| "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" | ||||
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| Single by Merle Haggard and The Strangers | ||||
| from the album Let Me Tell You About a Song | ||||
| B-side | "My Heart Would Know" | |||
| Released | September 27, 1971 | |||
| Recorded | August 30, 1971 Buck Owens Studios Bakersfield, California | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:10 (single) 3:20 (album version) | |||
| Label | Capitol 3198 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Merle Haggard | |||
| Producer(s) | Ken Nelson | |||
| Merle Haggard and The Strangers singles chronology | ||||
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"Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in September 1971 as the first single from the album Let Me Tell You About a Song. The song was Haggard and the Strangers tenth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles. The song topped the chart for two weeks around Thanksgiving 1971, and spent 13 weeks in the chart's Top 40.[1]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 147.