Roger miller

Hear Roger Miller sing the Beatles' "Yesterday" from his short-lived variety series.

Celebrity Birthdays on January 2 | Country music legend Roger Miller, Larry Harmon (known best as Bozo the Clown), Saint Thérèse and Nathaniel Bacon were all born on this day in history.

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Roger Miller *January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992*

September 12, 1966 : ABC-TV's "The Roger Miller Show" premiered. Roger Miller was a prominent hitmaker in country music, particularly during the mid-1960s. Probably, he was best known for his song “King of the Road” which also became his alias.“Chug-a-lug” was one of the first two songs that Miller performed during his first session with Smash Records in 1964.

Liner notes for the collection A Man Like Me: The Early Years of Roger Miller on Bear Family Records As a youngster, this author was introduced to country music through his grandmother, who was a real, honest-to-goodness gray-haired granny widow living up in the hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She had one of those big old console stereos, ordered from Sears, and one of her favorite record albums was a compilation of older country hits. I would sit and listen intently for hours, but one…

"He had no fear in his creativity and followed no rules or boundaries," his son Dean said.

Country Musician, Songwriter. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Erick, Oklahoma. As a young man, he joined the United States Army and served in the Korean War. Upon leaving the Army, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1957, to be a songwriter and signed an exclusive songwriting contract with Tree Publishing...