"I'll Take You Home Again..."

RIP Mitch Miller, who paved the way for so many of us sing-alongsters. I was a lucky kid; my mother had an album or two.

“What pleased me the most,” he said in an interview with The Times in 1981, “was a fellow who came up to me after a concert in Chicago and said, ‘You know, there’s nobody in this whole country who hasn’t been touched by your music in some way.’

“That really made me feel good.”