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"(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" is a song written by Liz Anderson. Best remembered as American country music artist Merle Haggard 's first national Top 10 record, it was also a Top 10 song concurrently for Roy Drusky .
The song made it to number 19 on the Billboard country singles chart in 1963, but Haggard's first Top 10 hit was the Liz Anderson-penned "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers." In his 1981 autobiography Merle Haggard: Sing Me Back Home , Haggard recalls having been talked into visiting Anderson—a woman he didn't know—at her house to hear her ...
Just Between the Two of Us hit number 4 on the country albums chart. In a retrospective review by Mark Deming for AllMusic, Deming wrote that the album is for "Haggard completists" and notes, "while Bonnie Owens was a good honky tonk singer, she was hardly a great one like Haggard, who seems to be holding himself back a bit musically as he defers to his spouse."
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers is a 1972 American novel by Larry McMurtry. The work, his fifth novel, follows the travails and romantic entanglements of a young writer, Danny Deck. The work, his fifth novel, follows the travails and romantic entanglements of a young writer, Danny Deck.
(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers "So Much for Me, So Much for You" 45 — Liz Anderson Sings "The Game of Triangles" (with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean) 5 — The Game of Triangles "Wife of the Party" 22 — "Mama Spank" 1967 5 — Liz Anderson Sings "Tiny Tears" 24 — Cookin' Up Hits "Thanks a Lot for Tryin' Anyway" 40 —
"Movin' On" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in May 1975 as the third single and partial title track from the album Keep Movin' On .
"Kern River" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in July 1985 as the only single and title track from his album Kern River. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1]
The album is best remembered for the number-one hit, "Carolyn", written by Haggard's friend and mentor Tommy Collins. Haggard had his doubts that the pop-tinged ballad was right for him, as Collins explains in the liner notes to the 1994 Haggard retrospective Down Every Road, "He said, 'It's just not for me. It's not country enough or something.'