Many years later Country Rewind Records brought the recordings to Les Brown, Jr. There are no strings and no vocal choruses. They feature Mickey Gilley on vocals and piano and apparently the four other musicians in his band.
JIMMY SWAGGART MUSIC 1960 FULL
Recorded after the initial success of “Room Full of Roses” and “I Overlooked An Orchid”, these recordings were probably meant to be a musical ‘souvenir’ to be sold at live performances. Then came the successful Urban Cowboy movie.Ĭracker Barrel Restaurants, in conjunction with Country Rewind Records, have combined to make available these early Mickey Gilley recordings. His first singles on Epic were less successful than his Playboy singles. Mickey Gilley ran off a string of hits between 19 for Playboy Records, at which time his contract was purchased by Epic Records. In fact Mickey was 38 years old before he was regarded as more than a local artist. Born in 1936 in Natchez, MS, a second cousin to a pair of Ferriday, LA, fireballs in Jerry Lee Lewis and evangelist Jimmy Swaggart (Jerry Lee and Jimmy are first cousins to each other), Mickey probably was somewhat accustomed to being overlooked. It probably isn’t fair to describe Mickey Gilley as a second tier artist since he had seventeen Billboard #1 hits and another seventeen songs that reached the top ten, and was the name behind the most famous country music nightclub ever.
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