Ned Miller

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Chart positions
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Singles
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From a Jack to a King
  US 6th December 29, 1962 (13 weeks)
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 2 12/22/1962 (19 weeks)
  UK 2 02/20/1963 (21 weeks)
One Among the Many
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 27 05/25/1963 (3 weeks)
Another fool like me
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 28 09/14/1963 (1 week)
Invisible Tears
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 13 04/25/1964 (22 weeks)
Do What You Do Do Well
  US 52 December 26, 1964 (9 weeks)
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 7th January 16, 1965 (20 weeks)
  UK 48 02/24/1965 (1 week)
Whistle walkin '
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 28 08/14/1965 (8 weeks)
Summer roses
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 39 06/18/1966 (8 weeks)
Teardrop Lane
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 44 October 15, 1966 (9 weeks)
Hobo
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 53 05/13/1967 (6 weeks)
Only a fool
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 61 02/17/1968 (5 weeks)
The Lover's Song
  CountryTemplate: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / country wrong 39 04/25/1970 (9 weeks)

Ned Miller (born April 12, 1925 as Henry Ned Miller in Rains , Utah , † March 18, 2016 in Medford , Oregon ) was an American country singer and songwriter .

Musical career

Nine-year-old Miller earned his own guitar by collecting and selling firewood, and his mother taught him to play the guitar. At the age of 16 he wrote his first songs while still in high school. After three years of military service and a job as a plumber, he came into contact with the music scene while hosting a 15-minute daily music show in Vernal , Utah with a friend. In 1956 Miller went to Hollywood to pursue his music career. At the subsidiary of Abbott Records Fabor he received a contract as a songwriter. With the song Dark Moon Miller was able to record the first success in 1957, after both Gale Storm (4th) and Bonnie Guitar (6th) came with the title in the US charts. With Miller's song Mister Fire Eyes , Bonnie Guitar reached another chart listing six months later (71st).

At the end of 1956, the first single with Ned Miller was produced for Fabor , which was released in February 1957. The two tracks Roll O 'Rollin' Stone and Old Mother Nature and Old Father Time were unsuccessful. Then in 1957 two singles appeared under the Dot label as part of a collaboration between Fabor and the Dot Records label. On catalog number 15601, the title From a Jack to a King , written by Miller himself, appeared for the first time in June 1957 , which initially also went unnoticed. After Miller released a single on Radio Records in 1958, he only reappeared on the music scene after a three-year hiatus. In 1961 the Capitol record company released two singles, one of which appeared to be Miller's own work, Dark Moon .

After Fabor Records had stopped the record production for a few years, records were brought back to the market from 1962. In November a new edition of the song From a Jack to a King was released , which now, five years after the first version appeared, surprisingly developed into a great success. In the Hot 100 of the music magazine Billbord the title rose to number six, in the country charts Billboard listed it at number two. These results also opened up From a Jack to a King a worldwide distribution. The title also reached second place in the British charts. Miller's success topped the Irish charts for nine weeks, four weeks in Norway and two weeks at the top of the Australian charts. Of the subsequent Fabor productions, only the title Do What You Do Do Well (52nd) made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 , but it also made it to seventh place in the country charts. In addition, three more Fabor titles came into the country charts.

Miller returned to Capitol in April 1965. There, seven singles were produced with him until 1968, the titles of which are no longer in the Hot 100, but five of them reached the country charts again. The Lover's Song was Ned Miller's last country hit and was released by Republic record company in 1970. There Miller had his last record deal, which ran from 1969 to 1970. From the beginning of his recording career until 1970 he sang over 20 singles and seven music albums .

As a songwriter, Ned Miller had two country songs that became number one hits on the US country charts. Sonny James peaked with Behind the Tear in 1965, as did Ricky Van Shelton with his 1988 version of From a Jack to a King . Warren Smith , Jim Reeves , Jean Shepard and Hank Thompson also brought Miller country songs to the country charts. Ned Miller wrote numerous songs together with his wife Sue, e. B. Safely in Love Again for Faron Young or That's Why I Sing In A Honky Tonk for Warren Smith. Ned sang several songs from this collaboration himself: Another Fool Like Me , Big Love , Invisible Tears , Two Voices - Two Shadows - Two Faces .

US discography

Vinlyl singles

From page Catalog no. published
Fabor
Roll O 'Rollin' Stone / Old Mother Nature and Old Father Time 143 02/1957
Dot
From a Jack to a King / Parade of Broken Hearts 15601 06/1957
Turn Back / Lights in the Street 15651 10/1957
radio
Gypsy / With Enough Love 06/1958
Capitol
Gold Gray Bars / My Hart Waits at the Door 4607 08/1961
Dark Moon / Go on Back You Fool 4652 12/1961
Fabor
From a Jack to a King / Paradise of Broken Hearts 114 11/1962
One Among the Many / Man Behind the Gun 116 04/1963
Another Fool Like Me / Magic Moon 121 08/1963
Big Love / Sunday Morning Tears 125 01/1964
Invisible Tears / Old Restless Ocean 128 04/1964
Do What You Do Do Well / Dusty Guitar 137 12/1964
What I Know / Lights in the Street 139 03/1965
Capitol
Two Voices, Two Shadows, Two Faces / Whistle Walkin ' 5431 06/1965
Down The Street / The Fall of a King 5502 10/1965
Lovin 'Pains / If the World Turned to Ashes 5568 01/1966
Summer Roses / Right Behind These Lips 5661 05/1966
Teardrop Lane / Lorraine 5742 09/1966
Echo of the Pines / Hobo 5868 03/1967
Only a fool / endless 2074 01/1968
Republic
Autumn Winds / My Last Go Round 1404 001969
Breakin '/ Just Walkin' in the Rain 1410 001970
The Lover's Song / Cold Gray Bars 1411 03/1970
Back to Oklahoma / I Hang My Head and Cry 1416 08/1970

Vinyl albums

title Catalog no. published Top 200
From a Jack to a King Fabor 1001 03/1963 50.
The Songs of Ned Miller Capitol 2330 05/1965
The Best of Ned Miller Capitol 2414 12/1965 28.
Teardrop Lane Capitol 2586 12/1966 22nd
In the Name of Love Capitol 2914 03/1968
Ned Miller's Back Republic 1304 07/1970

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Charts UK Charts US
  2. Ned Miller, a Country Songwriter Who Gave Up Singing, is Dead at 90