Some of these items labeled as Special Market Releases may not be considered Special Market Releases by the record company that released them. Any album released by Merle while he was still with a record company, we consider as part of his discography for that label. Any album released after he was no longer with that label we consider a Special Market Release unless it contains primarialy new or unreleased material.

All albums released by an artist is part of that artist's discography. Because of the amount of material released on Merle it would be impossible to list it all together. That is why I've chosen to put it into smaller, more managable catagories, ie:Capitol, MCA, Epic, Curb, Special Market Releases, etc.

While at Tally records Merle had 4 charted hits, at Capitol he had 46 with at least 27 going to #1, at MCA he had 20 charted hits with at least 1 going to #1, at Epic he had 30 charted hits with at least 12 going to #1, and at curb he's only had 1 charted hit. Charted hits usually are over represented on Special Market and Misc. Releases.

Merle has done several guest and ghost appearances on other artists albums and records, through this venue he has garnered at least another 7 charted records with one of them going to #1, Barroom Buddies with Clint Eastwood on Elektra Records, however it is rare that these songs end up on Special Market and Misc. Releases.

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