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 in the film "My Life as a Dog" (1985), as well as in the Swedish version of "The Lion King". The song is also known in Finland from the versions by Kipparikvartetti and M. A. Numminen, "Kuinka saisin rikki kookospähkinän", which feature a similar tragicomic story. The 2011 British 3D computer-animated family film "Gnomeo & Juliet" includes a portion of the song. 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