![]() ![]() Yet, alas, there is no bouncing ball to follow. I remember Mitch telling us to sing along and to follow the bouncing ball. ![]() ![]() Since I really don’t have an actual Way Back Machine - full disclosure - I did the next best thing - I Googled it.Īnd I found several TV video clips of Mitch Miller urging us to sing along, but I did not see one bouncing ball. It’s times like these that I really want to be able to fire up the Way Back Machine and head back to our living room and turn on the TV for Sing Along With Mitch. We read the lyrics, we heard the music, we sang along and - we followed the frigging bouncing ball! - Check. Mitch Miller saying, “Follow the bouncing ball.” - check. So how did we all get this same illusion that we watched a TV show and sang along as we read the lyrics on the screen and, yes, we followed the bouncing ball?Īs vivid as my memories are of those days, I will always contend that Mitch Miller told us to follow the bouncing ball because, in fact, there was a bouncing ball to follow. NPR: How did it get to be that we thought there was a bouncing ball if there wasn’t one? So people, you know, drew that from their memory. And then there was a cartoon - Looney Tunes and all that, they had a bouncing ball. ![]() There was a - when the organ would teach you a new song in theater, the organ would play and there was a bouncing ball. Miller: Because there was in the theater. NPR: Why do you think that everybody thinks that there was a bouncing ball? We just had the lyrics and, as I told you, had the two cameras and the stuff in black.” Mitch Miller, who died in 2010 at age 99, once said the following in an interview on NPR: “Follow the bouncing ball,” the host, Mitch Miller, would say.Īnd I’ll bet anyone who recalls that show will swear that they did follow the bouncing ball as the lyrics flashed on the screen and they all sang along - with Mitch and his army of singers. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.įor anyone that grew up in the 1960s, the TV show “Sing Along With Mitch” was an absolute must-watch for several years. ![]()
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