From the first week of August 1964, the first Top 10 pop record for Roger Miller was also his first #1 country record. He claimed to have written it in four minutes while sitting in a Phoenix hotel room. For the song, Roger pictured himself in a booth at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville getting hammered. It featured his sometimes squirrely delivery, which became something of a trademark.
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Kind of an ode to hedonism and chronic irresponsibility coupled with afterthought guilty conscience.
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