If Flavor Flav can start a chicken restaurant, Roger Miller could start a hotel chain, okay? Wait, what?) And then there's, the domain itself, and it's all about an honest-to-beans hotel Miller somehow had a hand in starting, perhaps just licensing his song for the marketing he had won 11 Grammys and a Tony, after all, so he had the money to spin this off as a side project. Nashville, Tennessee, (the Web site proudly proclaims, is home to a Day's Inn hotel, which started out as a "King of the Road Hotel and was built by Roger Miller". Not to be confused with the hobo who is one of Pennywise's apparitions in It.
Oh, and he was inspired by a statue of a hobo he saw there. Then he got on The Mike Douglas Show, and - wait a minute - he saw the sign in Indiana and wrote the song when he got to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. His own Web site states that he saw a sign saying "Trailers for Sale or Rent" - which inspired the first line of the song - outside of Chicago, Illinois, and he finished the song in Idaho. But Miller told more than one tale of the song's writing. Don't fall behind we're only in the second paragraph.īusiness card for the King of the Road Motor InnsThe second stop on our tour is Boise, Idaho, at the Idan Ha Hotel, where Roger Miller (now deceased) is said to have first written the song. And yes, the band Pennywise gets its name from the character. This includes the setting for Stephen King's It, which stars our villain Pennywise, a monster clown that hangs out in sewers, and, in the movie, vamps and mugs just like Tim Curry. Bangor, Maine." Now, if you don't know that that's also the home and setting for many of the novels of Stephen King, well, in the words of Harlen Ellison (for whom King wrote the introduction to Ellison's Stalking the Nightmare), "have yourselves placed under house arrest for terminal illiteracy." King (author Stephen not to be confused with "King of the Road") has sometimes cloaked references to Bangor under the fictitious name of "Derry," but the residents are too savvy to fall for that dodge, and recognize many of the settings from Bangor. So hang onto your engineer hat and board the train - we're in for a heck of a whistle stop!įirst off, the only specific destination mentioned in the song lyrics themselves is "Destination. Any time you research a song, start out with Pennywise the Clown and end up with dancing hamsters, you're bound to have some strange visions. Please bear with us, as our research staff has a case of the cultural bends.
#ROGER MILLER SONGS FULL#
#ROGER MILLER SONGS TV#
9" were on the album that included King of the Road (?), which became his signature song - theme to his TV show. Fred from Laurel, MdHis pre-King of the Road (1965) era, which also included, Chug-a-Lug I think "Do-Wacka-Do," "Reincarnation," & "Engine No.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 7th 1964, Roger Miller debut on the Billboard's Hot Top 100 with "Dang Me" at position #94 and on July 26th it peaked at #7 (for 1 week) and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100.Īnd on July 12th it reached #1 (for 6 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart.īetween 19 he had fifteen Top 100 records five made the Top with "King of the Road" being his biggest hit, it peaked at #4 in 1965.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 11th 1964, Roger Miller performed "Dang Me" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Īt the time "Dang Me" was at #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and at #13 on the Top 100 chart.
0 kommentar(er)
