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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 .
Mama Tried is the seventh studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released on Capitol Records in 1968. It reached number 4 on Billboard's country albums chart. The title song was one of Haggard's biggest hit singles and won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.
Haggard and the Strangers' number-one hit single "Mama Tried" is featured in the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris, as well as in Bryan Bertino's The Strangers with Liv Tyler. In addition, his and the Strangers song "Swingin' Doors" can be heard in the film Crash (2004) , [ 70 ] and his 1981 hit " Big City ", where he is ...
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.
Mama Tried may refer to: Mama Tried, a 1968 album by Merle Haggard "Mama Tried" (song), title song from the album
The Everly Brothers recorded a version of the song for their 1968 album Roots along with another Haggard song, "Mama Tried".. Joan Baez recorded the song, along with another Haggard song, "Mama Tried", in 1969, during sessions for her (I Live) One Day at a Time album, though neither song was included on the final album; they would eventually be released on her 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic.
Down Every Road 1962–1994 is a compilation album by American country singer Merle Haggard, released in 1996. It covers music from his earliest work in the early 1960s to his Epic Records releases of the late 1980s. The boxed set includes three CDs of material recorded for Capitol Records (up to 1977) and one of Haggard's later MCA and Epic ...
Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, the Strangers Musical artist Eldon Shamblin (April 24, 1916 – August 5, 1998) was an American guitarist and arranger , particularly important to the development of Western swing music as one of the first electric guitarists in a popular dance band.