Mrs Miller's Greatest Hits is a novelty vinyl rarity featuring a woman named Mrs Miller doing random covers in a kind of Aunt-Bea-contralto with really inappropriate crisp diction and crazy off-key whackiness (a reminder that the difference between crazy and eccentric is how much money you have). There are a couple of Real streams of her excruciating Beatles and Petula Clark covers linked off of this page.
Mrs. Miller's album is definitely over the top, but I get the very sinister feeling from the liner notes that while Miller herself may have been completely serious about what she was doing, whoever coaxed her to make this album was laughing on the inside, and probably egging her on to be even more extreme. The sarcasm is very subtle, just enough to give the wink to record collectors like us while keeping poor Mrs. Miller in the dark. References to her "impeccible diction" and "scintillating delivery" abound, as well as the accolade "one of the most interesting voices extant… one that brings to mind the tonal qualities of a Florence Foster Jenkins or a Mrs. B. J. Fangman".
(Thanks, miles!)
