Millie Scott
{{short description|American R&B singer}}
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| origin = Savannah, Georgia
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| genre = R&B
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| years_active = 1971–1988
| label = Hi Records
| associated_acts = Quiet Elegance, The Temptations, Bruce Nazarian
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Millie Scott is an American R&B singer who had moderate success in the US Billboard R&B chart during the 1980s.{{cite web|last1=Wynn|first1=Ron |title=Artist Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/millie-scott-mn0000490747/biography|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=23 January 2022}}
Biography
Scott was born in Savannah on the coast of Georgia. She first sang gospel, before becoming a jazz singer. After moving to New York, she was enticed to move to Detroit by The Temptations, and she remains in Detroit to this day.{{cite web|url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Millie%20Scott.html|title=Millie Scott Page|website=Soulwalking.co.uk|access-date=December 28, 2010}}
In 1971 she formed the group Quiet Elegance along with Lois Reeves and Frankie Gearing. They toured with The Temptations and signed to the Hi Records label in 1972, releasing a number of singles.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/quiet-elegance-mn0000375487/biography|title=Quiet Elegance | Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=August 10, 2022|first=Andrew|last=Hamilton}} In 1986, she was signed to D&B Productions in Detroit, helmed by Bruce Nazarian, whose recordings led to Scott being signed as a solo artist to Island Records and releasing her debut single, "Prisoner of Love". It peaked at #52 in the UK Singles Chart in 1986. Follow-up singles "Automatic" and "Ev'ry Little Bit" also charted in the UK.{{cite book|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2006|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|edition=19th|publisher=Guinness World Records Limited|location=London|isbn=1-904994-10-5|page=485}}
Scott made numerous appearances on the UK Channel 4 television programme Solid Soul in the mid-1980s, alongside other R&B acts such as Loose Ends and Ruby Turner.
Discography
=Studio albums=
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| Year
! Album ! style="width:45px;"|US R&B |
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| 1987
| Love Me Right | align=center | 57 |
| 1988
| I Can Make It Good for You | align=center | — |
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes the release did not chart. |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"|Year
! scope="col" rowspan="2"|Single ! scope="col" colspan="3"|Peak chart positions |
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| style="width:45px;"|US Dance ! style="width:45px;"|US R&B ! style="width:45px;"|UK |
| rowspan="2"| 1986
| "Automatic" | align=center | — | align=center | 49 | align=center | 56 |
| "Prisoner of Love"
| align=center | 13 | align=center | 78 | align=center | 52 |
| rowspan="2"| 1987
| "Love Me Right" | align=center | — | align=center | 40 | align=center | — |
| "Ev'ry Little Bit"
| align=center | — | align=center | 11 | align=center | 63 |
| rowspan="3"| 1988
| "To the Letter" | align=center | — | align=center | — | align=center | — |
| "A Love of Your Own"
| align=center | — | align=center | 66 | align=center | — |
| "It's My Life"
| align=center | — | align=center | 90 | align=center | — |
| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
References
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External links
- [https://www.discogs.com/artist/64135-Millie-Scott Album and singles discography] at Discogs.
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Musicians from Savannah, Georgia
Category:American contemporary R&B singers