Like his cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley fused soul, rock ‘n' roll, and R&B together to create his piano-pounding style of country music. Starting with the tear-soaked barroom ballad “Room Full of Roses,” Gilley scored a huge string of hits that ran through the ‘70s and ‘80s, including the rockin' eight-to-the-bar roof-raiser "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time," and several passion-filled Nashville reboots of R&B classics like Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" and Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me."