Sing Along with Mitch with Milton Berle (1 of 6)

[jeffreykeyes1]

I love this!

[remingtonh]

this is fantastic.

[hank29pc713]

this was live entertainment TV show was great and wonderful programming shown on TV throughout the 1960s!

[hank29pc713]

this,along with other live entertainment TV shows,was often shown on TV throughout the 1960s,but is just about never shown on TV,nowadays!

[johnwaynetheduke]

How has America managed to degenerate itself from this high classy culture to the low class of garbage we have today just over a short 4 decades?

[Juliaflo]

@johnwaynetheduke I ask that same question from time to time.

Merry Christmas.

[SVDash]

.Folks,

I see 7,000-odd visits to this?

Unacceptable.

One of my earliest memories was this Gent and his Gang on the TV in Chicago. Yes, I ain't quite out of my 40s~

We need this kind of Music AND Spirit, now more than ever.

Stephen

[chuffedtobits]

Milton Berle was only 55 on Monday night, January 13th, 1964 when this particular episode aired at 10 PM EST on NBC-TV. (It aired as a repeat on June 22, 1964.) Mitch was age 52.

[MLMusicBox]

@chuffedtobits It aired in January 1964, as you said, but this was taped November 25/26, 1963, mere days after President Kennedy's assassination. This show was in rehearsal on the 22nd when the news about Kennedy broke. So when you watch this, you're watching the cast smiling through a sad time.

[jacme1219]

RIP Mitch....Mom and Dad loved your program.

[JazzVideoGuy]

RIP Mitch.

[alienhuman]

LOL ... "guess he never got my wire". The text of the day.

[holden190]

Where's the bouncing ball to help us sing along?

My parents loved this show.

[Just1Hitch]

Mitch never used the bouncing ball.

[Gottafang]

RIP, Mr. Miller. I remember you show when I was little.

[fromthesidelines]

Mitch passed away on July 31st, at the age of 99.

R.I.P.

[kinksfan1956]

@fromthesidelines One of these clips has them singing the policeman's chorus from "Pirates," and it's a very solid performance. Miller was easy to make fun of, but he had some very talented people working with him.

[tootsie2089]

@kinksfan1956 I don't know about making fun of Mitch, but in '65 when I was about 5, after eating candy suckers, my aunt stuck a maple leaf on her chin and directed and I laughed so hard, I peed my pants - ahh childhood memories

[sidecarcn]

Some interesting production nots about Sing Along with Mitch. All music was recorded at the Columbia 30th Street Studio and the them mimed in the studio. Only the solo performances were done live on camera. The studio where the show was shot was also the same studio where Bob McGrath would later do Sesame Street. Each show was shot over 2 or 3 days.

[dw438]

@sidecarcn The Mitch Miller tv series on NBC was shot at NBC's Brooklyn Color Studio #2. An interesting side note to this was that there were no video taping facilities at NBC Brooklyn; all activity there was sent via microwave links back to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Sesame Street was shot at various studios on Manhattan's Upper West Side owned by Reeves Teletape in the 60's, 70's and '80's before settling into its present home at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in the New York borough of Queens.

[sidecarcn]

@dw438 that's right.

[loriloristuff]

Before there was Whitney Houston- there was LESLIE UGGAMS!

[charlesnorte]

@loriloristuff You are right, a great voice. I didn´t know her, Searching for Mitch Miller I found her performance. Greetings from Argentina!

[BlakeMcDaniel]

Show first broadcast on Jan. 13, 1964.

[drh4683]

Its wonderful to know that Mitch Miller is still with us!

[jsilence418]

Thank God! Thank God!....milton berle is dead !