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MITCH MILLER DEAD
National Enquirer ^

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.

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To: hkp123

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


21 posted on 08/07/2010 4:14:04 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Ge0ffrey
The goateed orchestra leader who asked America to Sing Along With Mitch gone at 99.


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

22 posted on 08/07/2010 4:14:18 PM PDT by abortionisalwaysmurder (Before you kill your baby, ask yourself, What did the baby do?)
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To: Ge0ffrey
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.”

23 posted on 08/07/2010 4:15:06 PM PDT by Mobties (I yield back the balance of my time)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Old news now.


24 posted on 08/07/2010 4:16:30 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Viva los SB 1070)
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To: Mobties
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."

25 posted on 08/07/2010 4:27:59 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

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


26 posted on 08/07/2010 4:30:03 PM PDT by BallyBill (WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Again? Did he come out for an encore?


27 posted on 08/07/2010 5:02:12 PM PDT by JoeA (JoeA / Welcome to the Second American Revolution)
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To: skimbell

What Elvis thing? Elvis lives!


28 posted on 08/07/2010 5:46:53 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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