Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, Jim Gilley, Sonny Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. Among his biggest hits are \”Room Full of Roses,\” \”Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,\” and the remake of the Soul hit “Stand by Me”
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Mickey Leroy Gilley is an American country music singer and songwriter. Among his biggest hits are \”Room Full of Roses,\” \”Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,\” and the remake of the Soul hit \”Stand by Me\”. Gilley has charted 42 singles in the top 40 on the US Country chart. He is a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, Jim Gilley, Sonny Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. Gilley lived in the shadow of his well-known cousin, Jerry LeeLewis, a successful rock and roll singer and musician in the 1950s and early ’60s. In the 1960s, he played at many clubs and bars, gaining a following at the Nesadel Club in Pasadena, Texas. In 1978, Gilley signed on with Epic Records. By 1979, his success was fading slightly. He decided to come up with a new sound, so many other Country singers were having success at the time. His second career was given a go-around by Epic Records when he was bought by Epic.
He moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well. He had a string of top tens and No. 1s throughout the 1970s. Other hits in the1970s include \”Chains of Love\”, \”Honky Tonk Memories\”, She’s Pulling Me Back Again, and Here Comes the Hurt Again. His club portion of Gilley’s burned in 1990, and the rodeo arena portion was razed in 2005 to make way for a school. His songs were a mix of honky tonk and countrypolitan that brought Gilley to the top of the charts in the 70s and 80s. These singers include Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Mandrell, Anne Murray, and Olivia-John Rogers. He also had a hit in the 1990s with the song “My Silver Lining”
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