| 词条 | Room Full of Roses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Room Full of Roses | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Mickey Gilley | album = Room Full of Roses | A-side = Room Full of Roses | B-side = She Called Me Baby | released = April 1974 | format = 7" | recorded = 1973 | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = 2:50 | label = Astro 10003 Playboy 50056 | writer = Tim Spencer | producer = Mickey Gilley | prev_title = Now I Can Live Again | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = I Overlooked an Orchid | next_year = 1974 }}{{italic}} "Room Full of Roses", written by Tim Spencer, is a song first recorded in 1949 by country music singer George Morgan. The original George Morgan version was released in the summer of 1949, and reached No. 4 on the Billboard country chart that August. A Sons of the Pioneers version reached #10 on the country charts in the same year. It was famously covered in 1974 by up-and-coming singer Mickey Gilley. The Gilley version was his first major hit and broke open his career. BackgroundIn 1973, Mickey Gilley was enjoying brisk business with his nightclub, Gilley's Club, when he cut four sides for his own label, Astro Records. Those songs included "She Called Me Baby" (for a local jukebox owner), "Abilene" and "When Two Worlds Collide." The fourth was "Room Full of Roses," a song written by Sons of the Pioneers member Tim Spencer that had been recorded by George Morgan.[1] The song had already become somewhat of a country crooner standard, after it had been recorded by Jim Reeves for his 1960 album The Intimate Jim Reeves and by Dean Martin for his 1963 album Country Style. Gilley never intended to have a hit with "Room Full of Roses," as it was designated the B-side for "She Called Me Baby." In fact, Gilley was not even happy with the final product of that recording. "I liked 'She Called Me Baby,' and thought to myself, well, I finally got something." Gilley once told Country Music magazine. "Then I flipped the record over. All I could hear was that damn steel guitar. The echo was just bounding off the walls.'"{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Country music writer Tom Roland also noted that Gilley got lost during the piano interlude during the middle portion of the song, but "somehow managed to come out of it in sync with the studio band." Other flaws pointed out included muffled lyrics and excessive "echo" (to conceal the song being recorded out of tune).[2] Gilley was resigned, however, to the song being "terrible," as he saw the record being distributed only in the Houston, Texas area. However, the song quickly became popular and was later picked up for national distribution by the newly formed Playboy Records.[3][4] Released in April 1974, the song was Gilley's, first of seventeen No. 1 hits on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.[5] Chart performance
References1. ^"The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 ({{ISBN|0-82-307553-2}})), p. 115 {{Mickey Gilley}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Room Full Of Roses}}2. ^"Country Music: The Encyclopedia," St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997 ({{ISBN|0-312-15121-7}}) 3. ^Roland. 4. ^"Country Music: The Encyclopedia." 5. ^{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=136}} 8 : 1974 singles|Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles|George Morgan (singer) songs|Mickey Gilley songs|Sons of the Pioneers songs|1949 songs|Playboy Records singles|Eddy Howard songs |
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