- “Follow the Bouncing Ball!”
I grew up with Mitch Miller…that is to say, he was on the TV Screen when I was a child and I loved following the bouncing ball and singing along with Mitch! So did my grandmother and many of my siblings. As I got older I realized that it wasn’t exactly cool to like Mitch Miller because the songs were pretty much all the ones that “the old folks” liked but that never bothered me because I truly liked all kinds of music!
When I stepped into the field of music as therapy, especially with people in their Golden Years, I realized that this particular body of music was often the only music and the only thing that they could still remember and enjoy. When I made my first CD of “Music for Memory Care,” these were the songs I chose to play on the piano for others in their senior years to enjoy!
Mitch Miller gave the world a wonderful gift of music and made it accessible with words on the screen and a bouncing ball in case you didn’t read that well. It was a great idea; people still love sing-alongs and especially as we age it seems to be more and more delightful because we have more and more associations with these songs.
If for some reason you haven’t experienced the delights of “Singing along with Mitch,” just go to YouTube and feast your eyes and ears! R.I.P. Mitch!
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