Word: dang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They've been telling some terrible things about me. The most vicious thing they've said is that I'm related to Lyndon Johnson. I want you to know there's not a dang thing...
ENGLAND SWINGS (Smash). Roger Miller (Dang Me, Do-Wacka-Do, You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd) can pull a hit out of a hat. He recommends taking the family to England, because England swings, what with Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and "bobbies on bicycles...
Parker's Back, a grotesque but mystically radiant story of salvation, describes what happens to a loose-living redneck who can't seem to get right with his God-fearing wife. The dang-fool frets till he can't drive straight, crashes his tractor into a tree, rises up inspired and rushes off to the tattoo parlor, where a life-size head of Christ is inscribed in the middle of his back...
...wasn't until last year that Miller's break came with an album of his "goofy" songs, which included Dang Me and ChugALug. "I guess the reason a person writes," he says, "is he's not satisfied with what the world has and figures he can do better." But Miller is content just commenting. Observes one of his songs...
ROGER AND OUT (Smash). Roger Miller is the noisiest sinner in or out of Nashville. He spent the grocery money and half the rent on liquor and then jammed the air waves confessing. "Dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me," he keeps singing. Nobody is arguing with him, but so far the only action against him has been taken by Ruby Wright, who sings an answer to Dang Me called Dern Ya. In the meanwhile Miller has gone on writing songs like those that fill this album, e.g., Squares Make the World Go Round...