Publication: National ExaminerDate: 30 August 2010
The Examiner wants us to believe that America is all torn to pieces over the death of Mitch Miller, who died last month at the age of a jillion years old.
Let me speak for America here for a moment.
Aw. Hellz. NO!
His show went off the air 44 years ago. The median age of his audience in 1966 was dead. I would be amazed if one person in five today have any memory of him and the vast majority of them were probably shocked that he wasn't dead already. Every mention of him I have read in the past fifteen years or so was about how he stifled the careers of artists at Columbia like Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Tony Bennett by forcing them to sing ridiculous novelty tunes and they had to switch labels to get to sing material that was up to their talent level.
In brief, Mitch Miller lived long enough to be widely forgotten by the masses and mostly despised by people who love music.
Not that I feel strongly about this.
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