On this day in 1995, folk singer Burl Ives died at the age of 83. Ives was a traveling musician during the Depression. In New York City in 1933, he became a folk singer after meeting up with other musicians, including Woody Guthrie, who were reviving the genre. Ives recorded many hit songs and also appeared in several films, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, and The Big Country. He also narrated the children’s classic TV special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”