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"Sing Me Back Home" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in November 1967 as the first single and title track from the album Sing Me Back Home. The song was Merle Haggard and The Strangers third number one.
The song was written by Les Emmerson when he was road-tripping on Route 66 in California, and noticed the beautiful scenery was obscured by many billboards. [3] The song's narrator describes four instances of encountering signs that anger or concern him, as follows: A notice that "long-haired freaky people need not apply" for a job opening.
Tesla scored a hit with a cover of the song "Signs" on their album Five Man Acoustical Jam in the 1990s. In 2005, Fatboy Slim released a single called " Don't Let the Man Get You Down ", based mostly on a looped sample from "Signs", specifically the opening line, "And the sign said long-haired freaky people need not apply."
Sing Me Back Home was released on January 2, 1968, and became Haggard's second straight number-one album. At the time of the album's release, Life stated that the title track "could be a Top 40 hit tomorrow if the big-city stations would play it."
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All Signs Point to Lauderdale" charted on both Billboard ' s Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Rock Songs charts, at number 32 and number 48, respectively. [10] The track was voted as number 10 in the "10 Best Rock Songs of 2011" by AOL Radio. [11] "All Signs Point to Lauderdale" is available as downloadable content for Rock Band games. [12]
Ride Me Back Home is the 69th solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. It was released on June 21, 2019, by Legacy Recordings . [ 2 ] Its title track earned Nelson his ninth Grammy Award , winning in the category Best Country Solo Performance .
"I Like" is a song by American R&B group Guy recorded for their debut studio album Guy (1988). The song was released as the album's fourth single in 1989. The album version clocks at 4:54 while the single was 12-inch only and was composed entirely of edits. The song peaked at number seventy on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.