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Roger Miller — King of The Road
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maximinimalist
(Treasure Coast)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 10:16
 
This song waltzes into my head occasionally, and I sing what I know; whistle the rest.

Nice to hear it on RP along with the other spectrum broadening in the past few years.  Thanks Bill. Great job!!

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 10:12
 
Remember this well on the radio as a kid....

cosmiclint
(romeotuma's hotel room)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 10:11
 
 wlpendley wrote:
Great pop hit, but how about playing some of Roger Miller's more obscure genius songs?  I'm thinking of "The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me", "A World So Full of Love", "I've Been a Long Time Leaving" or even "LIttle Green Apples"...
 
Start uploading :)

wlpendley
(New Mexico)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:46
 
Great pop hit, but how about playing some of Roger Miller's more obscure genius songs?  I'm thinking of "The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me", "A World So Full of Love", "I've Been a Long Time Leaving" or even "LIttle Green Apples"...

olesonb
(Westminster, CO)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:09
 
 Shesdifferent wrote:
Thanks Bill for adding this to the playlist. Brings back so many memories when I was a kid, my mom use to play this on the jukebox in the bar that we owned. Always fun to hear.
 

Jukeboxes & childhood, I too remember those days. :)

bachbeet
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:04
 
This song has seen better days.

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:04
 
Thanks Bill for adding this to the playlist. Brings back so many memories when I was a kid, my mom use to play this on the jukebox in the bar that we owned. Always fun to hear.

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Jul 30, 2012 - 17:02
 
I don't know why I'm surprised to hear this on RP.  Nothing I hear on this station should surprise me.  Thanks, Bill!

khunshawn
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 06:43
 
Elvis Costello, followed by The Beatles, followed by Greg Brown, followed by Roger Miller.
My god I love this station! Thank you Bill.

jimbaca
(The Space-Time Continuum)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 06:43
 
I never tire of listening to this song.  Roger lived close by in Santa Fe.

Cyclehawk
(Athens GA)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 06:42
 
I remember my dad or someone brought home some 45's that my brother and I used to play on a little turntable.  This was one of them, and it got played a lot.   I must have been 6 or 7.  My dad always seemed to like this one.

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 06:38
 
Always good to hear !!!!

sdgserv
(Palm Springs)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 16:08
 
This song is timeless

expatlar
(Michoacan, Mexico)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:54
 
Well I imagine this song sucks a memory out of nowhere for those of us of a certain age. My dad had a brand new '65 GTO, four on the floor, two four-barrels, a radio, and some pretty great memories. Thanks for the flashback.

arserocket
(S.O.B in an S.U.V)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:54
 
Everyone in the hotel room above loves this tune.....so good for the ears

jmsmy
(Music Town, Klein, Texas)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:53
 
One of my Dad's favorite songs.

He would be surprised it's being played on my favorite rock radio station

Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:52
 
 Antigone wrote:


Love this.
 
Still love it. I love his voice and the lyrics and, heck you haters ... it's short for god's sake!

rage
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 15:51
 
Love it

Anax
(Seattle, WA)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 22:39
 
Had to turn it off. 1965, living with my step-father. I'm surprised it brought the memories back so viscerally. No.

stewbintn
(New Tazewell, TN)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 06:05
 
Burnt into my memories too Bill. There's a tavern where I grew up in Michigan called the 'Tally Ho', which was one of my Dad's old hangouts. Every time i hear this song I can picture the place and this song playing on the jukebox.
 

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 06:03
 
 Stratocaster wrote:
Jazz Country.  I think it's the only song in that genre!

I remembered every single word as I sang along.  Memories of being 7 years old, listening to my Grandma jokingly singing "Sailors for trail or rent".  *smiles to self* 

 
 
I remembered every single word as I sang along.  Memories of being 6 years old.


Stratocaster
(Bermuda)
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 13:06
 
Jazz Country.  I think it's the only song in that genre!

I remembered every single word as I sang along.  Memories of being 7 years old, listening to my Grandma jokingly singing "Sailors for trail or rent".  *smiles to self* 

 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 19:21
 
 DaveInVA wrote:
When I was a kid my Mom used to play the crap out of this on the 'ol record grinder. For some reason I still like it anyways..
 
It still works for some reason.  It's a good song, no matter how much I've heard it in my youth.  It may have a personal connection for me because my dad drove car carriers.


ch83575
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 11:26
 
 jagdriver wrote:

(Just don't ever play American Pie, OK?)
 
Only once per year, on the day in question.  

Ears_of_Stone
(Crushed under the hooves of the herd)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 11:25
 
My father used to sing along with this when it came on the AM radio in his '66 Impala hardtop coupe. I will always love this song.


jimbaca
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 11:22
 

Truly a classic folk song.



cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 11:21
 
 HoneyBearKelly wrote:
Why, dear God?
Why?
 
Why not?


Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 20:33
 
Bill, I grew up listening to "King of the Road" too (born 1955) but having just heard it on RP, I'm struck how it makes me think of an old school GOP.  Freaky reference I know but while many of friends' parents were embracing this (and other shit like Up With People), my parents (I'm one of 12) thought the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, Janis Joplin for example, were far more interesting & hip.  Thank goodness for that!

ukooku
Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 20:23
 
Thanx Bill.  You need never feel the need to justify/explain Roger Miller - it was a TRANSPLENDENT choice.  Say hi to Rebecca.

sheetsy
(Jefferson State)
Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 20:20
 
love singing along with this one!

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 11:20
 
 Hannio wrote:


And eng-a-land swings like a pendulum do.
 
True story: My best friend and I learned this song, and we used to sit on my window sill (which required climbing out the bedroom window) and sing it for the neighborhood kids. They LOVED it, so we learned "Dang Me," King of the Road," and "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd."  I still remember the words to most of those songs! {#Embarassed}

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 11:14
 
 LaurieinTucson wrote:
Bill G, you don't banter enough. But when you do, it is always worth listening to. You could banter a lot more, and I would not mind.
 
Right there with you, LaurieinTucson!  {#High-five}

LaurieinTucson
(Tucson,AZ)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 11:11
 
 coloradojohn wrote:
When I was maybe 7 or 8, I begged my Aunt Charlotte in Coffeyville to show me how to play this on the piano when I was there visiting for a week or so one summer — and bless her heart, she did, and showed me just how much it rocked, and how the lyrics were way over my head but enjoyable to learn and say nonetheless...but she didn't stop there — she blew my little mind with Maple Leaf Rag, and man, I realized then and there that this new world of MUSIC was by far the Better Kingdom on this Earth...

 
I also very much dig comments like this.


LaurieinTucson
(Tucson,AZ)
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 11:10
 
Bill G, you don't banter enough. But when you do, it is always worth listening to. You could banter a lot more, and I would not mind.

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 02:53
 
When I was maybe 7 or 8, I begged my Aunt Charlotte in Coffeyville to show me how to play this on the piano when I was there visiting for a week or so one summer — and bless her heart, she did, and showed me just how much it rocked, and how the lyrics were way over my head but enjoyable to learn and say nonetheless...but she didn't stop there — she blew my little mind with Maple Leaf Rag, and man, I realized then and there that this new world of MUSIC was by far the Better Kingdom on this Earth...


stackarukk
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:08
 
it always makes me think of Pulp Fiction


cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:07
 
I can't hear a Roger Miller song without thinking of him on the Muppet Show. Priceless.

jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:07
 
Right on, Bill... I, too, "waited" through this like you. But NOW....

(Just don't ever play American Pie, OK?)

1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:07
 
a "wait through" tune...well stated Bill

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:06
 
When I was a kid my Mom used to play the crap out of this on the 'ol record grinder. For some reason I still like it anyways..

shutter
(You can't get here from there)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:06
 
Roger's a legend, what can I say?

gormeister
(Commonwealth of Virginia)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:06
 
sweet!

Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet CAN I GO HOME NOW?)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:05
 
OMG...I know the words to this song like it was second nature. My mom use to play this at our bar on the jukebox when I was in elementary school. Love it...even though I'm not a country fan. Roger Miller had his place.... {#Clap}


Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:05
 


Love this.

blkstd
(Champaign, IL)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 10:04
 
So Cool. Fond memories of singing along to this one.

gregormiz
(Portland, OR)
Posted: May 14, 2011 - 19:35
 
Yeah... I knew all of the words by the time I was 10.  Hey, my grandpa was an actual "Hobo" during the depression, so I felt that I had a grasp on the song.

Thanks for playing this.  There's a reason that so many people have covered it over the years.   

kurtster
(sometimes the statue and sometimes the pigeon)
Posted: May 14, 2011 - 19:33
 
{#Cheesygrin}

cavetroll
Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 17:36
 
This song is just epic.  Thanks, Bill!

jimbaca
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 10:05
 
One of my favorites.  Roger lived just outside of my hometown, Santa Fe.

triviagal
(Just Outside Washington DC)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 09:51
 
It's like finding a gem in the attic.  Dust off the vinyl & play.  Memories come flooding back.  {#Bounce}

Thanks Bill!!