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"Okie from Muskogee" is a song recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers, which Haggard co-wrote with drummer Roy Edward Burris. "Okie" is a slang name for someone from Oklahoma , and Muskogee (population 40,000) is the 13th largest city in the state.
Haggard also won Single of the Year for "Okie from Muskogee" as well as Top Male Vocalist. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote, "While the record isn't necessary, it is a hell of a lot of fun and not bad evidence of why Hag was the most popular figure in country music at the end of the '60s."
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 Popcorn" — — — — Merle Haggard's Christmas Present (Something Old, Something New) 1975 "Always Wanting You" (with the Strangers) 1 — 3 — Keep Movin' On ...
The country music legend remembered one of his own idols, Merle Haggard, who passed away on April 6. Garth Brooks remembers Merle Haggard: He was 'the greatest country artist of all time ...
The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, where it remained for three weeks. [3] It also charted in the lower regions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In addition to the studio version of the song, a live version of "The Fightin' Side of Me" was issued as part of Haggard's live album of the same name.
Country legend Merle Haggard, often called 'the Poet of the Common Man,' died Wednesday at his home near Redding, Calif.
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 ...
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