MITCH MILLER DEAD

National Enquirer ^

[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.

[skimbell]

He probably isn’t going to handle the Elvis thing too well.

[abortionisalwaysmurder]

The goateed orchestra leader who asked America to Sing Along With Mitch gone at 99.

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99? No wonder Social Secuity is broke. Hey Good timimg Mitch, no death tax.

[Mobties]

From what I hear from musicians, Mitch Miller was a good businessman but never a maker of good music. Most of his hits were hokey jingles and joke songs popular in the fifties. He drove people like Sinatra away from Columbia Records and had Rosemary Clooney singing junk like “Mambo Italiano” and “Come ona My House”.

The best that can be said was that her learned well H.L. Menken’s cynical advice, “Never underestimate the taste of the American public.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Old news now.

[driftless2]

But his show was very watchable and featured one of the first black singers, Leslie Uggams, to achieve mass tv popularity. Leslie was a very attractive woman and a real good singer.

"Let me hear a melody, I love to sing along."

[BallyBill]

National Enquirer was so late with this story because they now have to the job real journalists used to do..... like investigate Democrat scandals.

[JoeA]

Again? Did he come out for an encore?

[RedMDer]

What Elvis thing? Elvis lives!