July 4, 2024

Mitch Miller & the dialectogram

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Mitch Miller    
date & photographer unknown 




 
Today is the birthday of American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist, Mitch Miller who was born in 1911.     

He was involved in almost every aspect of the music industry, particularly as a conductor and artists and repertoire (A&R) man.   
 
Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of A&R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, Sing Along with Mitch.        
 
Miller was the inventor of the Dialectogram, highly detailed drawings of places that are taken from the perspective of those who live and work there and use pictograms and dialects to interpret them (links below).                 



     
His album Sing Along with Mitch was one of the first CD’s issued by Columbia. For years he could be seen walking on the Upper West Side streets of Manhattan where he lived until his death on July 31, 2010 at the age of 99.      
     
     
     
     
Viewfinder links:       
        
John Marks ~ Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer             
Joan Weber ~ Let Me Go, Lover        
     
Net links:       
         
Dialectograms ~ Mitch Miller            
Getty Images ~ Mitch Miller            
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art ~ Dialectogram Exhibition             
Mitch Miller site       
Old Time Radio ~ The Mitch Miller Show          
Red Road Flats ~ Red Road Dialectograms            
Rochester Hall of Music ~ Mitch Miller       
Taylor & Francis ~ Dialectograms               
University of Edinburgh ~ Talking Lines: The Dialectogram as Socially Engaged Design                
     
YouTube links:       
         
City Journal ~ Dialectograms by Mitch Miller               
Mitch Miller links        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
Styrous® ~ Thursday, July 4, 2024        
        















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