Uploaded by noveltysongs on Jul 27, 2008
1964. Features Pete Drake's talking steel guitar
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Roger Miller and Pete Drake??? Are you kidding??? You just made my drunken evening!!!!
2 years ago 4
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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.
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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.
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Thank you for posting this Roger Miller great!!
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It is so amazing to hear a steel guitar talk. This was great.
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@uofmrebel The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis do a great version...
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1:29 so awesome!
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so did a jazz combo called the Bad Plus
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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.
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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.
rscottmurray 1 year ago
@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 :)
noveltysongs 1 year ago
Great song. Someone needs to do a remake.
uofmrebel 2 years ago
K. D. Lang did a good remake in 1988 on her first album.
noveltysongs 2 years ago
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!
lBStrokin 2 years ago 2
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.
noveltysongs 2 years ago