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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:
Cornell University ~ Dialectograms: Machine Learning Differences between Discursive Communities
Dialectograms ~ Mitch Miller
Euroacademia ~ Dialectograms and The Architecture of Comics
Getty Images ~ Mitch Miller
Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art ~ Dialectogram Exhibition
LA Times ~ Musical innovator Mitch Miller dies at 99
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
