{"id":1307921,"date":"2019-04-06T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.cmt.com\/?p=1764945"},"modified":"2019-04-06T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:00:22","slug":"merle-haggard-a-man-of-many-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/merle-haggard-a-man-of-many-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Merle Haggard: A Man of Many Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:646989?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">18m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Besides his stellar vocal stylings and emotionally perceptive songwriting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/merle-haggard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merle Haggard<\/a> was one of country music\u2019s most durable hitmakers. In a chart life that stretched from 1963, when his \u201cSing a Sad Song\u201d debut peaked at No. 19, to 2015, when his duet with Willie Nelson, \u201cIt\u2019s All Going to Pot\u201d snuffed out at No. 48, the California native scored 38 No. 1 singles.<\/p>\n<p>Several of his songs that reached a lower altitude nonetheless became staples in the Haggard canon, among them \u201cSwinging Doors,\u201d \u201cThe Bottle Let Me Down,\u201d \u201cToday I Started Loving You Again,\u201d \u201cI Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am,\u201d \u201cIf We\u2019re Not Back in Love by Monday,\u201d \u201cRamblin\u2019 Fever\u201d and \u201cAre the Good Times Really Over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are his chart-toppers:<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1764945\/merle-haggard-a-man-of-many-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 18m ago Besides his stellar vocal stylings and emotionally perceptive songwriting, Merle Haggard was one of country music\u2019s most durable hitmakers. In a chart life that stretched from 1963, when his \u201cSing a Sad Song\u201d debut peaked at No. 19, to 2015, when his duet with Willie Nelson, \u201cIt\u2019s All Going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 03:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}