It’s that time of year again. Mariah Carey, Burl Ives, and Bing Crosby are in heavy rotation as Christmas music replaces the everyday soundtrack of lives around the world. While people generally only ...

A 265-pound Army private named Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was making a great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan ...

According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby ...