Ron Miller

Ron Miller was a longtime fixture from the Motown songwriting steady, authoring some chart-topping pop classics including Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in my own Life.” Delivered and elevated in Chicago, Miller started writing music as a teenager, you start with an ode to his favorite but hapless Chicago Cubs. After senior high school he offered a stint in the U.S. Marines, time for the Windy Town to pursue a profession in music while helping himself with some odd careers. While playing in an area piano club he was presented to Motown mind Berry Gordy, who provided a staff composing and creation gig. Later on known in market circles as “the just white man at Motown,” Miller quickly relocated to Detroit and in 1966 obtained his first TOP strike via Wonder’s 1966 smash “A LOCATION in sunlight,” co-written with Bryan Wells. Wonder documented several Miller tunes in the years to check out — “For Once in my own Life,” created following the delivery of the composer’s child, was first slice by vocalist Jean DuShon and released like a Cadet label solitary in 1966, and Motown vocalist Barbara McNair also documented the melody before Wonder have scored lots one strike in the summertime of 1967. Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra afterwards cut their very own renditions aswell. Wonder continued to earn TOP entries with Miller’s “Yester-Me, Yester-You, Last night” and “Heaven Help PEOPLE” prior to the R&B genius assumed complete control of his songwriting and creation in 1971. Miller shifted to Diana Ross, teaming with Michael Masser to co-write the diva’s number 1 hit “Contact Me each day.” The tune was instrumental in cementing Miller’s popularity being a composer with a specific present for penning intimate ballads for girls, and he practically described the genre with Charlene’s traditional “I’ve Never Gone to Me,” a crossover blockbuster in 1982. Miller also appreciated achievement on Broadway, composing the reserve and lyrics to musicals including Daddy Goodness and Cheery. After a protracted struggle with emphysema and cancers, he passed away of cardiac arrest in Santa Monica on July 23, 2007.