King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  My Pillow (single version)
  2:14
• 2
  Poor Little John (single version)
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 3
  A Man Like Me (single version)
  2:29
• 4
  The Wrong Kind of Girl (single version)
  2:17
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Jason Fleming (single version)
  2:00
  2.0 ★
• 6
  A World So Full of Love (original demo version)
  2:00
• 7
  When a House Is Not a Home (1995 Box Set version)
  2:31
• 8
  You Don’t Want My Love (single version)
  2:02
• 9
  When Two Worlds Collide (1961 single version)
  2:15
• 10
  Sorry, Willie (single version)
  2:27
• 11
  So Saith He the Lord (original demo version)
  1:15
• 12
  Lock, Stock and Teardrops (single version)
  2:32
• 13
  Ain’t That Fine
  2:36
• 14
  Less and Less (1991 Compilation version)
  2:30
• 15
  Chug‐A‐Lug
  2:04
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Lou’s Got the Flu
  1:48
• 17
  The Moon Is High (And So Am I)
  1:59
• 18
  Dang Me
  1:50
• 19
  It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
  2:39
• 20
  Reincarnation
  2:01
• 21
  Hard Headed Me
  2:32
• 22
  Do‐Wacka‐Do (single version)
  1:47
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Atta Boy Girl (single version)
  1:57
• 24
  Our Hearts Will Play the Music
  2:00
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  King of the Road (single version)
  2:28
  4.5 ★
• 2
  As Long as There’s a Shadow
  2:06
• 3
  You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd (single version)
  1:56
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Heartbreak Hotel (single version)
  2:15
• 5
  Big Harlan Taylor
  2:09
• 6
  One Dyin’ and a Buryin’ (single version)
  2:04
• 7
  The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me (single version)
  2:49
• 8
  It Happened Just That Way (single version)
  1:54
• 9
  Engine Engine #9 (single version)
  2:20
• 10
  Kansas City Star (single version)
  2:20
• 11
  England Swings (single version)
  1:55
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I’ve Been a Long Time Leavin’ (But I’ll Be a long Time Gone) (single version)
  2:17
• 13
  Husbands and Wives (single version)
  2:25
• 14
  Train of Life (single version)
  2:09
• 15
  Dad Blame Anything a Man Can’t Quit
  2:09
• 16
  You’re My Kingdom (single version)
  2:16
• 17
  My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died (single version)
  1:56
• 18
  Home (single version)
  1:50
• 19
  Absence
  2:37
• 20
  Ruby (Don’t take Your Love to Town)
  3:03
• 21
  Walkin’ in the Sunshine (single version)
  2:40
• 22
  A Million Years or So
  2:33
• 23
  Pardon This Coffin/Bonus Track: Session Soundbite (1995 Box Set version)
  9:19
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  The Ballad of Waterhole #3 (Code of the West) (single version)
  2:20
• 2
  Old Toy Trains (single version)
  2:05
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Little Green Apples (single version)
  2:39
• 4
  What I’d Give to Be the Wind (single version)
  2:40
• 5
  Boeing Boeing 707 (single version)
  1:22
• 6
  Treat Me Like a Human (1995 Box Set version)
  1:58
• 7
  What Are Those Things (with Big Black Wings) (1995 Box Set version)
  2:10
• 8
  Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line (1995 Box Set version)
  2:08
• 9
  Swiss Cottage Place
  3:29
• 10
  Me and Bobbie McGee
  4:06
• 11
  Where Have All the Average People Gone (single version)
  3:04
• 12
  The Best of All Possible Worlds
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Invitation to the Blues
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Tall, Tall Trees
  2:14
• 15
  Don’t We All Have the Right
  1:59
• 16
  That’s the Way I Feel
  1:52
• 17
  Half a Mind
  2:49
• 18
  Hoppy’s Gone (single version)
  2:36
• 19
  What Would My Mama Say
  3:12
• 20
  Orange Blossom Special (live in Reno / 1978)

  Roger Miller & Danny Gatton
  3:28
• 21
  Old Friends (single version)

  Roger Miller, Willie Nelson & Ray Price
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Guv’Ment
  2:40
  1.0 ★
• 23
  River in the Rain (1995 Box Set version)
  4:10

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50 Hits

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Release credits

• Anita Kerr
  background vocals [9]
• Anita Kerr Singers
  choir vocals [5]
• Bee Spears
  bass [21]
• Bob Moore
  bass [9]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [21]
• Buddy Harman
  bass guitar [5], drums (drum set) [3-4, 9]
• Chet Atkins
  producer [8-10, 12]
• Chips Moman
  guitar [21], producer [18, 21]
• Chris Ethridge
  bass [21]
• Danny Gatton
  guitar [20]
• Dorothy Ann Dillard
  background vocals [9]
• Floyd Cramer
  piano [3-4, 9]
• Grady Martin
  guitar [3.21, 1.5]
• Hank Garland
  guitar [3-5, 9]
• Jack Evins
  steel guitar [3-4]
• Jerry Kennedy
  producer [1.13-24, 2.1-23, 3.1-13, 3.15-17]
• Jimmy Bowen
  producer [22-23]
• Jimmy Day
  steel guitar [21]
• Jody Payne
  guitar [21]
• Joe Zinkan
  bass guitar [3-4]
• Johnny Gimble
  fiddle [21], mandolin [21]
• Johnny Paycheck
  guitar [3-4]
• Jon Marett
  saxophone [21]
• Louis Nunley
  background vocals [9]
• Owen Bradley
  producer [3-5]
• Pappy Daily
  producer [1-2]
• Paul English
  drums (drum set) [21]
• Ray Price
  background vocals [21], vocal [21]
• Roger Miller
  background vocals [21], guitar [3.21, 1.9], producer [21-23], vocal [3.21, 2.1, 1.1-5, 1.15-19]
• Ron Bledsoe
  producer [19]
• Sonny Burnett
  steel guitar [5]
• Tommy Jackson
  fiddle [3-4]
• Toni Wine
  background vocals [21]
• Velma Smith
  guitar [9]
• William Guilford Wright Jr.
  background vocals [9]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [21], guitar [21], producer [21], vocal [21]
• [unknown]
  other instruments [1-2]
• Show all credits (37)

Issues

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  King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller

  3x CD
  22 August 1995
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  King of the Road: The Genius of Roger Miller

  3x Digital Media