Street Singer (song)

"Street Singer"
Single by Merle Haggard
from the album Introducing My Friends The Strangers
B-side "Mexican Rose"
Released April 18, 1970
Format 7"
Genre Country
Length 2:10
Label Capitol
Writer(s) Roy Nichols
Norm Hamlet
Producer(s) Ken Nelson
Merle Haggard singles chronology
"The Fightin' Side of Me"
(1970)
"Street Singer"
(1970)
"Jesus, Take a Hold"
(1970)

"Street Singer" is a song written by Roy Nichols and Norm Hamlet, and performed by American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in April 1970 as the first single from the album Introducing My Friends to Strangers. "Street Singer" peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and peaked at number twenty four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[1] It reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks in June 1970.

Chart performance

Chart (1970) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 9
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 24
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 146.
Preceded by
"What Is Truth"
by Johnny Cash
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

June 27, 1970
Succeeded by
"She's a Little Bit Country"
by George Hamilton IV


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