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"Mama Tried" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in July 1968 as the first single and title track from the album Mama Tried. The song became one of the cornerstone songs of his career.
Mama Tried continued Haggard's artistic and commercial hot streak, reaching number 4 on Billboard's country albums chart. In the original Rolling Stone review, Andy Wickham wrote, "His songs romanticize the hardships and tragedies of America's transient proletarian and his success is resultant of his inherent ability to relate to his audience a commonplace experience with precisely the right ...
The title alludes to Haggard's 1968 song "Mama Tried", a song which became a cornerstone of his career. Haggard had recorded a live gospel album in 1971 called The Land of Many Churches , but this set is dedicated to his mother Flossie, who was seventy-nine years old when she posed with Haggard on the cover of the LP.
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The breathtaking song “Baby Mama” tells Mary Sarah’s story in many ways, but it’s a story she did not create. “I am not a writer on this song,” Mary Sarah, 29, tells PEOPLE in a recent ...
Mama Tried may refer to: Mama Tried, a 1968 ... "Mama Tried" (song), title song from the album "Mama Tried", a song by Quasi from their 2003 album Hot Shit!
In Grey's Anatomy, the story is told by Meredith Grey in the beginning of the episode "Mama Tried". The HIM song "Shatter Me With Hope" includes the line "We'll tear this baby apart, wise like Solomon". The Tool song "Right in Two" slightly paraphrases the scene and includes the lyric "Cut and divide it all right in two".