In 1974 he recorded a single on his own Astro label, pairing the 1964 Patsy Cline hit “She Called Me Baby (All Night Long)” and the 1949 George Morgan classic “Room Full of Roses.” When the latter started getting airplay, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Records rereleased the disc, and “Room Full of Roses” became Gilley’s first #1 country hit in 1974. Up to then, Gilley had recorded briefly for Dot Records and had lived in Louisiana and Mississippi before moving to Pasadena. In 1970, millionaire Sherwood Cryer talked Gilley into becoming partners in a Pasadena, Texas nightclub they named GILLEY’S. His first cousin Jimmy Swaggart became a controversial TV evangelist, and another first cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, became a rock & roll pioneer and later a country star. Mickey Leroy Gilley comes from a famous family.
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