![]() 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? ![]()
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