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John Richardson Miller. . . ( m. 1934; died 1968) . Elva Ruby Miller (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-tempo renditions of popular songs such as "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto" and "Downtown".
Nov 21, 2007 · Mrs. Miller's hit song of an old Petula Clark ClassicAbout Mrs. MillerElva Ruby Miller (née Connes; October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the n...
Jun 18, 2009 · Released on the 1966 album, "Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits". Mrs. Miller's version of the Nancy Sinatra hit. Written by Lee Hazlewood.
May 29, 2015 · Known as Mrs. Miller, she sold over 250,000 records in the span of three weeks, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show twice, sang at the Hollywood Bowl, and performed for U.S. troops in Vietnam with ...
Mrs. Miller. Actress: The Cool Ones. Mrs. Elva Miller rates highly as one of the single most colorful, unlikely, and hence oddly endearing musical celebrities to ever achieve a considerable amount of fame in the mid-1960's. Armed with an off-key, quivering, sub-Ethel Mermanesque operatic vibrato soprano voice, a sweetly humble, matronly, and old-fashioned persona, and a delightfully dotty penchant for strange bird-like wobbly whistling, Mrs. Miller belted out renditions of...
Charted at #82 on Billboard Hot 100 in May 1966, #9 on Adult Contemporary chart and #56 in the UK. Mrs. Miller's version of the Petula Clark hit from the pre...
Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits. Mrs. Miller blasts onto the music scene in 1966 with this revolutionary debut. Produced by Lex De Azevedo and with musical direction by Fred Block. Future Laugh-In announcer Gary Owens contributes linear notes, who used Mrs. Miller for radio promos at KMPC in Los Angeles.
Her name was Elva Connes Miller, but on stage she was known simply as Mrs. Miller. Within a period of 18 months, Mrs. Miller attained unbelievable fame. Her debut album "Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits" sold 250,000 copies within 3 weeks. She made appearances on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Ed Sullivan, Art Linkletter’s House Party, Laugh-In, the Hollywood Palace with Jimmy Durante, and the feature film "The Cool Ones" with Roddy MacDowell. Her Petula Clark cover "Downtown" even broke ...
Elva Ruby Miller, who recorded under the name Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-tempo renditions of popular songs such as "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto" and "Downtown". An untrained mezzo-soprano, she sang in a heavy, vibrato-laden style; according to Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace in The Book of Lists 2, Miller's voice was compared to the sound of "roaches scurrying across a trash ...
Apr 5, 2010 · About six years ago Deborah Monk came to the Signature Theater near me in Arlington, VA with a musical called "Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing." It was about the odd odd life of this very Mrs. Miller. It was in the wake of the "Florence Foster Jenkins" film with Meryl Streep. There's always been the fascinating phenomena about ladies who think they can sing and the people who urge them on. One of my favorites was Celia Lipton.
