| Genres: |
Country & Bluegrass
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| Descriptive "tags": |
hard rock, psychedelic rock, classic rock, rock, progressive rock, heavy rock, heavy metal, american, blues rock, old school rock
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1990s
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| Links online: |
Wikipedia
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Biography
Henry Ned Miller, 12 April 1925, Raines, Utah, USA. When Miller was a small child, the family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where, after completing his education, he worked as a pipe fitter. He became interested in songwriting and country music and learned to play the guitar, but had no real inclination to be a performer. In the mid-50s, he married and moved to California, where he hoped to sell some of his songs, and joined the Fabor label as a writer and/or performer. Early in 1957, a deal between Fabor and Dot Records, which gave the latter label first choice of all Fabor masters, saw two of his songs, ‘Dark Moon’ and ‘A Fallen Star’, both become US country and pop hits for Bonnie Guitar
and Jimmy C. Newman, respectively. Miller himself played guitar on the former recording, which also was a number 4 US pop hit for Gale Storm. The song became a UK Top 20 pop hit for Tony Brent
and was also recorded by the Kaye Sisters and Joe Loss And His...
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