King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller

King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller is a compilation of 70 songs in chronological order from the original master recordings, drawn from every label (Mercury/Starday, Decca, RCA, Smash, Columbia, and MCA) for which Nashville legend Roger Miller recorded. Between the 25 chart hits are eight unreleased recordings, all documented by a booklet containing an 8,000-word essay and 24 rare photos. It includes the Top 10 hits "When Two Worlds Collide", "Dang Me", "Chug-A-Lug", "King of the Road", "Engine Engine #9", "One Dyin' & A-Buryin'", "Kansas City Star", "England Swings", "Husbands & Wives", and more, plus two songs from the Tony Award winning Broadway Musical Big River.

King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller
Compilation album by
Roger Miller
Released1995
GenreCountry
Length162:33
LabelMercury Records
ProducerThe Country Music Foundation
Roger Miller chronology
Green Green Grass of Home
(1994)		 King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller
(1995)

Track listing

CD-1

No.TitleLength
1."My Pillow" (Roger Miller)2:11
2."Poor Little John" (Roger Miller)1:55
3."A Man Like Me" (Roger Miller)2:25
4."The Wrong Kind of Girl" (Roger Miller)2:15
5."Jason Fleming" (Roger Miller)2:02
6."A World So Full of Love" (Roger Miller)1:58
7."When a House is Not a Home" (Roger Miller)2:28
8."You Don't Want My Love" (Roger Miller)1:59
9."When Two Worlds Collide" (Roger Miller, Bill Anderson)2:10
10."Sorry, Willie" (Roger Miller)2:23
11."So Saith He, The Lord" (Roger Miller)1:12
12."Lock Stock & Teardrops" (Roger Miller)2:25
13."Ain't That Fine?" (Dorsey Burnette)2:33
14."Less & Less" (Roger Miller)2:27
15."Chug-A-Lug" (Roger Miller)2:01
16."Lou's Got The Flu" (Roger Miller)1:45
17."The Moon is High (And So Am I)" (Roger Miller)1:57
18."Dang Me!" (Roger Miller)1:47
19."It Takes All Kinds to Make a World" (Roger Miller)2:36
20."Reincarnation" (Roger Miller)1:58
21."Hard-Headed Me" (Roger Miller)2:29
22."Do-Wacka-Do" (Roger Miller)1:44
23."Atta Boy, Girl" (Roger Miller)1:54
24."Our Hearts Will Play the Music" (Roger Miller)2:00

CD-2

No.TitleLength
1."King of the Road" (Roger Miller)2:25
2."As Long As There's a Shadow" (Roger Miller)2:03
3."You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" (Roger Miller)1:53
4."Heartbreak Hotel" (Elvis Presley, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden)2:12
5."Big Harlan Taylor" (Roger Miller)2:06
6."One Dyin' & A-Buryin'" (Roger Miller)2:01
7."The Last Word in Lonesome is Me" (Roger Miller)2:46
8."It Happened Just That Way" (Roger Miller)1:51
9."Engine, Engine #9" (Roger Miller)2:17
10."Kansas City Star" (Roger Miller)2:17
11."England Swings!" (Roger Miller)1:52
12."I've Been a Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be a Long Time Gone)" (Roger Miller)2:14
13."Husbands & Wives" (Roger Miller)2:22
14."Train of Life" (Roger Miller)2:06
15."Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit!" (Curly Putman, Roger Miller)2:06
16."You're My Kingdom" (Roger Miller)2:13
17."My Uncle Used to Love Me, But She Died" (Roger Miller)1:53
18."Home" (Roger Miller)1:47
19."Absence" (Roger Miller)2:34
20."Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town)" (Mel Tillis)3:00
21."Walkin' in the Sunshine" (Roger Miller)2:37
22."A Million Years or So" (Roger Miller)2:30
23."Pardon This Coffin" (Roger Miller)2:18
24."Bonus Track: Session Soundbite" 

CD-3

No.TitleLength
1."The Ballad of Waterhole #3 (Code of the West)" (Dave Grusin, Robert Wells)2:17
2."Old Toy Trains" (Roger Miller)2:02
3."Little Green Apples" (Bobby Russell)2:38
4."What I'd Give to Be the Wind" (Curly Putman, Red Lane)2:37
5."Boeing, Boeing 707" (Roger Miller)1:19
6."Treat Me Like a Human" (Roger Miller)1:42
7."What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)?" (A.L. Owens, Dallas Frazier)2:07
8."Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" (Ivy J. Bryant)2:05
9."Swiss Cottage Place" (Mickey Newbury)3:27
10."Me & Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson)4:04
11."Where Have All the Average People Gone?" (Dennis Linde)3:02
12."The Best of All Possible Worlds" (Kris Kristofferson)2:56
13."Invitation to the Blues" (Roger Miller)2:34
14."Tall, Tall Trees" (George Jones, Roger Miller)2:13
15."Don't We All Have the Right?" (Roger Miller)1:57
16."That's the Way I Feel" (George Jones, Roger Miller)1:50
17."Half a Mind" (Roger Miller)2:46
18."Hoppy's Gone" (Johnny Slate, Larry Henley, Red Lane)2:33
19."What Would My Mama Say?" (Roger Miller)3:08
20."Orange Blossom Special (Live)" (E.T. Rouse)3:28
21."Old Friends with Ray Price & Willie Nelson" (Roger Miller)3:04
22."Guv'ment (from "Big River")" (Roger Miller)2:37
23."River in the Rain (from "Big River")" (Roger Miller)3:52
24."Bonus Track: Session Soundbite" 

Production
  • Producer: The Country Music Foundation
  • Annotated by: Daniel Cooper
  • Compiled by: Daniel Cooper
  • Remastered by: Joseph M. Palmaccio

Track notes

CD-1: Recorded

  • 1–1 April–October 1957; (prob.) Houston, Texas
  • 1–2 April–October 1957; (prob.) Houston, Texas
  • 1–3 December 13, 1958; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–4 December 13, 1958; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–5 June 30, 1959; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1-6 circa Summer 1960; Nashville, Tennessee (demo, unissued)
  • 1-7 circa 1960; Nashville, Tennessee (radio transcription, unissued)
  • 1–8 August 10, 1960; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–9 February 4, 1961; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–10 September 19, 1961; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1-11 circa January 1963; Nashville, Tennessee (demo, unissued)
  • 1–12 February 14, 1963; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–13 January 10, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–14 January 10, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee (unissued)
  • 1–15 January 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–16 January 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–17 January 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–18 January 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–19 January 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–20 August 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–21 August 11, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–22 October 2, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–23 October 2, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1–24 November 3, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee

CD-2: Recorded

  • 2–1 November 3, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–2 November 3, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–3 November 3, 1964; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–4 February 11, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–5 February 11, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–6 February 11, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–7 April 15, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–8 April 15, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–9 April 15, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–10 May 31, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–11 August 10, 1965; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–12 January 9, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–13 January 9, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–14 January 10, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–15 March 8, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–16 March 8, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–17 August 5, 1966; Los Angeles, California
  • 2–18 October 4, 1966; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–19 January 23, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–20 January 26, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–21 February 16, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–22 March 14, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2–23 March 14, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 2-24 Unknown

CD-3: Recorded

  • 3–1 August 30, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–2 October 17, 1967; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–3 January 24, 1968; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–4 March 12, 1968; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–5 September 20, 1968; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3-6 circa December 11–17, 1968; Nashville, Tennessee (unissued)
  • 3–7 January 10, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee (unissued)
  • 3–8 January 10, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee (unissued)
  • 3–9 May 16, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–10 May 16, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–11 May 19, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–12 May 22, 1969; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–13 June 11, 1970; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–14 June 11, 1970; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–15 June 11, 1970; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–16 June 12, 1970; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–17 June 12, 1970; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–18 November 10, 1972; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–19 June 18, 1973; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3–20 November 1978; Reno, Nevada (Live at Harrah's, unissued)
  • 3–21 November 24, 1981; Spicewood, Texas
  • 3-22 1985; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3-23 1985; Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3-24 Unknown
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