Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grammy awards - the Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
Like any aspiring singer, Mrs. Elva Miller has had to struggle to be heard. In her case, though, the struggle has been going on for most of her 58 years. When she was a child, people were forever telling her to knock off the singing and please go skip rope or something. But she persevered, joined the high school glee club and the church choir, later studied voice for seven years at Pomona College. Still, whenever she tuned up, people tended to drift out of earshot, and friends politely suggested that maybe please she should take up knitting or something...
...Elva. She recently recorded an album of pop songs-and look who's laughing now? Everybody who has heard Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits. In the kooky world of pop music, where the bizarre is so commonplace, Hits has become one of the hottest and certainly one of the most hilarious albums ever to crash the record market...
...that weren't enough, Mrs. Miller also tosses in a few choruses of whistling for a change of pace. The net result is the most titillating new voice since Florence Foster Jenkins...
...plumpish, warmhearted matron, Mrs. Miller was raised in Kansas, now lives alone in a modest bungalow in Claremont, Calif. With the income from her album, she has set up a medical trust fund for her husband, who is confined to a rest home. Her friends, she says happily, are surprised at her success. Just six years ago, when she made her debut recital at the local Baptist church, only six hardy souls turned out to hear her program of sacred songs. The fortunes of Mrs. Miller began to change when she began making recordings at her own expense, "just...