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Location: Central Oregon | I just saw Roger Miller playing an Ovation & singing Chug-a-Lug on the "40 best drinkin' songs" on CMT. I don't know what model it was but it was really fancy with a natural spruce top, a round hole & brown back. I think I spotted another O earlier but I'm not postive.
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Location: Tennessee | I very nearly bought Roger Miller's Deacon 12 about a year ago off of eBay, but the seller wanted too much for my meager wallet and what I thought it was really worth ... wish I'd done it now. It even had the backstage sticker from "Mignight Special" on the case.
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Location: Brentwood, TN | I got to meet Roger once, on the set of "Hee Haw" when we were taping a Glen C show there. He impressed me even more in person. I had been a huge fan of his music growing up and still cherish his songwriting simplicity and humor. I had a little single out at the time that we were singing on Nashville Now that week. When Glen introduced us, Roger perked up and started singing me the hook from my single! Wow, was I blown away. For him to care, much less know the song and writer, is a compliment I'll treasure. Glen never stopped telling his Roger Miller jokes for all the years I've known him. We could use some of that innocenceinnovation, wackiness and fun in music today... |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Jeff, I was there that day, believe it or not! I was a member of the Hee Haw band at the time. There are no more Waylons, Rogers, etc. No characters! They all wear hats and have college degrees in media shool now. Didn't Roger end that day on the fiddle with the OBS? If it's the same day I'm thinking, I sat in on rhythm.
Remember the time Roger introduced Ricky Van Shelton as "Shelly Van Rectum?" LMAO!!! |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "Glen never stopped telling his Roger Miller jokes for all the years I've known him"...
I fugured some of those Glen jokes and one-liners must have been from the Roger Miller frindship. They roomed together back during their stint as BMI staff writers.
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Location: SoCal | "To a dog, everyday is Saturday". Roger Miller. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "There is just no beginning to this man's talent"
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Location: SoCal | I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "Our family was so big when I was growing up I didn't know what it was like to sleep alone until I got married." |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | If you took a notion I bet
You could teach a hog to smoke a cigarette
Well it might take a little bit of time
But hell, what's time to a hog?
Well, the way I see it' it looks like this
Either you ain't or either you is
A true blue lover of the swine, folks
How about a hand for the hog |
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Location: Brentwood, TN | "You can lead a horse to water, but get him to lie on his back and float and you've got something." |
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