I. Love. This. Man!! His earthy, gritty voice, his sense of humor, and the fact that he was that hard partying rebel withoit shoving it down peoples throats. We can't have another roger miller. You only get one per lifetime.
I'm a rock guy, but his album "The Return of Roger Miller" was one of the first I remember seeing and hearing. I must have been only 6 or so. The songs are still etched on my brain. The guy did so much with a simple tune. And his use of language was so smart. Wish he had lived longer, he had a lot more to offer.
My PawPaw and I used to dance to his old records when I was a kid. This song was one he played a lot. I always did a cartwheel when Roger sang, “I did a double back flip.” I picture us back then, when I hear this song. PawPaw died when I was 9, almost 24 years ago. I miss that man so much. ❤️
@@Me-je2uw I love this so much. That is the best gift you could ever give them! I’m sure they will often reflect and think of you and all the memories made together, big and small. God bless you and your family! 💕
@@Me-je2uw Aw, that is so sweet of you to say! Who cut the onions?! 😭😆 I am a nurturer at heart and love bringing positivity to others. Jesus wants us to be uplifting and shine light. I fall short a lot, but I hope others can see Jesus’s love through me ♥️
@@Me-je2uw I know what you mean! I see people frequently attacking each other in comments on here and on social media, and I just don’t understand. I don’t have it in me to treat people that way. It warms my heart that you’re touched because you’ve made similar memories with your daughter. 😀 I’m sorry her relationship didn’t work out, but I’m so happy you’ve been reunited and get to spend lots of time together making tons more memories!
@@Me-je2uw Aw, thank you! My parents are the same. I also grew up with affection.. hugs and kisses and lots of love. We still always hug when arriving and leaving, and always say, “I love you.” It makes me sad to know that not everyone had that type of upbringing. It is so touching that you stayed with your wife to help take care of your in-laws. I’m sorry to hear your marriage didn’t work out, but it is so good that it blessed you with your daughter! I was raised in a Christian home with the same values as you. I’m an only child. I prayed as a little girl that I would have a sister, but it didn’t happen. I remember telling my mom that, and she said, “You don’t always get what you pray for.” A lesson learned early in life. 😆 We giggle now about her saying that then. They wanted to have another child, but couldn’t afford it. Mom and dad live about 20 miles away. I don’t have any children yet. I tell my husband it will happen in God’s timing, not ours. I am hopeful that we will be blessed with a child before we are too old.
I wish Roger were still around - his kind of humor is needed BADLY on Music Row these days. Humor used to be a huge part of Country Music back in the 60's and 70's, and even into the 80's, but it's almost gone now, except for a smattering from Brad Paisley and Toby Keith every now and then. Roger's music will never die though.
One of the guys who toured with him said his secret was that he never slept. Little pills. Perhaps that was the secret of his success and the reason he died so young. But his genius was from another place.
When I was a kid back in like 1997, My mom loved pop music so I was convinced I loved it too, Well one day we were in the car going grocery shopping, I was 11 or 12 years old and My mom forgot the CD's so we HAD to listen to the radio, I discovered this type of music (songs like do wacka do, country roads take me home, chug a lug, etc.) and then found I HATE pop music. Love this song 💗
When I was a boy and stayed at my old Grandpas house he wore out Roger Miller records on the 45 player. By the time I was about 8 I had memorized every Roger Miller song including this one!
Jerry Reed and Roger Miller both knew how to have fun with country music, didn't take themselves (too?) seriously, and brought a lot of grins with their work. Sadly missed these days--and I'm a no-nonsense metal/grunge guy in his mid-60s.
Roger Miller was a great man. He was generous and a real friend. He was a humble man who didnt want anyone to know whar he was (a country music man). He wanted people to like him for who he was.
Roger had a cool sense of humor mixed with that classic style of country music. All are now a thing of the past. Im glad that i grew up listening to him and his silliness. He inspired me to make the same type of goofy sounds he did and at 53 im still being silly. God bless you brother you were a one of a kind!!
heard this on the radio just now , so I looked it up to hear it again. they do still play it on the radio in the Phoenix AZ area on 96.3 Real Country - KSWG - FM 96.3 - Wickenburg, AZ . great station!!!
We need more real country. Most of the stuff these days is far from what this song is. Ray Price. Charlie Pride. Waylon and Loretta and Jerry Jeff. I grew up with real country music.
My friend and I used to sing Miller's songs in the locker room before and after PE class when we were in high school. Some of his vocal antics remind me of the slightly later singer, Ray Stevens!
Roger Miller proved to me that there is a realm beyond this life. Let me explain: as a young child, I used to love to listen to all my parents' old Roger Miller LPs on their old cabinet stereo system. I knew all the songs by heart. Well, I grew up and never gave Roger Miller a thought. One night in October 1992 in my college dorm room, I couldn't sleep. And back then I usually slept so well that I'd fall asleep within minutes of going to bed and wouldn't wake up again till morning. But for some strange reason all those old Roger Miller songs kept running through my head. I must have spent hours that night playing those songs in my mind. This was really weird because like I said, I'd long since forgotten about Roger Miller. When I woke up that morning, I turned on the news, and it was reported that Roger Miller had died. At the time I didn't think it was anything but coincidence, but this has happened with me so many times over the years, both with famous people and people I know. I firmly believe this often happens to me because of their deaths and passing on to the next plane of existence.
Good land, this brings back memories!!😂😂😂😂Can't believe where the years went....he passed waaay too young 😢😢. I miss those days. The world was a much better place back then.
My Sobriety date is June 10th 2007... Chug a Lug Chug a Lug was a big part of my life. I picked up my daily drinking habit when I was 12 years old. I'm 50 now and only been sober since 2007...
waa this is a fun song we all have people die in our lives, thats life songs like this are made to help us smile and move on. Thats what ur Grandpa would want don't you think
Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop... mmmm, my ears still ring :-D Also like the line about the finagling uncle - we all know folks who've helped us get into trouble!
One of the records my dad had and I used to listen to as a kid, I'm almost 60 now. Dad said one time he was working at a relatives house on a very hot day and his cousin gave him a jar he thought was water, dad said he took a big gulp of it and it was some kind of homemade moonshine. Dad said it "bout blew the top of his head off. Dad also had "King of the Road" on 45 and this was another one of my Roger Miller favorites--ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JkZsSUFm7Uo.html There will never be another sound like Roger Miller.
yep my kids heard these songs and loved them too when they were in grade school and up just like I did. Loved hearing my Dad sing to them on the AM radio in his truck back when they were new. I know this much personally about 4H and FFA "0" but the kids in them were having fun when I was a kid and the last time I was at a county fair they still were, so why all the hate?
Know this one from a morning radio presenter my mother listened to. Mostly talk and news but he was allowed to squeeze a few tunes say Frog by the Brothers Four, the Piano has been Drinking by Mr Waits and this one amongst others (on a loop). Clive Robertson was a man of wit and great personality who helped start the school day in Sydney way back when.
These were the good ole days when I did not have a worry in whole world..I was 6-7 years old cruising with my dad listening to this on the high tech 8 track player..lol...A true classic,I still love this song and when I hear it, it takes me back to the early 70's...
My family takes a float trip together every year here in Missouri. We grew up listening to this cause my dad grew up listening to it with my grandparents. Now I play it with my two year old. Good music never dies! By the way when we are all on the river (usually intoxicated) you can hear my whole family singing a lot of Roger Miller, including this one!
I know this dated, but introduced my son to the movie" Robin Hood" The Disney one from 1974, I think. Well Rodger Miller was the rooster, narrated the movie. That's why I'm here. P. S. My son loves the movie.
Country music is dead, what they pass for country today is insulting. I'm no country music fan at all, but today's "country pop" always seems to have some of the same keywords in just about every song. Sure the old stuff was about heart break, divorce (there was a song called that), and getting drunk, but you also had fun stuff like this that was off kilter, stuff from Jerry Reed that wasn't the same formula over and over, and of course, David Allen Coe, who kind of bucked the trend back then with his music. Of course you also had Johnny Cash, who pretty much told stories with his music, not the typical country song either.
I'll be honest, I hadn't heard this before two days ago. I mostly listen to 60's-80's Metal and Rock. But I also listen to Bluegrass and old Country. My brother and Dad are in a bluegrass band, and my brother was fartin' around on the guitar and pulled this outta nowhere. I laughed so hard I d**n near cried. Love this song.
