Yes I sat around and watched these with my Dad in 65,66. It was real and fun to watch. Watching a mens choir harmonize like this is awesome and not to be seen anymore except on youtube. Thank for the upload dnetelTV2.
@loriloristuff Yes, you're right! It doesn't show up on his Internet Movie Database profile though. I met Bob in Calistoga, California, in 1993. My wife and I were celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary and he was in line behind us at the cafe. Very personable and nice guy!
Yes, I remember sitting in front of the TV, early 1960's watching the bouncing ball. Guess what, no sex selling and they actually had voices, talent and people had a good time.
If for no other reason I love this music because it reminds me of my late father. He would have his mug of Budwieser, sitting on our big green couch, the flickering glow of our black and white TV.....and dad would sing along under his breath to all of Mitch's songs. It almost seems like it was a dream, things are so different now...some things for the better but most for the worse
@Supergungun Oh yeah, I was almost just randomly talking about us older folks. It isn't just the old really; it's everyone. People all harken back to their childhood and say it was better back then. I frequently see comments on youtube to that effect. Just some random musings really.
He looks kind of like Salvador Dali. It seems like a really nice show. I had never hear of Mitch, but I love musicals and those type of similar things. I'm almost giddy that they're making a comeback these days in the movies and on tv.
@MrRicardoSpears Mitch Miller looks like the investigator of hypnotized killer Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart. Rourke also played St. Francis, the patron saint of animals, in the movie Francesco.His followers were vegans, going hungry themselves rather than kill the lamb of God. Francesco's most loyal follower was named The Lamb of God. Time to realize the Bible is about Noah's Ark. No-ah, ha, no joke. You're so vain, humans, you thot the Bible was about YOU. Jesus is a slotered animal.
@MrRicardoSpears Mitch Miller looks like the investigator of hypnotized killer Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart. Rourke also played St. Francis, the patron saint of animals, in the movie Francesco.His followers were vegans, going hungry themselves rather than kill the lamb of God. Francesco's most loyal follower was named The Lamb of God. Time to realize the Bible is about Noah's Ark. No-ah, ha, no joke. You're so vain, humans, you thot the Bible was about YOU. Jesus is a slotered animal.
I'm old too, I'm 36, and I see people my age and older talking about how it was better at such and such time in the world. It's just a fondness for our childhood and youth that keeps us thinking that way. You see this with people in their twenties talking about how it was better in the 90's, people in their 80's talking about how much more awesome it was in the past.
A bunch of nonsense if you ask me. Think fondly of yesterday, but you're living right now in this age, enjoy that too.
@MrRicardoSpears The main demographic of this show has probably been dead for 30 years. This catered to people born in the 1890s and 1900s who listened to 20s music.
My Grandparents came over for dinner often on Saturday evenings and we would always watch and Sing Along with Mitch sometimes with the TV show and at other times with one of his LPs with the lyric sheets.
I loved Mitch Miller's tv show. I got a good laugh when my dad would say "If Mitch Miller had a pitchfork and horns,he would look just like th Devil" Gosh how did HE know???????????
I remember this show......my dad loved it. This is so clean-cut and wholesome it seems like it was a dream..........like this time could have never existed
@camprunamok Yes, that was Bob McGrath. You'd think Mitch would have let him go after his success on "Sesame Street", but no! He appeared on Miller's specials when "Sesame Street" hit it big, and even let him perform some vocal solos!
Frank Sinatra: You don't know what censored is, junior. Censored is being dumped by Columbia because Mitch Miller doesn't like the way your career is going. It's having million-dollar pipes and nowhere to play 'em. Am I right, Steve and Eydie?
You young kids out there must know that that families really sat in front of the TV singing along to Mitch Miller! It was the real deal back then!
You have to understand that back then even McDonald's restaurants only had a handful of locations and they only had open-air walkup windows with picnic tables outside. It would seem like the Dark Ages to young people today.
@higgme1ster Not only were these "songalong" shows very popular, but MIller released a number of LPs with pre-printed lyrics sheets for the family top sing along with.
@higgme1ster And as the head honcho at Columbia Records in the late 1950s/early '60s, Mitch Miller hated rock & roll. He was a man very much out of step with the times, even in his time.
@higgme1ster Actually, I thought SING ALONG WITH MITCH was mainly a nostalgia trip for older audiences. Only in its second season could kids really watch the show, in a Friday at 9 ET slot. The first year it was on Thursday at 10, the final on Monday at 9:30--school nights, after bedtime for most little ones.
This reminds me of Saturday nights at my Grandparents house, when everyone came over for dinner...and hearing the adults singing to the Mitch Miller show.
I always find it so awesome to listen to a part of pop culture of a bygone era. All this was before my time, but I still love listening to it! I still listen to my electronic music and all, but there's a certain charm about this that transcends across the generations. Thank you, Mitch, for bringing this into my parent's and grandparent's home!
This show was a prerequisite to Disney's "Sing-Along Songs" series of VHS tapes back in the 80's and 90's. Never seen that show before. I used to have these LP's.
one of my first memories is his show . i was walking down the street with my mother in the old neighborhood. i could hear the music coming from about every third house , even people singing along. my dad absolutely loved the show, and even sang along. i must have been about six. my grandparents and parents weren't embarassed by singing along.
Will somebody please tell me where I can get the words to all the Mitch Miller&Gang songs???? I love this music. I'm having a Valentine Party for some of my senior citizen friends...........this would be great if I had the words to the music.
Please someone tell me how I can find the words to Mitch Miller songs. I ordered the MitchMiller & the Gang CD from Amazon and it does not have the words with it. Please tell me how I can get the words.
This show was part of my family's weekly routine...When I was about 3, I used to put bubbles on my chin in the bathtub and pretend to be Mitch Miller conducting the gang!
this was great live entertainment programming show that was of ten shown on TV during the 1960s.You's just about never see live entertainment shows,like "Sing along with Mitch","The Ed Sullivan Show","The Lawrence Welk Show","The Porter Wagoner Show","The Jimmy Dean Show","Kraft Music Hall","The Hollywood Palace",etc...,on TV,nowadays.oh well.who knows?maybe this or other live entertainment TV shows like might be on RFD-TV,BYU-TV,Arts & Entertainment TV,etc or other Cable TV channels!
No "Bouncing Ball" was ever featured on the show, 'Saucey' (due to copyright reasons)- lyrics WERE flashed on the bottom of the screen, a line at a time, so that home viewers could join in from the comfort of their living rooms [or wherever they were watching the program].
It so beautiful to hear all those voices,with all the different pitches and tones,harmonizing together like they did.
My Dad & I used to watch this show on TV and I loved it and seeing this brought back some great memories! Yes that IS Bob McGrath from sesame street lol!
As mentioned earlier, some of my fondest memories surround Mitch Miller and His Gang. I was born in 1962 and was kinda, pushing poop into my diaper when some of his music was first aired. This is so cool, thanks for Contributing.
One of those classics that I grew up with back in the 60's. My dad made it point never to miss this show and he'd even sing along, sometimes. Thanks for the memories!
Oh, thank you for posting these clips. I loved to following the bouncing ball and sing along with Mitch. I remember one time at the end of the show, he jumped up, and never came down. I also remember that he played oboe. I looked forward to his show every week. And like another writer said, it was a wonderful time of clean, family shows.
@OldMrMemories thanks for your comment re my posting about my dad; it was kind of you to take the time to post it and I wanted to let you know that i found it very touching.
I love this! In an interview of a few years ago, Mitch said his show was still not in syndication! Anyway, I've posted a radio interview of Mitch that was done here in Rochester, New York in 1973. It's from the interviewer's private collection and has not been heard since that air date.
i makes me sad to remember when TV was fun clean and happy.......today its dark & trashy, you can't even watch it with your children for fear of some immoral commercial.....and we wonder why our kids are so screwed up.
@sashakitty10 I am no saint myself but yes I have noticed it too......certain words are said on TV shows now that were considered way off limits just a few years ago
@NindeElensar Yes, that is Bob from Sesame Street...It's all coming back to me now. Great memories. Whatever happened to good, clean, wholesome fun? When everything on TV was peachy keen? No more high moral standards. We need a brand new world.
@americangalbasseyfan Ah well, what are you going to do. Time marches on and the world changes. BTW, I accidentally removed my comment in case you're wondering where it went.
@Joycembc The funny thing is, when I saw him in this video, I remembered thinking way back when I first watched Sesame Street with my oldest daughter that he looked familiar but I couldn't remember when I had seen him before.
Like most families of the late Fifties and early Sixties, we had a couple of Mitch's albums, including the perfunctory Christmas album. Thanks, Mitch, for all the wonderful music, fun, and memories.
i recieved a ton of old records from a lady in the town where i live but sadly, in that stack, were a lot of empty sleeves. including a mitch miller. :( also a mary poppins with that same photo as in this clip. weird.
one of my late father's favorite jokes (he was a Baptist deacon who took his Christianity seriously) was "what do you get when a bee lands on a chigger bite?-- sting along with itch"
that is a name I 've haven't heard in years. I was just a little boy when he was on TV, but I definitely remember the show, no disrespect but i thought he had already passed on. RIP you were apart of this guys early childhood
My mom was one of the dancers on "Sing Along with Mitch" and in her last appearance (May 1965) she was pregnant with me! We saw Mitch in New York in May 2008 and he looked great -- RIP Mitch!!!
You were one of the best! My dad always listened to "Holiday Sing A Long" at Christmast and thats what got me hooked. I have almost all of his albums and I'm only 27. RIP.
I remember Mitch Miller and his show when I was a kid. It was a nice way to involve the audience. The late father of the Beach Boys, Murray Wilson used to have weekly family "sing alongs". He helped impart a great love of music and singing to his sons. Many tales have been told about Murray Wilson being a high maintenance sort of guy, apparently he had his issues, but he and his wife Audrey were true music lovers.
An interesting Mitch fact--he is on an orchestra session with the great Charlie Parker,for Mercury records.(For whom Miller started his A&R and producing career)
Funny how Libby's got a commercial with rock music in there since Miller despised rock.
And l'm sure NBC's phones would light up these days if the Dixie song was played in prime time because too many people would consider it rascist. Sad but true.
Where can I get some of these videos? I have been trying for a while but can't seem to find them for sale anywhere. There were no vcr's back then and the only thing I have been able to buy is Holiday Sing-Along with Mitch.
You got to give Mitch Miller credit.
If it wasn't for him, we'de have no karaoke
Thanks Mitch!?
TVFREAKMAN 4 days ago
Yes I sat around and watched these with my Dad in 65,66. It was real and fun to watch. Watching a mens choir harmonize like this is awesome and not to be seen anymore except on youtube. Thank for the upload dnetelTV2.
6628800 5 days ago
I miss the old variety shows and i always sang along with mitch ! Still do but only on you tube.....
MrDfend63 2 weeks ago
It does look like Sing Along with Mitch is way before the Disney's Sing Along Songs.
WarrenC1995 2 weeks ago
Hooray white people!
SorryIPooted 3 weeks ago
I noticed a young Bob McGrath, before his Sesame Street days!
loriloristuff 2 months ago
@loriloristuff Yes, you're right! It doesn't show up on his Internet Movie Database profile though. I met Bob in Calistoga, California, in 1993. My wife and I were celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary and he was in line behind us at the cafe. Very personable and nice guy!
rickkuhn 1 month ago
Yes, I remember sitting in front of the TV, early 1960's watching the bouncing ball. Guess what, no sex selling and they actually had voices, talent and people had a good time.
sonsliberty 2 months ago
Family time in front "together" the tv only 3 channels then popcorn,red skelton jimmie dean bonazaa ect oh and sky king ect...ect
dust1az 2 months ago in playlist Sing Along with Mitch 2
That's Bob from Sesame Street at 1:08.
MyBackUpChannel123 3 months ago
@MyBackUpChannel123 Holy cow, you're right!! Good ol' Bob :)
grapefruitm00n 2 months ago
@MyBackUpChannel123 This is how I best remember Bob McGrath.
Juliaflo 2 months ago
This is priceless. It's time for a revival. Simon Cowell should get on this right away.
behindthecamera 3 months ago 2
If for no other reason I love this music because it reminds me of my late father. He would have his mug of Budwieser, sitting on our big green couch, the flickering glow of our black and white TV.....and dad would sing along under his breath to all of Mitch's songs. It almost seems like it was a dream, things are so different now...some things for the better but most for the worse
inkey2 4 months ago 4
oh to be an innocent little child again and watch the parent enjoy 'early Karaoke'
kiaoraguy 5 months ago
My Mom taught me to do the Charleston to this! She was a professional dancer as a young girl. (5 foot two, that is)
difa2ol 5 months ago 2
I turn up my nose and turn down hoes all the time. I can relate to Mitch Miller.
TheLAKERSareGodsTeam 5 months ago 2
You go girl.
greenleaf1343 6 months ago
I remember this from my youth - it still terrifies me! If my dear old mother had had her way, this is the music we'd all be listening to today.
georgef1776 6 months ago
Like if you got this from ant farm.
cdistasi 6 months ago 13
@Supergungun Oh yeah, I was almost just randomly talking about us older folks. It isn't just the old really; it's everyone. People all harken back to their childhood and say it was better back then. I frequently see comments on youtube to that effect. Just some random musings really.
MrRicardoSpears 6 months ago
He looks kind of like Salvador Dali. It seems like a really nice show. I had never hear of Mitch, but I love musicals and those type of similar things. I'm almost giddy that they're making a comeback these days in the movies and on tv.
MrRicardoSpears 6 months ago
@MrRicardoSpears Mitch Miller looks like the investigator of hypnotized killer Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart. Rourke also played St. Francis, the patron saint of animals, in the movie Francesco.His followers were vegans, going hungry themselves rather than kill the lamb of God. Francesco's most loyal follower was named The Lamb of God. Time to realize the Bible is about Noah's Ark. No-ah, ha, no joke. You're so vain, humans, you thot the Bible was about YOU. Jesus is a slotered animal.
redfordforpresident 5 months ago
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@MrRicardoSpears Mitch Miller looks like the investigator of hypnotized killer Mickey Rourke in the movie Angel Heart. Rourke also played St. Francis, the patron saint of animals, in the movie Francesco.His followers were vegans, going hungry themselves rather than kill the lamb of God. Francesco's most loyal follower was named The Lamb of God. Time to realize the Bible is about Noah's Ark. No-ah, ha, no joke. You're so vain, humans, you thot the Bible was about YOU. Jesus is a slotered animal.
redfordforpresident 5 months ago
I'm old too, I'm 36, and I see people my age and older talking about how it was better at such and such time in the world. It's just a fondness for our childhood and youth that keeps us thinking that way. You see this with people in their twenties talking about how it was better in the 90's, people in their 80's talking about how much more awesome it was in the past.
A bunch of nonsense if you ask me. Think fondly of yesterday, but you're living right now in this age, enjoy that too.
MrRicardoSpears 6 months ago
@MrRicardoSpears The main demographic of this show has probably been dead for 30 years. This catered to people born in the 1890s and 1900s who listened to 20s music.
Supergungun 6 months ago
was this the first karaoke in the world?
maxallps 6 months ago
Ok, so does anyone else remember the Old Navy Christmas commercial/s that were sort of like this?
fcampbell696 6 months ago
This show is really white.
glimmer2158 7 months ago 2
Sing Along With Mitch ROCKS! Like Rurouni Kenshin & other anime, IT BADLY ROCKS!
Gogorikiisthebest 7 months ago
My Grandparents came over for dinner often on Saturday evenings and we would always watch and Sing Along with Mitch sometimes with the TV show and at other times with one of his LPs with the lyric sheets.
kdegru 7 months ago
I loved Mitch Miller's tv show. I got a good laugh when my dad would say "If Mitch Miller had a pitchfork and horns,he would look just like th Devil" Gosh how did HE know???????????
MrNorm1949 7 months ago
This completely wrecked my sense of melancholy.
TheSteelyMan 7 months ago
omg roflmaoc....HEY LOOK its the SING ALONG witht he pod people!!! HAhahahahahahahahahah and I thought Trololo was babd ahahhaha snorts laughin
Rayncatt 7 months ago
Today, would have been Mitch's 100th Birthday. He is missed, maybe we cam see more of his shows.
82505fco 7 months ago
8:01 video: Sing Along With Mitch (1 of 4); 1961 to 1964 on NBC-TV. Mitch Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010).
mkworkman 7 months ago
@mkworkman Actually, the title graphic and commercials tell me this was from its rebroadcast in the summer of 1966.
tomservo56954 3 weeks ago
I see some actors singing in there. Can you name them?
2Ryled 8 months ago
Where in the world was this clip found? Of course I remember the show, but I'm as old as the hills (57), too....
kcolpaer 8 months ago
Fuck Dixie......
Sting229 8 months ago
I remember this show......my dad loved it. This is so clean-cut and wholesome it seems like it was a dream..........like this time could have never existed
inkey2 8 months ago
At 1:10 is that Bob McGrath? He was "Bob" on Sesame Street.
camprunamok 9 months ago
@camprunamok Yep, that's him. I've always tended to think of him as maybe Neil Sedaka's older brother, they look so much alike!
datoobster75 9 months ago
@camprunamok Yes, yes it is.
21stcenturykaren 9 months ago
@camprunamok Yes, that was Bob McGrath. You'd think Mitch would have let him go after his success on "Sesame Street", but no! He appeared on Miller's specials when "Sesame Street" hit it big, and even let him perform some vocal solos!
MrUnidyne 7 months ago
...And karaoke was born.
Tannz0rz 10 months ago
Frank Sinatra: You don't know what censored is, junior. Censored is being dumped by Columbia because Mitch Miller doesn't like the way your career is going. It's having million-dollar pipes and nowhere to play 'em. Am I right, Steve and Eydie?
RacerXGTO 10 months ago
As a kid I remember sitting next to the record player and plopping the "needle", yes an actual pin type stylus, on the songs that I liked the best.
TOKAMEEL 10 months ago
what a golden age classic!! nowadays ... sigh
TheMalaccan 10 months ago
This was broadcast in living color.
catholicpriest1 11 months ago
great Mitch Miller
vertxxgg 11 months ago
When he introduced the minstrel show, @ 5:30, I got nervous. I thought I was going to see a bunch of guys in blackface.
pnull 11 months ago 2
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superfanofmk 11 months ago
should I do something like this in My vlog: "LIVE! with Doctor Scuba'?
DoctorScuba 11 months ago
mitch miller invented karoke
lake40 11 months ago
He looks like Anton LaVey and that makes me enjoy singing along all that more.
vampirefastcode 11 months ago
5 listerners of justin bieber dont like mitch miller
MartasekM 1 year ago
Great Television! Entertainment with audience participation!
mohinderbauer 1 year ago
I'm only 19 and i love Mitch miller! I wish was born back then so i could sit in front of the TV and sing along with Mitch miller!
Stalinsgulag 1 year ago
the a-go-go dance while eating sloopy joe burger is awesome-o
Newzionis 1 year ago
also, can someone tell me the name of the song that mitch miller wrote that has all the cute whistling in it? thanks!
iomoo 1 year ago
@iomoo Are you thinking about Bridge on the River Kwai theme?
hogomeiko 11 months ago
RIP :( such a cute song
iomoo 1 year ago
You young kids out there must know that that families really sat in front of the TV singing along to Mitch Miller! It was the real deal back then!
You have to understand that back then even McDonald's restaurants only had a handful of locations and they only had open-air walkup windows with picnic tables outside. It would seem like the Dark Ages to young people today.
higgme1ster 1 year ago 20
@higgme1ster I remember Mitch's Christmas specials. They were worth waiting for. Especially when he changed into Santa!! Remember that?? =Stefan=
chengloki 9 months ago
@higgme1ster Not only were these "songalong" shows very popular, but MIller released a number of LPs with pre-printed lyrics sheets for the family top sing along with.
MrUnidyne 7 months ago
@higgme1ster And as the head honcho at Columbia Records in the late 1950s/early '60s, Mitch Miller hated rock & roll. He was a man very much out of step with the times, even in his time.
gymnastix 2 months ago
@higgme1ster Actually, I thought SING ALONG WITH MITCH was mainly a nostalgia trip for older audiences. Only in its second season could kids really watch the show, in a Friday at 9 ET slot. The first year it was on Thursday at 10, the final on Monday at 9:30--school nights, after bedtime for most little ones.
tomservo56954 3 weeks ago
This reminds me of Saturday nights at my Grandparents house, when everyone came over for dinner...and hearing the adults singing to the Mitch Miller show.
tonybklyn 1 year ago
I always find it so awesome to listen to a part of pop culture of a bygone era. All this was before my time, but I still love listening to it! I still listen to my electronic music and all, but there's a certain charm about this that transcends across the generations. Thank you, Mitch, for bringing this into my parent's and grandparent's home!
Grandhoohah 1 year ago
The beginning of the show had the NBC "Snake" logo, yay!
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
This show was a prerequisite to Disney's "Sing-Along Songs" series of VHS tapes back in the 80's and 90's. Never seen that show before. I used to have these LP's.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 1 year ago
I wish iTunes had "I never Knew"!
CoincidenceNot 1 year ago
one of my first memories is his show . i was walking down the street with my mother in the old neighborhood. i could hear the music coming from about every third house , even people singing along. my dad absolutely loved the show, and even sang along. i must have been about six. my grandparents and parents weren't embarassed by singing along.
weitzfc 1 year ago
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Will somebody please tell me where I can get the words to all the Mitch Miller&Gang songs???? I love this music. I'm having a Valentine Party for some of my senior citizen friends...........this would be great if I had the words to the music.
THANKS........
wickerbarb@gmail.com
wickerbarb 1 year ago
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How can I get the words to Mitch Miller music??? I'm having a valentine party and need the music to Mitch Miller & the gang.
THANKS
wickerbarb@gmail.com
wickerbarb 1 year ago
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Please someone tell me how I can find the words to Mitch Miller songs. I ordered the MitchMiller & the Gang CD from Amazon and it does not have the words with it. Please tell me how I can get the words.
THANKS wickerbarb@gmail.com
wickerbarb 1 year ago
This show was part of my family's weekly routine...When I was about 3, I used to put bubbles on my chin in the bathtub and pretend to be Mitch Miller conducting the gang!
drumminman58 1 year ago 4
@drumminman58
WIth Bubbles you could be boith Lawrence Welk AND Mitch Miller at the same time.
SteveCarras 1 year ago
this was great live entertainment programming show that was of ten shown on TV during the 1960s.You's just about never see live entertainment shows,like "Sing along with Mitch","The Ed Sullivan Show","The Lawrence Welk Show","The Porter Wagoner Show","The Jimmy Dean Show","Kraft Music Hall","The Hollywood Palace",etc...,on TV,nowadays.oh well.who knows?maybe this or other live entertainment TV shows like might be on RFD-TV,BYU-TV,Arts & Entertainment TV,etc or other Cable TV channels!
hank29pc713 1 year ago 3
No "Bouncing Ball" was ever featured on the show, 'Saucey' (due to copyright reasons)- lyrics WERE flashed on the bottom of the screen, a line at a time, so that home viewers could join in from the comfort of their living rooms [or wherever they were watching the program].
fromthesidelines 1 year ago 2
I'll second, third, fourth to see Sing Along with Mitch on DVD
82505fco 1 year ago 2
I wouldn't want to meet the Sing Along Gang in a dark alley. XD
TheSteelyMan 1 year ago
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m120105m 1 year ago
i didn't realize mitch miller passed away last summer. The media didn't pay too much attention to this.
mohinderbauer 1 year ago
@mohinderbauer If it had been some rap star or movie teen idol, it would have been on the cover of every magazine.
skateboardgumby 1 year ago 2
At the risk of aging myself, I (barely) remember watching this.
K5054Valkyrie 1 year ago
I wish I could re-live this era. Real wholesome good music with lyrics that had meaning.
epgrove1961 1 year ago
My father LOVED this group.....I thought there was a bouncing ball someplace on this show?
Sauceywalker 1 year ago
Nicoli Lenin will now lead the original Gay mans choir....
irish89055 1 year ago
It so beautiful to hear all those voices,with all the different pitches and tones,harmonizing together like they did.
My Dad & I used to watch this show on TV and I loved it and seeing this brought back some great memories! Yes that IS Bob McGrath from sesame street lol!
Ahhhhh such sweet harmonies!!!!
darthsideous1968 1 year ago
Mitch was awesome and the commercials are classic!!!!
wegggie 1 year ago
1:08 I think thats Neil Sedaka
CanadaguyRudey 1 year ago
@CanadaguyRudey It definitely looks like Neil Sedaka. It actually is Bob McGrath from Sesame Street.
gymman1031 1 year ago
OK, I'm feeling "seasoned" because i remember watching this show with my dad, who sang along! How else did you learn some of these older tunes??
miaharted 1 year ago
Folks,
Way to Go! Thanks for Keeping Up.
As mentioned earlier, some of my fondest memories surround Mitch Miller and His Gang. I was born in 1962 and was kinda, pushing poop into my diaper when some of his music was first aired. This is so cool, thanks for Contributing.
Stephen.
SVDash 1 year ago
I think the movies had been around for 60 years before he made this episode....
Supergungun 1 year ago
Bob McGrath of Sesame Street appears at 1:08.
alnbst 1 year ago
I loved to watch this show. This was an NBC program in prime time. My how times (and TV) have changed....for the worst.
Dannys998877 1 year ago
Love the show when I was a little kid. The commercials were cool (orange juice in b&w ewwwww). Thanks for posting this.
vogue2222 1 year ago
mitch millers and the westindians from guyana
tribeofgaul 1 year ago
Just great!
Jennings03 1 year ago
RIP Mitch Miller 1911 - 2010
ribena1983 1 year ago
Loved this show as a kid in the early 1960s!
Mitch was a great musician!
Prionel 1 year ago
@Prionel I thoroughly SECOND that. If you would like to see a 'Sing Along with Mitch' DVD, raise your hand.
Merry Christmas.
Juliaflo 1 year ago
One of those classics that I grew up with back in the 60's. My dad made it point never to miss this show and he'd even sing along, sometimes. Thanks for the memories!
NorbertZF 1 year ago
I "REALLY LOVE" the 2nd Song!!! It makes me feel "REALLY GOOD"!!!
RepoVendors 1 year ago 24
@RepoVendors Mitch Miller looks like an extremely happy version of Fidel Castro. Which is why hardly any Americans ever became communists.
etbella3 1 year ago
Oh, thank you for posting these clips. I loved to following the bouncing ball and sing along with Mitch. I remember one time at the end of the show, he jumped up, and never came down. I also remember that he played oboe. I looked forward to his show every week. And like another writer said, it was a wonderful time of clean, family shows.
DaughNo1 1 year ago
@OldMrMemories thanks for your comment re my posting about my dad; it was kind of you to take the time to post it and I wanted to let you know that i found it very touching.
62000downloader 1 year ago
I love this! In an interview of a few years ago, Mitch said his show was still not in syndication! Anyway, I've posted a radio interview of Mitch that was done here in Rochester, New York in 1973. It's from the interviewer's private collection and has not been heard since that air date.
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u47tube 1 year ago
RIP Mitch, My dad always said one of the best things he did in life was to sing with you for 5 years. I hope we can see alot more of the shows!!
82505fco 1 year ago
i makes me sad to remember when TV was fun clean and happy.......today its dark & trashy, you can't even watch it with your children for fear of some immoral commercial.....and we wonder why our kids are so screwed up.
sashakitty10 1 year ago
@sashakitty10 I am no saint myself but yes I have noticed it too......certain words are said on TV shows now that were considered way off limits just a few years ago
inkey2 1 year ago
Alartandy- :-)
marked54 1 year ago
As kids in elementary school we used to impersonate Mitch Miller's herky jerky hand motion leading the chorus.
alartandy 1 year ago
RIP Mitch Miller.
wcrooster1 1 year ago
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I wanna hear them sing some Lady Gaga songs :)
katie8758 1 year ago
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NindeElensar 1 year ago
@NindeElensar Yes, that is Bob from Sesame Street...It's all coming back to me now. Great memories. Whatever happened to good, clean, wholesome fun? When everything on TV was peachy keen? No more high moral standards. We need a brand new world.
americangalbasseyfan 1 year ago
@americangalbasseyfan Ah well, what are you going to do. Time marches on and the world changes. BTW, I accidentally removed my comment in case you're wondering where it went.
NindeElensar 1 year ago
@NindeElensar yes i saw him too! LOL
Joycembc 1 year ago
@Joycembc The funny thing is, when I saw him in this video, I remembered thinking way back when I first watched Sesame Street with my oldest daughter that he looked familiar but I couldn't remember when I had seen him before.
NindeElensar 1 year ago
Like most families of the late Fifties and early Sixties, we had a couple of Mitch's albums, including the perfunctory Christmas album. Thanks, Mitch, for all the wonderful music, fun, and memories.
100Meadows 1 year ago
I never knew what love could do until I met you MP.
sabrinacernecca 1 year ago
How unfair is life. How could Mitch have died recently? It's just not right! He still had many years left.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
I was not even born yet when this show aired. Corny, but I enjoyed this clip. The men dressed, and looked like men. Chins up, smiling, and proud!
naturalpro2003 1 year ago
Thank you Mitch for all the lovely childhood music....you will be missed...
guitarrick57 1 year ago
R.I.P. Mitch. I guess we could say you invented Karaoke!!!!
NMshortncute 1 year ago
i recieved a ton of old records from a lady in the town where i live but sadly, in that stack, were a lot of empty sleeves. including a mitch miller. :( also a mary poppins with that same photo as in this clip. weird.
tabitwin 1 year ago
i am a fan of his goatee/mustach thing.
tabitwin 1 year ago
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He won't be missed.
CaneFu 1 year ago
no wonder the beatles were so popular!!
vatmcgrath 1 year ago
Wow. Nice audience participatory event! This and "WInky Dink "may have been Bobby and Linda's first inspirations for involving the audience?
quigdette 1 year ago
With Mitch living to be 99 you know he had a ball I understand he worked a little up until he passed he had a ball!
wongleebruce 1 year ago
I remember when i was about 8 or 9 I bought one of his records for my parents for their anniversary because it had a song my mom liked
ate1eight 1 year ago
He was the greatest.
Soulthinker2007 1 year ago
one of my late father's favorite jokes (he was a Baptist deacon who took his Christianity seriously) was "what do you get when a bee lands on a chigger bite?-- sting along with itch"
62000downloader 1 year ago
@62000downloader ,Hey thats cool. I'll bet your Dad was a lot of fun. Thats a sweet recollection.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago
that is a name I 've haven't heard in years. I was just a little boy when he was on TV, but I definitely remember the show, no disrespect but i thought he had already passed on. RIP you were apart of this guys early childhood
bmwstan 1 year ago
That's Bob McGrath of Sesame Street at 1:09
MSmith1277 1 year ago
whats the name of that first song?
usernamestupid2 1 year ago
@usernamestupid2 "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?"
libearian 1 year ago
R.I. P. Mitch.....Ya Lived to A ripe old age!
Condolences To The Family <3
IdolFanable 1 year ago
a tribute to an American icon.
ibilldavis 1 year ago
Mitch Jane also passed away the other day in Columbia Mo. He was The Dillards lead player.
My condolences to both familys. I remember this music it kept the great songs of the past going many years after their time.
trailboyus66 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Mitch. Thanks for the gift of song in our homes.
Hildy2E 1 year ago
R.I.P. :(
swede1875 1 year ago
RIP Mitch.
Mr1930s 1 year ago
This vid is fun, not having seen this since it first came out when I was a toddler, this is fun and refreshing!
99 years of old age, hahaha , WOW !!
You were an oldie, but not quite growing moldy !
Rest In Peace, Mitch Miller !! YAYY !!
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
Sooo wonderful! I miss the "sweetness" of the era and certainly "singing along with Mitch Miller"
nitaseyboldsault 1 year ago
My mom was one of the dancers on "Sing Along with Mitch" and in her last appearance (May 1965) she was pregnant with me! We saw Mitch in New York in May 2008 and he looked great -- RIP Mitch!!!
tubelover12 1 year ago
my grandma loved this stuff..rip
rrboone1 1 year ago
You were one of the best! My dad always listened to "Holiday Sing A Long" at Christmast and thats what got me hooked. I have almost all of his albums and I'm only 27. RIP.
drh4683 1 year ago
Mr. Miller, RIP
I always adored you!
Georgie1954 1 year ago
My favorite show when I was a little girl...Rest in peace dear Mitch!!!!
012599 1 year ago
One of my cherished childhood memories was singing along with Mitch and my dad.
Aboz 1 year ago
I remember Mitch Miller and his show when I was a kid. It was a nice way to involve the audience. The late father of the Beach Boys, Murray Wilson used to have weekly family "sing alongs". He helped impart a great love of music and singing to his sons. Many tales have been told about Murray Wilson being a high maintenance sort of guy, apparently he had his issues, but he and his wife Audrey were true music lovers.
NancyHey 1 year ago
An interesting Mitch fact--he is on an orchestra session with the great Charlie Parker,for Mercury records.(For whom Miller started his A&R and producing career)
postatility 1 year ago
RIP Mitch :(
strangerinwhite 1 year ago
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Good ridnace
profoundhound 1 year ago
Miller was quoted as rock music "is not music, it's a disease"
2639629 1 year ago
RIP Mitch :'(
dmine45 1 year ago
I remember seeing his show when I was a kid. Not sure I really 'got him' in the days of Dylan, the Beatles, etc, but R.I.P Mitch.
markt133 1 year ago
I just listened to an interview of Mitch @ 90yo. He said there was NEVER a bouncing ball on his show. Log onto NPR.org to listen.
xrayangiodoc 1 year ago
"Now you may think that this is the end ... well it is!" R.I.P. Mitch, 1911-2010.
shipoopishipoopi 1 year ago
R.I.P. my friend
1boertjie2 1 year ago
Funny how Libby's got a commercial with rock music in there since Miller despised rock.
And l'm sure NBC's phones would light up these days if the Dixie song was played in prime time because too many people would consider it rascist. Sad but true.
imthedorf1964 1 year ago
Where can I get some of these videos? I have been trying for a while but can't seem to find them for sale anywhere. There were no vcr's back then and the only thing I have been able to buy is Holiday Sing-Along with Mitch.
mollyt7954 1 year ago
@mollyt7954 Mitch owned them all, and in color. Maybe now his estate will release them to the public.
lcs1956 1 year ago
@mollyt7954
when I googled sing along with mitch there was one link to "dvds"
davehawkinsband 1 year ago
RIP MITCH MILLER. LOVED THIS SHOW AS A KID.
tapthatt2012 1 year ago