16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album)

May 2025 16 Biggest Hits greatest Merle Haggard MerleHaggard16Biggest.jpg July 14, 1998 Country 50:46 Legacy Recordings 1996 1996 For the Record, 43 Legendary Hits 1999 Allmusic 2 5 album r366311 yes 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. It has sold 955,000 copies in the US as of May 2013.http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-may-5-2013-albums-kenny-closes-151137381.html Week Ending May 5, 2013. Albums: Kenny Closes In On Garth Paul Grein Yahoo Music (Chart Watch) May 8, 2013 May 16, 2013 Track listing "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) – 2:50 "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) – 2:42 "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) – 3:09 "Branded Man" (Haggard) – 3:09 "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 2:50 "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:10 "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) – 3:37 "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) – 2:41 "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) – 2:41 "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) – 2:52 "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) – 3:39 "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 3:40 "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 3:00 "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) – 4:14 "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) – 4:50 "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.album r366311/charts-awards yes Chart listing for 16 Biggest Hits Allmusic 21 September 2010 Chart (1998–1999) Peakposition US Billboard Top Country Albums 55 Chart (2016) PeakpositionBillboard200 167 Merle Haggard Certifications United States album 16 Biggest Hits Merle Haggard Gold RIAA yes References Haggard, Merle Category:Merle Haggard compilation albums Category:1998 greatest hits albums