Jody Miller
Jody Miller, born Myrna Joy Miller ( born November 29, 1941 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is an American country music singer, who celebrated their biggest success in the 1960s. Their music is counted for Nashville Sound.
Musical career
Miller grew up in Blanchard, Oklahoma in a musically oriented family. During her school years she ran a vocal trio that occurred with country songs in college bars. After leaving school she went to California to force her singing career, but a serious traffic accident forced her to return home. From there they took a new approach to get into the music business, and she managed to make it through an appearance in the Tom Paxton television show nationally known as a country singer.
Through the mediation of the actor Dale Robertson Miller received in 1963 a contract with the Los Angeles-based record company, Capitol Records. This brought with it under the name " Jody Miller " in the fall of 1963, the first single out, entitled He Walks Like A Man contained on a page. So immediately they came into the Hot 100 in the U.S. music magazine Billboard, where she rose to the No. 66. With her charm and good figure, it was rebuilt by Capitol to " pop princess ". In their seventh single and the title Queen of the House, it reached the beginning of 1965 the biggest record of their career success; the song was an answer to Roger Miller's King of the Road. He was listed by Billboard both in the Hot 100 than in the country charts, where it as the best listing the places twelve or five occupied. In addition, they received a Grammy for best female country presentation for the song. Their image of the "little girls with the big voice " was made public with numerous appearances in US-wide television shows and tours across the USA. 1969 Miller left Capitol for a baby break insert. For Capitol they had received about 22 singles and five LPs. In the summer of 1970, their first single was released by the New York record label Epic Records, whose A-side forthwith came with Lock at mine in the country charts ( 21 ). While Miller was able to place in the Hot 100 in the previous years, Epic Miller put priority firmly on country songs, so it was henceforth only listed on the country charts, but this 24 times. A total of 26 singles and eight LPs with Jody Miller were released on Epic to 1979, In 1973, Capitol still a sixth Miller - Long -playing record on the market.
Both the Capitol and Epic plates sold by Jody Miller, among others, also in the UK, France and Germany. In Germany, six singles came on the market, including two with German titles. The 1965 song geh'n Now our stars on was also placed in the top 40 of the music magazine music market to the 33rd rank.
The early 1980s, Miller retired from the music business and began to breed on a 1000 acre ranch horses. With their album 1987 My Country, she returned to the music scene back in 1987. The patriotic texts contained in the album helped her in 1988 to a Invitation to the introduction of ball of President Bush Senior. In the 1990s, Miller published several gospel albums, which earned her induction into the Hall of Fame of the International Country Gospel Music Association. The Country Gospel Music Guild drew Miller 1999 as entertainer of the year.