Biography of country singer conway twitty

Major Works by Conway Twitty

Songs (partial listing)

• Hello Darlin’
• You’ve Never Been This Far Before
• Linda On My Mind
• Don’t Cry Joni
• It’s Only man Believe
• The Games That Daddies Play
• I Can’t Believe She Gives It All To Me
• She Needs Someone To Hold Her (When She Cries)
• Touch The Hand
• After All The Good Is Gone
• As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone
• Baby’s Gone
• To See An Angel Cry
• You’ve Never Been This Far Before
• Danny Boy

Albums (partial listing)

• Best Of Conway Twitty
• Greatest Hits
• Legendary Country Singers
• 20 Greatest Hits
• At His Best
• Best Of The Early Years
• Borderline
• A Bridge That Just Won’t Burn :
  Classic Conway
• Crazy Dreams
• Greatest Hits: Volumes I, II, III
• Hello Darlin’
• House On Old Lonesome Road
• It’s Only man Believe: The Conway Twitty
• Number Ones The Warner Years:
• Red Neckin’
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Conway Twitty (1933–1993)

A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Conway Twitty has sold over 50 million records. Twitty had anywhere from forty-one to fifty-three No. 1 singles on the country and rock charts, depending upon the industry source used. He recorded 110 albums.

Harold Lloyd Jenkins was born on September 1, 1933, in Friars Point, Mississippi, and was named after the famous silent film actor, Harold Lloyd. Jenkins had an older brother and sister. He was given his first guitar at age four. The family moved to Helena (Phillips County)—now Helena-West Helena—when Jenkins was ten, and soon thereafter, he formed his first band, the Phillips County Ramblers. His father worked off and on as a Mississippi riverboat captain, though his mother was the real breadwinner. Jenkins worked as a carhop and later had a weekly radio show. Jenkins also played baseball and was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies after high school; he was also drafted by the military.

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In the years before Conway Twitty became a near fixture on the American country music charts, there had been the King of Country Music, the Queen and the Father. Then he came along and was often referred to as the High Priest. It was a little over the top, but in many ways an apt description, as with his soulful, passionate voice, he had the ability to instil lyrics with a kind of religious fervour placing him high among the genuine greats. His main talent was to take the mundane fiascos and disappointments of life and invest them with a sense of eloquent tragedy that was neither inflated or patronising. Originally named after a famous silent film comedian, Twitty took his stage name from the town of Conway (in Arkansas) and Twitty (in Texas). Made an honorary chief of the Choctaw nation in the early 1970s, he was also awarded the Indian name ‘Hatako-A-Yakni-Toloa’, which translates into ‘Great Man Of Country Music, apt for a singer who accumulated a record-breaking 42 country numbe