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March 1, 1969

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"WE DON'T WE JUST HUM FOR A WHILE"

William Whitworth

PROFILE of Roger Miller, country-music composer and singer. When Charles Mingus, the virtuoso jazz bassist and composer, first heard miller's songs, he…