Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley
Latest Release
- Voices of Americana (The Crazy Cajun Recordings)
- December 2023
- • 15 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Stand By Me | ||
| 2 | Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time | ||
| 3 | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | ||
| 4 | Lonely Nights | ||
| 5 | A Headache Tomorrow |
Albums
Apr 2023 • 5 songs
Jan 2023 • 8 songs
Apr 2022 • 14 songs
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The Voice of the Northern Plains- The Valley's Classic Hits
- Sarasota's Suncoast Country
About
Biography
A cousin of both Jerry Lee Lewis and the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, keyboardist/singer Mickey Gilley took several years to discover that his brand of music, while highly derivative of Jerry Lee's, was best suited to the country charts. Gilley's honky-tonk versions of soul classics and country standards made him one of the biggest country stars of the '70s and '80s, and the undisputed star of the "Urban Cowboy" phase of country music. By the late '80s, as Gilley's brand of country went out of style, he branched out into acting, closed down his club Gilley's, and became one of the fir...