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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mitch Miller, the powerful American music executive who guided some of the biggest U.S. pop stars of the 1950s and had Americans crooning with him on the "Sing Along With Mitch" ...

NEW YORK -- Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to "Sing Along With Mitch" on television and records and produced hits for Tony Bennett, Patti Page and other performers, has ...

Mitch Miller, the goateed bandleader who hosted NBC’s Sing Along with Mitch in the early 1960s, died Saturday at age 99. Miller’s music and his show were before my time, but I’ve always found the ...

When Mitch Miller, then Columbia Records’ top song-picker, asked Rosemary Clooney to sing an oddball tune adapted from an old Armenian folk melody, “I damn near fell on the floor,” Clooney recalled.

For anyone that grew up in the 1960s, the TV show “Sing Along With Mitch” was an absolute must-watch for several years. “Follow the bouncing ball,” the host, Mitch Miller, would say. And I’ll bet ...