Jack Miller acc. by The New Englanders - Singin’ In The Rain, Fox-Trot from „Hollywood Revue of 1929” (N.H.Brown – A.Freed), MGM 1929 (USA)

NOTE: Together with such once well-known American singers like Seger Ellis, Nick Lucas, Paul Small, Johnny Marvin, Franklyn Baur, Dick Robertson and many others, Jack Miller belongs to those really fine yet completely forgotten today crooners from the Jazz Age. He seems to have been recorded between 1929-33 and he disappears from the American musical market thereafter - eliminated by growing power of a swing music and jazz-oriented, more direct, less emotional way of singing of Afro-American males: Louis Armstrong Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Jimmy Rushing, but also white male artists such as Bing Crosby, Jack Teagarden, Hoagy Carmichael or Frank Sinatra (to name only a few). I found practically nothing in the web about Jack Miller’s life and career, all I can add now is I really enjoy this recording of that great hit of the late 1920s.

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