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"If We Make It Through December" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard and the Strangers.It was released in October 1973 as the lead single from the album Merle Haggard's Christmas Present, and was the title track on a non-Christmas album four months later.
If We Make It Through December is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1974. It reached number 4 on the Billboard country album charts. [1] The title track was previously released on Haggard's Christmas release of 1973, A Christmas Present.
Merle Haggard's Christmas Present is the eighteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1973. [2] The single, "If We Make It Through December" spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100.
"If We Make It Through December" (with the Strangers) 1 28 1 30 If We Make It Through December: 1974 "Things Aren't Funny Anymore" (with the Strangers) 1 — 2 — Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album "Old Man from the Mountain" (with the Strangers) 1 — 1 — "Kentucky Gambler" (with the Strangers) 1 — 1 — Keep Movin' On "Santa Claus and ...
The 1973 recession anthem, "If We Make It Through December," furthered Haggard's status as a champion of the working class. "If We Make It Through December" turned out to be Haggard and the Strangers' final crossover pop hit. Haggard appeared on the cover of TIME on May 6, 1974. [58]
At the start of the year, the number one song on the chart was "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard, the song's third week in the top spot. [2] Charlie Rich had the most number ones of 1974, taking five different songs to the top spot, followed by Dolly Parton , who had three solo chart-toppers and one in collaboration with her ...
Technically, we're not even supposed to share backyard fruit with one another. Two-thirds of the 9,300-plus documented cases of citrus greening in Southern California were in Orange County ...
If We Make It Through December; If You Want to Be My Woman; Irma Jackson; It's All in the Movies (song) It's Been a Great Afternoon; J. Jesus, Take a Hold; K. Kern ...