According to Saint historian Burl Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Holm, Uniatz, Orace and Teal, as they weren't appropriate for the post-war stories he was writing.

* Burl Barer, The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928 – 1992.

*** The Saint ( novel ), a novelization of the 1997 film, by Burl Barer

A collection of some of the country's greatest air personalities entertained Seattle listeners like Larry Lujack, Scotty Brink, Norm Gregory, Burl Barer, Pat O ' Day, Eric Chase, Bob Shannon, " World Famous " Tom Murphy, Bobby Simon, Jerry Kaye, " Emperor " Lee Smith, Lan Roberts, Robert O. Smith, Charlie Brown, Bwana Johnny, Matt Riedy, Marion Seymour, Sky Walker, Tracy Mitchell, Bob Brooks and sports commentator Chuck Bolland plus Bolland's much younger brother Mark " Jeffries " Bolland.

According to Burl Barer in his history of The Saint, the series was originally conceived as Son of the Saint, with Ogilvy's character identified as the offspring of Simon Templar.

Saint expert Burl Barer in his history Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992, indicates that The Saint in New York was the first " bestseller " of the Simon Templar series, and was the book that established Charteris as a literary celebrity in America and Britain.

* Burl Barer, in his history of The Saint identifies The Saint in New York as the most violent of all Saint stories, and notes that it marks the dividing line between the British-influenced stories dating back to 1928, and the more American-influenced adventures that would follow over the remainder of the series.

* Burl Barer, The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992.

The reference work The Saint: A Complete History by Burl Barer ( McFarland 1992 ) was written at a time when another set of plans were under way to launch a new Saint film series, which would have been faithful to the original writings of Leslie Charteris and feature characters from the original books.

A novelization based upon the film script was written by Burl Barer, a noted expert on the history of Simon Templar and Leslie Charteris.

Aubrey Burl considers that building of causewayed enclosures decayed by 3000 BC and was replaced by more localised types of earthen work monuments.

His last work for Disney was as Mr. Owl opposite singer Burl Ives as Sam the Eagle on their long-running America Sings attraction at Disneyland.

Geer became a dedicated activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie ( whom he introduced to the People's World and the Daily Worker ; Guthrie would go on to write a column for the latter paper ).

Burl wood is very hard to work with hand tools or on a lathe because its grain is twisted and interlocked, causing it to chip and chatter unpredictably.

Their versatility allowed them to pair with many different artists in the recording studios, producing Top 10 hits with the likes of Bing Crosby ( the only recording artist of the 1940s to sell more records than The Andrews Sisters ), Danny Kaye, Dick Haymes, Carmen Miranda, Al Jolson, Ray McKinley, Burl Ives, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, Dan Dailey, Alfred Apaka, and Les Paul.

When Sam ( Burl Ives ), the sheriff, brings the news, Adam rushes to the train station in an attempt to dissuade him, but can only watch helplessly as his son steams away from him with his head out the rail car window, maniacally laughing at him.

A hit version of the song, sung by Burl Ives, was featured in the Walt Disney movie, So Dear to My Heart ( 1948 ) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

A hit version of the song, sung by Burl Ives, was featured in the Walt Disney movie " So Dear to My Heart.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

It stars Gregory Peck, who also co-produced the film with Wyler, plus Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors.

The role of the judge was offered to both Spencer Tracy and Burl Ives, but ultimately went to Joseph Welch, who had made a name for himself representing the U. S. Army in hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The first graduate of Lincoln High School was the famous Cities Service Company CEO Burl S. Watson, who graduated from LHS in 1912.

In 1958, when she was 13, producer Owen Bradley asked her to record a new song by Johnny Marks, who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Gene Autry ) and " A Holly, Jolly Christmas " ( Burl Ives ).

Hindman was born in Bisbee, Arizona, the son of Eula and Burl Latney Hindman, who worked in the oil pipeline business.

Performers who sang with the group at various times included Sis Cunningham, ( John ) Peter Hawes and his brother Baldwin " Butch " Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes ( wife of Butch and sister of Alan Lomax ), Cisco Houston, Arthur Stern, Josh White, Jackie ( Gibson ) Alper, Burl Ives, ( Hiram ) Jaime Lowden and Sam Gary.

A funerary purpose is thought likely, especially by Burl who sees the Cumbrian sites as being analogous to the kerbs that surround some chamber tombs and cobble pavements have been found in the centre of many examples.

Burl Ives, who popularized the song in the United States in the 1940s, claimed that a version dated to colonial America.

* Sam the Snowman-The narrator, voiced by and styled to resemble folk singer Burl Ives, who contributes several tunes throughout the program.

Here he made the acquaintance of Alan Lomax ( who later facilitated the Archive of American Folk Song's support of the Todd / Sonkin collecting expedition ), along with other notables of the day such as Woody Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter ( better known as " Leadbelly "), Burl Ives, John Jacob Niles, and Frank M. Warner.

Randy Sparks, who had spent more than thirty years as Burl Ives ' writer and opening act in concert, found himself with time on his hands after Ives ' death in 1995, and he sought to rebuild the group he had founded.

Burl notes that the diameter of the bank at Brodgar is almost exactly 175 megalithic yards, the same as the inner banks of the Avebury and Newgrange monuments in England and Ireland respectively.

Based originally on the character of the same name played by actor Burl Ives in the 1958 screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams ' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy was first given life by Crabtree in late 1974, initially still as a heel.

For example, Paul Clayton recorded the album Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick ( Tradition Records ) in 1956, and Burl Ives ' Down to the Sea in Ships came out in the same year.

He also wrote or compiled several other books, including Burl Ives ' Songbook ( 1953 ), Tales of America ( 1954 ), Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing ( 1956 ), and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook ( 1962 ).

The story also became the basis for the very loose adaptation Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon ( 1967 ), a caper-style British comedy starring Burl Ives and Terry-Thomas.

It also features Burl Ives, Richard Davalos and Jo Van Fleet, and was adapted by Paul Osborn and John Steinbeck.

It is also less commonly called " burl oak ", as in the Burl Oaks Country Club in Mound, Minnesota.

Aubrey Burl also notes that the azimuth of the Heel Stone, beyond the Aubrey Circle, marks the midpoint in the swing of the Moon between major and minor standstill points, at 51. 3 degrees.

He also had an uncredited role in the TV miniseries Roots ( 1977 ), playing alongside Georg Stanford Brown, Lloyd Bridges and Burl Ives.

It was also here that he was first introduced to folk music, discovering the music of Burl Ives and others.

His movies include the title role in Ensign Pulver ( 1964 ) with Burl Ives and Walter Matthau, The War Wagon ( 1967 ) with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, the title role in Young Billy Young alongside Robert Mitchum in 1969, Easy Rider, also in 1969, and Beware!

Gerald also did a cover of Jessi Colter's " I'm Not Lisa " for the band's 1986 EP Burl, dedicated " in loving memory of " the still-living-at-the-time Burl Ives.

The song also became one of Burl Ives ' signature songs, with his recording reaching # 10 on the Billboard chart in 1951.

Farentino was one of the lawyers in NBC TV series The Bold Ones ( 1969 – 1972 ), which also starred Burl Ives and Joseph Campanella.