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 🙂
