Dan Plonsey

If Mitch Miller were dead, he would roll over in his grave. It turns out one of the recording industry's greatest messiahs of easy listening music directly inspired Dan Plonsey, a Bay Area multi-instrumentalist and composer whose creations would probably make Miller want to wash his ears out with hydrogen peroxide. In contrast to the type of songs adored by the huge audience for the Sing Along With Mitch series in the early '60s,Plonsey's work is not called "hard listening." Labels such as avant-garde, experimental, free-form, free music, or noise music seem to be the preferen...