My "Roger Miller Beginnings" (NML) Traditional Cache
My "Roger Miller Beginnings" (NML)
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P & G BE STEALTH BE VERY STEALTH...
ROGER WROTE 230+ SONGS.
OK,, HERE’S THE STORY AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME… ROGERDEAN MILLER WAS BORN IN FORT WORTH his parents, Elmer and Amelia Miller, in Erick, Oklahoma NEAR TEXOLA, OK…. HE LIKED TO COME BACK HERE BECAUSE HE COULD HIDE FROM THE WORLD AND GET A LOT OF WORK DONE????
THIS WAS AN OLD CHURCH WHEN I WAS A KID…. IT WAS SOLD…. THE NEXT THING WE KNEW THERE WAS A BAR IN THE BASEMENT….
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF BARS IN TEXOLA BECAUSE
COLLINSWORTH AND WHEELER COUNTIES (IN TEXAS) WERE BOTH DRY…
A FRIEND, OLDER THAN ME, HAD CONNECTIONS, AND WHEN ROGER CAME TO TOWN HE WOULD GO OVER AND HIT THE SALOONS UNTIL HE FOUND ROGER…. HE SAID: THAT ROGER WOULD BRING: A TAPE RECORDER, A STENOGRAPHER, A MUSIC WRITER, AND A GUITAR…. HE WOULD ORDER A ROUND OF DRINKS… IN A FEW MINUTES HE WOULD PICK UP THE GUITAR AND START PICK’EN… JUST HAVING FUN….
THE LOCALS WOULD LET HIM HAVE HIS SPACE AND WATCH HIM
HAVE FUN/AND WORK…. THIS WOULD GO ON LONG ENOUGH FOR HIM TO FILL AN ALBUM… THEY (THE WHOLE ROOM) COULD BE THERE FOR 2-3 DAYS(12-36 Hrs.). THEN HE WOULD HEAD BACK TO TULSA, NASHVILLE, OR LA. TO LAY DOWN THE TRACK….
I WAS TOLD HE WROTE ALL OF HIS RELIGIOUS SONGS HERE???
Born: Jan 02, 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas. Died: Oct 25, 1992
(visit link) THIS IS A NICE BIO…..
(visit link) A LIST OF HIS SONGS… .
WHEN I HEARD THIS STORY…. I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND HOW A SONG
LIKE “DANG ME” (KING OF THE ROAD) CAME ABOUT… THERE IS A RAIL ROAD THAT RAN, JUST NORTH, THAT PROBABLY INSPIRED HIM AND ADDED A VERSE…
I’VE HEARD STORIES ABOUT OTHER SMALL TOWNS AROUND ERICK….
Roger had a difficult childhood. Most days were spent in the cotton fields picking cotton or working the land. He never really accepted the separation of his family. He was lonely and unhappy, but his mind took him to places he could only dream about. Walking three miles to his one-room school each day, he started composing songs, the first of which allegedly went a little something like this:
"There's a picture on the wall,
It's the dearest of them all, Mother
His drifting came to an abrupt halt when he stole a guitar in Texas and crossed the state line back into Oklahoma. He had so desperately wanted a guitar to write songs on and this seemed the only way to get one, since pulling bowles would never earn him the kind of money he needed for a guitar.Roger turned himself in the next day and rather than put him in jail they offered to let him join the Army. Although he was only 17, he chose to go into the service.
After Roger's discharge from the Army, he headed directly for Nashville to see Chet Atkins. He told Chet he was a songwriter and Chet asked him to play something. Seeing that Roger didn't have a guitar, Chet offered his to him. Roger just couldn't believe he was sitting in front of Chet Atkins and playing his guitar. He said, "I was so nervous, people thought I was wavin'." Roger proceeded to sing in one key and play in another. Chet was kind about it but suggested he work on his songs a little more and come back.
Roger used to say, "I was everywhere at once." He had an energy that was new to Nashville. Needing to work while he pursued his dream, Roger took a job as a bellhop at the Andrew Jackson Hotel. "It had more dignity than washing dishes," he later said. Situated right in the thick of Nashville's downtown music district, the Andrew Jackson gave him proximity to the small but vibrant Country scene. Roger soon became known as the "Singing Bellhop." He would sing a song to anyone who would listen on the way up or down the elevator.
Roger's first break finally came when he was hired to play fiddle in Minnie Pearl's road band. His second break came when he met George Jones at the WSM radio station one night and played him some of his songs. Jones then introduced Roger to Don Pierce and Pappy Daily of Mercury-Starday Records and asked them to listen to some of the new kid's material.
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AFTER SOME RESEARCH I FOUND THAT I WAS IN THE DARK ABOUT THIS TIME IN OUR TEXAS/OKLAHOMA HISTORY….THIS WAS A NO MAN’S LAND WHICH WAS LATER IN JACKSON HOLE, WY (visit link)
WE HAD SOME SPECIAL HISTORY THAT MOST OF THE STATE DON’T KNOW OR UNDERSTAND… I DOSE NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE ON THE OKLAHOMA SIDE OR THE TEXAS SIDE THERE ARE STILL GREAT STORIES/LESSON…
IT APPEARS THAT THE TWO STATES (TX &OK) HAVE TRIED TO INCREASE THERE LAND HOLDINGS…. [SEE MAPS] THIS STARTED WHEN TEXAS BECAME A NATION…. HOWEVER IT DIDN’T GO TO COURT UNTIL OKLAHOMA BECAME A STATE AND THE FEDERAL GOV. WANTED THE LAND FOR INDIAN NATIONS,, ABOUT 1822-1914…. THEN IN 1907 OKLAHOMA BECAME A STATE…. FULLED WITH NATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS….
IF I UNDERSTAND IT RIGHT TEXAS ASSUMED THE IT’S BORDER WERE TO REMAIN AS THE SPANISH HAD DRAWN THEM… [SEE MAP A] HOWEVER THE U.S. TOOK MOST OF THE NORTHERN PART OF TEXAS WHEN THEY WERE ADMITTED IN 1945 AND BASICALLY CUT OFF THE TOPS OF LOUISIANA (PART OF THE PURCHASE) AND TEXAS… LEAVING TEXAS WITH A PANHANDLE….
THE LAND DISPUTE WAS ABOUT THE NORTHERN BOARDS…
OKLAHOMA WANTED PEASE RIVER ESTABLISHED AS THERE SOUTHERN BORDER (WHICH RUNS JUST NORTH OF PADUCAH, TX).. (visit link)
SO TEXAS SAID THEY WANTED THE NORTH FORK OF THE RED (JUST NORTH OF SHAMROCK, TX..)…[SEE MAP B]
AS THE FIGHT ESCALATED OKLAHOMA THAN ASK FOR THE 101st (WEST THE OTHER SIDE OF CLAREDON, TX.)…
TEXAS ASK FOR THE 99th (EAST OF MAGNUM, OK)…
THEN OKLAHOMA ASK FOR THE 102nd (WEST OF CANYON, TX.)…
AND TEXAS ASK FOR THE 98th… (EAST OF ANADARLO, OK)
THE BIG COMPROMISE…
OR AS WE TEXANS SAID: “STEALING OF OUR LAND” resulted in the loss from Texas to what is now Oklahoma of 1,511,576 acres.
IN 1927 IT WAS TAKEN BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE PRESENT BOUNDARY WAS ESTABLISHED…I’M NOT SURE THAT I’VE GOT IT ALL RIGHT YET,, MAY NEED A LAWYER????
THERE WAS A 3rd COURT MEETING IN 1989 BUT THE BOUNDRY DIDN’T CHANGE…
. { I THINK OKLAHOMA JUST WANTED THE COTTONBOWL AND COWBOYS TO BE ADDED TO OKLAHOMA????} JUST KIDDIN…..
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