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16 Biggest Hits by Mickey Gilley [Bonus Track] [CD] Track Listing: 1 Room Full Of Roses2 I Overlooked An Orchid3 City Lights4 Window Up Above5 Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time6 Bring It On Home To Me7 She' Pulling Me Back Again8 True Love Ways9 That's All That Matters10 A Headache Tomorrow (Or A Heartache Tonight)11 You Don't Know Me12 Lonely Nights13 Put Your Dreams Away14 Talk To Me15 Fool For Your Love16 Stand By Me17 Paradise Tonight [Bonus Track]In his long career this country star had 17 #1 hits; to accommodate all 17, this 16 Biggest Hits collection throws in a bonus cut! Includes Room Full of Roses; City Lights; Lonely Nights; Stand by Me; Fool for Your Love; Talk to Me; Paradise Tonight (with Charly McClain); True Love Ways; You Don't Know Me; Window Up Above, and more! --- The title of Epic/Legacy's 16 Biggest Hits is slightly misleading -- not because the collection doesn't contain big hits, but because there's really 17 songs on this collection, with the last cut a bonus track on the CD only. This doesn't really matter, since it doesn't really effect the tenor and purpose of the collection, which is to serve up 16/17 of Mickey Gilley's biggest hits for Playboy/Epic from the '70s and early '80s. Of course, this was done very effectively with the definitive Ten Years of Hits in 1984, and this collection cribs heavily from that two-LP/single-disc set, sharing no less than 15 songs with that previous collection. This does have the advantage of chronological sequencing -- something that helps Gilley more than some other artists, since he shifted toward slicker material as his career rolled on and it's nice to hear the purer stuff grouped together -- along with better sound. However, as a representation of his best, Ten Years of Hits edges out this set because it captures his prime better; the two songs on 16 Biggest Hits not on Ten Years -- "Fool for Your Love" and "Paradise Tonight" -- are from 1983 and aren't among his best, while everything, even the sappy stuff, on Ten Years of Hits showcases Gilley at his best. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE