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16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album)

FieldValue
name16 Biggest Hits
typegreatest
artistMerle Haggard
coverMerleHaggard16Biggest.jpg
releasedJuly 14, 1998
genreCountry
length50:46
labelLegacy Recordings
prev_title1996
prev_year1996
next_titleFor the Record, 43 Legendary Hits
next_year1999

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.

Track listing

  1. "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) – 2:50
  2. "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) – 2:42
  3. "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) – 3:09
  4. "Branded Man" (Haggard) – 3:09
  5. "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 2:50
  6. "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:10
  7. "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) – 3:37
  8. "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) – 2:41
  9. "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) – 2:41
  10. "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) – 2:52
  11. "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) – 3:39
  12. "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 3:40
  13. "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 3:00
  14. "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) – 4:14
  15. "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) – 4:50
  16. "Silver Wings" (Haggard) – 2:47

Personnel

  • Merle Haggard – vocals, guitar

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.

Chart (1998–1999)Peak
positionChart (2016)Peak
position
US Billboard Top Country Albums55

Certifications

References

References

  1. {{AllMusic
  2. Paul Grein. (May 8, 2013). "Week Ending May 5, 2013. Albums: Kenny Closes In On Garth". Yahoo Music (Chart Watch).
  3. "Chart listing for ''16 Biggest Hits''". [[Allmusic]].
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