FUNNY STUFF: BABY BOOMERS’ NOVELTY MEMORY! ’66

MRS. MILLER debut LP on Capitol Records peaked #15 on the Billboard LP chart in 1966

 

MRS. MILLER’S GREATEST HITS (Complete Album) * 1966

 


 

 

ABOUT MRS. MILLER

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Her real name was Elva Ruby Miller. At the age of 59, Mrs. Miller produced two singles, both having made her 1966 Capitol Records LP, “Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits.” “Downtown” (#82) and “A Lover’s Concerto” (#95) cracked the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year.

Albeit a short time, Mrs. Miller would become a national singing sensation. She made various guest appearances on various prime-time TV network shows, entertained troops in Vietnam, sang at The Hollywood Bowl, and she was even tapped for a singing part in a major motion picture, ‘The Cool Ones’ (released in 1967) when it was shot in 1966. Mrs. Miller went on to record 4 albums within a three-year span in the late-1960s.

In the book, ‘The Book Of Lists 2,’ Mrs. Miller’s voice was described as “singing in an untrained, ‘Mermanesque’ (as in Ethel Merman; a phrase punctuated by the book’s authors), vibrato-laden style.” Seriously. Nevertheless, if all else, she was just as entertaining listening to as any artist having cut a few records for a major recording label.

 

There you have it. Mrs. Miller! Just for fun 🙂

 

 


MRS. MILLER in a scene from the film ‘The Cool Ones’ 1967 (photo by Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

 

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JUST FOR FUN! MRS. MILLER SINGS ‘DOWNTOWN’ 1966!

mrs-miller-downtown-capitol-2“DOWNTOWN” * Mrs. Miller * CAPITOL RECORDS (1966)

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1966: Four weeks on the singles charts, Mrs. Miller’s “Downtown” peaks at No. 82 on the Billboard ‘HOT 100’ today, May 21.

Today In Pop Music History: May 21, 1966

The Cool Ones Mrs_ Miller

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SERIOUSLY! MRS. MILLER? A SENSATIONAL HIT IN 1966!

Mrs. Miller Billboard Ad 1966“A HARD DAY’S NIGHT” * Mrs. Miller * CAPITOL RECORDS (1966)

Mrs. Miller Capitol Records (1966)

“LET’S HANG ON” * Mrs. Miller * CAPITOL RECORDS (1966)

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