Roger miller biography wikipedia the free
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Roger Miller was more than just a honky-tonk man and singer.
Roger miller biography wikipedia the free
He was also a songwriter, a guitarist and fiddler, a drummer, a T.V. star, a Broadway composer, and perhaps, above all else, one of the wittiest personalities in Country music.
Roger Dean Miller was born on January 2, 1936, in Fort Worth, Texas, and was the youngest of three boys.
When he was only a year old, Roger’s father, Jean Miller, died of spinal meningitis when only 26. Laudene Holt Miller, Roger’s mother, was already struggling to care for three children by herself during the Great Depression.
Unable to provide for her children, Jean’s three brothers came, and each took one of the boys to live with them.
Armelia and Elmer Miller took Roger with them to a farm on the outskirts of Erick, Oklahoma. He would later joke about how the town was “so dull you could watch the colors run” and was “so small that the town drunk had to take turns.”
Jokes aside, Roger had a difficult c