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Merle Haggard
Strangers & Swinging Doors
Genres: Country, Pop

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
2. Falling for You - Merle Haggard, Mooney, Ralph
3. Please Mr. D.J.
4. You Don't Have Very Far to Go
5. Sing a Sad Song - Merle Haggard, Stewart, Wynn [1]
6. Sam Hill - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
7. I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
8. You Don't Even Try
9. If I Had Left It Up to You
10. I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday) - Merle Haggard, Carson, Jenny
11. The Worst Is Yet to Come - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
12. Walking the Floor Over You - Merle Haggard, Tubb, Ernest
13. Swinging Doors
14. If I Could Be Him
15. The Longer You Wait
16. I'll Look Over You
17. I Can't Stand Me
18. The Girl Turned Ripe
19. The Bottle Let Me Down
20. No More You and Me
21. Somebody Else You've Known
22. High on a Hilltop - Merle Haggard, Collins, Tommy
23. This Town's Not Big Enough - Merle Haggard, Anderson, Liz
24. Shade Tree (Fix-It-Man)

Two of the country legend's complete albums for Capitol together on one disc: 1965's 'Strangers' and the following year's 'Swinging Doors'. A combined total of 24 tracks, all digitally remastered. Also features the origina... more »

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All Artists: Merle Haggard
Title: Strangers & Swinging Doors
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Europe Generic
Release Date: 6/29/1999
Album Type: Import, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Genres: Country, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Roadhouse Country, Classic Country, Western Swing, Singer-Songwriters
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 724349685628, 0724349685659, 724349685659, 632427271628

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Two great early Merle albums on one CD

James Ball | 04/15/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After being a fan of Merle Haggard just from listening to one of his Greatest Hits albums, and with 'The bottle let me down' being possibly my favourite of his songs, I was expecting to like this CD. But it blew me away.The quality of the songs was as good as I hoped - '(My friends are going to be) Strangers', 'Longer you wait', 'Swinging Doors', an excellent cover of Ernest Tubb's 'Walking the floor over you' and many more - but what really got me was the SOUND of the record. The band are really on the money, particularly on the 'Swinging Doors' half of the CD which features the great James Burton on guitar. Irresistible guitar licks, and there's a definite swing to the sound. I'd have loved to have seen Merle and the band down my local honky tonk around this time (if they had honky tonks in Stockport, which they didn't).I was expecting these albums to have a few good tracks and a lot of filler, but I was very pleasantly surprised - it's pretty much all good. Now I'm off to get the other four dozen or so albums he's put out."