Me too, but i lucked out and got to meet Merle in Phoenix 1986. Was awesome, even got a kiss and a hug. He arrived via helicopter for a concert. I was at the right place at a Golden time. Love and miss him always ❤️
@@Tramseskumbanan Hello Swede. We all get discouraged but let me assure that we have not lost our country. America is an idea that can never be destroyed.
@@Rustebadge Although I wish that was true, I strongly suggest that you should never take that for granted. Anything created and constructed by man can indeed be dismantled and destroyed by man.
@Tramseskumbanan it was said America is too big to be destroyed by the outside but from within and that's exactly where we are now. We have to bring God back to our land.
You bet that they will always be ledgens in my opinion. I saw the President twice and I don't remember how many times I stopped and saw Meryle. I drove a semi for 17 years and I stopped when I wanted to. I know that I saw Charlie Pride 8 times so Meryle I say that I saw would be at least 12 times. Loved every bit of it and I wish I could do it again. R.I.P. to you all
Thank God for Merle Haggard and Thank God for President Reagan for seeing what the world saw in Merle and giving him a Pardon when he was Governor of California.
Reagan really hit the nail on the head when describing what Merle’s music is. It is the sound of America. The sound of the common man. I love American music. Real American music. Soul music ❤.
Merle was very famous before Reagan was even president. Reagan did pardon Merle but not until long after he was out of prison. If you want to thank anyone thank Johnny Cash. He discovered Merle in San Quentin and helped him get early parole.
I can believe how talented Merle Haggard was. He just breezes into a easy and jazzy version of "Pennies From Heaven" like it was nothing. Talent and a voice to spare!
His live renditions of 'Pennies' performed by his late 70's early 80's expanded versions of The Strangers were spectacular as those groupings were a collection of players that made his band then, the best country/swing band I got to see, but I'm a tad too young to have seen Mr. Wills & his Playboys back in 'the day'.
Ronald Reagan was probably the worst president ever. He lowered taxes so much on the elites that it set off a chain reaction that created the great disparity we see today in the US. It was the first major step towards the plutocracy it is today. After Reagan women had to go to work, before one salary could do the job. I like how Merle sang a peaceful environmental song right after Reagan's speech. Merle, was the best for sure.
Always wanted to meet Merle, I did see him in concert at Indianapolis , Indiana, was so in love with him, 😘 although he was quite a bit older than myself. 😀 he was awesome.🙏🙏🙏
Where but in America can you from convict to performing for the President.... Only proves if your children are headed in the wrong direction in life, someday they may also perform for the President.....Merle is not only the top country artist, he is an AMERICAN HERO...
In God we trust! A merciful and Just God! What a beautiful Country he helped our forefathers create, I just hope We the People repent and stay in God's grace!
absolutely the best ever imho...love so many others like George Jones...Johnny Cash...Dolly & so many others...but because of those iconic songs Merle wrote and and fantastically performing them...he is # 1 to me...had many of his vinyl albums...I will remember him FOREVER...hope to be seeing/hearing him in heaven... God bless his soul.
I still keep seeing songs here on you tube that l had never heard before. This is an old standard that l always liked. The more songs that he records, l still find more l like. I like "Stingeree." let's got a jazee sound,to it & he still can make it great, even though it's a different spinoff for,him. I love that.
Merle Haggard truely an American icon I think about what he had to rise above to we’re he had made it to am so glad I’ve had the opportunity to be bought up on country music deffinetly a working man’s music just think of all we would’ve missed if he had never got to play and write his music for us all to hear a legend in his time. I love his music and his guitar playing
The best president and the best commander in chief I had the honor and pleasure to serve under in my 32+ years in the military & fed LEO. Though you and Mrs Reagan have gone home to almighty God, My family & I still treasure the memories you left us with. Until we meet again Mr President, thank you boss & thank you Merle, your music made us proud when we were stationed overseas! U.S.Mil/LEO/Analyst ret.
Merle, standing and playing before the most powerful person on the planet, at that time. How many country artists have got that honor?!! That means SOMETHING! HIS SONGS resonated!!! Merle is my all time favorite guitar/singer!!!!!
Not many people know, Merle was actually very close friends with President Reagan and wife Nancy long before Reagan was President, Merle was a regular at there house in Northern California when President was at home on leave.
Jeffery Cordes. From the big house to the white house. Just Amazing what Merle Haggard could do and did do. RIP Merle. President Reagan and First Lady Nancy
Merle was a patriot as patriots really are Yes He mad mistakes like we all do but thank God He redeemed himself God Bless him wherever He is I hope in Heaven!
I was a little young to fully comprehend just how great President Reagan was. I'm sure there were skeletons, just as everybody else, but he had charisma just dripping from him. And of course, the incomparable Merle Haggard. No better on Earth!
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A few of my favorites to make them easier for y’all to find.. 7:46 - Silver wings 21:31 - Okie From Muskogee 22:48 - pennies from heaven And ofc many more
Reagan pardoned Merle long after her was out of prison. Merle was indeed famous before Reagan became president. I’m old enough to remember, lol. Also it was Johnny Cash who discovered Merle while performing at San Quentin and helped Merle get an early parole from Prison.
President Trump could certainly play that at his rallies! We're becoming a banana republic and my beloved President Reagan would be so sad at what has happened to 🇺🇸 America.
So much clarity and crystal clear cut words of meryl i am sure world wide young and not so young whether they follow english or not have been able to sing, i am sure.
Well I wouldn’t say it’s a life gone wrong, it started out kind of off kilter but he got it on track. Maybe it was right from the beginning! How else would he have found his way to now?
Don’t think people would be sent to major prison nowadays for such petty crimes. Terrible to send a young man into hardened criminals. Bound to have deeply affected him. He should have been given counselling and guidance.
Definitely. I agreed totally. Can you imagine if he had not , talent like that would have wasted away. Thank God Merle turned his life around. I love his music .
Merle was doing just fine before the pardon. He was already a star. The Pardon was more about getting his rights back, and the fact that he had redeemed himself. The pardon was important to Merle personally, but professionally...very little impact. But it was nice for Gov Reagan to do. It was the right thing.
Wonderful time when Reagan was in office, great time in our country, we didn’t have devil people in the media, they treated him terrible too , but nothing like now
The difference is Reagan treated the media fair and took it like a man. Unlike baby Trump.President Johnson once said may a man never get to big that he can't laugh at a good joke about himself. The media is no harder on Trump then any other President. He just can't take it. Trump is the joke.
Frank Shockey this is the best president we have ever had ! That is a lie! No president in history has ever had this awful treatment! We used to respect the office, but this human group have no respect at all ! They are demonic and evil to an extent we still don’t know
@@wynettegreer3812 I am not going to have a on going disagreement with you. I don't know how old you are, and you are entitled to your opinion. But Trump is far from the best president what has he done besides cause hatred and division? Respect, maybe if showed the media respect he would get respect in return. He brings on his own problems. He has no respect for anyone, he has made our allies turn on us, in the history of the boy scout jamboree many presidents have spoken to the scouts, his was the only one that the scout officers had to apologize for what he said to the scouts.Reagan knew how to treat the media he showed them respect even when they were hard on him, and they were very hard on him. same with Clinton and Bush one and two, and Obama. I did not care for Bush # 2 or Obama but both were better than Trump. And by the way I am 66 years old and I do not vote straight ticket. And I'll leave it there. Good Night.
Reagan had a good time, and wrote in his diary, "Sunday a fantastic affair with Mark [Merle] Haggard & his band at a neighbor’s ranch-BBQ & all as part of series on presenting young future stars on P.B.S. Several hundred present who have helped us over the years."
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Me too, but i lucked out and got to meet Merle in Phoenix 1986. Was awesome, even got a kiss and a hug. He arrived via helicopter for a concert. I was at the right place at a Golden time. Love and miss him always ❤️
Ronald, Nancy, and Merle are all beacons of what life once was in a great country called America, RIP, I miss it so much!
You lost your country? I’m a swede and I’ve lost my country too, a long time ago.
@@Tramseskumbanan Hello Swede. We all get discouraged but let me assure that we have not lost our country. America is an idea that can never be destroyed.
@@Rustebadge Although I wish that was true, I strongly suggest that you should never take that for granted. Anything created and constructed by man can indeed be dismantled and destroyed by man.
Ronny was a Piece of Shit who lead the way to the Great Orange Lard Ass.
@Tramseskumbanan it was said America is too big to be destroyed by the outside but from within and that's exactly where we are now. We have to bring God back to our land.
Merle haggard and Ronald Reagan two of the Best
I miss Merle and Ronald Reagan they will always be legends!!!!!
It was President Regan who gave Merle Haggard for his pardon, when he was Governor of California.
You bet that they will always be ledgens in my opinion. I saw the President twice and I don't remember how many times I stopped and saw Meryle. I drove a semi for 17 years and I stopped when I wanted to. I know that I saw Charlie Pride 8 times so Meryle I say that I saw would be at least 12 times. Loved every bit of it and I wish I could do it again. R.I.P. to you all
Thank God for Merle Haggard and Thank God for President Reagan for seeing what the world saw in Merle and giving him a Pardon when he was Governor of California.
Ran across this video this morning. MERRY CHRISTMAS to me.I sure do miss Merle.
Reagan really hit the nail on the head when describing what Merle’s music is. It is the sound of America. The sound of the common man. I love American music. Real American music. Soul music ❤.
Thank God for giving us Merle Haggard and Ronald Reagan!
So three presidents came to see Merle. We're glad you turned your life around. Love your voice and love the music. You're legacy will live on.
Yes thank President Reagan for giving us Merle Haggard
Ironic that I was just thinking the same thing.
He was long popular before Reagan became president.
@@thomasrogers6077 not true, Reagan gave him his start, and he pardoned him
Merle was very famous before Reagan was even president. Reagan did pardon Merle but not until long after he was out of prison. If you want to thank anyone thank Johnny Cash. He discovered Merle in San Quentin and helped him get early parole.
I can believe how talented Merle Haggard was. He just breezes into a easy and jazzy version of "Pennies From Heaven" like it was nothing. Talent and a voice to spare!
Merle one of the greatest
Dean Martin's version: "Bourbon from heaven......."
A bagful of musical talent was Merle Haggard.
His live renditions of 'Pennies' performed by his late 70's early 80's expanded versions of The Strangers were spectacular as those groupings were a collection of players that made his band then, the best country/swing band I got to see, but I'm a tad too young to have seen Mr. Wills & his Playboys back in 'the day'.
Merle was one of a kind, along with George Jones , Waylon and a few others
Ronald Reagan was the best President ever. Merle Haggard a great great performer...
There will never be another like them both!!! God bless America!
Donnie swaggarr
Ronald Reagan was probably the worst president ever. He lowered taxes so much on the elites that it set off a chain reaction that created the great disparity we see today in the US. It was the first major step towards the plutocracy it is today. After Reagan women had to go to work, before one salary could do the job. I like how Merle sang a peaceful environmental song right after Reagan's speech. Merle, was the best for sure.
Incredible music with Merle and President Reagan
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Merle has stood the test of time.
Always wanted to meet Merle, I did see him in concert at Indianapolis , Indiana, was so in love with him, 😘 although he was quite a bit older than myself. 😀 he was awesome.🙏🙏🙏
Where but in America can you from convict to performing for the President.... Only proves if your children are headed in the wrong direction in life, someday they may also perform for the President.....Merle is not only the top country artist, he is an AMERICAN HERO...
In God we trust! A merciful and Just God! What a beautiful Country he helped our forefathers create, I just hope We the People repent and stay in God's grace!
The best of legendary music both western and country R.I.P my idol Merle Hag
absolutely the best ever imho...love so many others like George Jones...Johnny Cash...Dolly & so many others...but because of those iconic songs Merle wrote and and fantastically performing them...he is # 1 to me...had many of his vinyl albums...I will remember him FOREVER...hope to be seeing/hearing him in heaven... God bless his soul.
Great President...Great entertainment. Two of my favorite people here.
Mine too!!!
I still keep seeing songs here on you tube that l had never heard before. This is an old standard that l always liked. The more songs that he records, l still find more l like. I like "Stingeree." let's got a jazee sound,to it & he still can make it great, even though it's a different spinoff for,him. I love that.
A bad actor who have spying for the fbi and have related with mafia indeed a nice person
Mearle was the best and his music will live on!!!❤❤❤
Merle Haggard truely an American icon I think about what he had to rise above to we’re he had made it to am so glad I’ve had the opportunity to be bought up on country music deffinetly a working man’s music just think of all we would’ve missed if he had never got to play and write his music for us all to hear a legend in his time. I love his music and his guitar playing
Thanks Mark for the posting
The best president and the best commander in chief I had the honor and pleasure to serve under in my 32+ years in the military & fed LEO. Though you and Mrs Reagan have gone home to almighty God, My family & I still treasure the memories you left us with. Until we meet again Mr President, thank you boss & thank you Merle, your music made us proud when we were stationed overseas! U.S.Mil/LEO/Analyst ret.
Merle, standing and playing before the most powerful person on the planet, at that time.
How many country artists have got that honor?!!
That means SOMETHING!
HIS SONGS resonated!!!
Merle is my all time favorite guitar/singer!!!!!
Mark O'Connor is wonderful!!! Thank you for sharing this memory.
I loved Merle! Always will.
From prison to playing for President Reagan. This could only happen in the United States of America.
Não entendi. Quem veio da prisão?
@@caiocaesarcaesar8540 merle haggard
@@gator4458 veio direto da prisão ou teria cumprido pena anteriormente? Neste caso qual o motivo da pena?
Not many people know, Merle was actually very close friends with President Reagan and wife Nancy long before Reagan was President, Merle was a regular at there house in Northern California when President was at home on leave.
Jeffery Cordes. From the big house to the white house. Just Amazing what Merle Haggard could do and did do. RIP Merle. President Reagan and First Lady Nancy
Merle was a patriot as patriots really are Yes He mad mistakes like we all do but thank God He redeemed himself God Bless him wherever He is I hope in Heaven!
LOVE merle
@@davidadams4316 6
Tom T Hall said that the likes a good guitar picker.
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Love every minute of it ❤❤❤❤
This was absolutely entertaining thank you for the memories
Fantastic, first time seeing it, Merle is forever!!🤗💞
I was a little young to fully comprehend just how great President Reagan was. I'm sure there were skeletons, just as everybody else, but he had charisma just dripping from him. And of course, the incomparable Merle Haggard. No better on Earth!
Merle said Reagan was the devil. He was right.
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Good show Merle's the best Betty 8!24!31
My Favorite Memory of All!!
I think this is one of the clearest sweetest performances ever.
Sincere and down to earth.
Pure Country
There's a lot I could say about this clip, that I just stumbled upon this morning, but I'll just say simply, FANTASTIC & Nostalgic as well. 💙🇺🇸
A few of my favorites to make them easier for y’all to find..
7:46 - Silver wings
21:31 - Okie From Muskogee
22:48 - pennies from heaven
And ofc many more
Simply Amazing.
President Reagan, Merle Haggard is what California once was
Absolutely wonderful! 👍❤️🚂
You Are My Favorite Memory of All
Reagan pardoned Merle long after her was out of prison. Merle was indeed famous before Reagan became president. I’m old enough to remember, lol. Also it was Johnny Cash who discovered Merle while performing at San Quentin and helped Merle get an early parole from Prison.
OMG Merle is brilliant
Those were better times for our country....
I think he sounded better the older he got. We will take Merle young or older. Anyway we can get him.
God bless America and, may there come some more men like President Reagan and Marla Haggard. They are truly missed by everyone.Jerry Johnston
Well that was the greatest thing I’ve seen in a while.
legend will sing whatever happen..💪 RIP MERLE 🙏
I enjoyed watching the old movies Ronald Reagan was an actor in . Excellent .
Great. May their souls rest in peace.
I remember stringing my microphone from the cassette deck to the TV to record this concert.
I was hoping to see Merle sing The Fighting Side of Me for President Reagan. It should be the anthem for any president of this country.
President Trump could certainly play that at his rallies! We're becoming a banana republic and my beloved President Reagan would be so sad at what has happened to 🇺🇸 America.
Such a great president to attend this occasion of a best musical events of the best country singer in the world 😂💕😂🐱😂🐱😂
The Great Gipper. The whole package! Best President ever and a really warm, kind wonderful real person.
Beautiful How Wonderful.
This kind of thing will never happen again ,with all the crazies out there
So much clarity and crystal clear cut words of meryl i am sure world wide young and not so young whether they follow english or not have been able to sing, i am sure.
Merle is such a great example of how a life gone wrong can be turned around and go right
Well I wouldn’t say it’s a life gone wrong, it started out kind of off kilter but he got it on track. Maybe it was right from the beginning! How else would he have found his way to now?
Don’t think people would be sent to major prison nowadays for such petty crimes. Terrible to send a young man into hardened criminals. Bound to have deeply affected him. He should have been given counselling and guidance.
@@francesmoore5789 well he already had the counseling and guidance and that didn’t work. Have you heard his song “ Mama Tried”?
Definitely. I agreed totally. Can you imagine if he had not , talent like that would have wasted away. Thank God Merle turned his life around. I love his music .
MERLE IS A LONG GONE DADDY BUT HIS SONS ARE JUST AS TALENTED !
Reagan was the best ! Great communicator and Nancy was awesome and of course the band ! 👍❤️🇺🇸
They were country folk for sure.
What a Great send off for Mark yearly . RIP my friend .
Down Home Music🦅🇺🇲 1982
Silver wings my favorite!
Visited Reagan museum and it was amazing
AMAZING
R. I. P.
MERLE 🎻🎸 HAGGARD
This is a better audience than the White House
Just think what we have missed if Pres. Reagan hadn't of pardoned Merle!
Merle was doing just fine before the pardon. He was already a star. The Pardon was more about getting his rights back, and the fact that he had redeemed himself. The pardon was important to Merle personally, but professionally...very little impact. But it was nice for Gov Reagan to do. It was the right thing.
AMEN TO THAT rip both
They don't make em like that anymore!!
I love Haggard. I love Reagan. #TRUMP2020 #Infowars #DrGeneScott
I love Haggard. I love Reagan. #TRUMP2020 #Infowars #DrGeneScott
Only in AMERICA can this happen
When we are young we do crazy thinks,,,
Wow, a much better time in America.
Merle Haggard was the poor man's poet.
THANK
There's that young long hair Mark O'Connor before he took over Nashville!
He is fantastic on the fiddle!
Wonderful time when Reagan was in office, great time in our country, we didn’t have devil people in the media, they treated him terrible too , but nothing like now
Those same people that are doing this crap with Trump, shot Reagan as well, so I’d say not much has changed.
The difference is Reagan treated the media fair and took it like a man. Unlike baby Trump.President Johnson once said may a man never get to big that he can't laugh at a good joke about himself. The media is no harder on Trump then any other President. He just can't take it. Trump is the joke.
Frank Shockey this is the best president we have ever had ! That is a lie! No president in history has ever had this awful treatment! We used to respect the office, but this human group have no respect at all ! They are demonic and evil to an extent we still don’t know
@@wynettegreer3812 I am not going to have a on going disagreement with you. I don't know how old you are, and you are entitled to your opinion. But Trump is far from the best president what has he done besides cause hatred and division? Respect, maybe if showed the media respect he would get respect in return. He brings on his own problems. He has no respect for anyone, he has made our allies turn on us, in the history of the boy scout jamboree many presidents have spoken to the scouts, his was the only one that the scout officers had to apologize for what he said to the scouts.Reagan knew how to treat the media he showed them respect even when they were hard on him, and they were very hard on him. same with Clinton and Bush one and two, and Obama. I did not care for Bush # 2 or Obama but both were better than Trump. And by the way I am 66 years old and I do not vote straight ticket. And I'll leave it there. Good Night.
@@frankshockey6903 Reagan had decency and backbone and if was here now would stand up to culture and conman trying to hijack the Republican Party
Reagan had a good time, and wrote in his diary, "Sunday a fantastic affair with Mark [Merle] Haggard & his band at a neighbor’s ranch-BBQ & all as part of series on presenting young future stars on P.B.S. Several hundred present who have helped us over the years."
What happened to the intro to "Okie"?
This starts out slow boy goes on from to here and there and there and then that!!!!:!!..!!!!
The best president we've ever had!! Nancy was a great first lady!!
PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan 1982, with Merle Haggard at Ranch Sierra Grande1🦅🇺🇲🇨🇱
it is to bad that nobody has come remotely close to merle
HAG WAS THE BEST SAW HIM IN 1971 AT LONGVIEW TEXAS
Is that Roy Nichols on Lead guitar ? He’s really laying it down.
He does Silver Wings like you were showing us.
Did you notice were they cut out of Rainbow Stew? Yeah lol 😆, so did I.
It’s the encore. Look again.
I liked him when he was young but I loved his when he got old
How in the hell did the United States go from this to what it is today? SMH
Jon Burrows It's so heart breaking isn't it ?
@@suewalker3600 we let it happen. We sit back and allowed it to be so.
@@jonburrows2684 I agree
@@suewalker3600 well hello Sue, how do you do?
One word "trump"
Mr Merle Haggard-
Is REALLY a Great Guy And We L kve
Brilliant singer
21:30 approx Okie from Muscogie
28:50
wow was für eine ehre President Reagan Watches Merle Haggard Performanc😇🥰😍🤩😘😘
we them both back again,....no bull, just real men.
I remember her slogan of just say no. But it tasted so sweet Nancy. So I jhad to say yes.
Only one of God's love to Merrill. a d his God given many talents to play music, also being able to pass his talents to his great 👪
I miss Ronald Reagan! Compare his speech to the shell of what's suppose to be a human being it 2022
Thank you Russ for your comment .
Some rich people right there that owned that place.
Merle in his cold situation is just like how marty sing.. And talk...
I love Merle but the sound on here isn't very good ,but go to him singing at church street station it is a wonderful concert
He has cold in this time.
who is on the drums?
23:53
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