| 词条 | The Roots of My Raising (song) | ||||
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| name = The Roots of My Raising | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Merle Haggard and The Strangers | album = The Roots of My Raising | B-side = The Way It Was In '51 | released = January 12, 1976 | format = 7" | recorded = 1975 | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = 2:45 | label = Capitol | writer = Tommy Collins | producer = Ken Nelson and Fuzzy Owen | prev_title = It's All in the Movies | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = Here Comes the Freedom Train | next_year = 1976 }} "The Roots of My Raising" is a song written by Tommy Collins, and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in January 1976 as the first single and title track from the album The Roots of My Raising. The song was Merle Haggard and The Strangers twenty-third number one on the country chart. The single spent one week at number one and a total of ten weeks on the country chart.[1] ContentThe song, sung in first-person, sees a young man who visits his childhood home for the first time in several years. As he approaches home, he reflects on the gravel road and the one-room schoolhouse he attended as a child. Once at home, he sees his father sleeping, comfortably and clutching a photo of his wife (the singer's mother) in his hands. At this point, he speaks of his now-deceased mother and recalls times where people could take out a bank loan simply on a verbal promise of repayment. B-side: "The Way it was in '51"The flip side of "The Roots of My Raising" was "The Way It Was in '51," which enjoyed minor chart success in 1978, reaching No. 82 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and gets airplay on classic country stations today. The song also takes a nostalgic look back at, in the singer's view, a simpler time and one of friends and companionship. Here, a 40-year-old man takes a look back at the year 1951 – some 25 years earlier, at the time of its release – a time he fondly remembers well: just a few years before rock and roll music and four-lane highways, drive-in restaurants populated the countryside, servicemen were proud of what they'd done, and when "Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox." Personnel
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References1. ^{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=147}} {{Merle Haggard}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Roots of My Raising}}{{1970s-country-song-stub}} 7 : 1976 songs|Merle Haggard songs|1976 singles|Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles|Songs written by Tommy Collins (singer)|Song recordings produced by Ken Nelson (United States record producer)|Capitol Records singles |
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