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38. The discography for American country music singer Merle Haggard includes 66 studio albums, five instrumental albums featuring his backing band the Strangers, as well as several live and compilation albums. Haggard recorded for a variety of major and independent record labels through the years, with significant years spent with Capitol ...
merlehaggard.com. Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth.
I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink. I Threw Away the Rose. I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me. 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.
The song "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" brought Haggard country stardom. Although it sounds autobiographical (Haggard had done time at San Quentin), David Cantwell states in his book The Running Kind that it was actually written by Liz Anderson and her husband Casey while driving cross country and was inspired by the popular television show The Fugitive starring David Janssen as Richard Kimble.
Merle Haggard singles chronology. "Big City". (1981) " Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) ". (1982) "Going Where the Lonely Go". (1982) " Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) " is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers.
Ramblin' Fever. (1977) Songs I'll Always Sing is a two-record compilation album by American country music singer and songwriter Merle Haggard, released in 1977. [1] [2] It reached No. 15 on the US Country Charts. [3] The album collects many of Haggard's best known recordings during his successful run at Capitol Records, including nine of his ...
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. Haggard went on to name his band the Strangers after ...
Sing Me Back Home (song) " 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 single spent two weeks at number ...