiographical Articles and Press Releases
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Autobiographical articles released to various newspapers
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Publicity releases over the years approved by Mr. Ives and used by feature writers
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Biographical release, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 News release, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Biography, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Burl Ives's Tales of America and filming of East of Eden
Article after publication on Nov. 8th.
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 Christmas in July
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Folk songs and the history of America
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 What is a folk song and why is it important
Folk song article.
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Wayfaring continued
BOX-FOLDER 1/11 Letters from Burl regarding folk music and hillbilly music, 1955
Unpublished Autobiographical Articles
Arranged alphabetically by intended publication; article title in parentheses.
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 Boston Traveler (Be yourself)
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 Grolier Encyclopaedia (American sea chantys)
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 House and Garden (What's in a song?)
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 New York Sun (Autobiographies are revealing)
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 Parent's Magazine (The women in my life)
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Variety (Burl Ives composes "The ballad of Thunderhead")
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Variety (The new dimension in movies), 1957
Published Autobiographical and Biographical Articles
Arranged alphabetically by intended publication; article title in parentheses.
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Better Homes and Gardens (He likes to cook), 1962
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 Camera Magazine (Portraits: the casual way)
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 Coronet (Big Daddy's own ballad)
BOX-FOLDER 1/22 The Fort Lauderdale News (Nobody owns happy fella), 1963
BOX-FOLDER 1/23 Friends (A versatile vagabond), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 1/24 Good Housekeeping (Famous cards from famous people), 1965
BOX-FOLDER 1/25 Grit (American troubadour), 1962
BOX-FOLDER 1/26 The Herald American (Burl Ives sings Christmas carols), 1958
BOX-FOLDER 1/27 Holiday Magazine, Mar. 1963
BOX-FOLDER 1/28 Holiday Magazine (advertisement), June 1965
BOX-FOLDER 1/29 Inspire (Swiss magazine) (Burl Ives: the warfaring stranger of America), 1949
BOX-FOLDER 1/30 International House Quarterly, American folk articles, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 1/31 International Musician (Burl Ives), 1962
BOX-FOLDER 1/32 Look Magazine (Burl Ives sings of food in song), Feb. 27, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 1/33 Look Magazine (Burl Ives: Manhattan troubadour), Mar. 1961
BOX-FOLDER 1/34 Music Business (An afternoon with Big Daddy), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 1/35 The Music Journal (Folksongs--Backbone of American music), 1950
BOX-FOLDER 1/36 The National Enquirer (I'm still a bum at heart), 1962
BOX-FOLDER 1/37 The New York Daily News (Big Daddy speaks his mind), 1965
BOX-FOLDER 1/38 New York Herald Tribune (East's inland waterway offers unusual cruise), May 1955
BOX-FOLDER 1/39 The New York Post (Burl Ives: up from vagabondage), 1964
BOX-FOLDER 1/40 The New York Times Book Review (Sweet note of sadness), Nov. 14, 1954
BOX-FOLDER 1/41 The New York Times Review (advertisement)
BOX-FOLDER 1/42 New York World Telegram and Sun, Interview, 1962
BOX-FOLDER 1/43 Publishers' Weekly (Burl Ives tales of America), 1954
BOX-FOLDER 1/44 Reader's Round Table (Burl Ives writes about his school days), 1950
BOX-FOLDER 1/45 Seventeen Magazine (Burl Ives talks to teens), 1965
BOX-FOLDER 1/46 Song Hits Magazine (Why teenages dig Burl Ives)
BOX-FOLDER 1/47 Theatre Arts
Miscellaneous Published Articles and Unidentified Publications
BOX-FOLDER 1/48 Burl Ives's personals
BOX-FOLDER 1/49 Cap'n Burl's page
BOX-FOLDER 1/50 Mementos from Burl Ives
BOX-FOLDER 1/51 Newspaper article, Mar. 12, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 1/52 Photographs
Unpublished Biographical Articles
BOX-FOLDER 1/53 Article on Burl from Song in America, Our Musical Heritage
BOX-FOLDER 1/54 Hymns in America and Burl Ives, by MacKinley Kantor
BOX-FOLDER 1/55 Radio ringside
Review of The Burl Ives Show.
BOX-FOLDER 1/56 Burl Ives ... first citizen of Washington, Dec. 2, 1952
Junior Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
BOX-FOLDER 1/57 How I met my wife, by Burl Ives
McCall's byline
BOX-FOLDER 1/58 Pied Piper from Hollywood, Oct. 1948
This Week Magazine
BOX-FOLDER 1/59 Miscellaneous articles
Press Releases
BOX-FOLDER 1/60 Did you know about Ives?
Information release--all newspapers, regarding personal history.
BOX-FOLDER 1/61 Be yourself: a message to men by Burl Ives
Women's page editor.
BOX-FOLDER 1/62 Planned wayfaring
BOX-FOLDER 1/63 Picture captions
BOX-FOLDER 1/64 Short takes on Burl Ives, 1953
Issued after second visit to Ireland and England.
BOX-FOLDER 1/65 Today's pop songs may be tomorrow's folksong literature, says Burl Ives
Music page editor
BOX-FOLDER 1/66 Two recipes developed by Burl Ives on Ballad Farm
BOX-FOLDER 1/67 An interview with Burl Ives
After English and Australian tours.
BOX 1-10, 16 Subject File, 1940-1965
Materials relating to Ives's recording projects, radio shows, appearances on television programs, and concert tours. Includes advertisements and spots, correspondence, publicity materials, photographs, clippings, scripts, contracts, financial papers, schedules, fan mail, articles, and programs.
Historical America in Song and America's Musical Heritage Record Albums
BOX-FOLDER 1/68 History of the recording project
BOX-FOLDER 1/69 Mailing advertisement to schools
BOX-FOLDER 1/70 History of Historical America in Song project with Encyclopaedia Britannica
BOX-FOLDER 1/71 Correspondence between Armed Forces Radio and Encyclopaedia Britannica
BOX-FOLDER 1/72 Press release about award
BOX-FOLDER 1/73 Photograph of Ives receiving Achievement Award of the Committee on Music and Art
BOX-FOLDER 1/74 America's Musical Heritage: clippings and reviews
BOX-FOLDER 1/75 Publicity regarding America's Musical Heritage
Burl Ives Show (Philco radio)
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 1-24, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 25-35, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 36-45, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 45-53, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 54-63, 1947
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 64-74, 1947-1948
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Scripts and cue sheets for shows 75-78, 1948
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Publicity releases, 1946-1948
Burl Ives Sings (Radio)
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Scripts for all shows
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Scripts and schedules (Northwestern University)
Includes drafts.
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Scripts (transcription shows)
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 Scripts and schedules (transcription shows), as done in studio
Includes drafts.
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Cue sheets and music clearances for radio stations
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Publicity flyer
BOX-FOLDER 3/7 Financial information
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 First draft of agreement with comments
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Comments on agreement
BOX-FOLDER 3/10 Final agreement (several copies)
BOX-FOLDER 3/11 Final and signed contract
BOX-FOLDER 3/12 Correspondence regarding contracts
BOX-FOLDER 3/13 Publicity flyer
BOX-FOLDER 3/14 Contracts, including syndication contracts with radio stations, 1952
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