There are times that a simple obituary fails to convey the life of a person. Anyone more than fifty years old would certainly remember Mitch Miller, and generations after owe him a debt of gratitude.

I'm going to post our usual first paragraph of Mitch's Wikipedia article. I encourage all of you to read the entire article.

Mitch, thanks for your contributions to music, and humanity.

From Wikipedia:

Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010)^[1][2] was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive. One of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist, he is sometimes thought of as the creator of what would become karaoke with his NBC-TV series, Sing Along with Mitch. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s, Miller began his musical career as an accomplished player of the oboe and English horn, and recorded several highly regarded classical albums featuring his instrumental work. But he is best remembered as a conductor, choral director, television performer and recording executive.

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