Roger Miller

1936 - 1992  (56 years)

• Name	Roger Miller
  Born	2 Jan 1936	Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	music
  	"As he was telling Mike Douglas in 1969, "I was doing a show in a place you have probably never heard of called Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and I saw a statue of a hobo in a cigar shop where I was staying. I purchased it, took it to my room and wrote the song (King of the Road)."
  Occupation	, USA
  	singer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-146553
  Died	25 Oct 1992	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
  Person ID	I146553	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  King of the Road On Roger Miller's website, it explains that Miller wrote this song over a 6-week span, beginning on a 1964 Midwest TV tour. He wrote the first verse when he saw a "Trailers for Sale or Rent" sign on the road outside Chicago. A few weeks later, he bought a statuette of a hobo in Boise, Idaho airport gift shop and stared at it until he had completed the song. Miller has given at least one other explanation for how he came up with the song, however. When he was the co-host on the Mike Douglas Show August 11, 1969, he revealed that the idea for "King Of The Road" came when he was driving in Indiana and saw a sign offering trailers for sale or rent, and it stuck in his mind. Said Miller, "I was doing a show in a place you have probably never heard of called Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and I saw a statue of a hobo in a cigar shop were I was staying. I purchased it and took it to my room and wrote the song." https://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7480 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Jan 1936 - Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States Interesting - music - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - singer - - , USA Died - 25 Oct 1992 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States  = Link to Google Earth