"Sing Along" star Mitch Miller dies, age 99

reuters ^ | Aug. 2, 2010 | Bill Trott

[PROCON]

Reuters) - Mitch Miller, the powerful American music executive who guided some of the biggest U.S. pop stars of the 1950s and had Americans crooning with him on the "Sing Along With Mitch" television show, has died at age 99.

Miller, who wore a trademark Vandyke beard and had a fondness for cigars, died at New York City's Lenox Hill hospital after a brief illness, his daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, told the New York Times.

[Jack Hammer]

R.I.P. One of America’s greatest ever entertainers.

[GreenHornet]

Those TV days were great. Anybody remember Joe Pyne?

I remember Joe Pyne. He was the forerunner of people like Morton Downey Jr. When UHF TV first started out in the late 60s, I remember watching his show on Channel 48 in Philadelphia (WKBS - it signed off the air about 30 years ago.)