Mrs. Miller

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Mrs. Miller , actually Elva Ruby Connes (born October 5, 1907 in Joplin , Missouri , † June 28, 1997 in Vista , California ), was an American pop singer . Your singing skills are controversial.

Life

Connes studied music sporadically at Pomona College. She later sang in churches around Claremont , California. In 1966 “Mrs. Miller ”signed to Capitol Records . The first album, Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits , sold over 250,000 copies in the first three weeks after its release and peaked at number 15 in the US. Three more albums followed, but they were much less successful and could no longer place themselves in the album charts.

Well-known songs sung by Mrs. Miller were rock classics like Downtown , Monday Monday , A Hard Day's Night and Moon River . With it she appeared on some television shows, and she sang in front of American troops in Vietnam. In 1968 her contract with Capitol was not renewed and she switched to the small label Amaret, where her last LP Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing was released. Since larger record companies were no longer interested in her, Mrs. Miller founded her own label, named after her, and released two more singles here in 1971: The Week End of a Private Secretary and She Had To Go and Lose It At the Astor . Then she retired from show business. Mrs. Miller passed away in 1997.

In 1999, the best-of series Ultra Lounge - Wild, Cool & Swingin 'published a compilation of their titles recorded for Capitol.

style

Mrs. Miller's greatest peculiarity was an excessive vibrato, which can be interpreted as a parody of operatic singing. In addition, she often got out of step and often hit the notes very imprecisely. Mrs. Miller also became known because of her unsuccessful attempts at whistling.

Thanks to her brief overwhelming success in the US hit parades, Mrs. Miller found many imitators. In Germany in 1967 it was a "mom and pop" with a Mrs. Miller-like and successful version of marble, stone and iron breaks with which Drafi Deutscher had landed a hit. The accompanying LP Tante Emma bei Cooking mainly contains hits like lovesickness is not worth it or at 17 you still have dreams .

Mrs. Miller and her imitators can be seen as a high point of parody in the pop and hit world. However, it is still not entirely clear whether Mrs. Miller deliberately parodied or whether she was put on display by Capitol. After all, the singer tried to improve her singing. It is known that she tried different tricks to keep the tones better, e.g. B. sang with a piece of ice in his mouth.

Discography

  • Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits (1966)
  • Will Success Spoil Mrs. Miller ?! (1966)
  • The Country Soul of Mrs. Miller (1967)
  • Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (1968)
  • Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin ', The Artist Collection Vol. 3: Mrs. Miller (1999, compilation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Take a Campus Tour
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Albums 1955-2001. Billboard / Record Research, 2001, ISBN 0-89820-147-0
  3. ↑ discography
  4. ↑ Ultra-Lounge-Wild-Cool-Swingin
  5. ↑ Aunt Emma sings while cooking, at discogs
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Mrs.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connes, Elva Ruby (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Joplin , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1997
Place of death Vista , California