Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage

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Name = Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage
Type = studio
Longtype = Album Set
Artist = Burl Ives


Released = 1963
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Genre = Folk
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Label = Longines Symphonette Recording Society
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Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage, released in 1963 by the Longines Symphonette Recording Society, is a six-album box set by folk singer Burl Ives. [WorldCat: OCLC 15078624: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15078624 link] ] It is subtitled "114 Best Loved Songs & Ballads for Listening, Singing, and Reading" and includes a 168-page book, titled "The Burl Ives Sing-Along Song Book", which presents the lyrics for all of the songs and historical background about some of the songs. [WorldCat: OCLC 1358412: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1358412 link] ]

Many of the songs can be found on Ives' six-album set "Historical America in Song", released by Encyclopædia Britannica Films in 1950. The two sets are not identical, however. For example, while there is considerable overlapping between "New Ballads" and two of the albums in the 1950 set, there is almost no overlapping between "Tales for Singing" and the earlier set. The duplicated songs on the 1963 set seem to be fresh recordings. Certainly the sound is better on the six LPs that comprise the 1963 set than on the thirty 78 rpm records that make up the 1950 set. [Album labels, "Historical America in Song", N.p.: Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1950] [Album labels, "Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage", N.p.: Longines Symphonette Society, 1963]

"Tales for Singing: Our English Inheritance" (LW 194)

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Side 2

"Heart Songs: American Folk Creations" (LW 197)

Track listing

Side 1

Side 2

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