Cat Classics Flashback: “If We Make it Through December” by Merle Haggard [VIDEO]

41 years ago this week, Merle Haggard had the #1 country song in the nation with, "If We Make It Through December."

"If We Make It Through December" was one of Haggard's biggest hits -- it spent four weeks at the number one spot on the country music charts in December, 1973, and January, 1974. Billboard magazine ranked it the second biggest country song of 1974, a year that had some big hits from Dolly Parton, Charlie Rich, Ronnie Milsap, and Waylon Jennings.