| Genres: |
Easy Listening,
Holiday & Seasonal,
Vocals
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| Descriptive "tags": |
oldies, mitch miller, instrumental, orchestra, american, soundtrack, 60s, easy listening, vocal, chorus, male, male chorale, folk
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| Decades Active: |
1950s,
1960s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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| Links online: |
Facebook,
IMDb,
Wikipedia
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Biography
Mitchell William Miller, 4 July 1911, Rochester, New York, USA. An oboist, record producer, arranger and one of the most commercially successful recording artists of the 50s and early 60s. Miller learned to play the piano at the age of six, and began studying the oboe when he was 12, and later attended Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. After graduating in 1932, Miller played oboe with symphony orchestras in the area, before joining CBS Radio in 1932. For the next 11 years he was a soloist with the CBS Symphony, and played with André Kostelanetz, Percy Faith, the Saidenburg Little Symphony and the Budapest String Quartet. In the late 40s he became director of Mercury Records’ ‘pop’ division, and then in 1950, was appointed head of A&R at Columbia Records. While at Mercury, Miller was responsible for producing several big hits, including Frankie Laine’s ‘That Lucky Old Sun’, ‘Mule Train’ and ‘The Cry Of...
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