King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

Roger Miller - King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller
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Artist: Roger Miller
Brand: King
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1995-08-22
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. My Pillow
  2. Poor Little John
  3. A Man Like Me
  4. The Wrong Kind Of Girl
  5. Jason Fleming
  6. A World So Full Of Love
  7. When A House Is Not Home
  8. You Don't Want My Love
  9. When Two Worlds Collide
  10. Sorry, Willie
  11. So Saith He The Lord
  12. Lock Stock And Teardrops
  13. Ain't That Fine
  14. Less And Less (Original Version)
  15. Chug-A -Lug
  16. Lou's Got The Flu
  17. The Moon Is High (And So Am I)
  18. Dang Me
  19. It Takes All Kinds To Make A World
  20. Reincarnation
  21. Hard Headed Me
  22. Do Wacka Do
  23. Atta Boy Girl
  24. Our Hearts Will Play The Music
Music CD 2
  1. King Of The Road
  2. As Long As There's A Shadow
  3. You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
  4. Heartbreak Hotel
  5. Big Harlan Taylor
  6. One Dyin' And A-Buryin'
  7. The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me
  8. It Happened Just That Way
  9. Engine #9
  10. Kansas City Star
  11. England Swings
  12. I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone)
  13. Husbands And Wives
  14. Train Of Life
  15. Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit
  16. You're My Kingdom
  17. My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died
  18. Home
  19. Absence
  20. Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)
  21. Walkin' In The Sunshine
  22. A Million Years Or So
  23. Pardon This Coffin
Music CD 3
  1. The Ballad Of Waterhole #3
  2. Old Toy Trains
  3. Little Green Apples
  4. What I'd Give To Be The Wind
  5. Boeing Boeing 707
  6. Treat Me Like A Human (Outtake)
  7. What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)
  8. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
  9. Swiss Cottage Place
  10. Me And Bobbie McGee
  11. Where Have All The Average People Gone
  12. The Best Of All Possible Worlds
  13. Invitation To The Blues
  14. Tall, Tall Trees
  15. Don't We All Have The Right
  16. That's The Way I Feel
  17. Half A Mind
  18. Hoppy's Gone
  19. What Would My Mama Say
  20. Orange Blossom Special (Live Version)
  21. Old Friends
  22. Guv'ment (From Big River)
  23. River In The Rain (From Big River)

Free Music Notes for King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller

Free Music Review: Doo Wacka-Doo Wacka-Doo
Hit: 5 Stars

"The Genius Of Roger Miller"!! the word "genius" used in the title of this three disc collection/anthology of songs written and recorded by the late great Roger Miller is no misnomer - the man was a creative musical genius.

Roger Miller spoiled me though . . . after hearing his songs and recordings and performances, very little of "today's country" (or of any other genre for that metter) measures up. Roger raised the bar so high that most others simply pass by beneath his talent and abilities.

Roger could make you laugh out loud . . . or cry . . . and sometime BOTH in the same song . . . he could enteratain but he was also a "humorist philospher" who's songs and lyrics and even 'aside remarks' could bring you down off your lofty ivory tower pedestal and make you realize our common humanity.

Roger sang of everyday lives and everyday events and everyday experiences in a not so everyday way of looking at them. He viewed the world and experiences and life from such a unique "eye" and perspective . . . and he knew how to laugh at the ridiculous found even in the most somber and even sad experiences met with through living.

Reading the liner notes to this collection it is so amazing to learn that many of these tracks might have been lost forever. Someone cleaning out the garage of a house they bought discovered these tins in a box there ready to be discarded as trash: they were "Master Tapes" of Roger's recordings. And so some of the tracks we get to hear and enjoy now on this collection were salvaged and saved and now preserved digitally for all time. Thank God for miraculous saves! :)

If you are a fan of roger Miller . . . if You perhaps only recently heard of Roger Miller . . .and even if you never before heard of Roger Miller, get this collection. You will meet and encounter the most interesting and creative singer/songwriter you will ever meet. And you will enjoy track after track after track of creative genius. You will laugh for sure . . . you will cry for certain . . . and you will thank yourself forever for taking advantage of the opportunity these recordings provide you to know "the genius of Roger Miller"

And thank YOU Roger Miller for all the great music and song . . . and for your most unique gift of humor. You are greatly missed.

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Comedy gets no respect. If Merle Haggard sums up the dilemma of the American working class from the hard-bitten perspective of "Mama Tried" or "The Bottle Let Me Down," he's called a blue-collar poet. If Roger Miller captures the same predicament from the warped, comic perspective of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd," he's dismissed as a novelty writer. And yet, a great comic song is just as hard to write as a serious one and sheds just as much light on its subject. Nashville has been home to some gifted comic songwriters over the years--Tom T. Hall, Shel Silverstein, John Prine, and so on--but Miller was the best of the bunch and, as such, one of the best songwriters country music has ever known. He's finally getting some overdue respect with the release of a three-CD anthology, King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller. Almost everyone is aware of "King of the Road," the shining pinnacle of Miller's career and one of the most perfect country songs ever written. Many of us remember his brief moment in the sun in 1964-66, when he not only dominated the country charts but also put 10 songs in the pop top-40--including such top-10 hits as "Dang Me," "Chug-a-Lug," "King of the Road," "Engine Engine #9," and "England Swings." Exuberant, infectious comic classics one and all, but The Genius of Roger Miller reveals there was a lot more to this quirky artist than that. --Geoffrey Himes

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