I remember her from a movie in the 60s but I forgot the name of it but we couldn't stop laughing. I am laughing so hard now I am in tears. Mrs. Miller was something else back in the day. She was very comical with her out of whack vibrato. Oh no the whistling....too much!!!!!
How precious it was that we could laugh at ourselves. This lady was actually a consummate professional who agreed to bring this act to a public who could still understand the value of laughter. Contrast that to the filth we tolerate today from thugs telling us what a shitpile America is.
well said. Some people are so dense they don't even get the joke here.the anit-christ of singing is actually way better than this crap they call music today.
Mrs Miller is an all american piece of Americana but was quickly dumped when she wanted to try to actually record some real songs and not just do the comedy routines and recordings...She gave us all great laughs--and it couldnt be known that she was in on it--or it would have ruined it if people knew they were essentially comedy records and routines. Thus she was dumped because people instead ---felt sorry for her...
Hey, in her 18 month run starting in 1966, she sold over 650,000 records for Capitol. We had the Greatest Hits album and one of the 45's in our household. My folks, both talented musicians, impressed upon us that it's not cool to make fun of someone for their lack of talent, or in this case, intonation. I'm glad they're not around for reality TV.
Haha. My teacher was talking about how deeply terrible she is at singing and how torturous it is. In 100% total deep honesty, I just listened to Downtown and it wasn't that bad. I have to admit, strangely, just strangely, my ears feel like they hurt. Weird, right?
she makes me laughing. and because of that she was great! it doesn't matter that she couldn't sing. she simply did what she liked and and that is good.
Does anybody remember the lady who sang Strangers in the Night backwards in the early 80s on Late Night with David Letterman? Dave recorded it with one of them old reversible reel-to-reel tape recorders and then played it backwards. It was so funny, and all the more so, as she had a strong Cherman accent.
Hey! She's a STYLIST! As a former music major, what I find amazing is that when she's not singing the right note, she's at least singing a note in the chord... well, at least until the key change, that seems to throw her a bit! Love the bird call!
Actually, Mrs Miller had people fooled. She had a beautiful singing voice and also the talent to massacre any song which she used to make a lot of money.
Wonder how many 'takes' the recording execs made to get the cut they 'liked'? Someone suggested her act was a gag and she does almost trigger that reflex ! ! !
It was. She freely admitted she couldn't sing. Unlike the infamous Florence Foster Jenkins of decades before, she knew she was bad. They should use her songs at Gitmo.
When things get too much and you feel like ending it - just listen to the incomparable Mrs Miller and you'll be okay! If only she could have come to England and sung with the Portsmouth Sinfonia - now that would have been a great concert!
I'd take Mrs. Miller over that Jay Lenno bitch, or whatever her name is, any day of the week. Like Cry'n Mary, maria Carry, or whatever her name is. Think Jewel could whistle like that?
hola, he tomado prestado, un trozo de esta canción y la foto para hacer un pequeño cortometraje, espero que no te moleste, gracias. puedes verlo en youtube UNHELLIGUANA se llama "OJO, explicación del insomnio"
Oh bless her heart...she almost made that key change.
IvoryRose123 1 month ago
Señora ud es muy bizarrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
CAR73LOS 1 month ago
I'm in the best part in the youtube again.
buddyeagle 2 months ago
I just adore her, she puts the Chairman of the Board to shame. The whistling just destroys me!!! This woman was a national treasure.
sauroid1 3 months ago
@sauroid1 I adore her to....what a talent...life saving!!!
888Quetzalcoatl888 1 month ago
I remember her from a movie in the 60s but I forgot the name of it but we couldn't stop laughing. I am laughing so hard now I am in tears. Mrs. Miller was something else back in the day. She was very comical with her out of whack vibrato. Oh no the whistling....too much!!!!!
Vincent50 5 months ago
Lmao ... Mrs. Miller God bless you. You've made my day so much better.
loki77388 5 months ago
SHE HAD A GREAT VOICE AND HER WHISTLING WAS EVEN BETTER. HER SINGING WAS 1000 TIMES BETTER THAN BLOODY BARBRA STREISAND!
ellen38muziek 6 months ago
No, no, no, no, not again...please no more of this! It's too painful.....
Rosesitoo 7 months ago
Holy Christ, Thor and Buddah!
ralphyetmore 7 months ago
I've only just discovered the unique talent of this diva. Amazing, in every sense. :-))
kashntrash 7 months ago 2
it kinda looks like shes about to eat the microphone in the picture of this video.
SpeakerFreak95 8 months ago
How precious it was that we could laugh at ourselves. This lady was actually a consummate professional who agreed to bring this act to a public who could still understand the value of laughter. Contrast that to the filth we tolerate today from thugs telling us what a shitpile America is.
GANNAMEDE 10 months ago 4
@GANNAMEDE Well said, well said.
thesurfviking 9 months ago
well said. Some people are so dense they don't even get the joke here.the anit-christ of singing is actually way better than this crap they call music today.
Timlinthomasp 1 week ago
I just found my new favorite O:
1isaacmusic 10 months ago
I just can't undertstand how her sense of timing is so whacked.
steveski74 11 months ago
when i played this, my parakeet died.
mokkiuuy 1 year ago 8
i saw paradise
carlosdelluz 1 year ago
WONDERFUL! Long live the memory of Mrs. Miller!
sonmor 1 year ago
OMG - the orchestral arrangement is so lush and beautiful.
jobeLewOOH 1 year ago 2
"Do be do be do Be do be do do..."
Never have these words had so much meaning...or made me laugh so hard I started crying!
bcvids9 1 year ago 4
Rip the audio from this tune at tubepull doht cohm.
CarolusKlipp482 1 year ago
Bless her heart.
auaiao9 1 year ago
she makes william hung look talented...
coffespewer 1 year ago 2
we lasted 55 sec and the fam said "please turn it off"
coffespewer 1 year ago
@coffespewer Too bad. The talent continues beyond 55 seconds.
auaiao9 1 year ago
Mrs. Miller really smoked the doobies at the beginning of the song.
VealParmigiana 1 year ago
Beautiful ...
TrompetteSpielen 1 year ago
Proof that Jesus died in vain.
coralarch 1 year ago 3
She sings the fuck out of songs.
pureevilfnord 1 year ago 2
@pureevilfnord HAHAHAHA
prrrrecious 1 year ago
I loved her pure balls. I may have had this album! Thanks for the memories...
billytoast 1 year ago
It kind of sounds like she's going for an operatic contralto sound, and not quite making it.
emilygclarinet 1 year ago 2
Mrs Miller is an all american piece of Americana but was quickly dumped when she wanted to try to actually record some real songs and not just do the comedy routines and recordings...She gave us all great laughs--and it couldnt be known that she was in on it--or it would have ruined it if people knew they were essentially comedy records and routines. Thus she was dumped because people instead ---felt sorry for her...
phantomvibrationsX 1 year ago
Hey, in her 18 month run starting in 1966, she sold over 650,000 records for Capitol. We had the Greatest Hits album and one of the 45's in our household. My folks, both talented musicians, impressed upon us that it's not cool to make fun of someone for their lack of talent, or in this case, intonation. I'm glad they're not around for reality TV.
hibob418 1 year ago 4
I love this lady! There's one thing for sure, she'll never be forgotten. God bless her little singing soul! Thank you for posting this!!! :)
Orbisonfan63 1 year ago 2
wow! you know i can't believe i'd forgotten her from when i was a kid, crazy stuff, gotta love it.
pilesmcgee 1 year ago
Love it, Do Be Do Be Do 5*
merseysidebuses 1 year ago
Did Frank Sinatra hear Mrs. Miller sing one of his precious hits? I wonder how he might have felt had he had an occasion to hear this cover.
Operalover12002 1 year ago
@Operalover12002 I'm sure he heard it and laughed his ass off.
finylvinyl66 9 months ago
I LIKE...!!!!!
gillesparis09 1 year ago
Haha. My teacher was talking about how deeply terrible she is at singing and how torturous it is. In 100% total deep honesty, I just listened to Downtown and it wasn't that bad. I have to admit, strangely, just strangely, my ears feel like they hurt. Weird, right?
MortalKombatFan000 1 year ago
LMFTRO x Love it x
Vasilouxxx 1 year ago
she makes me laughing. and because of that she was great! it doesn't matter that she couldn't sing. she simply did what she liked and and that is good.
jojo90ist 1 year ago
Did this lady swallow a theremin by accident?..
clevershark 1 year ago 4
She would have made a good stripper in her day!
jacob95124 1 year ago
Please, make it stop. I'll talk, I'll taalllllllllk!
saxophoney 1 year ago 7
When people sing so horribly but so confidently.. I can't help but just get really into it!
This is in league with watching people singing karaoke in a language they don't know!!
TheInnovativeSam 1 year ago
The voice the glasses, the everything.....you just gotta lover her! I do.
MrJeffnow 1 year ago
William Hung's long-lost great aunt?????
Kiddman32 1 year ago 2
You rock, Elva Miller :)
alshouse 1 year ago
Needs a little more vibratto.
ekimklaw 1 year ago
Does anybody remember the lady who sang Strangers in the Night backwards in the early 80s on Late Night with David Letterman? Dave recorded it with one of them old reversible reel-to-reel tape recorders and then played it backwards. It was so funny, and all the more so, as she had a strong Cherman accent.
Fersomling 1 year ago
Hey! She's a STYLIST! As a former music major, what I find amazing is that when she's not singing the right note, she's at least singing a note in the chord... well, at least until the key change, that seems to throw her a bit! Love the bird call!
dabigq 1 year ago
I wish I could do karaoke with her drunk.
suspekt29 1 year ago
She sounds like the cowardly lion...lmfao
jdlpro 2 years ago 3
Actually, Mrs Miller had people fooled. She had a beautiful singing voice and also the talent to massacre any song which she used to make a lot of money.
carrotville 2 years ago
reminds me of old guy from family guy
justinisasurfer 2 years ago 2
lol! so glad i discovered this, love her!! : )
Interspatialoid 2 years ago
what can I say? she's a goddess. instant happiness.
ivycompton 2 years ago
Now, why am I not making a record? huh? I'd better get off my butt right now...lol
jimcascagnette 2 years ago
Sweet baby jesus in the manger... shes so bad... shes good.
KimIsMissing 2 years ago 45
it's really uncanny how despite its obvious outlandishness, I found myself enjoying it..You're dead right, its so bad its good!
NormanMac 2 years ago 6
@KimIsMissing LMAO shes fantastic....I have to get her entire collection ready for armageddon....I think it'l keep me sane ;o)
888Quetzalcoatl888 1 month ago
Stranglers in the night!
AluminumFool 2 years ago 5
great album
HonkyCat90 2 years ago
Hilarious. I remember her and how awful she is hhahahaha
leafhater1 2 years ago 2
the ulitmate trio
mrs miller
slim whitman
bruce springsteen
the out of tuners!
diddymuck 2 years ago
Wonder how many 'takes' the recording execs made to get the cut they 'liked'? Someone suggested her act was a gag and she does almost trigger that reflex ! ! !
chkjns 2 years ago
It was. She freely admitted she couldn't sing. Unlike the infamous Florence Foster Jenkins of decades before, she knew she was bad. They should use her songs at Gitmo.
Gazzara5 2 years ago 20
This is better than Rap Music. Maybe when people blare out the crap music I can blare out Mrs Miller.
themattster1991 2 years ago
Amen brother, I hate those Rap in your face loosers!
juchestyle 2 years ago
she sounds like the fucking cowardly lion like EXACTLY like the cowardly lion during the "if I were KING of the foreeeeeest" sequence
poeticjournalism 2 years ago
Mrs Miller might be Bert Lahr's sis .
backstcrawler 2 years ago 3
Best version EVER!!!
akaiminiak 2 years ago 2
When things get too much and you feel like ending it - just listen to the incomparable Mrs Miller and you'll be okay! If only she could have come to England and sung with the Portsmouth Sinfonia - now that would have been a great concert!
Dougoulako 2 years ago
Can anybody tell me who the briliant "saw " player is , at the end of this track.
herringthorpe 2 years ago
Sinatra eat your heart out !!! This is how this song should really be sung.
herringthorpe 2 years ago 3
Facking hell, just nearly pissed myself with laughing, ha haaaaa!!!!!
sparkymark17 2 years ago
That's so funny she sounds serious, if you like Mrs Miller, have a listen to Margarita Pracatan something along the same lines.
Madradubh2000 2 years ago
bloody hell no one needs to be depressed when you listen to this good crap i nearly wet my self laughing . bring it on
leftclog51 2 years ago
You are kidding me?!?!?! This is hilarious. I can't believe it's real! But it is which makes it even more funny.
jgd1968 2 years ago
I so agree!
Dougoulako 2 years ago
sounds like she's getting an enema, or a little bird is in there.
tubulardude44 2 years ago
People bought and played the entire record???
gayzertube 2 years ago 4
mrs. miller and florence foster jenkins should get together and go bowling
runly1 2 years ago
love mrs miller thank you
xixaxland 3 years ago
Это круче чем... это ни с чем нельзя сравнить!
sophiaturbo 3 years ago
I'd take Mrs. Miller over that Jay Lenno bitch, or whatever her name is, any day of the week. Like Cry'n Mary, maria Carry, or whatever her name is. Think Jewel could whistle like that?
moosatious 3 years ago
Do-beieieie-dohoho-beieie-dohohooo...
F'runderbart!
Nurmilehto7000 3 years ago
I LOVE!!!!! mrs Miller!!!
tedsler 3 years ago
Is it me, or does Mrs Elva Miller's vocal stylization echo Bert Lahr's "Cowardly Lion" take on Arlen and Yip's "Courage"? (Wizard of OZ)
masorad 3 years ago 2
hahaha..That's true....If I-I-I...were..king-ing-ing....of the for-es-es-es-es-et!!!
chuggachuggawoowoo 2 years ago
Brings back memories of lost love....play this for your special someone. She truly will never forget it.
dpwaco 3 years ago 3
Mrs. Miller was in a class all her own. She was popular because she was different and dedicated to what she loved to do.
davpier59 3 years ago
I love this
guysmiley1980 3 years ago
Mrs. Miller rocked!
mandog917 3 years ago
Elva Miller rocks my world :) RIP Elva
alshouse 3 years ago 2
My ears are bleeding.
ers586 3 years ago 3
hola, he tomado prestado, un trozo de esta canción y la foto para hacer un pequeño cortometraje, espero que no te moleste, gracias. puedes verlo en youtube UNHELLIGUANA se llama "OJO, explicación del insomnio"
unhelliguana 3 years ago
A lovely lady with a big heart. I'll always miss her.
madamerotten 3 years ago
Funny funny funny!
freepussy 3 years ago
classic stuff x
Vasilouxxx 3 years ago
You can't be serious
cd23nr 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
I love it! She is such a kick!
boopkid 3 years ago 3
Thanks Ken, for this happy inroduce.
Paulo_From Rio
pa0503 3 years ago
God bless her! She was one of a kind!
kenslavin1961 3 years ago
i am speechless.
mettanc 3 years ago
PMFPL! x
Vasilouxxx 3 years ago
przecudna
nedibear 3 years ago
GOD I LOVE HER.
borderlinesquare 3 years ago
She has style!
felicia1882 3 years ago
you'll lerv this
93888 3 years ago
Hahahaha ya gotta wonder if she was serious or not. Her voice is really funny and I hope that part was on purpose. :D
clay4prez 3 years ago
Gotta hand it to Mrs. Miller, she gave it her best!
davpier59 3 years ago 4
She's Divine! Sings Just like me. Linda November
snarldarl 3 years ago