“Mr. Miller was the Midas of novelty music, storming the charts with records like Jimmy Boyd’s ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’…”
-You’d think someone as old as the hugely successful oboist, bandleader, producer and TV-show host Mitch Miller was maybe holding out for the century mark. But apparently, he just wanted to see one of his signature hits play over the closing credits of Mad Men. (I’m assuming he got to see an advance of Sunday’s episode before he died Saturday.)
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