Mitch Miller is Dead and Deserves His Own Thread

[torker]

Mitch Miller, music innovator and host of Sing Along With Mitch,' dies at 99
By DENNIS MCLELLAN
Los Angeles Times


Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.

A show business icon with his trademark goatee and baton, Miller is considered one of the most influential producers in the history of recording.
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[PapaBear]

and Deserves His Own Thread

Someone should start one.

RIP

[mikeyboy]

I honestly thought he'd been dead for years.

[Drunky McBetidont]

"roll out the coffin, we'll have a coffin of fun!"

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I Grew Up With Mitch Miller!!

My Parents Loved You.

[Mitch&Murray]

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/m/mitch-miller-and-the-gang/album-holiday-sing-along-with-mitch-miller.jpg

nuff ced

[KnoxHarrington]

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/m/mitch-miller-and-the-gang/album-holiday-sing-along-with-mitch-miller.jpg

nuff ced

That's one Santa who definitely wants the little boys to sit in his lap

[mikeyboy]

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Mitch Miller! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o

[pennington]

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Mitch Miller! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o

Mamma mia.

Anyway R.I.P., 99 is a good run.

[Pittsburgh]

I remember hiding rather than watch that show of his. But that was around 1965. I would have bet he died years ago.

[KC2OSO]

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I can play "Five Foot Two.." and a bunch of other songs from the 1920's on the tenor banjo which isn't saying much. So, if you need a tenor banjo player, PM me.

I was going to post a pic of V.I. Lenin lying in state here but that would be in poor taste. Mojo would have loved that.

Anyway, RIP Mr. Miller. Thanks for the great tunes.

[torker]

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Mitch Miller! No, we will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let him go
Mitch Miller! We will not let you go
Let me go (Will not let you go)
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let me go, o, o, o, o

you read my mind

[thepaulo]

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how about Skitch Henderson?

[A.J.]

I honestly thought he'd been dead for years.

This.

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/m/mitch-miller-and-the-gang/album-holiday-sing-along-with-mitch-miller.jpg

nuff ced

Ah yes. That was played every Christmas at my grandparents' house.

[hanso]

http://www.10pix.ru/img1/1199/2009667.jpg

Dude rocked out. RIP.

[Hottub]

An Uber Jew sold millions of copies of his Christmas album.

Follow the dollar.

[Dougie Brootal]

An Uber Jew sold millions of copies of his Christmas album.

Follow the dollar.

http://thehelplessdancer.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/santa-dylan.jpg

http://blogs.sltrib.com/b2evolution/media/blogs/burger/dylan22222.jpg

[KnoxHarrington]

I read his Wikipedia article, and there was a lot more to this guy than I thought. Of course, he was the head of A&R at Columbia for years, which is where he had his most actual influence. And whether or not that influence was good is debatable: he hated rock & roll, and refused to sign Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, and he made Frank Sinatra do garbage novelty songs like "The Hucklebuck", often with incredibly cheesy arrangements.

Plus, he's the spiritual grandfather of karaoke. I'm not sure I can forgive him for that.

[torker]

RIP CC Rider