Mrs. Miller She spent her remaining years doing charity work. She lived in a condo in Northridge, California, until an earthquake in 1994. She then moved to a retirement home. She may have been the inspiration for a similar act called Mr Miller and the Blue Notes, who released their 1966 version of the Herman's Hermits hit, "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" among a number of other similarly themed novelty acts of the era. Elva Miller died in Garden Terrace Retirement Center, in Vista, California, in 1997, aged 89. She was interred in Pomona Mausoleum, at Pomona Valley Memorial Park,
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" is a novelty song composed in 1944 (as "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts") by Fred Heatherton, a songwriting pseudonym for a collaboration of English songwriters Harold Elton Box, Desmond Cox and Lewis Ilda. The song was published by Box and Cox Publications (ASCAP). The song celebrates the coconut shy (coconut toss) at funfairs, and the catchy chorus is the call of the showman "standing underneath the flare" (of gaslight), inviting the public to "Roll up, bowl a ball, a penny a pitch." (In American