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Merle Haggard's 1984 Album It's All In The Game

Merle Haggard's 1984 Album It's All In The Game
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Merle Haggard's 1984 Album It's All In The Game
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The album "It's All In The Game" went all the way to #1 in the USA. The album would also spawn 3 #1 hits ("Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room", "A Place To Fall Apart" and "Natural High"). Epic Records would release "Natural High" again in 1985 on "Kern River". I'm not sure which album should be credited with the #1 song because both tracks are identical. Very strange indeed.

I rarely listen to this one even though this was one of Merle's most critically acclaimed albums. The first 7 tracks are absolute perfection. The last 3 tracks just feel totally out of place here.

Track #8, "Thank Heaven For Little Girls", seems an inappropriate choice coming from a 47 year old Country Music outlaw. I'm sure it wasn't intended this way, but the track just feels creepy :)

He then follows with "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", a song in which Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias released earlier in the year. So these two tracks in succession seems a bit strange to me. To top if off Merle 'yodels' on the next track "You Nearly Lose Your Mind".

Maybe they should have done a focus group before release saying something like: "Hey guys, we're gonna depress the hell out of them for 20 minutes, then sing this song about watching how little girls grow up to become women, don't worry, it's an old standard, then we'll sing about all the girls we've loved before...oh, and then were gonna yodel to an Ernest Tubb tune...sound good?". :)

At any rate, the first 7 tracks are worth the buy.

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Merle Haggard 38 Number 1 Hits

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Track Listing:
Songwriter/s are in (parentheses)
  1. Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room (Merle Haggard/Freddy Powers/Sheril Rodgers) *Merle's 35th #1 Hit
  2. A Place to Fall Apart w/Janie Fricke (Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson/Freddy Powers) *Merle's 36th #1 Hit*
  3. It's All in the Game (Charles Dawes/Carl Sigman)
  4. Little Hotel Room (Freddy Powers)
  5. I Never Go Home Anymore (Merle Haggard)
  6. All I Want to Do Is Sing My Song (Merle Haggard/FreddyPowers)
  7. Natural High w/Janie Fricke (Freddy Powers)
  8. Thank Heaven for Little Girls (Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe)
  9. To All the Girls I've Loved Before (Hal David/Albert Hammond)
  10. You Nearly Lose Your Mind (Ernest Tubb)
Personnel:

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Jason Cross 2012 CD-Life After All

Jason Cross-Life After All-2012
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Release Date: 01/06/2012

Jason Cross Life After All-I Barely KNow You-I'm Still In Love-Just Go-CD 2012
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