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Topic: Favorite Hag tune? (possible to have only 1?) |
randy
From:
shelbyville, illinois, usa
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Posted 25 Jan 2002 2:55 pm |
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| I love the rhymes in "Think I'll just Sit Here and Drink" One of the best turnarounds and outro's ever. Right up there with some of the Eagles stuff. |
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Robert
From:
Chicago
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Posted 25 Jan 2002 4:43 pm
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I'm with Steve Feldman - "Sing Me Back Home". Great melody - if I find myself thinking of Merle, it just sort of pops into my head. Also, the lyrics (when they could have gotten over-the-top maudlin) sound like something a guy in that position (Death Row) might have thought or said - they sound true. The guy is a national treasure, no doubt about it.
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Jeff Lampert
From:
queens, new york city
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Posted 25 Jan 2002 5:31 pm
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| Mama Tried - Live version. |
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Henning Antonsen
From:
Gaupevegen 18, 2335 Stange, Norway
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Posted 30 Jan 2002 5:41 am
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"The Runnin' Kind".
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Henning Antonsen
Emmons LeGrande III
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Pat Jenkins
From:
Abingdon, VA, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2002 10:50 am
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| "Shelley's Winter Love", even after I haven't heard it for a while, it always gets me again when it comes back up on my stereo. I couldn't disagree with anyone here, though. Merle has always known how to pick 'em, whether they were one of his or someone elses...Pat |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 30 Jan 2002 11:50 am
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"In downtown Modesto while workin a holiday inn,,,I was stuck at a gig I thought would last the whole weekend. Use to love to fool around with makeup and faded blue jeans.
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CJC
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 Jan 2002 4:17 pm
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| My favorite song to play is "Workin' Man Blues", since the singer always gives the lead player and I about 5 minutes worth of rides! My favorite listening song by Merle is the original cut of "Lonesome Fugitive", because of the simple sound, Merle's young voice, and the nice harmony work which (I think) featured Bonnie Owens. |
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Michael Garnett
From:
Seattle, WA
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Posted 31 Jan 2002 10:34 am
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I really liked all of those listed above, but one that Dad always used to play on the old Reel-to-Reel was "Are the Good Times Really Over (for good)?" I'm listening to it right now from the MP3 collection, and it never ceases to make the hair stand up on the back of my neck. "I wish Coke was still Cola, and a Joint was a bad place to be."
I think it's got the best lyrics, music track, and singing, and I'd almost put it up against any other song, especially in this time of resurgent conservatism and nationalism. Get it out and listen to it. If you don't have it, get it.
Garnett
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"The New Guy"
Carter D-10
Nashville 400
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frank rogers
From:
usa
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Posted 31 Jan 2002 11:53 am
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| "Carolyn" with great harmony by Glen Campbell and "The way I am" with "killer" harmony by Leona Williams. |
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Jimmy Youngblood
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Posted 31 Jan 2002 11:20 pm
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"This Town's Not Big Enough"
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Dave Birkett
From:
Oxnard, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Feb 2002 1:40 am
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I Threw Away The Rose. BTW, somebody told me that Merle doesn't have a record deal. Could that possibly be true?
Dave |
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Skip Cole
From:
North Mississippi
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Posted 2 Feb 2002 6:57 pm
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My all-time favorite is "Threw Away the Rose", because it's the first song i ever heard Merle sing. It is also the one that got me loving steel guitar because of the steel work in it.
Skip
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"Steel guitar is where it are"
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jlsmith48
From:
blackwell ok usa
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Posted 4 Feb 2002 9:08 am
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| Ditto Skip!!!!! |
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Bill Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2002 12:22 pm
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You Don't Have Very Far To Go
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"Gimme a steel guitar, 2 or 3 fiddles and a Texas rhythm section that can swing"..W. Nelson
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Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 6 Feb 2002 7:35 am
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"My Favorite Memory"
"Roots of my Raising"
"Sing Me Back Home" |
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Robbie Bossert
From:
WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A.
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Posted 6 Feb 2002 2:31 pm
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Hey Dave,
I only like Hag's country and swing tunes! ;-)
Robbie |
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Bill C. Buntin
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Posted 7 Feb 2002 7:11 pm
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| I'll have to go with Red. "Tonight the Bottle let me Down" is #1 for me too. |
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Jason Stillwell
From:
Caddo, OK, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2002 9:26 am
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| Whew!! I don't think I can even begin to narrow it down to only one per decade. I've been reading down through the posts going, "Yeah, that one's great...Yeah, that one's great..." Ron Page, on a Hag tribute on TNN (remember that channel?) a few years ago, Sara Evans and Merle sang "If We Make It Through December" together. Actually, Sara sang it, and Merle sang harmony on some of it. It's been about four years since I've watched, but I remember Merle's harmony sounding so good--man, he was right on (of course)! |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2002 2:39 pm
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The Bottle Let Me Down
Footlights
Leonard...heard that one today on WSM
Ramblin Fever
There was that tune he sang about his or somebodys grandma who was married to the same man for 70 years and raised a family out of poverty. Can't thnk of that name. |
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Milton C. Willmann
From:
Spring Branch, Texas, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2002 9:25 am
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| Roots Of My Raisin' |
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2002 5:38 pm
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Frank, that was "Grandma Harp".
Grandma's maiden name was Zongalines (or something like that  )
There's 90 years to tell about in a few short lines
Born in Mutin County down in Arkansas
And for 70 years she loved the same old grandpa...
I think it was on "Let Me Tell You About a Song".
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HagFan
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Janyce Casey
From:
Springfield,Ma,USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2002 7:58 am
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Merle Haggard (the Hag) has always been an upright entertainer, I was introduced to this mans music as a young girl. In the sixties and have enjoyed his entertainment all of my life. My favs are Holding things together, Here in Frisco, If we make it through December,I never go around mirrors,and my all time favorite is Always Wanting You.
Hag is and always was the greatest! |
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Johan Jansen
From:
Europe
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Posted 14 Feb 2002 8:13 am
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| right or wrong |
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 15 Feb 2002 10:43 pm
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| Love Has a Mind Of its Own and a couple others off the Bonnie and Clyde album have always been some of my favs. |
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Ron
From:
Hermiston, Oregon
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Posted 20 Feb 2002 7:51 pm
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I never go around mirrors Kern river Under the bridge Farmers daughter. I dont know! A frend of mine was a country disk jocky during Merles hay days and when they got a new single of Merls they never previewed, it they just fought over it to see who got to play it first ! He said every Hag song was a good song. I have never been a fan of any one but liked some songs of every one. When I went to my first consert of Merles I got in to his music and now I think I have all of his songs and I cant say there is one I dislike. This even amases me! The CD's play in my shop all day long and I never get tird of them!!
Ron |
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