℗ 2021 Capitol Records; A Capitol Records Nashville Release
| Released | February 1, 1974 |
| Duration | 30m 12s |
| Record Label | Capitol Nashville |
| Genre | Country |
If We Make It Through December
Merle Haggard & The Strangers
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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If We Make It Through December
Merle Haggard |
2:41 | |||
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1.2
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Love And Honor
Merle Haggard |
2:48 | |||
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1.3
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To Each His Own
Merle Haggard |
2:35 | |||
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1.4
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The Only Girl In The Game
Merle Haggard |
2:55 | |||
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1.5
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I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can)
Merle Haggard |
2:34 | |||
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1.6
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Come On Into My Arms
Merle Haggard |
2:48 | |||
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1.7
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Better Off When I Was Hungry
Merle Haggard |
2:24 | |||
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1.8
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I'll Break Out Again Tonight
Merle Haggard |
2:50 | |||
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1.9
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This Cold War
Merle Haggard |
2:54 | |||
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1.10
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Uncle Lem
Merle Haggard |
2:54 | |||
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1.11
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There's Just One Way
Merle Haggard |
2:49 |
If We Make It Through December is the sixteenth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1974. It reached number 4 on the Billboard country album charts. The title track was previously released on Haggard's Christmas release of 1973, A Christmas Present. The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, and cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on Billboard's Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart.
Haggard's 1973 Christmas single "If We Make It Through December" proved to be so popular that it became the title track for this February 1974 release. The song explores the feelings of an unemployed father struggling to make ends meet and provide a happy Christmas for his daughter. As Daniel Cooper observes in the liner notes to the 1994 Haggard box set Down Every Road, "That it's one of the most heartbreaking Christmas songs ever recorded didn't matter to people who prefer honestly rendered pain to false merriment."
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Capitol Nashville Studio Masters
Tracks 1-11 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-11 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.40 -0.40 to -0.40 | -15.33 -17.08 to -13.97 | -12.75 -14.60 to -10.90 | 10 9 to 12 | |
| 1 | If We Make It Through December | -0.40 | -15.24 | -13.0 | 10 |
| 2 | Love And Honor | -0.40 | -15.02 | -12.3 | 10 |
| 3 | To Each His Own | -0.40 | -16.53 | -14.1 | 11 |
| 4 | The Only Girl In The Game | -0.40 | -16.03 | -13.3 | 11 |
| 5 | I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can) | -0.40 | -16.11 | -13.6 | 11 |
| 6 | Come On Into My Arms | -0.40 | -14.42 | -11.6 | 9 |
| 7 | Better Off When I Was Hungry | -0.40 | -14.56 | -12.1 | 9 |
| 8 | I'll Break Out Again Tonight | -0.40 | -13.97 | -10.9 | 9 |
| 9 | This Cold War | -0.40 | -15.27 | -12.8 | 10 |
| 10 | Uncle Lem | -0.40 | -17.08 | -14.6 | 12 |
| 11 | There's Just One Way | -0.40 | -14.43 | -11.9 | 9 |