ArtistInfo

Chuck Miller

voc, p, 1924-2000 US, Wellington, Kansas
Singer / Musician / Arranger of Rock and Jazz
A.k.a. Charles Nelson Miller

Charles Nelson "Chuck" Miller (30 August 1924 - 15 January 2000) was an American singer and pianist who had a US top ten hit in 1955 with his version of "The House of Blue Lights".He was born in Wellington, Kansas, and learned to play piano as a child. By the mid-1940s he was working as a singer and pianist in clubs in Los Angeles, before forming his own trio with bass player Robert Douglass. Miller was signed by Capitol Records in 1953, and began recording with arranger and saxophonist Dave Cavanaugh. His early recordings were middle-of-the-road pop and novelty numbers, influenced by Dean Martin and Bing Crosby, but his later recordings for Capitol, including "Idaho Red" and the self-penned "Hopahula Boogie", showed a more lively style.

Instruments

• Vocals
• Piano

Genres

• Rock
• Jazz
• Country
• Pop
• Blues

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