Room Full of Roses / Gilley's Smokin

Mickey Gilley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Audium Entertainment
• ASIN: B00009IB5T
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,878 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Room Full Of Roses

2. Faded Love

3. Plastic Saddle

4. Someday

5. Don't Be Angry

6. I Overlooked An Orchid

7. San Antonio Rose

8. Please Love Me Forever

9. Swinging Doors

10. She Called Me Baby

11. Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time

12. There's A Song On The Jukebox

13. L-O-V-E

14. What Is It

15. My Babe

16. Bring It On Home To Me

17. How's My Ex Treating You

18. Lawdy Miss Clawdy

19. I Just Can't Get Her Out Of My Mind

20. I'll Fly Away

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars (Add a few stars... Gilley rocks!!), November 13, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Room Full of Roses / Gilley's Smokin (Audio CD)

Mickey Gilley, the piano-plunking cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, languished in the bottom rungs of the country scene for over a decade before the hits started coming in the mid-1970s. He had Jerry Lee's same lusty, boozy, down-home sound, but added a note of bluesy sincerity, and was a superior balladeer. This long-overdue twofer CD reissues two of his best albums made for the independent Playboy label (and later relicensed by Columbia) in the 1974 and '76. "Room Full Of Roses" is a delicious set of old country standards, such as "Faded Love," "Room Full Of Roses" and "I Overlooked An Orchid," delivered in a wry yet heartfelt style -- Gilley was a real good ole boy country singer who was also a sex-drenched '70s swinger, and this dual world view combined perfectly when singing these old-fashioned cheatin' songs. He also excelled at raunchy novelty material like "Plastic Saddle" or, on the "Smokin' " album, gems such as "Don't The Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time" and "How's My Ex Treating You." If you want to check out Mickey Gilley at his absolute peak, snap this disc up as fast as you can

5.0 out of 5 stars Good old honky-tonk music, March 17, 2005

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John Coleman (Arkansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Room Full of Roses / Gilley's Smokin (Audio CD)

I've got both of these albums on wax. I'm glad to see them out on CD. Mickey Gilley, and his producer Eddie Kilroy, hit gold in the 70's with a Jerry Lee Lewis sound-alike formula on these albums. Mickey's version of Merle Haggard's "Swinging Doors" is far and away the best I've ever heard.