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16 Biggest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Merle Haggard
ReleasedJuly 14, 1998
Genre Country
Length50:46
Label Legacy Recordings
Merle Haggard chronology
1996
(1996) 		16 Biggest Hits
(1998) 		For the Record, 43 Legendary Hits
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

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. [2] It has sold 955,000 copies in the US as of May 2013. [3]

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

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. [4]

Chart (1998–1999) Peak
position
US Billboard Top Country Albums 55
Chart (2016) Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [5] 167

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States ( RIAA) [2] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r366311
  2. ^ a b "American album certifications – Merle Haggard – 16 Biggest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America.
  3. ^ Paul Grein (May 8, 2013). "Week Ending May 5, 2013. Albums: Kenny Closes In On Garth". Yahoo Music (Chart Watch). Retrieved May 16, 2013.
  4. ^ "Chart listing for 16 Biggest Hits". Allmusic. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
  5. ^ "Merle Haggard Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
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