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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 ...
In 1965, Merle Haggard recorded her song "All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers". [6] She won a BMI award for the song. Anderson published over 260 songs during her career and earned five BMI awards. Anderson also wrote Conway Twitty's first country hit, "Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart". [6]
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 events of the novel primarily take place in Houston, Texas and San Francisco, California.
(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 —
The CD contains some of Haggard's first hit singles, such as "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", "The Fugitive", and "Branded Man". [2] The latter two songs contain semi-autobiographical lyrics about prison, which is a common theme found on many songs from the first CD. [3]
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."
Same Train, A Different Time (subtitled Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers) is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1969, featuring covers of songs by legendary country music songwriter Jimmie Rodgers. It was originally released as a 2 LP set on Capitol ...