{"id":25534,"date":"2014-07-05T05:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T09:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:32:25","slug":"laugh-along-with-mitch-why-not-i-dont-know-who-the-joke-was-meant-for-in-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25534","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Along With Mitch? Why Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laugh Along With Mitch? Why Not!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who the joke was meant for in this picture, but I&#8217;ve heard that Mitch Miller had a wicked sense of humor and that there were some classic off camera practical jokes played on this set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sing Along With Mitch&#8217; began in 1961 on NBC, the same year &#8216;The Dick Van Dyke Show&#8217; debuted on CBS. It was done from the huge NBC Brooklyn Studios till it was canceled in 1964 due to changing tastes in music.<\/p>\n<p>Although Miller was head of A&amp;R (Artist and Repertoire) at Columbia Records, and responsible for signing artist and finding hits for them to record, he was not a fan of rock and roll. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/698303056873913\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Laugh-Along-With-Mitch-Why-Not-I-dont-know-who-the-joke-was-meant-for-in-th\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/698309096873309\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laugh Along With Mitch? Why Not! I don&#8217;t know who the joke was meant for in this picture, but I&#8217;ve heard that Mitch Miller had a wicked sense of humor and that there were some classic off camera practical jokes played on this set. &#8216;Sing Along With Mitch&#8217; began in 1961 on NBC, the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,1095,782],"class_list":["post-25534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-dick-van-dyke-show","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60005,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions\/60005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}