Mickey Gilley

===Recording career in the 1980s with the success of ''Urban Cowboy''===
By 1980, Gilley decided to come up with a new sound, to bring him the [[Country music|country]] [[Crossover (music)|crossover]] success that so many other country singers (including [[Eddie Rabbitt]], [[Juice Newton]], [[Kenny Rogers]], and [[Dolly Parton]]) were experiencing at the time. His career was given a second go-around when one of his recordings was featured in the box-office-selling film ''[[Urban Cowboy]]''.<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> The song was the country remake of the soul standard "[[Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)|Stand by Me]]".<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> As the movie was becoming successful, so was "Stand by Me". The song rose to the top of the country charts in 1980, and hit the Top 5 of the [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] charts, and in addition made the Pop Top 40.<ref name="LarkinCountry"/>

"Room Full of Roses", "[[True Love Ways]]", and "[[You Don't Know Me (Cindy Walker song)|You Don't Know Me]]" also hit the Billboard Hot 100; additionally, "[[Bring It On Home To Me]]", "That's All That Matters", and "[[Talk to Me (Joe Seneca song)|Talk to Me]]" bubbled under (at 101, 101 and 106, respectively). A string of six number-ones on the country chart followed the success of ''Urban Cowboy''. Gilley's other country No.&nbsp;1s include "[[True Love Ways]]", "[[A Headache Tomorrow (Or a Heartache Tonight)]]", "You Don't Know Me", and "[[Lonely Nights (song)|Lonely Nights]]".<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> He never had any other pop hits though. In 1983, he had other country hits, like "[[Fool For Your Love (Mickey Gilley song)|Fool For Your Love]]"; "[[Paradise Tonight]]", a duet with [[Charly McClain]]; and "Talk to Me" (not to be confused with the [[Stevie Nicks]] hit of the same name).<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> All of these songs from 1983 were No.&nbsp;1 country hits for Gilley. In 1984, he had a single, which just missed topping the country chart called "You've Really Got a Hold on Me". Another hit followed in the form of a duet with [[Charly McClain]], "[[Candy Man (Roy Orbison song)|Candy Man]]", and a solo hit with "Too Good To Stop Now", both of which made the Top 5 that year.

The year 1985 brought Top 10s with "I'm the One Mama Warned You About" and "You've Got Something on Your Mind", followed by a Top 5 with "Your Memory Ain't What It Used To Be", and a Top 10 with "Doo-Wah Days" in 1986. "Doo-Wah Days" was Gilley's last Top 10 hit on the country charts, as a new breed of [[George Strait]]-inspired Country singers called the "Traditionalists" were moving into [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], like [[Clint Black]], [[Patty Loveless]], [[Reba McEntire]], and [[Randy Travis]]. Not only was his chart success fading, but Gilley had a series of financial problems that led to the closing of his club in Pasadena, Texas.<ref name="LarkinCountry"/>

In 1988, Gilley signed with Airborne Records and released an album, ''Chasin' Rainbows,''<ref name="LarkinCountry"/> which resulted in his last Top 40 country hit in "She Reminded Me of You", which made No.&nbsp;23 that year.<ref name="Country Songs"/>

In a career that included 15 years of chart success, Gilley had 17 No.&nbsp;1 country hits.<ref name="Country Songs"/>