[happygrl]

Thanks for the Happy Times

[yarddog]

“Be kind to your friends in the swamp, for a duck may be somebody’s Mother”

[Hackle]

Mitch Miller was also a successful studio musician. I believe that’s him playing the oboe solo on Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year.”

[Oldpuppymax]

I remember singin’ along with Mitch on TV. That was back in the day when only Bonanza and Disney were in color!!!

[Mila]

I guess you know you've really made it when Rockwell draws you

[HHFi]

Mitch’s own chorale LPs and TV show were good cheesy fun, but what he did as a producer/A&R man was criminal. When it came to other artists, his taste was strictly in his mouth. This is the guy who tried to turn Frank Sinatra into a novelty singer and teamed him with Dagmar. There’s a famous story about Sinatra crossing paths with him in an airport years after he left Columbia. Miller reportedly walked up to him with hand outstretched, and Frank shot him an obscene suggestion and said something along the lines of, “If you don’t wanna lose that hand, keep walkin’.”

[redhead]

awww... who DIDN’T love “Sing Along With Mitch Miller?”

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Our family seldom missed his show. Especially after ABC came out in color and we had one of the first color TV’s. Boy, was it hard to get flesh tones! every hour we had to adjust the color and Mitch had a red and green shadow around him.

It was good wholesome music and America was still innocent. May he rest in peace and we might all live such a full life.

[Dixie Yooper]

My parents tried to get us to sing along with Mitch, but The Lettermen showed up, then The Four Seasons, Beach Boys, Chad & Jeremie, Jan and Dean etc., etc, etc...

[giotto]

Now you may think that this is the end...Well it is!

[Americanexpat]

Watched his program when I was a kid, loved it and if I remeber right Leslie Uggums was one of the stars, loved her too.

[Pelham]

Sing along with Mitch.

[BnBlFlag]

I had no idea Mitch was still living. He was a great one. I used to watch him with my parents as a youngster.

[no dems]

Aw....hate to hear that. I was just thinking about him the other day.