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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.
"If We Make It Through December" (with the Strangers) 1 28 1 30 If We Make It Through December: 1974 "Things Aren't Funny Anymore" (with the Strangers) 1 — 2 — Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album "Old Man from the Mountain" (with the Strangers) 1 — 1 — "Kentucky Gambler" (with the Strangers) 1 — 1 — Keep Movin' On "Santa Claus and ...
When "It's Only Make Believe" was first released, because of vocal similarities, many listeners assumed that the song was actually recorded by Elvis Presley, using "Conway Twitty" as a pseudonym. Twitty would go on to enjoy rock-and-roll success with songs including " Danny Boy " (Pop number 10) and " Lonely Blue Boy " (Pop number 6).
At the start of the year, the number one song on the chart was "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard, the song's third week in the top spot. [2] Charlie Rich had the most number ones of 1974, taking five different songs to the top spot, followed by Dolly Parton , who had three solo chart-toppers and one in collaboration with her ...
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 ...
The success of "Okie from Muskogee" brought Haggard's music to the attention of listeners and performers outside the country music field. The Byrds, for example, had already been performing his songs in concert, and counterculture legends the Grateful Dead began covering "Okie from Muskogee" in concert for the very same hippies that the song derides (Phil Ochs and the Beach Boys were among ...
Merle Haggard famously called out members of the Strangers by name on his records prior to their solos. He sometimes prefixed their name with “Brother,” as in the song "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" when he called out “Brother Don” Markham. For 20 years (1969–1989) he regularly called out 16 different members of the Strangers ...