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To answer anon's query from here. Remember that Day and Stafford were based in LA at CBS's West Coast branch where Mitch Miller really didn't have any influence; he mainly ran the East Coast branch in NYC. Stafford and her husband were mostly in charge of their own music. Yes several singers did eventually go to Reprise in the 60s. Rosemary Clooney's pop relevance ended by 1956 not solely because of Elvis but she also had a bunch of kids in short succession which made it hard to tour or promote records. Tony Bennett oddly stuck it out at CBS all the way until the 70s, even giving into recording Beatles covers which he didn't want to do.

Long and short is that Miller did mastermind a lot of terrible novelty pop with only Bob Thiele's schlock mill at Coral coming close to it. Sinatra and Dinah Shore left CBS early in his run because they couldn't stand the new creative direction. Worse yet he let a bunch of big names especially the Everly Brothers and Connie Francis get away from him because he didn't see any potential there so they went off to make millions for other labels. By the early 60s CBS was a total joke of a label with Miller's own Sing-A-Long albums being their biggest selling records. Revival only came because Terry Melcher was put in charge of rock releases and he was based out in LA where there was more creative freedom. Yet still it wasn't until Miller was fired in 1965 that things turned around and the label brought in a bunch of young new and rock-focused executives.

>girls screaming over Johnnie Ray and Guy Mitchell
>none of them want my washed up 36 year old ass no more
This is all your fault, Mitch. brb killing myself now.