Posted on 08/07/2010 3:33:34 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
The goateed orchestra leader who asked America to Sing Along With Mitch gone at 99.
Miller who mocked the 60s with his laid -back style and follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-a-long lyrics died in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness.
Miller had been a A&R exec at Columbia records making sold gold with music luminaries Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett but passed on Elvis and Buddy Holly calling rock "a disease".
The Sing-a- Long with Mitch format was first test marketed on LPs and then became a hit NBC series in 1961.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
Another cultural icon gone... RIP.
Cheese and rice, this happened damned near a week ago.
THIS JUST IN!..lol
Mitch cooled a week ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=mitch%20miller
He died about a week ago...still dead thoo!
"wholley mollie he died twice"
Hey....you’re just updating news items for all those weekender and straggling FReeps out there with little time. Probably they’re out mostly hustling around to scrounge up a meager living here in socialist Obamaland!
Tonights top story:
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
PEACE
I’ve been on vacation, but when I heard this news today, I had to share it.
Have to say, I thought he died years ago
Glenn Miller has tragically died.
According to the Bible, “It’s appointed to man once to die...” unless you’re Mitch Miller.
“Have to say, I thought he died years ago”
No, it’s only been a week. It just seems like years.
Tonights top story:
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update/29165/
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