In the United States, the song was included as " Jesous Ahatonia " on Burl Ives's 1952 album Christmas Day in the Morning and was later released as a Burl Ives single under the title " Indian Christmas Carol.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for Burl Ives's version of the 17th-century English folk song " Lavender Blue ," but lost to " Baby, It's Cold Outside " from Neptune's Daughter.

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.

But it achieved more widespread popularity in 1949 when a sanitized version intended for children was re-recorded by Burl Ives.

Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Bradley Kincaid, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, Nic Jones, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton ( with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled ' Piano Piano " in 1983's album Cercando l ' oro and another Italian version titled " Barbriallen " in 2011's album Così è se mi pare ), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses " Clear Rock " Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.

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

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

This version was sung by Burl Ives.

Folk singer Burl Ives performed perhaps the most well-known and kid-friendly version, in which Frog and Miss Mousie are wed.

In October 1963, after 17 singles, Little issued his biggest hit with the gospel song, " Royal Telephone ", based upon the Burl Ives ' version.

A celebrated live version was recorded by Burl Ives.

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.

The original Broadway production, which opened in 1955, was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie ; Ben Gazzara as Brick ; Burl Ives as Big Daddy ; Mildred Dunnock as Big Mama ; Pat Hingle as Gooper ; and Madeleine Sherwood as Mae.

The big-screen adaptation of the play was made in 1958 by MGM, and starred Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Judith Anderson, and Jack Carson, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood reprising their stage roles.

Burl Ives was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor that year, and won, but it was for his role in the epic Western The Big Country.

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.

Burl Ives, the famous folk singer ( Blue Tail Fly ) and actor: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Frosty the Snow Man was born in Hunt City, Graduated from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

Burl Ives was once jailed in Mona for singing " Foggy Foggy Dew ", because it was considered bawdy by the authorities.

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives ( June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995 ) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer.

Burl Ives was seen regularly in television commercials for Luzianne tea for several years during the 1970s and 1980s when he was the company's commercial spokesman.

Ives was a renowned pipe smoker ; the cover of his first album depicted a pipe and a fishing hat with the words " Burl Ives " in between.

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 ).

* " A Little Bitty Tear ", " Call Me Mister In-Between ", and " It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin '" by Burl Ives ( 1962 ) Ives was a Folk SInger

The 1944 " ballad opera ", The Martins and the Coys, broadcast in Britain ( but not the USA ) by the BBC, featuring Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Will Geer, Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger, and Fiddlin ' Arthur Smith, among others, was released on Rounder Records in 2000.

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.

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

His first Broadway appearance was in 1967 in Dr. Cook's Garden with Burl Ives.

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

On December 1 " Curl of the Burl " was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Metal / Hard Rock performance.

* A nickname for Burl Smith, a character on TV show The Love Boat.

Many archaeologists continue to refer to this structure as a henge ; for example, Aubrey Burl classifies the ditch as a Class II henge ; one that has two opposing entrances, in this case on the north-west and south-east.

* Burl Ives Sings Songs for All Ages ( 1957, Columbia CL 980 )

The following June Red Channels, a pamphlet edited by former F. B. I agents which became the basis for entertainment industry blacklist of the 1950s, listed Lomax as an artist or broadcast journalist sympathetic to Communism ( others listed included Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein Yip Harburg, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Burl Ives, Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, and Josh White ).

In the 1950s Peer published " Mockingbird Hill ", a million seller for Patti Page, " Sway " ( Dean Martin and Bobby Rydell ), and the novelty " I Know An Old Lady " ( Burl Ives ).

Another twenty were allowed to sign indentures with the Royal African Company ; Burl comments that they " exchanged an immediate death for a lingering one ".

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.

** Burl Ives for " Funny Way of Laughin '"

Sheldon, inspired by the movie The Brass Bottle, which had starred Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, and Burl Ives as the genie Fakrash, came up with the idea for a beautiful female genie.

He played the ship's purser, Burl " Gopher " Smith, for nine seasons ( 1977 – 1986 ) on the American television series The Love Boat.

** Burl Ives for " Funny Way of Laughin '"