Mickey Leroy Gilley learned to play piano alongside his famous cousins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart in Ferriday, LA. Mickey recorded 39 Top Ten country hits with 17 of them reaching No.1 on the country music charts. His recordings, “Room Full of Roses” in 1974, “Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time” in 1976, and “Stand By Me” in 1980 are some of his best known hits. In 1971, Mickey opened the world’s largest “honky-tonk”, Gilley’s Club in Pasadena, Texas. It served as the setting for the 1980 movie “Urban Cowboy”.