If We Make It Through December (album)

If We Make It Through December
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1974
RecordedApril, November 1971, September 1972, January, July 1973
StudioColumbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry
Length30:13
LabelCapitol
ProducerKen Nelson, Fuzzy Owen
Merle Haggard and The Strangers chronology
It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
(1973)
If We Make It Through December
(1974)
Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album
(1974)
Singles from If We Make It Through December
  1. "If We Make It Through December"
    Released: October 27, 1973

If We Make It Through December is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers, released in 1974. It reached number 4 on the Billboard country album charts.[1] 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.[2]