Ned Miller
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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 | 2/1957 |
Dot | ||
From a Jack to a King / Parade of Broken Hearts | 15601 | 6/1957 |
Turn Back / Lights in the Street | 15651 | 10/1957 |
radio | ||
Gypsy / With Enough Love | 6/1958 | |
Capitol | ||
Gold Gray Bars / My Hart Waits at the Door | 4607 | 8/1961 |
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 | 4/1963 |
Another Fool Like Me / Magic Moon | 121 | 8/1963 |
Big Love / Sunday Morning Tears | 125 | 1/1964 |
Invisible Tears / Old Restless Ocean | 128 | 4/1964 |
Do What You Do Do Well / Dusty Guitar | 137 | 12/1964 |
What I Know / Lights in the Street | 139 | 3/1965 |
Capitol | ||
Two Voices, Two Shadows, Two Faces / Whistle Walkin ' | 5431 | 6/1965 |
Down The Street / The Fall of a King | 5502 | 10/1965 |
Lovin 'Pains / If the World Turned to Ashes | 5568 | 1/1966 |
Summer Roses / Right Behind These Lips | 5661 | 5/1966 |
Teardrop Lane / Lorraine | 5742 | 9/1966 |
Echo of the Pines / Hobo | 5868 | 3/1967 |
Only a fool / endless | 2074 | 1/1968 |
Republic | ||
Autumn Winds / My Last Go Round | 1404 | 1969 |
Breakin '/ Just Walkin' in the Rain | 1410 | 1970 |
The Lover's Song / Cold Gray Bars | 1411 | 3/1970 |
Back to Oklahoma / I Hang My Head and Cry | 1416 | 8/1970 |
Vinyl albums
title | Catalog no. | published | Top 200 |
From a Jack to a King | Fabor 1001 | 3/1963 | 50. |
The Songs of Ned Miller | Capitol 2330 | 5/1965 | |
The Best of Ned Miller | Capitol 2414 | 12/1965 | 28. |
Teardrop Lane | Capitol 2586 | 12/1966 | 22nd |
In the Name of Love | Capitol 2914 | 3/1968 | |
Ned Miller's Back | Republic 1304 | 7/1970 |
See also
- List of number one hits in Australia (1963)
- List of number one hits in Ireland (1963)
- List of number one hits in Norway (1963)
literature
- Julia Edenhofer : The Great Oldie Lexicon . Bastei-Lübbe 1991, ISBN 3-404-60288-9 .
- Frank Laufenberg: Rock & Pop Lexicon . Econ Taschenbuch Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-612-26207-6 , Volume 1, p. 1018.
Web links
- Biography at www.45cat.com
- Discography at www.rocky-52.net
- Production data at countrydiscography.blogspot.de
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Miller, Ned |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Henry Ned (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American country singer and songwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rains , Utah , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2016 |
Place of death | Medford , Oregon , United States |