16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album)
1998 greatest hits album by Merle Haggard
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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.
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| Released | July 14, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 50:46 | |||
| Label | Legacy Recordings | |||
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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
- "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) â 2:50
- "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) â 2:42
- "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) â 3:09
- "Branded Man" (Haggard) â 3:09
- "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) â 2:50
- "Mama Tried" (Haggard) â 2:10
- "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) â 3:37
- "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) â 2:41
- "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) â 2:41
- "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) â 2:52
- "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) â 3:39
- "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) â 3:40
- "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) â 3:00
- "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) â 4:14
- "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) â 4:50
- "Silver Wings" (Haggard) â 2:47
Personnel
- Merle Haggard â vocals, guitar
- Roy Nichols â lead guitar
- Norman Hamlet â steel guitar
- Tiny Moore â mandolin, fiddle
- Eldon Shamblinâ guitar
- Ralph Mooney â steel guitar
- Gene Price â bass
- Gordon Terry â fiddle
- Ronnie Reno â guitar
- Bobby Wayne â guitar
- Marcia Nichols â guitar
- Clint Strong â guitar
- Mark Yeary â piano
- George French â piano
- Dennis Hromek â bass
- James Tittle â bass
- Johnny Meeks â bass
- Jerry Ward â bass
- Wayne Durham â bass
- Biff Adam â drums
- Eddie Burris â drums
- Don Markham â saxophone
- Jimmy Belkin â fiddle
- Gary Church â horns
Chart performance
16 Biggest Hits peaked at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1999.[4]
| Chart (1998â1999) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard Top Country Albums | 55 |
| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
| US Billboard 200[5] | 167 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[2] | Gold | 500,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||