DANG ME
“Dang Me” is a 1964 song by American country music artist Roger Miller, and that year’s Grammy Award winner for Best Country & Western Song. It was Miller’s first chart-topping country hit and first Top Ten pop music hit; it was a novelty song whose “jazzy instrumental section” helped make it “the quintessential example of Miller’s lighthearted humor, which brought him many more hits”. (More from Wikipedia)
The Soul Agents released their second single on October 15, 1964, also on Pye Records; the band picked two other traditional songs for this 45, “The Seventh Son” b/w “Let’s Make it Pretty Baby”. “The Seventh Son” was a Top Ten hit song for Johnny Rivers in 1965, and “seventh son” is mentioned in numerous other songs as well, such as Roger Miller’s “Dang Me”: “I’m the seventh out of seven sons / My pappy was a pistol, I’m a son of a gun”.
(May 2014)
