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The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you’re born and doesn’t stop till you sit down to write a song
~Roger Miller

It’s one thing to have talent. It’s another to figure out how to use it.
~Roger Miller

Leavin’s Not The Only Way To Go:

From Wikipedia:

Birth name	Roger Dean Miller
Born	January 2, 1936 Fort Worth, Texas
Died	October 25, 1992 (aged 56) Los Angeles, California
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, fiddle, drums
Years active	1957–1992
Associated acts	Bill Anderson, George Jones,Dean Miller, Willie Nelson,Johnny Paycheck, Minnie Pearl,Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Sheb Wooley, Dwight Yoakam, Faron Young
Website	www.rogermiller.com

Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping country/pop hits “King of the Road”, “Dang Me” and “England Swings”, all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era.

After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the United States Army, Miller began his musical career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, penning such hits as “Billy Bayou” and “Home” for Jim Reeves and “Invitation to the Blues” for Ray Price. He later started a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the late 1960s, but continued to record and tour into the 1990s, charting his final top 20 country hit “Old Friends” with Willie Nelson in 1982. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony-award winning Broadway musical Big River, in which he also acted.

Miller died from lung cancer in 1992, and was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later. His songs continued to be recorded by younger artists, with covers of “Tall, Tall Trees” by Alan Jackson and “Husbands and Wives” by Brooks & Dunn, each reaching the number one spot on country charts in the 1990’s. The Roger Miller Museum in his home town serves as a tribute to Miller.

You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd & Chug-a-lug:

From allmusic.com – Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Roger Miller is best known for his humorous novelty songs, which overshadow his considerable songwriting talents as well as his hardcore honky tonk roots. After writing hits for a number of artists in the ’50s, Miller racked up a number of hits during the ’60s which became not only country classics, but popular classics as well.
….read more @ allmusic.com 

Album of the day – All Time Greatest Hits (2003):

From allmusic.com – Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
There have been many collections of Roger Miller’s hitmaking peak on Mercury over the years, but few have been as comprehensive or as good as Mercury/Chronicle’s 2003 CD, All Time Greatest Hits. Spanning 20 tracks over the course of one CD, this contains all the big songs: “Dang Me,” “Chug-a-Lug,” “Do Wacka Do,” “In the Summertime (You Don’t Want My Love),” “King of the Road,” “You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd,” “Kansas City Star,” “England Swings,” and “Husbands and Wives,” among others. All but one track from the seminal 1965 collection Golden Hits is here (“Atta Boy Girl” is the missing culprit — a good song but not enough to tip the scales in favor of the 38-year-old collection), and it spans further than that record, collecting hits from 1967-1970 and ending with the 1986 hit “River in the Rain.” While that final song isn’t quite of the standard of what preceded it, it provides a nice closer to a set of songs that unequivocally proves Miller’s genius. ….read more @ allmusic

Other October 25:

• Electric Ladyland is the third and final album of new material by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968 on Reprise Records. It is the only Hendrix studio album professionally produced under his supervision. It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks in November 1968.
  

  Released	October 25, 1968
  Recorded	Olympic Studios, London andRecord Plant Studios, New York, July and December 1967, January 1968, April–August 1968
  Genre	Psychedelic rock, blues rock, acid rock, hard rock
  Length	75:47
  Label	Reprise, Track, Barclay, Polydor
  Producer	Jimi Hendrix

• Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.

-Egil