Jody Miller
# Jody Miller

Jody Miller, née Myrna Joy Miller le 29 novembre 1941 à Phoenix en Arizona et morte le 6 octobre 2022 à Blanchard en Oklahoma, est une chanteuse américaine de country.

Elle est principalement connue pour la chanson Queen of the House pour laquelle elle obtient un Grammy Award. Sa reprise The House of the Rising Sun en 1973 se classe 41e dans le Billboard Adult Contemporary.

## Biographie

Myrna Joy Miller est née le 29 novembre 1941 à Phoenix en Arizona, alors que ses parents partent s'installer à Oakland en Californie. Elle grandit à Los Angeles, avant de déménager à Blanchard en Oklahoma à l'âge de huit ans pour vivre avec sa grand-mère après le divorce de ses parents. Elle fréquente le lycée Blanchard et obtient son diplôme en 1959.

Elle épouse Monty Troy Brooks en 1962 et le restera cinquante-deux ans jusqu'à sa mort en 2014. En 1962, avec l'aide de l'acteur Dale Robertson qui lui obtient une audition, elle signe un contrat avec le label Capitol Records et adopte le nom de Jody Miller. Elle enregistre en 1965 la chanson Queen of the House en réponse au succès du chanteur Roger Miller King of the Road et obtient un Grammy Award en 1966. Dans les années 1970, elle rejoint le label Epic Records et obtient une série de succès dont Baby I'm Yours, There's a Party Goin' On ou encore Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home et obtient une autre nomination aux Grammy Awards pour sa reprise de He's So Fine de The Chiffons. Elle met ensuite sa carrière entre parenthèses dans les années 1980 pour se consacrer à sa famille et notamment sa fille Robin.

En 2018, elle est introduite au Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.

Elle meurt le 6 octobre 2022 à Blanchard en Oklahoma à l'âge de 80 ans de complications liées à la maladie de Parkinson.

## Discographie

* 1963 : Wednesday's Child Is Full of Woe (Capitol Records)
* Railroad Boy
* Another Love
* On the Other Side of the Mountain
* All My Trials
* Lonely Am I
* Midnight Special
* Butterfly
* Last Night a Little Girl Grew Up
* The Garden of My Heart
* Wednesday's Child
* The Hangman
* Evergreen Tree
* 1965 : Queen of the House (Capitol Records)
* Queen of the House
* He Walks Like a Man
* Everybody's Somebody's Fool
* The Race Is On
* Odds and Ends
* Sea of Heartbreak
* Silver Threads and Golden Needles
* I Walk the Line
* Soft and Gentle Ways
* If I
* The Greatest Actor
* These Are the Years
* 1965 : Home of the Brave (Capitol Records)
* Home of the Brave
* Born to Lose
* Big Time Love
* In My Room
* A Lonely Queen
* Only Love Can Break a Heart
* He Hit Me
* All I Really Want to Do
* Your Cheatin' Heart
* Let Me Get Close to You
* It Keeps Right on A-Hurtin'
* 1966 : Jody Miller Sings the Great Hits of Buck Owens (Capitol Records)
* Act Naturally
* Loves Gonna Live Here
* Crying Time
* I Don't Care (As Long As You Love Me)
* Don't Let Him Know
* I've Got a Tiger By the Tail
* We're Gonna Let the Good Times Roll
* Under Your Spell Again
* Only You (Can Break My Heart)
* My Heart Skips a Beat
* Before You Go
* Together Again
* 1968 : The Nashville Sound of Jody Miller (Capitol Records)
* It's My Time
* Over the Edge
* Urge for Going
* Back in the Race
* The Wishing Tree
* Long Black Limousine
* I Remember Loving Someone
* Odds and Ends
* Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)
* Right Kind of Fool
* For the Life of Me
* Every Passing Heartbeat
* 1970 : Look at Mine (Epic Records)
* Look at Mine
* Snowbird
* Leaving on a Jet Plane
* A Week and a Day
* If You Think I Love You Now (I've Just Started)
* Looking Out My Back Door
* Safe in These Lovin' Arms of Mine
* Catch Me in the Morning
* Stand By Your Man
* I'll Never Love Again
* He Loves Me All the Way
* 1971 : He's So Fine (Epic Records)
* He's So Fine
* Good Lovin' (Makes It Right)
* You've Got a Friend
* Baby, I'm Yours
* Don't Throw Your Love to the Wind
* A Women Left Lonely
* We Had Love All the Way
* Make Me Your Kind of Women
* Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True)
* Let Him Have It
* I'm Gonna Write a Song
* 1972 : There's a Party Goin' On (Epic Records)
* There's a Party Goin' On
* Everything I Own
* Be My Baby
* Manhattan, Kansas
* Delta Dawn
* The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.
* Someone to Give My Love To
* To Know Him Is to Love Him
* Your Love's Been a Long Time Coming
* Love's the Answer
* Let's All Go Down to the River
* 1974 : House of the Rising Sun (Epic Records)
* The House of the Rising Sun
* Lovin' Arms
* Natural Woman
* Let Me Be There
* Reflections
* Long, Long Time
* Let It Shine
* All I Want Is You
* Lucky Chicago
* Another Night of Love
* Smile, Somebody Loves You
* 1975 : Country Girl (Epic Records)
* Country Girl
* Best in Me
* Love, Love, Love
* House of Love
* In the Name of Love
* He Took Me for a Ride
* I'm Alright Till I See You (Then I Fall Apart)
* Papa's Wagon
* I Honestly Love You
* Jimmy's Roses
* 1976 : Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Epic Records)
* Will You Love Me Tomorrow
* Love You Never Had It So Good
* Thing Called Sadness
* Man From Bowling Green
* Don't Take It Away
* She Calls Me Baby
* Take Time to Know Him
* Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
* Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)
* Ashes of Love
* 1977 : Here's Jody (Epic Records)
* Roll Me on the Water
* Try Me Again
* You Can Be Replaced
* Won't You Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)
* Maybe I Should've Been Listenin'
* Montana Cowboy
* Spread a Little Love Around
* When the New Wears Off Our Love
* This Is Us
* I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
