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Big City is the thirty-third studio album by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by the Strangers, released in 1981. It was his debut on the Epic label after ending his association with MCA. Big City peaked at number three on the Billboard Country Album charts and number 161 on the
"Big City" is a song recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. Co-written by Haggard and Dean Holloway, the song was released in January 1982 as the second single and title track from his album Big City. In April, the song was his 27th number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1]
Roy Ernest Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel -like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar.
Co-writer Merle Haggard recorded the song first on his 1981 hit LP Big City but did not release it as a single. According to the Stephen L. Betts Rolling Stone article "George Jones Gets 'Lucky' with Merle Haggard Song" published online on February 13, 2015, Haggard's manager, Tex Whitson, first pitched it to Jones' producer Billy Sherrill because Jones and Haggard were on the outs at the time.
Big City (Merle Haggard album), a 1981 album by Merle Haggard "Big City" (Merle Haggard song), the title track and a No. 1 country hit from the above album; Big City (Billy Crawford album), a 2005 album from Filipino singer Billy Crawford "Big City" (Spacemen 3 song), a single by the English alternative rock band Spacemen 3
Produced by Haggard and his mentors Fuzzy Owen and Lewis Talley, the tracks for Going Where The Lonely Go were recorded during the same two-day marathon recording session that produced the songs for Haggard's previous 1982 album Big City. Like its predecessor, it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard country albums chart. Haggard composed five of ...
Big City: 1982 "Big City" 1 1 "Dealing with the Devil" (live) 49 — Rainbow Stew "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" 2 1 Big City "Going Where the Lonely Go" 1 1 Going Where the Lonely Go: 1983 "You Take Me for Granted" 1 9 "What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)" 3 2 That's the Way Love Goes "It's All in ...
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 is also known as All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers, (From Now On) All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers, and simply Strangers.