Roger Miller

Roger Dean Miller Sr January 2 1936 October 25 1992 was an American singersongwriter musician and actor widely known for his honkytonkinfluenced novelty songs and his charttopping country and pop hits King of the Road Dang Me and England Swings all from the mid1960s 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 writing such hits as Billy Bayou and Home for Jim Reeves and Invitation to the Blues for Ray Price He later began a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the mid1960s continuing to record and tour into the 1990s charting his final top 20 country hit Old Friends with Price and Willie Nelson in 1982 He also wrote and performed several of the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood Later in his life he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical Big River in which he acted Miller died from lung cancer in 1992 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later His songs continued to be recorded by other singers with covers of Tall Tall Trees by Alan Jackson and Husbands and Wives by Brooks Dunn both reached the number one spot on country charts in the 1990s The Roger Miller Museum now closed in his home town of Erick Oklahoma was a tribute to Miller Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Miller licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia