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"Dang Me" is a song by American country music artist Roger Miller, and 1964's Grammy Award winner for Best Country & Western Song. It was Miller's first chart-topping country hit and first Top Ten pop music hit, [2] whose "jazzy instrumental section" helped make it "the quintessential example of Miller's lighthearted humor, which brought him many more hits."
In 1950, Ernest Tubb and Clyde Moody each recorded their own version, both making the top 10 on the Country & Western charts. Carl Smith recorded a cover for his album I Love You Because (1969). The song peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1969. [17]
"King of the Road" is a song written by country singer Roger Miller, who first recorded it in November 1964. [2] The lyrics tell of the day-to-day life of a traveling hobo who, despite having little money (a "man of means by no means"), revels in his freedom, describing himself humorously and cynically as the "king of the road".
The quintessential country western holiday dance. 22. LeAnn Rimes, "Put a Little Holiday In Your Heart" ... Related: Loretta Lynn's Best Lyrics. 47. Keith Whitley, "A Christmas Letter"
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"Honky Tonk Song" is a country music song recorded by Webb Pierce. The song was co-written by Mel Tillis and Buck Peddy. It was released in 1957 on the Decca label. The song's lyrics tell of a man who rents a room in a cheap motel. He can't sleep, because the band in the joint downstairs keeps playing with a honky tonk beat, shaking his bed.
Hank Snow had lengthy runs at the top of all three charts with "I'm Movin' On".. In 1950, Billboard magazine published three charts covering the best-performing country music songs in the United States: Most-Played Juke Box (Country & Western) Records, Best-Selling Retail Folk (Country & Western) Records and Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys.
1962 in country music, Ray Charles releases Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. 1963 in country music, Tragedies befall country music, with deaths of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins (plane crash); Jack Anglin (car accident, en route to Cline's funeral) and Texas Ruby (house fire) all in less than a month's span.