Everybody's Had the Blues

"Everybody's Had the Blues"
Single by Merle Haggard and The Strangers
from the album I Love Dixie Blues
B-side	"Nobody Knows I'm Hurtin'
Released	June 30, 1973
Genre	Country
Length	3:35
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	Merle Haggard
Producer(s)	Ken Nelson Fuzzy Owen
Merle Haggard and The Strangers singles chronology
"The Emptiest Arms in the World" (1972) "Everybody's Had the Blues" (1973) "If We Make It Through December" (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

• Merle Haggard– vocals, guitar

The Strangers:

• Roy Nichols – lead guitar
• Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro
• Bobby Wayne – guitar
• Dennis Hromek – bass, background vocals
• Biff Adam – drums

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.

Chart (1973)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2]	1
US Billboard Hot 100 [3]	62
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

Other versions

Dean Martin, who also covered other Haggard songs, included the song on his final studio album, The Nashville Sessions , in 1983.

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 147.
2. "Merle Haggard Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
3. "Merle Haggard Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.