Mitch Miller, Music Executive and TV Host, Dies

nytimes.com ^ | August 2, 2010 | RICHARD SEVERO

[KYGrandma]

My husband has every song he ever did. At the family parties, his dad would get sloshed and put on the Mitch Miller. It was really funny to see all those drunks singing harmony.

[OldMissileer]

May God bless you and keep you, Mitch!

As a little kid, I remember watching your TV show and singing along with the bouncing ball. A calmer, more family friendly time in this world and you helped make it so.

[NormsRevenge]

ap thread here

Conductor Mitch (”Sing Along With Mitch”) Miller dies at age 99
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2563278/posts

[RebelTXRose]

I bet there are many audience members waiting for the first sing-a-long in heaven. my folks among them

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[WestwardHo]

Accordians, harmonicas, marimbas, new age hippy drums .....words fail.
Many decades ago, my Aunt Arlene owned the most fantastic used furniture store, ever, in LA. When I was a young child she gifted me with one of the original electric guitars...oh the sound created by sliding a metal bar up and down the strings. Of course, I was compelled to take lessons and forced to practise. At the time, I thought I was hated by my family, consigned to a back bedroom with the door shut. Later, of course, I knew they hated the thing as much as I did. Oh, the memories!

[nutmeg]

It’s really a shame when TV people or Musicians die, I’m just grateful he this wasn’t another nameless, faceless midwesterner responsible for making this country what it is ...

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[mware]

LOL, the fourth part of the episode had a very young JOhnny Carson.

[mware]

I am sure Mitch made the cut, but he sure did have the look of the devil with that mustash and lightbaub head of his.

RIP Mitch.

For years one of the traditions of our family was to sing along with that Christmas Album he did.

[nutmeg]

One minute into that video is the guy who was on Sesame St.

I saw him... "Bob" from Sesame Street! Who knew? ;-)

[TruthHound]

Oh, wow! I was going through the episodes posted on Youtube (Digging those commercials and promos) and found an easter egg. Look who shows up at the 3:30 mark of this show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ5GwzvkN-k

[mware]

"That old man, he played 7.

He played Nick Nack up to Heaven."

[mware]

I checked it out. Seems he was a replacement for an Irish tenor who couldn't perform that night.

They liked him so much that he remained a regular for another 3 years.

[dragnet2]

The impression I got from the article was that Sinatra was trying to tell her to just keep her mouth shut. Frank was supposedly still fond of her and he knew that people wanted her “taken care of.”

Your impression is likely correct.

[mware]

Ithink people made guest appearances on his show, Kind of like Laugh In cameoes.

[WestwardHo]

Brings back a lot of lovely, warm, and very corny memories!

[who knows what evil?]

Cool...thanks for the ping!

[verity]

I agree with you in every respect.

[justiceseeker93]

Anyone ever heard of him before?

He was one of the best known entertainment personalities in the US in the sixties. Then it seems as if no one ever heard from him since.

Your question indicates that you are young. (LOL!!!)

[donna]

LOL, I wonder if there are others that we don’t recognize because they are so young.

I sure do like all those males voices.