I’m a 60 year old man I don’t know how many times I’ve seen mighty Merle. I got to talk with Miss Bonnie Owens. On one Special night. That was the sweetest lady I’ve ever met.🌹🙏 (And How much he meant to me nobody knows ). Vince Gill A world with out Haggard 😢
I miss him a lot Wesley. I'm 5 years your junior, and was raised on his music and other Country Music greats. I had a chance to meet him once in East Stroudsburg PA his bus was parked in the Walmart parking lot he had played in Jim Thorpe PA the night before. It was early and the bus was still and quiet so I let them sleep. I'm sure Merle would've appreciated my being considerate in that way. I have to listen to his music everyday it's good for the soul.
My wife and I saw merle 12 times in our life. The last time was Sept of the year before he died. No one has ever been as good as merle and no one ever will be. Rip merle you were the best
Try reading his book "Sing Me Back Home" it's very good and he wrote it! I bought it as a paperback at a Circle K store. I lent it to a supposedly friend and it was gone, a long with my friend.
You'll never hear anything that will compare to Merle's talent. Whenever I was around Merle, I could just feel the greatest when he walked into the room. Simply the greatest country music singer songwriter ever.
I am sitting here on this Sunday evening sipping a whiskey, watching my horses eat, and watching the sun set here in beautiful Arizona . This song is the perfect capper. You are missed Hag! Dang it!!!
Merle Haggard is great but he ain't the king of country, but there he's one of the bad boys at least of california, he's right up there with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings I love those three they're the best they're the three kings as far as I'm concerned and don't forget all Willie Nelson
@@seanwallin4956 if you had to pick one as king actually you would have to go with hiram Williams, who started it all and for for the sake of fitting in to this conversation his middle name is king.
This is Margaret on My Bobby's phone. I LOVE This Man Beautiful Voice. There will Never be another Merle Haggard. Would Love to hear Noel & Ben Sing this song. They would be wonderful. Noel Lee Haggard Ben Haggard
Loved his music since I was a kid. So nice to just go to u tube and turn his music on for hours. So glad I had the chance to catch his live show in Lubbock Tx before he passed.
So beautifull lovecountrysonger and the better guitariste country in this musical perfect interprétation by my Merle unforgettable genius countryboy thruth RIP my love with my heartache forever 👍💯💖😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻and sincerely thoughts to merveilleuse Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉billions love to you in the eternity (2023/06/20) oldwoman from Paris with his heartache forever ❤
What a talent and knack he had for misogynist-heartache numbers! One of the kings of honky tonks hurtin' songs...cheatin', drinkin' songs! No one wrote 'em better!
HE HAS THE MOST AWESOME VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD, & I HAVE HEARD SO MANY IN 70 plus years. THIS GUY HAS IT ALL. HE Writes the best songs too. To me he is THE BEST.!! There has been no one like him.
After listening to this a thousand times easily, Hag still gives me goose bumps. As much as I love many different country singers, only he can do that to me. It’s magical!
He was the complete package musically.....then his life and how he lived, especially the early chapters, gave him the soul that he put in his words and his phrasing.....he was most unique and gifted, we shall never see anyone like him again!
This is such a great song sung by the Best of the Best, Merle Haggard! There should be a million likes!! Rest in peace Hag with your Lord and Savior! I never met you, but I sure feel like I know you! You surely touched my life!
SB Baikan yeah I can’t figure it out either. But I can guess it’s the incredible way he holds and closes a verse. Always in perfect tune and perfect pitch. Then we have the smooth and soothing voice. Many things go into it and that’s why it can’t be described.
Merle was the best entertainer there ever was, no one will fill his shoes. His music will live on forever. Wish he was still with us ❤ Rest in peace, my friend
Was on a out of job town and walked outta a hotel and Merle walked right by me in Bakersfield California and said "morning" that's the memory that I will alway's cherish
Oh damn ,, I would've face planted into door frame and fell backwards to the ground ! lol. Funny you should say that, back 1970 something, My Father boarded an elevator in LAKE Tahoe and Willie Nelson already standing there. Poor ole tongue tied dadz..lol...!!!! I ripped a Bigg ole TRUCKER fart on elevator by myself and was gagging, AVSOLUTELY WAS A GRAVE CONDITION RED ALERT CODE 3 and thats when YOU KNOW its bad, !!!!!!!! TOXIC SEWER FART !!!!! the doors opened and I SPRUNG to freedom. JUST AS 2 COPS IN UNIFORM BOARDED IT, LMFAO !!! Hey its a dangerous job.!!!!
I Don't remember ever hearing, When Times Were Good" before & Don't know how l missed it because l thought l heard them all. He was the & still is the best. Beautiful song as all of them. Thank God we can still listen to his music. Of course he was good eye candy. I am 78 yrs so l guess l should know by now, even though l could tell that for a long time. Yeah!
@@margaretkiepe4250 I Hear Ya! Almost 74 here and still can't get enough of hearing and watching Merle Haggard. When I get to Heaven I hope to stroll down a mountain road with my family and see and hear him singing 💖🌹🇺🇸🦅🙏
Merle could have been my children's dad I love this man with all my heart and I love until the day I die he has the best voice that ever sang a song Thank You Merle for all these memories
Love his instamatic grin. He would do that at live shows to people up front my wife got a picture of him at a show in denver. He turned and gave her the instamatic grin. She will never forget that and we will never forget the hag. Rip merle you were the ultimate in country music
You say that times were good take us back merle to good memories I so glad mom had merle records I would sneak them in my room put on the old record player and listen to a great music that stood alone simple and won melodies
I grew up in Bakersfield and in early 60's and there was a live show on for 45 minutes every afternoon hosted by Cousin Herb Henson. It featured Merl, Buck , Bonnie and all the local country singers. Plus they had guests on from around the country. I remember seeing Barbara Mandrel when she was just a teenager. Just 45 minutes of jamming every afternoon. We knew it was something special. If only there were recordings of the show but I'm not aware of any. Just my memories.
jerry pugh Mr Merle talks about that show in one of His Books. If You read, you need to get His 2 Books Mama Tried & House of Memories. I got 1 for Christmas & 1 Dec 31 for My Birthday. I have read each one 3 times. My Son/His Wife bought Them on line for Me. Now I am Reading The Hag. It's a different read than the two Mr Merle Helped to Write. BLESSINGS. 4-2023
I love him to this day I remember showing a house of his and met his mother and his two kids went to school with my two boys what a beautiful voice and what beautiful sons to carry on his
One of the best Country songs of all time by the Greatest Country singer of all time, Merle Haggard. I heard him do this song in the 80's at the Oakland Coliseum when my uncle Kelly flew his plane in from Eugen Orgeon and we watched this great man! Can't touch this!
My comment 1 mois avant illisible but now liké guitare and sugar voice so sublimes ...incredible Merle thanks RIP with all my love for this beauty countrysong ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
It’s OK that you eventually washed your hand. Neither soap nor water can come close to erasing the magnitude of contact with his greatness. While I attended several of his concerts - including his very last - I regret that I never had the chance to shake his hand.
I live the kind of life most men only dream of I make a living writing these songs and singing them 2 of the best lines of a great song that really summed up the Hag. He truly loved what he did.
I’m a 60 year old man
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen mighty Merle.
I got to talk with Miss Bonnie Owens. On one Special night.
That was the sweetest lady I’ve ever met.🌹🙏 (And
How much he meant to me nobody knows ).
Vince Gill
A world with out
Haggard 😢
I miss him a lot Wesley. I'm 5 years your junior, and was raised on his music and other Country Music greats. I had a chance to meet him once in East Stroudsburg PA his bus was parked in the Walmart parking lot he had played in Jim Thorpe PA the night before. It was early and the bus was still and quiet so I let them sleep. I'm sure Merle would've appreciated my being considerate in that way. I have to listen to his music everyday it's good for the soul.
My wife and I saw merle 12 times in our life. The last time was Sept of the year before he died. No one has ever been as good as merle and no one ever will be. Rip merle you were the best
You're so right
He is the greatest, for all generations ... for all time.
Try reading his book "Sing Me Back Home" it's very good and he wrote it! I bought it as a paperback at a Circle K store. I lent it to a supposedly friend and it was gone, a long with my friend.
I was fortunate enough t to see him 8 x and I believe he last time I saw him was June the year before he died! That soulful voice just chills me
He was a BEAUTIFUL man...and a beautiful SOUL!
You'll never hear anything that will compare to Merle's talent. Whenever I was around Merle, I could just feel the greatest when he walked into the room. Simply the greatest country music singer songwriter ever.
Agreed. And musician and band leader. No one makes me as happy as Buck, my favorite, but Merle is the absolute GOAT, bar none.
The best there ever was and ever will be.
Absolutely the best.
…for all eternity.
These are amazing self-assured downright cocky masterful performances and His solo here is so soulful
Merle Haggard was the greatest voice in country music. Hands down!
Agree I grew up with his music and whenever I needed to get drunk I knew he wouldn't let me down
I was just thinking the same thing 😏💪perfect country voice and he could really sing it
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None ever better!!!!!
I am sitting here on this Sunday evening sipping a whiskey, watching my horses eat, and watching the sun set here in beautiful Arizona . This song is the perfect capper. You are missed Hag! Dang it!!!
Yeah Haggard you never missed the good times, until she was gone. RIP HAGGARD & BONNIE
I can see why my mom used to sit and close her eyes and listen to this legend. Like sitting in heaven
To real country music fans merle is the king of country music..... always will be
There will never be another.
Merle Haggard is great but he ain't the king of country, but there he's one of the bad boys at least of california, he's right up there with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings I love those three they're the best they're the three kings as far as I'm concerned and don't forget all Willie Nelson
@@seanwallin4956 if you had to pick one as king actually you would have to go with hiram Williams, who started it all and for for the sake of fitting in to this conversation his middle name is king.
This is Margaret on My Bobby's phone.
I LOVE This Man Beautiful Voice. There will Never be another Merle Haggard. Would Love to hear Noel & Ben Sing this song. They would be wonderful.
Noel Lee Haggard
Ben Haggard
I can only agree with all the good things said about Merle, his voice was probaly the best country voice I've ever heard.
Three chords and the truth and merle singing he improved with age and picked the right songs
Had the pleasure of shaking hands with this very humble soul .
He made you feel special.
At 79 and he still had a great voice. God you got a perfect angel so hard to accept hag is gone. Sad. RIP hag
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Che uomo meraviglioso Merle... Riposa in pace amore.. 😊🥰😇😇😇😇😇💘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Was the salt of the earth,, so real never find another singer like him.
Best country singer song writer ever
The signs of a great man ❤️❤️ the one and only
Love Merel always will ❤️❤️
That's right love Merel ❤️❤️❤️
How in the name of John Wayne's ass can 90 people dislike this one by the greatest singer songwriter ever is a mystery to me.
Theyre assholes.
they must be young asses listening to this new country crap.
It's because they are devoid of knowing good music!
Must be democrats ,i guess
There are a lot of good singer songwriters but to me No one better than Merle Haggard . He was a true musician.
Merle is the greatest country singer ever. Nobody like him. What a wonderful soothing voice
Love how he gives his look to Bonnie in this song...how he twists and turns his mouth. This is one of my favorite concerts.
Loves
The best…Ever!
What concert is this?
Who was he looking at?
Violet he was looking at his exwife #2 Bonnie Owens his back up singer.
Does anyone believe there’s any country music of this caliber today? 🤠❤️👏👌
NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!
And I am pushing 60 and that’s my life in that song “when times were good and you were mine”
he was the best. I listen to him every evening. I grew up with this kind of music. new country doesn't come close.
Merle haggard was an amazi ng man with such a gteat voice and such emotion Rip. You will never be forgotten
What can I say that hasn’t already been said about this man. God , Merle was just amazing. Thank You for the memories, RIP.
I love this version even more than the duet with Willie ...the band is amazing and Merles singing is just out of this world
Loved his music since I was a kid.
So nice to just go to u tube and turn his music on for hours. So glad I had the chance to catch his live show in Lubbock Tx before he passed.
OMG! I watch this every day...He still makes me SWOON!..Luv my HAG!
Oh yes❤
Merle, Rest In Eternal Peace My Friend....
Merle was my dad's favorites!!! Rest in piece father. I miss you everyday!!!
So beautifull lovecountrysonger and the better guitariste country in this musical perfect interprétation by my Merle unforgettable genius countryboy thruth RIP my love with my heartache forever 👍💯💖😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻and sincerely thoughts to merveilleuse Haggardfamily 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉billions love to you in the eternity (2023/06/20) oldwoman from Paris with his heartache forever ❤
So in LOVE with HIM....after this time!
What a talent and knack he had for misogynist-heartache numbers! One of the kings of honky tonks hurtin' songs...cheatin', drinkin' songs! No one wrote 'em better!
HE HAS THE MOST AWESOME VOICE I HAVE EVER HEARD, & I HAVE HEARD SO MANY IN 70 plus years. THIS GUY HAS IT ALL. HE Writes the best songs too. To me he is THE BEST.!! There has been no one like him.
His son's are really outstanding.
He is the greatest artist in the history of country music. Period. End of discussion
@@mizzmead8077 Yes but no Mighty Merle. He would be so proud of his boys I believe.
I recently have been listening to Merle , his music is so soothing . I love him and his music lives on .
@@carolineapodaca2567 Indeed.
I love this man and I never met him may he rest in pease.
The guitar riff at the beginning gets me every time man
I know that I’ m not dead when I watch MERL. Love him young and old. The greatest.
I am pushing 80. He still stirs me up. Love love him.
After listening to this a thousand times easily, Hag still gives me goose bumps. As much as I love many different country singers, only he can do that to me. It’s magical!
I feel you. Only one Merle
Agree. "IT's Willy's part" Love it
Yes I agree with you, Merle is the greatest
...you can tell that he FEELS IT that he GETS IT
He was the complete package musically.....then his life and how he lived, especially the early chapters, gave him the soul that he put in his words and his phrasing.....he was most unique and gifted, we shall never see anyone like him again!
This song and place to fall apart must have been wrote around the same time not sure like get a similar feel from them both
This is such a great song sung by the Best of the Best, Merle Haggard! There should be a million likes!! Rest in peace Hag with your Lord and Savior! I never met you, but I sure feel like I know you! You surely touched my life!
A great singer and guitarist now He is singing angel music in Heaven
Still listening to his music ❤
There is something special and unique in Merle's voice that I love to hear.
SB Baikan yeah I can’t figure it out either. But I can guess it’s the incredible way he holds and closes a verse. Always in perfect tune and perfect pitch. Then we have the smooth and soothing voice. Many things go into it and that’s why it can’t be described.
It's the pain
And love
Me too!
I’ve listened to a lot of Merles singing over 50 years. I wish he was still here I really miss.❤
I don't know how anyone could dislike this song or any of his song .luv it .Meryl haggard was the best ..
Amazing merle you will never be forgotten RIP
Bonnie owens and .Erle hGgard were pure country.bonnie was so good and lived his kids
May you rest in peace Merle your music lives on not many can hold a candle next to you
Merle takes me home. Thank you Merle for all these beautiful songs. Miss you 🤠
NO ONE COMES CLOSE 2 MERLE HAGGARD.HE IS TERRIFIC!!GREAT GUITAR PLAYER.THNX.♥️🧸♥️
I miss Merle and I would love to hear some songs he would be putting out now. He loved America
Sitting here listening to the best ever. How I wish he had been smiling to me when he turned and smiled. Love this man and his music forever.
Listen to my man everyday. Never forget you Merle.
I feel their stories as real. Because Merle was real. Even now he is.
Rest in peace Mr. Haggard
Merle was the best entertainer there ever was, no one will fill his shoes. His music will live on forever. Wish he was still with us ❤ Rest in peace, my friend
I will forever be in love with this awesome man's voice. RIP Merle
Was on a out of job town and walked outta a hotel and Merle walked right by me in Bakersfield California and said "morning" that's the memory that I will alway's cherish
Oh damn ,, I would've face planted into door frame and fell backwards to the ground ! lol. Funny you should say that, back 1970 something, My Father boarded an elevator in LAKE Tahoe and Willie Nelson already standing there. Poor ole tongue tied dadz..lol...!!!! I ripped a Bigg ole TRUCKER fart on elevator by myself and was gagging, AVSOLUTELY WAS A GRAVE CONDITION RED ALERT CODE 3 and thats when YOU KNOW its bad, !!!!!!!! TOXIC SEWER FART !!!!! the doors opened and I SPRUNG to freedom. JUST AS 2 COPS IN UNIFORM BOARDED IT, LMFAO !!! Hey its a dangerous job.!!!!
@@lloydgeorge2780 What year was this, do you know? Appreciate your reply. Never be another , "The Hag
Cold chills running wild...sing it sweet Merle Haggard !!! A true Legend :)
I Don't remember ever hearing, When Times Were Good" before & Don't know how l missed it because l thought l heard them all. He was the & still is the best. Beautiful song as all of them. Thank God we can still listen to his music. Of course he was good eye candy. I am 78 yrs so l guess l should know by now, even though l could tell that for a long time. Yeah!
@@margaretkiepe4250 I Hear Ya! Almost 74 here and still can't get enough of hearing and watching Merle Haggard. When I get to Heaven I hope to stroll down a mountain road with my family and see and hear him singing 💖🌹🇺🇸🦅🙏
I love everything Merle sings I will.miss him forever. RIP my friend
he is definitely one of the best if not the best. no one singing this so called new country can come close to merle.
how great is this!? blows me away ..especially Merle's solo!! Fanstastic clip!
Merle could have been my children's dad I love this man with all my heart and I love until the day I die he has the best voice that ever sang a song Thank You Merle for all these memories
The best r
B
You would have had to share him. Too many women loved him and he could have anyone he would pick.
GOT TO PLAY WITH HIM IN SACRAMENTO, ABSOLUTELY THE BEST MUSICIAN I EVER KNEW!
Love his instamatic grin. He would do that at live shows to people up front my wife got a picture of him at a show in denver. He turned and gave her the instamatic grin. She will never forget that and we will never forget the hag. Rip merle you were the ultimate in country music
sorry Merle is not with us. How could anyone not love him..I'm sure everyone loves him.
Some people don't realize talent when they see it...love ya hag
I love this man...I wish there had been FIVE Highwaymen
❤🧓🌠❤
The absolute best singer songwriter of all time. Lord I miss my ole buddy..
Yes you are so right I will always love and miss him. The best singer ever! Cecelia burroughs
I was fortunate enough to see him just a few weeks before his passing, unforgettable. experience..
🥀Amazing Song I love it 🥀☝️🥀
👍🦢
💕🥰👍
Thanks you so much for your time.
Loving you all the way Mr. Haggard ! You gave us your best
now Heaven has the rest. If our Lord will forgive me , I may see
You soon ❤🙏
You say that times were good take us back merle to good memories I so glad mom had merle records I would sneak them in my room put on the old record player and listen to a great music that stood alone simple and won melodies
I grew up in Bakersfield and in early 60's and there was a live show on for 45 minutes every afternoon hosted by Cousin Herb Henson. It featured Merl, Buck , Bonnie and all the local country singers. Plus they had guests on from around the country. I remember seeing Barbara Mandrel when she was just a teenager. Just 45 minutes of jamming every afternoon. We knew it was something special. If only there were recordings of the show but I'm not aware of any. Just my memories.
jerry pugh sounds like heaven 💕
That would something to see. 👍
But Aint that priceless
jerry pugh Mr Merle talks about that show in one of His Books. If You read, you need to get His 2 Books Mama Tried & House of Memories. I got 1 for Christmas & 1 Dec 31 for My Birthday. I have read each one 3 times. My Son/His Wife bought Them on line for Me. Now I am Reading
The Hag. It's a different read than the two Mr Merle Helped to Write. BLESSINGS. 4-2023
Merle was a master of the guitar. And everything else too! Rip.
❤What a man, sing it Merle, like only you can. Thanks for sharing. 🎼🎹🎵🎶Cheers 🥂
love merle, don't know anyone today, who has his remarkable insights along with his music
Merle can sing a song for every emotion a person may be feeling! Loved his music and style!
There's never going to be another great one like Hag. You are missed sir. RIP
I love him to this day I remember showing a house of his and met his mother and his two kids went to school with my two boys what a beautiful voice and what beautiful sons to carry on his
I love you Merle. Wish you was still here.
One of the best Country songs of all time by the Greatest Country singer of all time, Merle Haggard. I heard him do this song in the 80's at the Oakland Coliseum when my uncle Kelly flew his plane in from Eugen Orgeon and we watched this great man! Can't touch this!
Seth Hurley - the greatest
My comment 1 mois avant illisible but now liké guitare and sugar voice so sublimes ...incredible Merle thanks RIP with all my love for this beauty countrysong ❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏
Kids if don’t know this is real country music
Merle was the greatest singer in country music. The Hag is est of all.
I always loved playing drums to his music it was straight moving and awesome
I can’t add any thing to what has been said already, he was the greatest musician I’ve ever known, RIP my friend ❤
Meet is and was country's Greatest Singer. None can compare..
Says so much about good times,, times I could have had but, left behind I love you still Russel, R I P, my best friend....
RIP Hag you were my favorite and still are!!
Amen
Love Merle, love the piano riff and what an Insane solo at the end😎
Love this song !
One of the best, R. I. P. Mr. Merle Haggard !
So entertaining. He's enjoying this. X
This show was the very best of Haggard.
What show was this??
Never gets old
LEGEND
I could listen to him forever
Met him ,talk , walk and bless my mama. Thank you Merle for that. I didn't wash my hand for a week. You blessed my mama.r. I.p thank you
It’s OK that you eventually washed your hand. Neither soap nor water can come close to erasing the magnitude of contact with his greatness. While I attended several of his concerts - including his very last - I regret that I never had the chance to shake his hand.
A slice of life in every song ,
I love this!❤
A nice smooth HAG tune that Merle did with Willie Nelson. The album was released in 1987 & was titled "Seashores of Old Mexico".
I live the kind of life most men only dream of
I make a living writing these songs and singing them
2 of the best lines of a great song that really summed up the Hag. He truly loved what he did.
When times were good is long gone. Life will never be the same.
The hag....had so many different voices ....but his own ..was always ...and will always be soothing....to my ears....
Best country singer ever was
Merle was awesome. That is also a great guitar solo by Clint Strong.
One of the best songs... R.I.P. Merle...glad that I`d saw you in Mesa Az. 2010.
I leasen to all gust love this man make u close ur eyes dance on old dirt Road Happy days merle u gave us ur music
A Great man lived in a box car his Daddy bought when he came.home from Hospital wonderful man
Still listening in 2022 and going strong 💪 🙌