Roger miller songs youtube

Ranking Roger Miller songs is a challenge.

Roger miller songs youtube

Not only does he have plenty of great ones to choose from, both as a writer and performer, but stylistically they span such a wide swath of American popular music that it can feel like comparing apples and oranges. Is the two-step-ready honky tonk tune better or worse than the improbably successful and still-compelling novelty song, or are his trendsetting almost-outlaw tracks better than all of them?

Luckily, there’s no real need to choose.

Miller, born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1936 and raised just over the Oklahoma border, produced songs and records at a consistent clip almost from the time he reached Nashville in the late 1950s to his death in 1992. His skill, both as a songwriter and one of the most dextrous and diverse singers country music has ever seen, brought him a few years of enormous commercial success during the mid-1960s.

But even once that popular success faded,