1. My Pillow
2. Poor Little John
3. A Man Like Me
4. The Wrong Kind of Girl
5. Jason Fleming
6. A World So Full of Love
7. When a House (Is Not a Home)
8. You Don't Want My Love
9. When Two Worlds Collide
10. Sorry, Willie
11. So Saith He the Lord
12. Lock, Stock and Teardrops
13. Ain't That Fine - Roger Miller, Burnette, Dorsey
14. Less and Less
15. Chug-A-Lug
16. Lou's Got the Flu
17. The Moon Is High (And So Am I)
18. Dang Me
19. It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
20. Reincarnation
21. Hard Headed Me
22. Do-Wacka-Do
23. Atta Boy Girl
24. Our Hearts Will Play the Music
25. King of the Road
26. As Long as There's a Shadow
27. You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
28. Heartbreak Hotel - Roger Miller, Axton, Mae Boren
29. Big Harlan Taylor
30. One Dyin' and a Buryin'
31. The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me
32. It Happened Just That Way
33. Engine, Engine #9
34. Kansas City Star
35. England Swings
36. I've Been a Long Time Leavin'
37. Husbands and Wives
38. Train of Life
39. Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit
40. You're My Kingdom
41. My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died
42. Home
43. Absence
44. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Roger Miller, Tillis, Mel
45. Walkin' in the Sunshine
46. A Million Years or So
47. Pardon This Coffin
48. Ballad of Waterhole #3 - Roger Miller, Grusin, Dave
49. Old Toy Trains
50. Little Green Apples - Roger Miller, Russell, Bobby
51. What I'd Give to Be the Wind - Roger Miller, Putman, Curly
52. Boeing Boeing 707
53. Treat Me Like a Human
54. What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings) - Roger Miller, Frazier, Dallas
55. Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line - Roger Miller, Bryant, Ivy J. "Jim
56. Swiss Cottage Place - Roger Miller, Newbury, Mickey
57. Me and Bobby McGee - Roger Miller, Kristofferson, Kris
58. Where Have All the Average People Gone - Roger Miller, Linde, Dennis
59. The Best of All Possible Worlds - Roger Miller, Kristofferson, Kris
60. Invitation to the Blues
61. Tall Tall Trees
62. Don't We All Have the Right
63. That's the Way I Feel
64. Half a Mind
65. Hoppy's Gone - Roger Miller, Slate, Johnny
66. What Would My Mama Say
67. Orange Blosson Special - Roger Miller, Rouse, E.T.
68. Old Friends
69. Guv'ment
70. River in the Rain
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Comedy gets no respect. If Merle Haggard sums up the dilemma of the American working class from the hard-bitten perspective of "Mama Tried" or "The Bottle Let Me Down," he's called a blue-collar poet. If Roger Miller captures the same predicament from the warped, comic perspective of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd," he's dismissed as a novelty writer. And yet, a great comic song is just as hard to write as a serious one and sheds just as much light on its subject. Nashville has been home to some gifted comic songwriters over the years--Tom T. Hall, Shel Silverstein, John Prine, and so on--but Miller was the best of the bunch and, as such, one of the best songwriters country music has ever known. He's finally getting some overdue respect with the release of a three-CD anthology, King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller. Almost everyone is aware of "King of the Road," the shining pinnacle of Miller's career and one of the most perfect country songs ever written. Many of us remember his brief moment in the sun in 1964-66, when he not only dominated the country charts but also put 10 songs in the pop top-40--including such top-10 hits as "Dang Me," "Chug-a-Lug," "King of the Road," "Engine Engine #9," and "England Swings." Exuberant, infectious comic classics one and all, but The Genius of Roger Miller reveals there was a lot more to this quirky artist than that. --Geoffrey Himes
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King Of The Road: The Genius Of Roger Miller
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1995-08-22)
- Publisher: Mercury Nashville
- Label: Mercury Nashville
- Format: Box set
- Studio: Mercury Nashville
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 18 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #11998
Avg. Customer Review:
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Summary: Comedic genius is selling Roger Miller short 2008-08-14
Comment: True, Roger Miller wrote some GREAT manic/comic country songs, but his depth as a writer (e.g.: the sadness and truth of a song like "Dang Me")is often overlooked and this is the best existing collection to allow listeners to more fully appreciate the many facets of a truly underestimated talent.
His back catalog is in a sad state of disrepair and has been for years. Buyer beware: numerous widely available budget "Best ofs" are actually re-recordings done in the 80s of classic Miller material. Still Roger Miller, just not the recordings done when his star was shining the brightest.
If you seek prime Miller in single disc form, you'd best seek out Smash Hits on Smash Records and the harder to find Country Tunesmith, a CD reissue of his 1970 "For The Country" record on which Miller actually recorded many of the songs he had written for Faron Young and others in the late 50s/early 60s.
By far, this box is the best thing out there for anyone looking for more than just a taste, and as close as you will come to a definitive collection until Smash decides to remaster and reissue the original great recordings in their entirety, which is long overdue.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Roger Miller - King of the Road - 3 CDs 2008-03-29
Comment: I had the CD of Roger Millers "Super Hits" but it only had 10 of his songs. I looked for a more complete set of his songs and found this 3 CD set "King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller." It has 70 songs of all different styles.
I have enjoyed it very much. The CD Set came with a Booklet which is a biography of Roger's music career with many pictures
I highly recommend this CD set to any Roger Miller Fan.
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Summary: Roger Miller's best 2007-09-10
Comment: I have enjoyed listening to the songs on this collection. They bring back memories of listening to such songs with my parents years ago!
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Summary: One disc too long 2007-02-11
Comment: I can't call myself a Roger Miller connoisseur. I'm just someone who knew they liked "King of the Road" and "England Swings", borrowed the 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Roger Miller and liked just about all of it, and went looking for more. I can't claim to have heard all of Rog's output but if this box set encapsulates it, I'd say there's enough midrange and weak fare to balance out the truly stratospheric peaks.
HIGHS:
Besides de rigeur classics "King of the Road" and alcohol anthem "Chug-a-Lug", there's the inspired insanity of "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd", "Do Wacka Do", and "England Swings". Lest you believe Miller only capable of playing the jester, check out the deep heartbreak of "One Dyin' and a Buryin'" and "Husbands and Wives".
LOWS:
Disc 3 has a lot of cover songs and Miller isn't at his best doing other people's stuff. Not to say there aren't some great ones scattered in there, such as tender holiday offering "Little Toy Trains" or the everyday man philosophy expressed in "Where Have all the Average People Gone?" or lament "Hoppy's Gone". But the last disc is decidedly the weakest of the trio.
BOTTOM LINE:
Trimming this down to 2 CDs and packing them to the brim and adding in some of the missing Smash material others are complaining about (since the strongest material on here comes from 1964-1969) would probably serve Miller a bit better. This is still the best overview out there because even the better single CDs are missing some great material but I think 2 CDs would do the job adequately.
3 1/2 stars
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Summary: Outstanding Collection 2007-01-30
Comment: This Mercury Compilation is one of the finer box-sets I have come across (not including peerless Bear Family). Roger Miller is best known for his comedic numbers, such as "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "Chug-a-Lug", all of which are included here. But this 3 CD set also includes a wealth of both earlier and later numbers that have been overshadowed by the "big" Roger Miller hits. This set goes back to 1957 and introduces us to a Roger Miller that sounded much more honky-tonk than 60's pop, with such songs as "A Man like Me".....these early songs are not at all unlike Ray Price! Then there's the crazy numbers of the late -60's, such as "My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died" and his ode to smoking (which would kill him later in life) "Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit". The last disc covers 1967 forward, including a great trio-number with Willie and Ray "Old Friends". Yes, there are other compilations out there, but this one really nails the comedic genius and slick wording of one of the greatest songwriters of any genre of music. The box set is a hard, book-style, case with a fine set of notes and discography (some great pics as well). Highly recommended. A+
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