Tunes For Tuesday – Mrs Miller “Downtown”
A sample of some obscure – and some maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: Mrs Miller “Downtown” 1966
OK. I’d say this was extremely obscure but I don’t know that “obscure” applies to something that may be found on Utube – as it seems most everything I have can be …
Some things in a “collection” are there simply to be collected. This selection belongs to that group. My hat’s off to ye if you can make through the whole tune …
Mrs. Miller (1907 – 1997) was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-tempo renditions of popular songs. Miller sang for American servicemen in Vietnam, performed at the Hollywood Bowl and appeared on numerous television talk and variety shows.
“An untrained mezzo-soprano, she sang in a heavy, vibrato-laden style; Miller’s voice was compared to the sound of roaches scurrying across a trash can lid.“
In spite of this, the song reached the Billboard Top 100 in 1966.
Enjoy … or something.
I bet she was fun at a party after a few drinks.
Sigma Male
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According to these folks, I am one.
Huh, and I never knew it til now.
So now what?…..
I’ll tell you now what.
I’ve had something on my mind for the past couple of days and this afternoon I’m going to do it.
It’s a little gimick I’ll send to our grand daughter for her birthday (belated).
My dad made one for me when I was little.
It consists of a wooden dowel about 10″ long x 1/2″ dia.
Along the side of one end, a series of about 10-16 notches are cut into the dowel, like a zig-zag. Then, in that same end, a small nail is driven into the end. A 2″ long wingspan thin piece of wood will act like a propeller on that nail. The other part is a 4″ long wooden dowel about 4″ long.
You hold the larger dowel in your left hand with the propeller facing away from you.
In your other hand you hold the smaller dowel onto the notches and rub it briskly back and forth on the notches. This action will cause the propeller to rotate on the nail.
You perform this action in front of someone that you want to surprise. While making the propeller rotate on the nail you say “STOP!” and almost immediately the propeller will stop rotating and will start rotating in the opposite direction, seemingly like magic. The observer will be stymied.
The trick occurs when (after you’ve practiced it a few times) you say, “STOP!”, you secretly move your thumb on the hand holding the smaller dowel, up against the side of the larger dowel while moving the smaller dowel back and forth on the notches.
I don’t know why this happens but I do know that it does.
….so that’s what this sigma is going to do.
In case you’re innerested in this hierarchy stuff:
https://www.idrlabs.com/male-hierarchy/test.php
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/according-to-scientists
What is the whitest state?
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Maine
See if your state made the top 20 list.
(Idaho is on it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=netW-ue4xAw
That could be harder to listen to all the way through than Mrs. Miller.
Our problem is Left Coast so-called conservatives. Conservative only west of the Sierra/Cascade crest.
OK, I gave Mrs Miller 30 seconds of my attention and that’s about all I could bear.
That’s her best …
I’ve never understood why people will say “That’s so bad, it’s good!”