Mitch Miller obituary: Mitch Miller dies at 99 - latimes.com

Mitch Miller, musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch,' dies at 99

The musician and producer helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and '60s. He nurtured the careers of Vic Damone, Patti Page and Leslie Uggams.

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Mitch Miller arrives for the NBC's 75th Anniversary celebration at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center. (Frank Micelotta / Getty Images / May 5, 2002)

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By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times

August 2, 2010|1:44 p.m.

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Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most commercially successful recording artists, has died. He was 99.

Miller died Saturday after a short illness at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said his daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther.

A top oboist and English horn player who joined the CBS Symphony Orchestra in the 1930s and later recorded with legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, Miller wound up his more than seven-decade musical career guest conducting symphony orchestras around the world.

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Mitch Miller obituary: Mitch Miller dies at 99 - latimes.com