dialect tidbit

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated  Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:43:59 -0700,  "Peter A. McGraw"
<pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> writes

> <snip>   Wasn't there some
>  insipid popular version back in the 50s, maybe by somebody like Mitch
>  Miller?   (If that's when Mitch Miller was.  There's such a thing as being
>  too young to remember, and then there's being too old to remember.)

Mitch MIller first appeared on TV in 1960 as a one-shot gig on _Ford
Showtime_, then 7 more times in the winter and spring of 1961, then a weekly series
starting in the fall of 1961 and ending in either 1963 or 1964 (my source is
unclear).

       - Jim Landau