Watching all the segments, I can't get over how wonderful Shirley still was even as an adult. This is just about the very last of her performing career before switching to being a diplomat for the United Nations and other agencies in the mid-1960s. I will never forget the 1998 Academy Awards where they had dozens of past Academy Award winners take a bow. When they introduced Shirley the crowd went crazy. She is 82 now and lives quietly in metro San Francisco.

We sadly lost Shirley Temple on February 11, 2014 at the age of 85. Many know this, but for those who don't after her acting career ended she went on to be a US Ambassador for many years starting in the late 1960s. An amazing woman even not counting what she did as a child with all she did as an adult!

@missysprankel6529

9 жыл бұрын

Walt Gekko she didnt pass away on febuary 11, it was on the tenth

@WaltGekko

9 жыл бұрын

Most news articles said the 11th. This was written over a year ago.

@missysprankel6529

9 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter get the facts right

@ryanm7249

9 жыл бұрын

Walt Gekko It definitely is sad to have lost her! I don't know a lot about her older career, but I know she always sang good in her movies, and my sister loved her!

He was a top record producer who knew what it took to please the public...Mitch Miller was on NBC for years with his corny,songfest...BUT folks watched...I recall sitting with my parents seeing the same friendly faces singing the tunes and watching the bouncing ball float across the screen of our massive 21 inch Zenith Color TV...This episode of the show features big screen star, Shirley Temple...and Mitch worked it for all he could...Great legendary TV right here...

@jeffmissinne3866

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, the bouncing ball was never part of Miller's show. It was however part of the "Screen Song" cartoons Paramount made for decades.

always such great and wonderful things!always something worth watching!always something worth listening to!

Living in a world of crime shows, judge shows, and reality tv..I sure miss programs like these! Thank you, Mitch....

@theresap.3305

Жыл бұрын

The same shows continue till this day 7/1/2023. Twelve years since your post. I loved the variety shows and what are now classic tv shows and movies. The Midnight Special was worth staying up late to watch on Fridays at Midnight. I only watch the classics.

What a beautiful child & grown woman inside & out, so talented & a great show of Mitch Miller. SO awful these days are gone. Shows were Great when tv first came out, look what is on now!! UGH!! Puke!!

Entertaining. A sheer delight. What a class program. Thank you for posting.

She was an amazing talent at any age.

Beautiful Shirley...she never fades...Im watching her video,movies almost everyday cause I just stay home cause of the cov..19....4l24 l2020.. Vancouver BC

Wonderful television history...wish someone would produce a retrospective on this old show.

Even in the context of the early 1960's, "Sing Along With Mitch" (both the LP's that spawned first the 1960 TV special, then the 1961-64 series) was very square! But that didn't stop it from becoming, for a time, a top-rated series.

Remembering "Sing Along with Mitch" starring Shirley Temple, first ever aired as part of KPBS San Diego's Summervision(August 1985 Membership Campaign), Circa August 17, 1985, TV Worth Watching & TV Worth Paying For!!

I really miss the good 'ole days of Friday nights Sing Along with Mitch. The holiday's are wonderful because of the music of Mitch Miller & The Gang.

What a beautiful lady she was...

Tap dancing in front of the Shirley Temple, what an honor.

Last Mitch Miller video I watched on here, the lead male dancer looked like he should have been tapping but didn’t, so happy to see him doing so on this one.

I vaguely remember seeing this. All I can say is that I could not wait for the next "Hullabaloo" featuring Ray Davies and the Kinks. Shirley's daughter Lori played bass guitar in the progressive band, "The Melvins." Stern irony there.

Shirley was still pretty cute even as a grown-up.

wow i thought i was the only person that had this show from 1964, my tape is nearing 30 years old i never figured out how to put it on you tube i'm glad someone finaly posted a copy! the IMDB dosnt even have this listed.

It's too bad that TV couldn't stay somehow sweet and innocent like then. I wish some of these shows were available on DVD.

SHIRLEY WAS SO BEAUIFUL

@ijustloveraggedyannandy5119

7 жыл бұрын

She sure was!

@juliecox4975

5 жыл бұрын

She sang so very nicely too -- I've seen her dance in her adult years, but never heard her sing as an adult before :)

Great stuff!

Originally telecast on February 3, 1964.

When I listen Mitch Miller I feel like I in 50s. Restsurant and I order a burguer fries and a malt drink.

And one particular reason for a show like this is so NBC could tout the wonders of color TV, with the sets and costumes.

@roryloganwhitley1867

2 жыл бұрын

That's because in 1961 NBC was the only network willing to crayon. CBS, then the parent company of Columbia Records where Mitch was A&R director and conductor, wouldn't go near color, mainly because of the bad experience with their own attempt at color TV technology years before.

absolutely fantastic ..freddy

Sing along gang, like the crips.

Thanks for posting this!

wonderful!!!

@hank29pc713 The problem is that musical/variety shows always had less of a shelf life than other kinds of TV programs. The songs, comedy sketches, and cultural references dated these shows quickly. Carol Burnett made reruns of her show work by editing out what wasn't a comedy skit or song in a humorous context.

In the Gang is a future long time host on Sesame Street Bob McGrath.

@TinyDancer500 Bob McGrath is class. There is an episode of "To Tell the Truth" where he is a contestant from the 1960s and prior to his Sesame Street appearance where he details his career. He was quite popular in Japan at one point. If you are a McGrath fan, its worth a look.

This was VIDEO taped at NBC Brooklyn Studios,[23][24] 1268 East 14th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn...

@DBEdwards

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe your Dad was there?

How about releasing the series on DVD?? I believe only a black-and-white kinescope of the 1960 pilot is available.

Lovely

@grammyd55 Yup, that's good old Bob (Bob McGrath), he's 78 now and was with Mitch for 5 years. Just celebrated his 38th year on Sesame Street, bless 'im, and was just on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day float with the rest of the gang yesterday.

This was taped in NBC Studio H8...where Saturday Night Live is broadcast today.

@TopHatJack4970discord

3 жыл бұрын

hmm interesting

@dw438

Жыл бұрын

Actually NBC Brooklyn Studio II.

What a contrast compared with the irony-laden tv of today. A different era

Aww. There's Bob McGrath!

golden days of entertainment

@davidferrara1105

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if you're wearing Depends

That was nice! 10/12/2020.

30-something Shirley was a cutie.

@kymarcin The original "big in Japan"...

Did they sing live or were they lip syncing to a recorded track?

@dw438

3 жыл бұрын

Lip sync. Mitch and the gang laid down their tracks at Columbia Records’ old complex on the west side of Manhattan, then went to NBC’s studio in the Midwood section of Brooklyn for camera rehearsal and videotaping.

@grammyd55 Shirley is now 82.

Mitch Miller - the man who declared rock a "passing phase" and declined to sign The Beatles to CBS Records!

@robertsafferstein358

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, what a jackass

Mitch played with Chalie Parker....

@photomitch

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he did....

The black female singer 's name was Lesrie Uggamus

@TheDepriecebradford

3 жыл бұрын

I didnt see her?

You think they used enough REVERB !!!!! Sounds like an EMT PLATE REVERB with lots and lots of vacuum tubes in the video and audio circuits :) Is that Mr. ROGERS ??? @ 1:03 on the left

@StukInBuf

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris M Nope; it's Bob McGrath from SESAME STREET.

MY FAVORITE LITTLE GIRL NY FAVORITE ADULT WOMAN, THANKS A HUNDRED FOLD FOR YEARS IF SMILES

@rr7firefly1 It was just easier to hide it back then...

This was an odd idea for a TV program - a bunch of men standing around singing. In years before this particular show, the lyrics for the songs were superimposed on the bottom of the screen and you were supposed to sit around at home "singing along". An odd idea, but a whole lot of us watched it.

3:45 this song is so beautiful

Mitch Miller died on July 31, 2010 at the age of 98.

Visitor from California? Where was this filmed?

@dw438

9 жыл бұрын

NBC had a studio complex in Brooklyn, NY from 1954 to the 1990s.

@LazlosPlane

6 жыл бұрын

They also had studios at 30 Rock, where they still do.

Olive Garden

Mitch vs Lawrence Welk -- Lawrence Welk DID have the Chantays on doing Pipeline so I guess Welk was cooler

@DBEdwards

5 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Welk was Welk and Mitch was Mitch. Two supreme talents. Each a master at their craft. And cooler? Mitch's beard earns him that distinction.

Thank goodness we were saved by rock and roll!

The time before Lyndon Johnson started this country on the decline to what it is today.

@larrygraysmith8411

3 жыл бұрын

No wonder why JFK wanted to replace him...