Pop Goes The Country
Tony Bennett's experience with Mitch Miller was little different than that of other strong-willed artists on the Columbia roster in the 1950s and early 1960s. Miller often pushed artists to record...
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The Yellow Rose Of Texas
  The man who shaped the pop philosophy behind the scenes of Columbia Records in the '50s also developed a distinctive, goateed profile as a recording artist in his own right. His greatest fame would come by encouraging ordinary civilians sitting by their hi-fi's (and, ultimately, around their television sets) to Sing Along With Mitch, although Miller himself did no singing. Album after album of this proto-karaoke sold millions of copies, creating a franchise that flourished until the early '60s. It is worth noting that, despite the "hup-2-3-4" cadence of "The Yellow Rose Of Texas," his lowest-charting album of the period was March Along With Mitch.

From the motion picture, Giant; (D. George); Produced by Mitch Miller; Rec. New York, June 30, 1955. Columbia single 4-40540 (mx. CO 53604); Originally Released 1955