Surprise your kids with a trip to a real candy mountain. Big Rock Candy Mountain is located just south of Richfield. In the big Rock Candy Mountains.” Made famous by in 1950s by Burl Ives, the ...

Burl Ives, the well-known actor and balladeer who helped popularize American folk music, brought his guitar and voice to Archibald Johnston Hall at Moravian College last night, and an estimated cro… ...

Ives’ wife, Dorothy, and three of their four children were with the troubadour who also popularized “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” “Foggy Foggy Dew” and “On Top of Old Smoky.” ...

Burl Ives came from Illinois, where he sang folk songs as a child, ... The Bluetail Fly and the hobo ballad Big Rock Candy Mountain. Along with Woody Guthrie, ...