From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Wed Apr 30, 2003  2:07 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Warren Miller

WARREN MILLER

Born 30 April 1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Warren Miller is best known for the fast rocker "Everybody's Got 
A Baby But Me" (United Artists 104), released in January 1958.

Think of all the stories you've heard about sharecropping rockabillies
who end up grousing about missed breaks or that familiar lack of 
promotion. Warren Miller is as far removed from that milieu as it's
possible to get. The son of a part-German banker who was married 
to a concert pianist, young Warren rebelled by descending to the
basement where he took up the guitar and learned to play Hank
Williams' songs. Raised in Washington, D.C., Miller played some
demos to a local promoter named Ted Pedas who had heard that
United Artists was getting into the record business and went up to
see them. Cut at RCA's studios in New York, "Everybody's Got A
Baby But Me" was Miller's only record under his real name, but there
were others under other names, though Miller can't remember all of 
them now. He does recall recording for Colt 45, including "Haunted
House" and "Have Gun Will Travel" under the name Cris Kevin. "Have
Gun Will Travel" did well in the middle Atlantic states, Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, but never made the national chart. It was
covered by the Clovers on United Artists in 1961.

Miller also turned his hand to country music (for instance "Blues
Express" as Jesse Travers on the D'Arcy label in 1964), but finally
quit the performing end of the business in the mid 60s. Since then,
he's been running Studio Center, his own Norfolk, Virginia-based 
company which produces radio and TV commercials.

"Everybody's Got A Baby But Me" appears on several compilations,
including "That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 12: Rockabilly From the Vaults of
Imperial Records" (Bear Family BCD 16102). This bio is adapted
from the liner notes (by Bill Millar) for that CD.