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11 January 2006

There's the usual contentiousness over at MeFi and Crippling Depression here. There's only one man who help us-ROGER MILLER!

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Where Have All The Average People Gone?

→[More:]Goofy songs, it's true, but with enough truth in them to make me smile and nod appreciatively.

post by: jonmc at: 18:36 | 23 comments

Oh Roger Miller is the BEST!

"I see you goin' down the street in your big Cadillac,
You got girls in the front, girls in the back,
Yeah, way in the back,
You got money in the sack,
Both hands on the wheel and your shoulders right back..."

posted by moonbird 11 January | 18:42

As a bonus, here's the Clash covering 'King Of The Road.'

posted by jonmc 11 January | 18:46

Who did that awful "Queen of the House?"

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 18:52

Mrs. Miller, who is sublime in her own wacky way. I got tons of her stuff, too. Don't make me unleash it.

posted by jonmc 11 January | 18:52

no phone no pool no pets!

posted by chewatadistance 11 January | 18:53

King Of The Road is the best thing ever.

posted by selfnoise 11 January | 18:55

Average people are overrated.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 11 January | 18:58

You bring out Mrs. Miller, I will counter with Tom Jones covering 'Burning Down the House'.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 19:00

well, being overrated is underrated.

on preview: I will counter with a moog version of Sweet Home Alabama.

posted by jonmc 11 January | 19:01

You might possibly win. Although I have several Tiny Tim covers of songs my brain refuses to recollect.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 19:28

I have the same ones, plus some Lucia Pamela, Wesley Willis, Wild Man Fischer and a song from the 60's called "Walkin' My cat Named Dog."

posted by jonmc 11 January | 19:32

and I have the pre-war original of Tip Toe Through The Tulips.

posted by jonmc 11 January | 19:32

Shoulda known to never tangle with the master.

(I just found out that he sings "if you've a mind to" instead of "if you were mine too". All these years...)

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 19:40

Roger Freakin' Miller! Have you got "Dang Me" or "Kansas City Star (That's What I Are, You Aughta See My Car)"????

posted by wendell 11 January | 19:53

Whatever you bargain-bin snuffling musicologists of ephemera - I've got MARILYN FUCKING MANSON'S Golden Age of Grotesque, Dolly Parton, Old and in the Way, Junior Senior, Quasi and Tom Petty - all from my pokey little local library.

RAAAAAAAAAAH!

posted by Lipstick Thespian 11 January | 20:57

*pats thes on head*

yes, you're doing fine...

posted by jonmc 11 January | 21:04

No Buck Owens? Rookie.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 21:09

What're you kidding me?

I even have "Hot Dog," the rockabilly single he recorded under the name 'Corky Jones.'

posted by jonmc 11 January | 21:12

De do de do.

posted by stilicho 11 January | 21:19

Buck Owens, now you're getting down. I was always a Marty Robbins fan myself - Devil Woman, Ribbon of Darkness, Laredo, oh ya.

posted by madamjujujive 11 January | 21:25

Now jon, I knew for a red dog fact that you'd have Buck. I was gently chastising lips for his lack of Buckosity.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 11 January | 21:32

Well, George Jones is the true lord & savior of country music, mjjj ;>

posted by jonmc 11 January | 21:33

Good call on "Dang Me". What about "England Swings"? Damn, I was about to go to bed but now I think I'm gonna put on Roger Miller's Greatest Hits. And did somebody say Buck Owens?!?

posted by Slack-a-gogo 11 January | 23:33

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