Mitch Miller

Mitch Miller is probably most famous today for his tenure as the head of A&R at Columbia Records from 1950 through 1965 where he guided the careers of Dinah Shore, Jo Stafford, Ray Conniff, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett among others and discovered Aretha Franklin.  (Also infamously known for his distaste for rock-n-roll, he reportedly passed on signing Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and The Beatles!)  Yet Miller was a popular recording artist in his own right, with most of his records begin credited to "Mitch Miller and the Gang."  This new collection gathers up 38 of his finest sing-along tracks from the period 1950-1962.