Tags
Elva Ruby Connes (October 5, 1907–June 28, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs. Miller, was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her versions of popular songs like "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto", and "Downtown" rendered in an untrained, operatic, vibrato-laden voice, often out of tune and off the beat. Her whistling, which was equally wobbly and apparently preceded by Mrs. Miller chilling her lips with ice to better control the pitch ("to get a really
5 total works indexed
· 1990 · cited 80,066x
· 1959 · cited 22,236x
· 2019 · cited 19,391x
· 2020 · cited 15,341x
· 1988 · cited 14,870x
via Crossref · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).