Songs from Burl Ives
[AVING for the first time had the opportunity to listen to Burl Ives in two sessions closely following one another, 3YA’s Burl Ives Sings and 3ZB’s Burl Ives, I was disappointed by the meagreness of the range of songs inclided and the way both programmes overlapped. Of the songs, I much preferred those in which he accompanied
himself to those in which there was a sophisticated modern orchestra] accompaniment. The plaintive clarinet, though, came a good second. It is interesting to note how Burl Ives’s deft handling of ordinary songs, the sudden soft bursts of volume or decrease, gives to "The Little White Duck" and the "Doughnut Song" a distinction that the songs themselves scarcely possess. "Old Paint," "The Troubadour Song," "High Barbary" and "A Bonnie Wee Lassie." each with a_ story, sometimes with pathos or humour, are the songs I would esteem Burl Ives for selecting. In my mind they establish him as the real folk singer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 11
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162Songs from Burl Ives New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 11
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