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A comic version by English entertainer Billy Howard, "King of the Cops", was a British chart hit in 1976. [9] In both the English and German versions of Animals United (2010), Billy the Meerkat sings this song while Across to “The Valley of Death”. [10] "King of the Road" won Roger Miller 5 Grammy Awards at the 1966 8th Annual Grammy Awards ...
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character ...
King of the Road (skateboarding), a contest sponsored by Thrasher magazine; King of the Road Map Service, an American map company; Hard Truck 2: King of the Road, the European version of the video game Hard Truck 2; Lucas Industries#King of the Road, a brand name used for a range of bicycle equipment produced by Lucas Industries
Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the third son of Jean and Laudene (Holt) Miller.Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Miller was a year old. Unable to support the family during the Great Depression, [1] Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jean's brothers.
A King of the Road was a Hobo, as suggested by the boxcar and train references in the song. A true King of the Road travelled the rails, knew the hobo "jungles", worked when he needed to and didn't when he didn't need to. He could follow the hobo markings that warned of mean dogs and cops, places where handouts were available, and so on. Good song!
The Proclaimers had a hit with their EP King of the Road, [28] which reached number nine in the UK in 1990. [19] The EP's titular song, a Roger Miller cover, was included in the 1990 film The Crossing. [29] The Proclaimers appeared on American singer-songwriter Chris Harford's 1992 album Be Headed, performing on the song "Sing, Breathe, and Be ...
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Detail of the Old English manuscript of the poem Beowulf, showing the words "ofer hron rade" ("over the whale's road"), meaning "over the sea". A kenning (Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech, a figuratively-phrased compound term that is used in place of a simple single-word noun.