This Merle Haggard Country Music Awards page is, in my opinion, a small
list of accomplishments that Merle has contributed to the music
industry for over half a century.
Merle Haggard was first voted Top New Male Vocalist in 1965 and received the Top Male Vocalist award the following year.
His accomplishments did not stop there.
Below is a list of his Academy of Country Music Awards.
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Storms Never Last, a song about passing through the hardships of marriage, and knowing their love for one another will endure. A final duet with Jessi Colter and husband, Waylon Jennings. Read more...
Cattle Call was originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1945, and re-recorded in 1955, spending 26 weeks on the country chart, 2 of the 26 at #1. Forty years later, Eddy Arnold joined 13-year-old Texan LeAnn Rimes on a version of "Cattle Call" for her 1996 Curb debut album, Blue. Read more.
While the tears on my make-up melts my painted smile into a frown.
The crowd thinks I'm a dandy I'm Bandy the rodeo clown...Read more.
Prettiest town I've ever seen,
Women there don't treat you mean.
The song seems to conjure up images of a romantic, almost mythic, corner of the American West in which cowboys still loom large on the landscape and long, desolate highways stretch uninterrupted into the western sunset. Read more...
Polish up your spurs, Saddle up ole paint and get ready to relive your childhood! Come with me and let's relive those bygone days with these cowboy campfire songs and fond memories of your favorite silver screen cowboys. Read more...
Amarillo By Morning is a Rodeo ballad first recorded in 1973, but the George Strait version which came out ten years later is the one everyone knows and turned Strait into an overnight star. The whining fiddle arrangement will stay with you long after the song ends. Read more...
Patsy Montana's cowboy song lyrics paints a different picture of a woman who wants to rope and ride and sleep out under the stars, just like her Cowboy Sweetheart. Suzy Bogguss does the song proud. Read More...