Nobody else could come up with a song like The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me. Genius pure and simple.
Once I interviewed Roy Clark, and asked him about his friendship with Miller. I guess they were great pals, and Clark said he had some tapes of them just playing tunes at a backyard BBQ. What I wouldn't give to hear those recordings...
Ahh, yes, the first album I ever owned was Roger Miller/ Golden Hits. I told my parents I wanted it for Christmas in 1965. Loved it. Made me wanna holla hidy hoe! :)
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My hero! A great shot of a straight shooter.
Boy, mainstream country music sure could do with someone like him nowadays.
Boy, mainstream country music sure could do with someone like him nowadays.
I agree, but nowadays he wouldn't get through the front door. Or even the back one.
Nobody else could come up with a song like The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me. Genius pure and simple.
Once I interviewed Roy Clark, and asked him about his friendship with Miller. I guess they were great pals, and Clark said he had some tapes of them just playing tunes at a backyard BBQ. What I wouldn't give to hear those recordings...
Ahh, yes, the first album I ever owned was Roger Miller/ Golden Hits. I told my parents I wanted it for Christmas in 1965. Loved it. Made me wanna holla hidy hoe! :)
"I wish I had what you had / and you had a do-whacka do whacka do"
"roses are red / violets are purple / sugar is sweet / so's maple syrple."
dang me if that man didn't have as much poetic fluidity as the honorous Little Richard Penniman!
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