16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album) explained
| 16 Biggest Hits |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Merle Haggard |
| Cover: | MerleHaggard16Biggest.jpg |
| Released: | July 14, 1998 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 50:46 |
| Label: | Legacy Recordings |
| Prev Title: | 1996 |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | For the Record, 43 Legendary Hits |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
16 Biggest Hits is a 1998 Merle Haggard compilation album. It is part of a series of similar 16 Biggest Hits albums released by Legacy Recordings.
All songs except "Big City", "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" and "Going Where the Lonely Go" are re-recordings from October 1994.
The album was certified Gold in 2002 by the RIAA. It has sold 955,000 copies in the US as of May 2013.[1]
Track listing
- "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) – 2:50
- "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) – 2:42
- "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) – 3:09
- "Branded Man" (Haggard) – 3:09
- "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 2:50
- "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:10
- "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) – 3:37
- "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) – 2:41
- "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) – 2:41
- "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) – 2:52
- "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) – 3:39
- "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 3:40
- "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 3:00
- "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) – 4:14
- "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) – 4:50
- "Silver Wings" (Haggard) – 2:47
Personnel
The Strangers
- Roy Nichols – lead guitar
- Norman Hamlet – steel guitar
- Tiny Moore – mandolin, fiddle
- Eldon Shamblin– guitar
- Ralph Mooney – steel guitar
- Gene Price – bass
- Gordon Terry - fiddle
- Ronnie Reno – guitar
- Bobby Wayne – guitar
- Marcia Nichols – guitar
- Clint Strong – guitar
- Mark Yeary – piano
- George French – piano
- Dennis Hromek – bass
- James Tittle – bass
- Johnny Meeks - bass
- Jerry Ward – bass
- Wayne Durham – bass
- Biff Adam – drums
- Eddie Burris – drums
- Don Markham – saxophone
- Jimmy Belkin – fiddle
- Gary Church – horns
Chart performance
16 Biggest Hits peaked at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1999.[2]
Notes and References
- News: Week Ending May 5, 2013. Albums: Kenny Closes In On Garth . Paul Grein . Yahoo Music (Chart Watch) . May 8, 2013 . May 16, 2013 .
- Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r366311/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} Chart listing for ''16 Biggest Hits'']. Allmusic. 21 September 2010.
