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typewriter-worries · 4 months

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country songs everyone should listen to at least once

Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell

Leavin' On Your Mind by Patsy Cline

My Autumn's Done Come by Lee Hazlewood

Crying by Roy Orbison

The End of the World by Loretta Lynn

Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton

Welcome to My World by Jim Reeves

Don't Touch Me by Jeannie Seely

Make the World Go Away by Eddy Arnold

Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

Little Green Apples by Roger Miller

Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson

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#even if you say you listen to everything “except country”#glen campbell #patsy cline #lee hazlewood #roy orbison #loretta lynn #dolly parton #jim reeves #jeannie seely #eddy arnold #johnny cash #roger miller #kris kristofferson #these are a few of my favorite things

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lisamarie-vee · 3 months

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#vintage magazine #the saturday evening post #roger miller #1960s #country music

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oldshowbiz · 8 months

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Arguably the most underrated film soundtrack of all time.

#disney #roger miller #cartoon #cartoons #soundtrack #Youtube

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myimaginaryradio · 7 days

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Dang Me - Roger Miller

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I know for a fact this is an all tome favorite of the one and only @impala-dreamer. This one's for you babe.

#dang me #roger miller #classic country #oldies #sarurday mood #Youtube

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shitandpissworldtour · 11 days

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favourite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

UHHHM lately I’ve been listening to

- Trust Me - EP Version by Barenaked Ladies

- Titanic Terrarium by The Tragically Hip

- Meanwhile Back in Abilene by Roger Miller

- Brother Flower by Townes van Zandt

- Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan

#Barenaked ladies #the tragically hip #roger miller #townes van zandt #sarah mclachlan

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lostfunzones · 2 months

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Roger Miller - Loving Her Was Easier, 1971

#roger miller

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howardhawkshollywoodmusic · 3 months

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27. King of the Road by Roger Miller debuted Jan 65 and peaked at number one on the pop and country charts, scoring 1094 points.

Roger Miller won six Grammys in 1966, for Country Song, Country Male Vocalist, Country Single, Contemporary Male Vocalist, Contemporary (Rock and Roll) Single, and Country album. It was nominated and lost to A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass for Record of the Year, and to Shadow of Your Smile for Song of the Year.

Jody Miller's 1965 female answer song, Queen of the House, peaked at number 12.

#king of the road #roger miller #hits of 1965 #country hits

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pieroguy · 9 months

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some country music blinkies

#music tag #country music #orville peck #dolly parton #sierra ferrell #townes van zandt #emmylou harris #waylon jennings #norman blake #nancy blake #🍊#roger miller

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dollarbin · 4 months

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Dollar Bin #30:

Roger Miller's Roger and Out

Imagine making something vital out of just about nothing; imagine a seemingly tossed off moment that turns out to be genius.

My 15 year old daughter did just that this weekend: she took the world's cheapest and least effective kite, one that could do nothing but circle about for a moment and then crash, fiddled with it after a moment of thought and observation and then sent that cheap bit of just about nothing into the air as a beautiful sign of support for the people suffering so dreadfully in Palestine. It was awesome.

So let's start the new year by talking about another wonderful piece of just about nothing, Roger Miller's very first record from 1964; (my reissued copy is called Dang Me but the original title is Roger and Out).

You simply can't find another album that's this breezy and light. Let's count the ways:

Miller recorded the album in just two days;

the longest song runs for a grand total of 2 minutes and 17 seconds;

the record's most complex statement of ideas comes in Chug-a-lug; it describes what it's like chugging booze;

and that song was supposedly written in under four minutes;

the album features 11 other silly, tiny and tossed off songs;

the whole thing seems made for Dr. Demento even though that dude was still in grade school at the time;

And it's a total classic, a soaring kite that has no business lighting up the sky, and yet there it is, rising up, up and up after a rough year for just about everyone.

Let's start with Miller's voice. What an instrument! The record opens with a whoop-whoop-whoop that sounds like it's coming from the goldfish Roger's baby sister won at the county fair. But that little swimmer has somehow survived a trip down Miller's gullet; he swallowed it whole when he thought she wasn't looking. But she was looking! She saw Roger Miller gobble her fish up, a fish she'd already named Lester, and so she starts bawling. But fear not little sister, Lester is doing just fine; he swimming about in Miller's gut and now Lester wants to sing her a song.

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That baby sister's tears sure dried up fast, didn't they? By the time Miller starts hemming, hawing and harrumphing about getting drunk as a kid she's laughing and clapping, hoping Roger will swallow the rest of her fish.

Every song on Dang Me features a similar act of vocal gymnastics. Miller scats his way through It Takes All Kinds to Make a World; frog swats at his chorus in Lou's Got the Flu and croons with easy joy in Feel of Me.

And then there's his incredibly tight band. There are zero solos and zero flash on the record; instead we've just got solid, chugging glow from start to finish. Personnel details are hard to come by; members of the A-Team - a catchall description for the few dozen people who appear on just about everything recorded in Nashville from Elvis to Ringo and back ago - support Miller but no one is given clear credit. There's a fair amount of piano and occasional backing vocals: all uncredited.

But listen to Squares Make the World Go Round; try to find a single unnecessary, non-shimmering note.

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I love sloppy truth in my music. After all I'm settling in for a full year, at least, of Shakey Sundays. But there's something to be said for humble professionalism as well. The razor sharpness of the "heys!" in Squares are the perfect compliments to Miller's Daffy Ducky meets Merle Haggard vocals. Think Neil and Crazy Horse could pull vocals that crisp? Hell no; just listen to their version of Get a Job.

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Somebody ought to get them a job, a job outside of the music industry.

And then there's the streak of sheer positivity that runs through all of Roger and Out. A year after Dylan bummed us all permanently out while cursing the Masters of War, Miller sings about WW3 in Private John Q like it's gonna be a hoot. And Got 2 Again is a master class in how to make musical joy. I have no idea to what extent Miller actually made up the first and second verse of this song, but don't you wish you were there with him in the studio, shouting out "thirteen!"?

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I've always been fascinated by the idea of lyrics made up on the spot. It's tempting to imagine that Dylan had Miller's example in his head when he made up some of his least comprehensible and, arguably, best poetry in real time three years later in the Big Pink Basement.

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I, too, dream about The Door...

But Dylan clearly can't compete with Miller in the childhood cheer category. His version of This Old Man will probably make your kids cry.

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But Roger and Out does serve as a successful foundation for some great children's music, however. Just listen to Johnny and June settle in to make joyful mischief Miller style:

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My kids loved that stuff. I still do.

Indeed, the tone of Miller's record serves as a foundation for so much that followed. Kristofferson's "if it sounds country man, that's what it is" explanation at the opening of Me and Bobby McGee, Neil Young's hillbilly speechifying on the Hawks section of Hawks and Doves, Yo La Tengo's shambolic funk while discussing nuclear war, Jerry Jeff Walkers entire vibe, everything Stephen Stills is not: it all has roots in Miller's yo-yo wielding, masterful joy in the studio.

Hard core Dollar Bin Dwellers will remember that I figured out who Roger Miller was just a month or two ago via Ringo Starr and childhood memories of Miller's songs and narration in Disney's Robin Hood. Well I'm all stocked up on his records now, and it turns out Miller is a classic Dollar Bin artist: his records fill the bin to the brim and they're all good. So go swallow them whole.

#Youtube #roger miller #johnny cash #bob dylan #yo la tengo #jerry jeff walker #stephen stills still sucks

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daveydoodle · 1 year

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Watch "Roger Miller - King Of The Road (1964) 4K" on YouTube