- Father of Meredith Miller.
- He was largely a self-taught pianist.
- He began playing professionally at 16 and within two years had gotten an orchestra job.
- In 1951, Miller was playing the lounge at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas when Frank Sinatra came to hear him. The crooner liked Miller's understated style and asked him to join his TV show.
- He was Frank Sinatra's longtime pianist and closest musical advisor, who accompanied the legendary singer, from 1951 until his last performance in 1995. Miller was at his side for four decades as accompanist and sometimes as conductor and musical director. Among the scores of hits he played for Sinatra were "I've Got You Under My Skin", "All the Way", "In the Wee Small Hours", "Young at Heart" and "Strangers in the Night". He was the conductor on the original recording of "My Way". It has been said he was the greatest accompanist that any popular singer ever had, no one had his touch, no one had his taste. In several movies, Young at Heart (1954), Pal Joey (1957), when Sinatra is supposed to be playing the piano, that was Bill Miller you were hearing. In the early 1950s, Miller introduced Sinatra to "One for My Baby" (and One More for the Road). The archetypal Sinatra piece, became the classic saloon song, which tells the story of a man who stumbles into a bar, alone, late one night. The bar is empty except for the saloonkeeper and a piano player, who is persuaded to play one more song before the man hits the road. Miller was the one who created the musical dramatic picture in the song's simple introduction. Playing the opening notes solo, with Sinatra leaning on the piano. It is such an incredibly atmospheric piano introduction. Anyone who has done that song since has imitated that piano solo.
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