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Merle Haggard Discography
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 Records (where he lived for over a decade), MCA Records, Epic Records and Curb Records, as well as his own label Hag Records. Studio albums 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Instrumental albums Live albums Compilation albums Other appearances Production Singles 1960s 1970s 1980s—2010s Other singles Singles from collaboration albums Guest singles Charted B-sides Music videos Notes *A ^ "Okie from Muskogee" also peaked at number 41 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. *B ^ "If We Make It Through December" also peaked at number 37 on the Canadian ''RPM'' Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. *C ^ "Broken Friend" di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Haggard
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. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the ''Billboard'' all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s. He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama Tried (album)
''Mama Tried'' is the seventh studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released on Capitol Records in 1968. It reached number 4 on ''Billboards country albums chart. The title song was one of Haggard's biggest hit singles and won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Background Haggard had scored four number one hits in the previous two years with prison songs or crime-related themes, including "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (1966), "Branded Man" (1967), "Sing Me Back Home" (1967), and "The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde" (1968), and the singer continued his domination of the country charts with the self-penned " Mama Tried," a song in which the narrator laments the pain and suffering he caused his mother by going to prison "despite all my Sunday learnin'..." Along with "Sing Me Back Home" and "Okie from Muskogee," it is probably the song most closely identified with Haggard. The story was partly autobiographical, and the fact that Hagga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Movin' On
''Keep Movin' On'' is the eighteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers released in 1975. It reached number one on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart. "Movin' On" was a full-length version of a song Haggard recorded as the theme song to the TV series ''Movin' On''. History ''Keep Movin' On'' would be one of Haggard's most commercially successful albums, containing three #1 hits. The first of these, " Kentucky Gambler," had been written by fellow country star Dolly Parton (she also provides background vocals on Haggard's version). It stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the chart. Haggard had first recorded one of Parton's compositions, "In the Good Old Days (When Things Were Bad)" on his 1968 album '' Mama Tried''. "Always Wanting You" followed "Kentucky Gambler" to the top of the ''Billboard'' country singles chart, adorned with an almost easy listening pop sound that producer Ken Nelson also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album
''Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album'' is the seventeenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1974. Contrary to the album's title, this was his 17th studio album; however, the number 30 included his six collaborative albums (one with Bonnie Owens, and five instrumental albums with The Strangers), three live albums, one 'live' gospel album, one Christmas album, and two greatest hits compilations up to that point. Background After only having a hand in writing three songs on his previous album ''If We Make It Through December'', Haggard composed the majority of the tracks on this LP, which became his seventh number one country album. It produced two #1 singles, the melancholy " Things Aren't Funny Anymore" and the rambunctious "Old Man from the Mountain." During a 1999 TNN television special called ''Merle Haggard: For the Record'', country star and Bakersfield sound disciple Dwight Yoakam told the audience at the Las Vegas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If We Make It Through December (album)
''If We Make It Through December'' is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1974. It reached number 4 on the ''Billboard'' country album charts. The title track was previously released on Haggard's Christmas release of 1973, '' A Christmas Present''. The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the '' Billboard magazine'' Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on ''Billboard's'' Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart. History Haggard's 1973 Christmas single "If We Make It Through December" proved to be so popular that it became the title track for this February 1974 release. The song explores the feelings of an unemployed father struggling to make ends meet and provide a happy Christmas for his daughter. As Daniel Cooper observes in the liner notes to the 1994 Haggard box set '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Haggard's Christmas Present
''Merle Haggard's Christmas Present'' is the eighteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1973. Allmusic entry for ''A Christmas Present''./ref> The single, "If We Make It Through December" spent four weeks at No. 1 on the ''Billboard magazine'' Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on ''Billboard's'' Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart The original LP release of the album carries the subtitle (titling), subtitle ''Something Old, Something New''. Track listing All songs by Merle Haggard unless otherwise noted. # "If We Make It Through December" – 2:42 # "Santa Claus and Popcorn" – 2:13 # "Bobby Wants a Puppy Dog for Christmas" – 2:13 # "Daddy Won't Be Home Again for Christmas" – 3:04 # "Grandma's Homemade Christmas Card" – 1:50 # "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
''It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)'' is the fifteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1972. It reached number one on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart. The lead off single was " It's Not Love (But it's Not Bad)" which also reached No. 1 on the charts. Haggard's second studio album of 1972 contains several songs that display an ambivalence towards relationships, such as "Somewhere To Come When It Rains," "My Woman Keeps on Loving Her Man," the adulterous "I Wonder Where I'll Find You at Tonight," and the cynical title track. The LP also contains the Haggard original "I Wonder What She'll Think About Me Leaving," which Conway Twitty took to number 4 in 1971. Critical reception AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the album a "frustrating listen," and a "fitfully entertaining album, equally divided between the excellent and the mediocre. A few of the throwaways are entertaining, particularly the rolling 'New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let Me Tell You About A Song
''Let Me Tell You About a Song'' is the fourteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1972. It reached No. 7 on the Billboard Country album chart and #166 on the Pop album chart. The lead-off singles were "Grandma Harp" and "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" — both reached No. 1. Background The album includes Haggard explaining the origins of each song with spoken introductions while praising the talents of those who inspired him, such as Tommy Collins and Bob Wills. Compositionally, the album is split between Haggard originals and cover songs written by Collins, Wills, Red Foley and Joe Simpson, and also contains two #1 country hits, "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" and "Grandma Harp," both penned by Haggard. According to the liner notes to the 1994 box set ''Down Every Road'', "Daddy Frank" derived from stories his wife Bonnie Owens had told him about her own mother, who had a hearing problem, and her father, who wasn't blind but lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Someday We'll Look Back
''Someday We'll Look Back'' is the thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1971. It reached number 4 on the ''Billboard'' country albums chart. Recording and composition The album is best remembered for the number-one hit, "Carolyn", written by Haggard's friend and mentor Tommy Collins. Haggard had his doubts that the pop-tinged ballad was right for him, as Collins explains in the liner notes to the 1994 Haggard retrospective ''Down Every Road'', "He said, 'It's just not for me. It's not country enough or something.' And the only time I ever said this to Merle was at this time. I said, 'Would you give it a try?' And (co-producer) Lewis Talley said, 'Hey, you oughta cut that song. That's a hit.'"''Down Every Road 1962–1994'' compilation album. Liner notes by Daniel Cooper Haggard also returns to the theme of the plight of the working poor on "One Row at a Time," "California Cotton Fields," and the self-penned "Tulare Dus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hag (album)
''Hag'' is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers released on Capitol Records in 1971. It became his fifth album to top the ''Billboard'' country album charts. It also reached number 66 on the pop albums chart. History ''Hag'' was Haggard's first album with a majority of original songs in two years, following two tribute albums (to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills) and two live albums in 1969 and 1970. While ''Hag'' spawned no #1 hits, it did include three singles that went to number 3. In his 2013 book ''The Running Kind'', Haggard biographer David Cantwell contends that ''Hag'' was "the most sustained and closest-to-coherent political statement of his career...The world Hag portrays on ''Hag'' is one teetering on the brink. From atop some middle-American watchtower, Merle delivers a nearly despairing state of the union." The album opens with the Ernest Tubb World War II era-hit "Soldier's Last Letter," a song that took on a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World (or, My Salute To Bob Wills)
''A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills)'' is the eleventh studio album by Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers, released in 1970. Background Although it is often assumed that Haggard, who was enjoying enormous success with the social commentary " Okie from Muskogee" and the politically charged " The Fightin' Side of Me" in 1969 and 1970, sought to distance himself from controversy by returning to his musical roots by recording a tribute to his childhood idol Bob Wills, this is not quite accurate; according to David Cantwell's book ''Merle Haggard: The Running Kind'', by the time Haggard's live album '' The Fightin' Side of Me'' appeared in 1970, the Wills album had already been completed for four months. Haggard gathered up six of the remaining members of The Texas Playboys to record the tribute: Johnnie Lee Wills, Eldon Shamblin, Tiny Moore, Joe Holley, Johnny Gimble, and Alex Brashear. Merle's band The Strangers were also present d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPM (magazine)
''RPM'' ( and later ) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. ''RPM'' ceased publication in November 2000. ''RPM'' stood for "Records, Promotion, Music". The magazine's title varied over the years, including ''RPM Weekly'' and ''RPM Magazine''. Canadian music charts ''RPM'' maintained several format charts, including Top Singles (all genres), Adult Contemporary, Dance, Urban, Rock/Alternative and Country Tracks (or Top Country Tracks) for country music. On 21 March 1966, ''RPM'' expanded its Top Singles chart from 40 positions to 100. On 6 December 1980, the main chart became a top-50 chart and remained this way until 4 August 1984, whereupon it reverted to a top-100 singles chart. For the first several weeks of its existence, the magazine did not compile a national chart, but simply printed the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
