The very Best of Frankie Miller is a brilliant collection of his greatest tunes. It’s also packed full with over Thirty tracks which makes great listening. Each track is a classic. The guy had talent for sure and was an amazing Rock n Blues Singer for sure. One of Scotland’s greatest singers who never needed to use his nationality to sell records. His talent spoke for itself.
The Very Best of Frankie Miller
The Very Best of Frankie Miller (Audio CD)
The compilation album was released in 1993 on Chrysallis Records.
Track Listing
- Darlin’
- A Fool in Love
- Trouble
- You Don’t Need To Laugh (To Be Happy)
- The Doodle Song
- Highlife, Brickyard Blues
- Good To See You
- Have You Seen Me Lately Joan
- Shoo-Rah
- When I’m Away From You
- So Young, So Young
- Hard On The Levee
- Little Angel
- Cheap…Thrills
- After All (Live My Life )
- I Can’t Change It
- Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
- I’ll Take A Melody
- Just A Song
- Is This Love
- It’s All Over
- Papa Don’t Know
- Be Good To Yourself
- If I Can Love Somebody
- Jealousy
- Love Letters
- Jealous Guy
- Tears
- Heartbreak Madio
- Mailbox
- Caledonia
Frankie Miller
Frankie Miller was born November 2, 1949, in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow in Scotland. He started singing with local bands around the Glasgow scene around 1967, developing a style of his own which was influenced by American soul singers like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Otis Redding.
Frankie later moved to the more fertile music scene in London, where he soon became lead vocalist for Soul band Jude with Robin Trower (Ex Procul Harum guitarist). Trower was impressed with Frankie’s raspy Soul singers voice like that of Rod Stewart or Joe Cocker and offered him the position. But after a short time the band split and Frankie recorded his own debut album Once in a Blue Moon in late 1972.
Although the Album wasnt a big Hit, it still got a good reviews and Chrysalis decided to carry on his contract.. It was around this time that Frankie recorded the Duet Still in Love with You with Phil Lynott which was released on the Thin Lizzy album Nightlife.
Big in the States
Frankie sent a copy of Blue Moon to New Orleans R&B Legend Allen Toussaint who was impressed with his work. So much so that he offered to produce his next album. So, in 1973, Frankie travelled to America and recorded his Second Album High Life in New Orleans. This featured Toussaint’s own backing band and is often considered his most acclaimed album to date.
He then returned to London to form The Frankie Miller Band with bassist Chrissy Stewart, keyboardist Mick Weaver, guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Stu Perry. Once again, Frankie went over to America to record his Third album. This time to San Francisco where he recorded his Album The Rock in 1975. This was named after the famous Island prison Alcatraz which sits on a rock in the San Francisco bay.
The band didnt last very long and soon after the album was cut the band dissolved. Frankie moved on to form his next band Full House with guitarist Ray Minhinnett, keyboardist Jim Hall, bassist Charlie Harrison, and drummer Graham Deacon. They released the self titled album Full House in 1977 which was big in Sweden.
Hitting the UK Charts
But, like his previous bands before, this One didnt last long either, and he was back on his own for 1978’s Double Trouble, which produced his first British Top 30 hit in “Be Good to Yourself.” That same year, he scored a Top 10 UK hit with his cover of the Country band Poacher‘s Darlin’. This single was Included on his 1979 album Falling in Love. He’d later joke about the Irony of his First Big Hit and best known song being a cover.
Frankie returned once again to America to record his next Album Easy Money in Nashville in 1980. He later recorded the album Standing on the Edge in 1982 in the famous Alabama “Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. He was to release his famous Caledonia single later that year which gave Dougie MacLean’s Scottish Anthem to the world.
Tragedy Strikes
In 1986 Frankie released Dancing in the Rain. This sadly was to be his last Studio Album. In August 1994, whilst living in New York and working on a new project with Eagles Singer John Smith, he suffered a massive brain haemorrhage that was to put him in a coma for five months. When he emerged from his Coma, he was unable to walk or Talk.
A complete Disaster for any Musician or Singer, let alone that of Millers Talent. But Frankie was undeterred. He could still write songs and he rehabilitated himself by doing just this. He was also to find new inventive ways of expressing his work and art.
The Sun Goes Up, The Sun Goes Down, Frankie’s recent collaboration with Will Jennings was performed by Bonnie Tyler, Paul carrack and Jools Holland at a benefit concert in Edinburgh in the late 1990’s.
In 2016, Frankie Miller’s Double Take was released. This was a compilation album featuring a selection of unreleased songs recorded by Frankie Miller before he had his haemorrhage. These were performed by an array of Frankie’s admirers which Included Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson, Kid Rock, Elton John, Huey Lewis and Paul Carrack.
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