"Someday When Things Are Good' is a song co-written and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

artist

Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield ...

. It was released in March 1984 as the third single from his album '' That's the Way Love Goes''. The song was Haggard's thirty-first number-one country single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. Haggard wrote the song with his then-wife

Leona Williams Leona Belle Helton (born January 7, 1943, in Vienna, Missouri, United States) is an American country music singer known professionally as Leona Williams. Active since 1958, Williams has been a backing musician for Loretta Lynn and Merle Haggard ...

; it became the title track of her own 1984 album ''Someday When Things Are Good''.

Personnel

– vocals, guitar, fiddle The Strangers: *

Roy Nichols Roy Ernest Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix ...

– guitar *

Norm Hamlet Norm Hamlet is an American steel guitarist and a member of Merle Haggard's The Strangers band for the past 49 years.Terry Downs: ''The Strangers'', http://www.terrydownsmusic.com/Archive/strangers_article.pdf, n.d., downloaded May 6, 2012.The Stee ...

– steel guitar *

Tiny Moore Billie "Tiny" Moore (May 12, 1920 – December 15, 1987) was an American Western swing musician who played the electric mandolin and fiddle with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the 1940s. He played with The Strangers and Merle Haggard du ...

– fiddle, mandolin *Mark Yeary – keyboards *Dennis Hromek – bass *Biff Adams – drums *Jimmy Belken – fiddle *Don Markham – horns

Charts

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References

1984 singles Merle Haggard songs Songs written by Merle Haggard Song recordings produced by Ray Baker (music producer) Epic Records singles Songs written by Leona Williams 1984 songs {{1984-country-song-stub