This Country star held the Guinness record for buying a round!
A: Merle Haggard!
He bought 5,095 C.C. waterbacks for the crowd at Billy Bob’s honky-tonk in Texas back in 1982. If you don’t know, a C.C. waterback is a shot of Canadian Club whiskey with some water to chase it down.
He did this in honor of his 28th hit song, “C.C. Waterback“ . . . and his tab was $12,737.50. Which in today’s money is over $40,000.
His record stood for an impressive 34 more years, until 2016, when it was broken at a brewery in England celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday.
