Gary Miller (singer)

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Gary Miller
Born	Neville Williams 1924 Blackpool, Lancashire
Died	June 15, 1968
Cause of death	heart attack
Occupation	Singer, actor

Gary Miller born Neville Williams (1924 — 15 June 1968) was an English popular music singer and actor of the 1950s and 1960s. His career spanned only 13 years before he died of a heart attack in 1968. He released 24 singles and six EPs on the Pye Records label between 1955 and 1967. Pye released a further compilation EP after his death.

Miller had several Top 40 singles early in his career, his debut single, "Yellow Rose Of Texas" reaching #13 on the UK Single Chart. The most successful was "Robin Hood" (the theme to The Adventures of Robin Hood) which spent 28 weeks in the chart^[1] and peaked at #10, his only Top 10 hit.

Miller had a number of small acting roles in the television series The Saint and Gideon's Way, and was a regular panelist on Juke Box Jury. He provided the singing voice for Troy Tempest in the Gerry Anderson series Stingray and recorded "Aqua Marina", the end titles theme for the series. He also recorded "Flying High", the original unused end titles theme for Thunderbirds. "Flying High" was later used in the episode Ricochet and released on the Thunderbirds 2 compilation album.

Miller appeared on stage in the 1964 production of She Loves Me at the Lyric Theatre and on the cast album of that production.^[2] He also appeared in the musical Come Spy with Me with Danny La Rue and Barbara Windsor, shortly before his untimely death.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gary Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• Discography at 45rpm.org.uk

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NAME	Gary Miller
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Neville Williams
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British singer
DATE OF BIRTH	1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 1968
PLACE OF DEATH