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Record producer, record company executive, and song writer the late Robert Eugene Miller worked for Apollo Records before joining Chess in the late 1960s. He then went on to work at the Motown Corporation. Bobby Miller was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 10 March 1934. He attended Knoxville High School, graduating in 1951. He enlisted with the US Armed Forces and was given an honourable discharge in 1953. He moved to Chicago and became involved in music production. His partnership with Charles Stepney was very successful with hits for Marlena Shaw and The Dells. Bobby Miller died at home in Knoxville, Tennessee on 24 December 2019, age 85.

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