16 Biggest Hits (Merle Haggard album)

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

 * 1) "Swinging Doors" (Merle Haggard) – 2:50
 * 2) "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Haggard) – 2:42
 * 3) "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) – 3:09
 * 4) "Branded Man" (Haggard) – 3:09
 * 5) "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 2:50
 * 6) "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:10
 * 7) "Hungry Eyes" (Haggard) – 3:37
 * 8) "Workin' Man Blues" (Haggard) – 2:41
 * 9) "Okie from Muskogee" (Roy Edward Burris, Haggard) – 2:41
 * 10) "The Fightin' Side of Me" (Haggard) – 2:52
 * 11) "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" (Haggard) – 3:39
 * 12) "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" (Haggard) – 3:40
 * 13) "Big City" (Haggard, Dean Holloway) – 3:00
 * 14) "Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)" (Haggard) – 4:14
 * 15) "Going Where the Lonely Go" (Haggard, Holloway) – 4:50
 * 16) "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.