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"Making Believe" is a country music song written by Jimmy Work. Kitty Wells recorded a chart-topping version in 1955. The song is on many lists of all-time greatest country music songs and has been covered by scores of artists over the past fifty years, including Thorleifs, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Ray Charles, Anita Carter ...
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.
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today is a studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and the Strangers, released in 1977.Even though Haggard had moved to the MCA label, Capitol created this release from tracks previously recorded in 1975 and 1976.
Haggard, who died in 2016, wrote a variety of political songs in his time, from one praising Hillary Clinton, to 1969 “Okie from Muskogee,” a rebuke of the hippie culture during the Vietnam War.
Merle Haggrad's music covered life and not a particular political view Haggard sang about interracial romance in the song "Irma Jackson" and illegal immigrants in "The Immigrant".
“Mama Tried” By Merle Haggard (1968) This gem from the great Merle Haggard is a good listen on any occasion, and an amusing acknowledgment of the hard work that goes into shaping a human.
Label: Entertainment One Music — 88 The Essential Merle Haggard: The Epic Years: Release date: August 31, 2004; Label: Epic Records — 139 Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard: Release date: September 12, 2006; Label: Capitol Nashville; 59 — 10 Great Songs: Release date: July 3, 2012; Label: Capitol Nashville; 75 — "—" denotes releases that ...
Country legend Merle Haggard has been brought into the national spotlight again, thanks to vice presidential candidate JD Vance repeatedly using one of the late singer’s anthems as his walk-up ...