Career
He has been active in the music business since 1973. Koller has written over 300 songs which have been recorded. He was awarded the BMI Millionaire Performance Award for both Angel Eyes and She Came From Fort Worth.
He is the former Vice President of The Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Koller has taught for Songwriters Guild of America and was a staff instructor for both the Kerrville Folk Festival and the Augusta Heritage Festival. Children"s author Shel Silverstein was spending a lot of time on his houseboat in Sausalito, California and would often visit to write songs and explore Santa Cruz, California.
In 1974, Silverstein and Koller began writing their first song together. Their collaboration grew into a friendship that would last for the next 25 years.
On one two-week trip together to Santa Cruz, California they wrote a dozen songs like "Don’t Knock The Music (You Were Made To)" and "Lovely Margarita," which features a transvestite strip tease artist unveiling the "secrets of an ancient world"s delight." Other encounters produced "Little Green Buttons," which introduces listeners to a woman saving a dying marriage with carefully placed tattoos, and "The Happy Caucasian," which chronicles a modern-day Johnny Appleseed who spreads joy and jubilation all across the nation while "singing out good news." Country singer Bobby Bare recorded a version of "This Guitar Is for Sale," and Robert Earl Keen, Conway Twitty and Bare have all recorded versions of the first song Koller and Silverstein wrote together, "Jennifer Johnson and Maine".
A few more were recorded on Fred"s "Night of The Living Fred" release.
