Today is Roger Miller Day

Country singer-songwriter who sang "King of the Road," "Dang Me," and "England Swings." He has won more than ten Grammy Awards for his music
He worked on a farm in his youth, plowing and picking weeds and cotton. In high school, he listened to the Grand Ole Opry while working for the National FFA Organisation.
He wrote the music for the 1985 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Big River.

He was born on 2nd January 1936 and died in 1992 aged 56. Today would have been his 80th birthday.

 

"Englands swings like a pendulum do...etc"

Now Bern, why are you dressed as a copper? Jenny made you do it didn't she?

 

Am off to smoke some old stogies I have found......

 

I'll never forget his goal celebrations in the 1990 World Cup, the little dance with the corner flag, the 2 goals against Rumania were his best..

 

He's changed a lot since he took up singing

 

Just two years before his death

 

I thought he played in the 1994 World Cup as well, ?? Maybe it was the 1986 and 1990 I'm thinking of

 

Oi! Football fans! Have a little respect!

 

Bobbies on bicycles, two by two?

 

They ought take a rope and hang me, how did I forget this birthday?

 

Definitely a lot lighter-skinned since his footballing days ...

 

The man on the telly?

 

That was George Melly. He sang jazz. Nice.

 

Didn't he play centre forward for Cameroon in 1990 World Cup?

 

Sorry just read the other comments... Ignore me!