Everybody's Had the Blues explained

Everybody's Had the Blues
Type:single
Artist:Merle Haggard and The Strangers
Album:I Love Dixie Blues
B-Side:"Nobody Knows I'm Hurtin'
Released:June 30, 1973
Genre:Country
Length:3:35
Label:Capitol
Producer:Ken Nelson
Fuzzy Owen
Prev Title:The Emptiest Arms in the World
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:If We Make It Through December
Next Year:1973

"Everybody's Had the Blues" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in June 1973 as the third single from the album I Love Dixie Blues.

Personnel

The Strangers

Chart positions

The song was a live recording that was Haggard and The Strangers fifteenth number one on the U.S. country singles chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the chart.[1] "Everybody's Had the Blues" was a minor pop hit, reaching No. 62 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1973.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 147.