" If We Make It Through December " turned out to be Haggard's last pop hit.

Haggard's number one hit single " Mama Tried " is featured in the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris as well as in Bryan Bertino's " The Strangers " with Liv Tyler.

A number of reviews were more critical of Haggard's work.

According to Haggard's daughter Lilias, the phrase " She-who-must-be-obeyed " originated from his childhood and " the particularly hideous aspect " of one rag-doll: " This doll was something of a fetish, and Rider, as a small child, was terrified of her, a fact soon discovered by an unscrupulous nurse who made full use of it to frighten him into obedience.

Indeed, Haggard's story is one of the first in modern literature to feature " a slight intrusion of something unreal " into a very real world-a hallmark of the fantasy genre.

Yet as Stauffer notes, " Ultimately, however, one thinks of Haggard's plots, episodes, and images as the source of his lasting reputation and influence.

In fact, just nine songs-10, if one counts Merle Haggard's " If We Make It Through December ," which spent two of its four weeks at No. 1 in January-remain at the top spot for more than one week.

And in the early 1970s, Merle Haggard's country song Okie from Muskogee was a hit on national airwaves.

Fricke was featured on Merle Haggard's 1985 single, " A Place to Fall Apart " which became a No. 1 hit.

The novel was an early example ( and Haggard's introduction implies it was the first ) of modern efforts in English at pastiching Viking saga literature.

Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.

This peak was originally named Aysha in the 1904 maps of the region, and was renamed Ayesha after the heroine of Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She.

Haggard's father died when Merle was nine years old.

Haggard's first song was " Skid Row ".

In 1968, Haggard's first tribute LP Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to acclaim.

Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World ( or, My Salute to Bob Wills ), which helped spark a permanent revival and expanded audience for western swing.

Rider Haggard's writing style was the source of much criticism in reviews of She and his other works.

Even in King Solomon's Mines, the representation of Umbopa ( who was based on an actual warrior ) and the Kukuanas, drew upon Haggard's knowledge and understanding of the Zulus.

Many scholars have noted how She was published as a book in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and Andrienne Munich argues that Haggard's story " could fittingly be considered an ominous literary monument to Victoria after fifty years of her reign ".

" Haggard's English was a common source of criticisms, but Moore was even dismissive of the character of She who widely garnered universal praise.

In 1949, Granger made the move ; MGM was looking for someone to play H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in a film version of King Solomon's Mines.

* In H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter, when Otomie the princess is made to wear the garb of a low-class woman in order to escape imprisonment, the narrator states that " for her proud heart, that dress was the very shirt of Nessus.

It is possible, given Marland's affinity for classic and pulp literature that McCord was also partially inspired by H. Rider Haggard's character Allan Quatermain, who was a heavy influence on the Indiana Jones character.

Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel She.

H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, featured in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Despite the tremendous liberties both movies took with the source material, Allan Quatermain was loosely based, mostly, on the book sequel of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, entitled Allan Quatermain.

His cover of Chinga Chavin's " Asshole from El Paso ", a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee " is, perhaps, his most famous song.

* The Chinga Chavin song " Asshole From El Paso " ( most famously recorded by Kinky Friedman ), a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee ", mentions El Paso in both the lyrics and the title.

The other two were among the best in Scott's career: Village Tale ( 1935 ), " a touching, still-obscure melodrama about small-town gossip and hypocrisy " directed by John Cromwell, and She ( 1935 ), a superb adventure-fantasy adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel.

Singer-activist Joan Baez, whose political leanings couldn't be more different from those expressed in Haggard's above-referenced songs, nonetheless covered " Sing Me Back Home " and " Mama Tried " in 1969.

In 1971 the group added bassist Michael Kane to their lineup and put out two more albums Good & Dusty ( 1971 ), which featured an answer to Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, " Hippie from Olema ", and High on a Ridgetop ( 1972 ) before disbanding.

Rider Haggard's recreation of the Sherd of Amenartas, now in the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum. Haggard contended that romances such as She or King Solomon's Mines were best left unrevised, because " wine of this character loses its bouquet when it is poured from glass to glass.

Indeed, there is a strong Darwinian undercurrent framing the representation of race in She, stemming from Haggard's own interest in evolutionary theory and archaeological history.

Indeed, Haggard's characterisation of Ayesha became the prototype of the female antagonist in modern fantasy literature, most famously realised in the figure of the White Witch, Jadis, from C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.

The movie, based on H. Rider Haggard's novel of the same name, is perhaps best known for popularizing a phrase from the novel, " She who must be obeyed.

Songs such as Merle Haggard's " The Fightin ' Side of Me ", and " Okie from Muskogee " have been perceived as patriotic songs which contain an " us versus them " mentality directed at the counterculture " hippies " and the anti-war crowd, though these were actually misconceptions by listeners who failed to understand their satirical nature.

The name derives from a stock character in African-American oral traditions, " Joe the Grinder ," who is also prominent in Merle Haggard's song " The Old Man of the Mountain.

" Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a film released in 1987 which is freely adapted from the plot of Haggard's 1887 novel.

Like Pratt, Haggard committed suicide on a train from Cairo to Palestine, but in Haggard's case it followed the end of a relationship with a beautiful Egyptian woman, rather than unrequited homosexual love.

" The third single from the album, a version of Merle Haggard's " Today I Started Loving You Again " reached the lower regions of the country charts in mid 1973.

The title of the Umberto Eco novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana ( 2004 ) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired by H. Rider Haggard's novel She.