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"My Favorite Memory" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard, his twenty-fifth number-one single. It was released in September 1981 as the first single from the album Big City. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart.
The Everly Brothers recorded a version of the song for their 1968 album Roots along with another Haggard song, "Mama Tried".. Joan Baez recorded the song, along with another Haggard song, "Mama Tried", in 1969, during sessions for her (I Live) One Day at a Time album, though neither song was included on the final album; they would eventually be released on her 1993 boxed set Rare, Live & Classic.
Movin' On (Merle Haggard song) My Favorite Memory; My Own Kind of Hat; O. Okie from Muskogee (song) Old Man from the Mountain; P. A Place to Fall Apart; R. Rainbow Stew;
Haggard, who later felt he had been taken, sued to get his ownership of the song back. [4] Although Haggard wrote or co-wrote most of the tracks on Sing Me Back Home, the song credits also list several important figures from his musical past, such as Lefty Frizzell, who wrote "Mom and Dad's Waltz" and was arguably Merle's biggest musical ...
"I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in October 1968 as the only single from his album Pride in What I Am. The song peaked at number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1]
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 during the recording but unfortunately Wills suffered a massive stroke after the first day of recording. Merle ...
"My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" is a song written by Liz Anderson. Best remembered as American country music artist Merle Haggard's first national Top 10 record, it was also a Top 10 song concurrently for Roy Drusky.
Merle Haggard's Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American country music artist of the same name. It was released in 1982 via MCA Records. Track listing