RIP Mitch

[gunlovingirl]

I'm sure I'm showing my age here, but I just wanted to post a Rest In Peace for Mitch Miller, who died on Saturday at age 99. Anyone else remember the show "Sing Along With Mitch"?

 

[jpwhel]

Follow the bouncing ball........ Great entertainment show that played for a long time.

 

[kennyb]

somewhere i still have some of his records

 

[NFrameFred]

You mean the guy with goatee and the choir . . . uh . . . no, I'm too young to remember that . . . . .

 

[dmar]

He was still alive...?! I'm too young to remember his show, but as a kid, we always had the Christmas album playing when we put up the tree...

For some sentimental reason, I got the CD figuring it would be fun for my family. I have to say, it did not age very well...

 

[nostraDONus]

I remember it well. The original karaoke sing along.

 

[cp1969]

I thought he'd been dead for a couple of decades. That's too bad. The song I remember, with the bouncing ball, was "Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friend" (for a duck may be somebody's mother).

 

[Lowpower]

I ran across a mess of his show tunes on the net. They sounded great back then.

 

[G-Mac]

I'm sure I'm showing my age here, but I just wanted to post a Rest In Peace for Mitch Miller, who died on Saturday at age 99. Anyone else remember the show "Sing Along With Mitch"?

Well, I'll show my age too...I remember watching the show...and liking it!

 

[dg101win]

The guys at work say I am older than dirt. I guess I am since I remember his show.
R.I.P. Mitch

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Am I the only one who thinks he looks like DeNiro on that album cover! "You talkin' to me?"

I remember watching Mitch with my grandfather when I was very young. Yep, remember watching the bouncing bal as well! RIP Mr Miller!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY9gtYeHhk


WG840

 

[FlYFiShErMaN]

Yep - remember it well. Peace be with you Mitch.

 

[DCWilson]

Like others here, I had no idea Mitch Miller was still alive. This news hits me kind of hard because my father, who moved on ahead nearly five years ago at 86, was also an oboist, though one who stayed with the classical music community rather than go public and popular. He respected Miller's musical skills and choices, though. There aren't so many capable oboe and English horn players that we can let go of the ones we have.

The joke among woodwind guys is that the oboe is "an ill wind that almost nobody blows good." Mitch did. My father did. A few others have.

I'm going to go break open a bottle of wine and toast these guys. That's probably it for me for the rest of the night. See you all tomorrow or the next day.

 

[jkc]

I didn't know, until hearing his obit on NPR, that his real claim to fame was as an A&R exec for a record label (Columbia?) where he launched the careers of a number of major artists in the 50's and 60's. I'm young enough to not remember his TV show very well, but his version of Yellow Rose of Texas is what leaps to mind when anyone points out that any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to its melody and meter...

 

[ljmvaw124]

He launched Leslie Uggams career on his show - and she's still going ...... we used to watch him on our American built B&W TV. It was so long ago, you actually had to go to the TV to change the channel (your choices were 2,4,5,7,9 and 13).

 

[boneman]

Grew up watching Mitch on the boob tube, also listening to my parents jam sessions when a new L.P. came out. To this day it cracks me up remembering my parents watching the bouncing ball and singing along with Mitch. Mom could can still sing Dad not so much but he put a lot of effort into it. Rest in Peace Mitch. Larry

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

He was older than dirt (to me at least ) way back in the 60's when I watched him. I was VERY surprised to hear he was still alive.

 

[Mule88]

I rememebr him well, Dang...I thought he died along time ago.

 

[RonJ]

Be kind to your web-footed friends
for a duck may be somebodys mother............

RIP Mitch.

 

[Chik a Boom]

Awww. I have very vague memories of the show, and recall hearing a lot about it growing up. Had no idea he was still around. Did not hear or see anything of his passing. I think it's curious that many musicians live long lives. Good catch, Misty.

 

[Centenniel]

My parents watched Sing Along with Mitch on a B/W TV when I was a kid. I remember the bouncing ball. May he rest in peace.

 

[goldenlight]

I remember the show, though I was fairly young.

My parents had several of his LP's.

His music was pretty schmaltzy, but he made a very good living at it.

And, his music REALLY was music, unlike the rap and hip hp carp so popular today.