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.
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. Chart (1998–1999) Peakposition US Billboard Top Country Albums 55 Chart (2016) Peakposition
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