Thursday, July 18, 2019

“Me And Bobby McGee” (Roger Miller) #122 7/12/1969

Everybody associates this (and rightly so) with Janis Joplin, but Roger Miller actually did it first. Written by Kris Kristofferson and Monument Records head Fred Foster, Roger took it to #12 on the country charts and “bubbled under” on the pop side. Janis recorded the song just a few days prior to her untimely death in October 1970, becoming a posthumous #1 in March 1971.


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