Roger Miller and Pete Drake LOCK STOCK AND TEARDROPS

[stormyhawn]

This is one of the greatest country records ever made. It predates "Dang Me" and the rest of those novelty songs by a year and should have been one of the top hits of 1963. Somehow it only got to #135 for the year.

[BCRification]

Thank you for posting this Roger Miller great!!

[ethelmae43]

It is so amazing to hear a steel guitar talk. This was great.

[Knulppage]

1:29 so awesome!

[rscottmurray]

thanks for posting the lyrics for Pete Drake's verse... I've been trying for years to figure out what he was saying! did you figure those out yourself or find 'em printed somewhere?

great tune... one of my favorites. Roger was just so good.

[noveltysongs]

@rscottmurray Me too. I listened to a clean stereo version on a CD with headphones, many years after only having a mono LP, and also found them posted online :)

[paulj0557]

When I was a kid I liked everything but country. That was the mid 70's- early 80's. Had it been the mid 60's - early 70's I bet I would have liked it.

[Chesterton7]

yeah!

[kibblebits54]

Roger Miller is one of those writers, singers that made country music country. Love this post!

[tarquin45]

Regarding re-makes of this song, I believe that kd Lang covered it. Amazing how Roger could write the most despairing and sad Country songs and yet some of the happiest of the genre. A great record.

[Opqosite]

ill

[uofmrebel]

Great song. Someone needs to do a remake.

[noveltysongs]

K. D. Lang did a good remake in 1988 on her first album.

[benir555]

so did a jazz combo called the Bad Plus

[srbeardsworth]

@uofmrebel The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis do a great version...

[whatgetsmehot]

oh, wow, i didn't know you'd done the talking guitar annotation lyrics...brilliant. hope you like my mash of Pete Drake's Forever mashed together with his version of Blue Velvet. I've just downloaded your audio track to use for the next one. i think yours is my favorite song, not for Pete, but just in general. Listen to Joggin' on my channel, for an ultra-rare PD song i found on ebay too.

m.

[MrZee1967]

I love this song! I remeber my dad listening to this in the late 60's when I was a kid. I looked everywhere for this!

Thank you for posting..

[y00sta]

why in the hell wasnt this a biggie?  i woulda have paid big bucks to see them to get together

[lBStrokin]

That's a steel guitar? Holy hell. The first time i heard this song a few years ago i assumed it was something Roger did later in his career with a talk box, (think Peter Frampton). Awesome stuff!

[noveltysongs]

Cool huh!  Pete Drake is doing the talking steel guitar, look him up on wikipedia. It's the same technique as Peter Frampton, just a different type guitar. Pete Drake made quite a few records, and had a hit called Forever.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

I love the vocal bubbles for the vocoder!

[sidewalkpilot]

awful

[Babyhowdy233]

WHAT?!

This is simply GORGEOUS:ALOT more lyrical, imaginative and just plain WELL CRAFTED than ANYTHING that ANY of those "New Country" performers have recorded!!

[dmreeoogdaq]

Roger Miller and Pete Drake??? Are you kidding???  You just made my drunken evening!!!!

[Vicsonvee]

Ya this song just makes you want to drink more and be happier

[brandondallas]

SWEET. I love it.

[musicluver1958]

Pete Drake is so good on this song, that his steel guitar sounds like a modern vocoder! 'Talking' steel guitar is right! I liked this song even as a kid (my parents had the 45) It's a great song, I love songs with that 'haunting' sound. A real gem, thx for posting it.

[cmxcmx]

This is wonderful.

[lcb85]

WOOP WOOP! This song is sleepy :)

[deltasleep]

the drums lurch in a really strange way- like they were a tape loop?

[RyanIncorporated]

Nah, as far as I know being a Roger Miller fan, all of his cuts were done on the spot in the studio.

[history09]

I love this song! Thanks for posting it.

[ghostgal30e]

Great song thanks for sharing