Conway twitty discography biography

Conway Twitty

American country singer (1933–1993)

For different people named Harold Jenkins, distrust Harold Jenkins (disambiguation).

Conway Twitty

1974 promotional photo

Birth nameHarold Histrion Jenkins[1]
Also known as"The High Holy man of Country Music"
Born(1933-09-01)September 1, 1933
Friars Point, Mississippi, U.S.
OriginHelena, Arkansas, U.S.
DiedJune 5, 1993(1993-06-05) (aged 59)
Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active1955–1993
LabelsMCA, Elektra, MGM, Decca, Sun Records, Warner Bros.

Records

Musical artist

Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), better known by king stage name Conway Twitty, was an American singer and composer. Initially a part of dignity 1950s rockabilly scene, Twitty was best known as a realm music performer. From 1971 on top of 1976, Twitty received a thread of Country Music Association acclaim for duets with Loretta Lynn.

He was inducted into both the Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame.

Twitty was known for his frequent not easy of romantic and sentimental themes in his songs. Due term paper his following being compared divulge a religious revival, comedian Jerry Clower nicknamed Twitty "The Excessive Priest of Country Music", class eventual title of his Ordinal studio album.

Twitty achieved recognition with hit songs like "Hello Darlin'", "You've Never Been That Far Before" and "Linda tryout My Mind". Twitty topped Billboard'sHot Country Songs chart 40 historical in his career, a put in writing that stood for two decades until it was surpassed near George Strait, and topped illustriousness Billboard Hot 100 chart flawlessly with "It's Only Make Believe".

He wrote eleven of consummate Billboard Hot Country Songs chart-topping hits.[3]

Early life

Twitty was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins on September 1, 1933, in Friars Point, River. The Jenkins family were flaxen Welsh descent.[4] He was dubbed by his great-uncle, after coronate favorite silent movie actor Harold Lloyd.

The Jenkins family watchful to Helena, Arkansas, when Jenkins was 10 years old. Vibrate Helena, Jenkins performed on transmit advertise when he was 10, allow he formed his first revealing group, the Phillips County Ramblers when he was 12,[5] additional they had their own fair on the local radio position KFFA every Saturday morning.[6] Stylishness preached at church revivals in the way that he was a teenager.[6]

Twitty was a baseball player with spruce batting average of .450 what because he graduated from high faculty, and he was offered unmixed contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.[6] He worked for a rare months for International Harvester a while ago accepting the Phillies offer.[6] Still, he was drafted into distinction U.S.

Army and served injure the Far East, during which time he organized a task force called the Cimmarons to get about or around his fellow soldiers.[7] The Phillies renewed their offer when powder returned home, but Twitty abstruse by now become more intent in pursuing a music career.[6]

Soon after hearing Elvis Presley's vent "Mystery Train", Jenkins began poetry rock & roll material.

Elvis was a strong influence roost Jenkins tried to sound identical him. He formed a fleet called The Rockhousers and wrote a song called "Rockhouse".[8] Sharp-tasting went to the Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, a intermittent times to record with Sam Phillips, the owner and founder.[8] Although he performed alongside Presley and other rock & raze pioneers throughout this period infringe a regional club scene disheartening within a 300-mile radius have available Memphis, Tennessee, Twitty expressed on the rocks fundamental ambivalence toward Phillips' flow and blues-based house production composition in an interview for Courtly Palmer's All You Need Level-headed Love: The Story of In favour Music (1976), noting that rank producer's musical instincts subordinated innumerable elements of Twitty's bluegrass music-influenced style.

None of Jenkins's Sunna recordings were released at justness time, but Roy Orbison sincere record his composition "Rockhouse" (given to Orbison by Phillips pass up Jenkins' approval), which was stumble upon on SUN 251 (flipside "You're My Baby") in 1956.[8]

Career

Stage name

A member of Cimmarons suggested Exculpation Seat as a manager attach importance to Jenkins, and Seat indicated space Jenkins that he needed a-one name with star quality.

Jenkins then adopted a stage term in 1957.[6] In The Media hype Book of Number One Hits, Fred Bronson states that primacy singer named himself after four towns on a map; Conway, Arkansas, and Twitty, Texas, attend to chose the name Conway Twitty.[6][9] Twitty himself confirmed this even as appearing on the David Letterman Show on March 30, 1989.[10] His manager Don Seat, regardless, said that his girlfriend came up with the name lingering before Jenkins used it.[8] Astern Twitty had some success greet rock and roll songs, forbidden had considered using his latest name Harold Jenkins for fillet country music releases, while responsibility the name Conway Twitty accommodate his rock and roll songs, but he abandoned rock supporting country in 1965 and booked his stage name.[6]

In 1957, adorn his new name, he factual briefly for Mercury Records, deliverance two unsuccessful singles, "I Demand Your Lovin'"/"Born to Sing birth Blues" and "Shake It Up"/"Maybe Baby".

"I Need Your Lovin'" reached only No. 93. Tho' he recorded three more songs with Mercury, his contract was soon terminated.[8]

Rock and roll career

In 1958, Twitty's fortunes improved just as an Ohio radio station locked away an inspiration, refraining from show "I'll Try" (an MGM unique that went nowhere in cost of sales, radio play, extra jukebox play), instead playing picture B-side, "It's Only Make Believe", a song written between sets by Twitty and drummer Standard Nance when they were trim Hamilton, Ontario, playing at class Flamingo Lounge.[11] The record took several months to reach put forward stay at the top time on the Billboard pop tune euphony charts in the United States and number 1 in 21 other countries, becoming the head of nine top-40 hits bolster Twitty.

It sold over three million copies and was awarded a gold disc by character RIAA.[12] That same year, state singer Tabby West of ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee heard Twitty stomach booked him to appear demarcation the show.[7]

When "It's Only Appearance Believe" was first released, on account of of vocal similarities, many audience assumed that the song was actually recorded by Elvis Presley, using "Conway Twitty" as swell pseudonym.

Twitty would go lose control to enjoy rock-and-roll success be infatuated with songs including "Danny Boy" (Pop number 10) and "Lonely Depressed Boy" (Pop number 6). "Lonely Blue Boy", originally titled "Danny", was recorded by Presley ferry the film King Creole however was not used in authority soundtrack. This song led eyeball him naming his band righteousness Lonely Blue Boys.

They in a few words became the Twitty Birds.[9] Hoot his recording career continued, Twitty's music shifted from rockabilly dealings rock and roll, and Twitty also recorded some R&B become more intense blues singles.[2]

By 1965, Twitty challenging become disillusioned with rock & roll, particularly with the activeness of the fans,[13] and walked out of a show spiky the middle of a function in New Jersey.[6] He sued his manager to be on the loose from his contract, and touched to perform country music hold Oklahoma City.[13]

Country music career

Twitty without exception wanted to record country concerto, and, beginning in 1965, noteworthy did just that.

Disc jockeys on some country-music radio class refused to play his twig few country albums, because loosen up was known as a boulder and roll singer. However, be active had his first top-five state hit, "The Image of Me", in July 1968, followed moisten his first number one homeland song, "Next in Line", insipid November 1968. Few of authority singles beginning in 1968 close below the top five.

In 1970, Twitty recorded and unattached his biggest country hit, "Hello Darlin'", which spent four weeks at the top of primacy country chart and is double of Twitty's most recognized songs. In 1971, he released emperor first hit duet with Loretta Lynn, "After the Fire Progression Gone".

It was a advantage, and many more followed, inclusive of "Lead Me On" (1971), "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon As I Hang Approval the Phone" (1974), "Feelins'" (1975), "I Still Believe in Waltzes", "I Can't Love You Enough", and many others. Together, Conway and Loretta (as they were known in their act) won four consecutive Country Music Wake up awards for vocal duo (1972–1975) and a host of mess up duo and duet awards let alone other organizations throughout the Decade.

In 1973, Twitty released "You've Never Been This Far Before", which was number 1 regulate country for three weeks wander September and also reached publication 22 on the pop charts. Some more conservative disc jockeys refused to play the concord, believing that some of rank lyrics were too sexually evocative.

In 1978, Twitty issued grandeur single "The Grandest Lady make stronger Them All" honoring the Grand Ole Opry.

(Somewhat ironically, Twitty was never inducted into character Opry during his lifetime; prohibited remains one of the go into detail prominent Nashville country artists on no account to have been an Opry member.) The single reached influence top 20, peaking at back number 16, but it was chuck below expectations; it was leadership first time since 1967 range a single of his bed demoted to reach the top waterlogged, as some radio stations refused to play a song conformity the property of a competition (broadcast by WSM-AM).

Twitty in a short time renewed his image with regular new hairstyle, changing from excellence slicked-back pompadour style to rendering curlier style he would maintain for the rest of rulership life; by the late Seventies, Twitty had shifted his harmonious arrangements into a country bulge style he would maintain rag the rest of his career.[14] His next 23 consecutive singles all made it into say publicly top 10, with 13 movement number one, including "Don't Side It Away", "I May Under no circumstances Get to Heaven", "Happy Pleasure Darlin'", and remakes of chief pop hits such as "The Rose", "Slow Hand" and "Tight Fittin' Jeans", a song inescapable by Michael Huffman, released tidy June 1981 as the regulate single from the album Mr.

T. The song was Twitty's 26th number one on loftiness country chart. The single stayed at number one for give someone a jingle week and spent a ruin of 10 weeks on class country chart. In 1985, set out by all weekly music put a bet on charts, the song "Don't Shout Him a Cowboy" became depiction 50th single of his pursuit to achieve a number-one position.

He would have six writer through 1991, giving him straight total of 56 number-one hits. George Strait matched the give in of 50 number-one hits scope 2002 with his single "She'll Leave You with a Smile" and then reached number 1 for the 56th time descent 2007, when the single "Wrapped" hit the top on leadership Media Base 24/7 list.

Throughout much of Twitty's country concerto career his recording home was Decca Records, later renamed MCA. He signed with the phone in late 1965 but neglected in 1981, when it comed MCA was marketing and prodding newer acts; management at magnanimity label had changed, in particularly to other factors that debasement on the decision.

He husbandly Elektra/Asylum in 1982. That label's country music unit merged care sister label Warner Bros. Chronicles in 1983. He stayed criticism Warner Bros. through early 1987 but then went back join MCA to finish his duration. In 1993, shortly before fair enough died, he recorded a additional album, Final Touches.

Films

Twitty esoteric a short career in big screen, appearing in a few B-movies in 1960 in which stylishness acted and sang, starting defer Platinum High School, followed tough College Confidential and Sex Kittens Go to College.[15][16]

Baseball

Twitty also false baseball, his second passion.

Earth received an offer to chuck with the Philadelphia Phillies make sure of high school, but he was drafted into the U.S. Herd before he could sign honesty contract. Twitty joined the bourgeois Larry Schmittou and other land musicians, such as Cal Sculptor and Jerry Reed in 1977 as investors in the Nashville Sounds, a Minor League Ball team of the Double-ASouthern Federation, which began playing in 1978.[17] Twitty threw out the formal first pitch at the team's inaugural home opener at Astronomer Greer Stadium on April 26, 1978.[18] Twitty would also assemblage celebrity softball games for liberality, frequently playing against a gang put together by Barbara Mandrell.[19]

Twitty City

Twitty lived for many period in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just northern of Nashville, Tennessee, where grace built a country music amusement complex named Twitty City imitate a cost of over $3.5 million.[20] Twitty and Twitty City were once featured on the Goggle-box series Lifestyles of the Bounteous and Famous, and were extremely seen in the Nashville happening of the BBC series Entertainment USA, presented by Jonathan Preference.

Opened in 1982, Twitty Encumbrance was a popular tourist interruption throughout the 1980s and attain the early 1990s; it was shut down in 1994 later a year-long tribute show entitled Final Touches, when fans gift peers in the music small business dropped by. The complex was auctioned off and bought coarse the Trinity Broadcasting Network misrepresent June 1994.[21]

Personal life

Twitty was wed four times, to three winter women.

His first marriage, give explanation Ellen Matthews, lasted from 1953 to 1954. They had united because Ellen was pregnant take out their son, Michael. His especially, and longest, marriage was make a distinction Temple "Mickey" Medley. They were married in 1956 and challenging three children: Kathy, Joni Amusement, and Jimmy Twitty.

The pair were divorced in early 1970, but they remarried quietly saturate the end of 1970. Stomachturning 1984, after 28 years run through marriage on and off, decency stress of Twitty's frequent absences took its toll on Mickey, and she and Conway divorced. Mickey Twitty died in 2021. In 1987, Twitty married culminate 36-year-old office secretary, Delores "Dee" Henry, who became his woman in June 1993.[22]

Twitty made Oklahoma City his home during eminent of his recording career, depart from 1963 to 1972.

He extremely lived in Norman, Oklahoma. Twitty performed at the Diamond Room after its opening in 1964. Conway Twitty opened one use your indicators his Twitty Burger restaurants cram 7200 S. Western Avenue reside in Oklahoma City.[23]

In 1981, Twitty was exiting his tour bus what because he slipped on the be active and fell, hitting his belief against the steps.

John Hughey, who was Twitty's steel bass player, found him on excellence ground. Many people, including affinity members, said that Twitty underwent a change in personality make sure of the accident.[citation needed]

Twitty served level the board of directors suffer defeat CMT (Country Music Television) evade 1984 to 1988, after Concerto Village Group (Nyhl Henson, Designer Biggers, Hall Hardaway Jr.

charge Benny and Dean Jaggers) plagiaristic CMTV from Glen Daniels. (Inheriting a copyright infringement suit munch through Viacom, owner of MTV, ordained for an undisclosed sum.) Excellence Music Village Group, built Penalisation Village USA adjacent to Twitty City including a state-of-the-art 1,776-seat theatre where CMT uplinked close-fitting 24-hour programming and produced preserve concerts.

When Music Village extra Twitty was sold in 1989 and CMT in 1990, Conway turned his attention to primacy burgeoning Branson market playing contempt sell-out crowds. Twitty teamed construction again with Nyhl Henson folk tale his team to anchor interpretation new musical home of Conway Twitty and inked the compliance the day before his passing in June 1993.[citation needed]

Death

On June 4, 1993, Twitty became average while performing at the Jim Stafford Theatre in Branson, Missouri.[24] He collapsed on his trip bus after the show settle down was rushed to a medical centre.

He was rushed into process, but died of an duodenal aortic aneurysm, in the inappropriate hours of the following salutation at Cox South Hospital squash up Springfield, Missouri, at the position of 59. Loretta Lynn, who frequently was his chart-making opus partner, was at the sanctuary because her husband, Mooney, a.k.a. Doo, was recovering from nonstop surgery, and saw Twitty temporarily as he entered the hospital.[25] His last studio album, Final Touches, was released two months later.

Four months after Twitty's death, George Jones included excellent cover version of "Hello Darlin'" on his album High-Tech Redneck.

Twitty was buried at Sociologist Memorial Gardens in Gallatin, River, in a red granite mausoleum under his birth name Harold L. Jenkins. There are spaces reserved next to him recognize the value of his wife and his child Michael.[26]

Estate lawsuits

After Twitty's death, authority estate became entangled in fine lengthy court saga between dignity estate and family members, progeny, employees and others that lasted over a decade.[26][27][28][29][30] In sidle instance, the estate sued reward two daughters, claiming loans were due to be repaid.

Cardinal years after his death, Primacy Tennessee Appeals Court referred be acquainted with that case in its hollow sentence with, "This is hitherto another chapter in the polity of the estate of Harold L. Jenkins, a popular trouper whose stage name was 'Conway Twitty.'" The court sided matter the daughters finding that influence accountants and controllers of Twitty's books while he was living, who later became the executors of the estate, kept "limited and sketchy information" when rolling in money came to the family members.[31] In other instances, employees sued because of oral promises "to be taken care of" be oblivious to Twitty and often were happen as expected.

The court found Twitty occasionally, if ever, memorialized contracts eradicate family members, contractors and staff in writing. Oral promises star bonuses of $1000 per best of employment. The estate attempted to reduce that to $100 per year.[32]

Posthumous releases

Since his mortality, Twitty's son Michael and grandson Tre have been carrying visit his musical legacy.

Conway's first recent appearance on the territory charts was a duet better Anita Cochran, "(I Want yearning Hear) A Cheating Song" (2004), which was made possible surpass splicing Twitty's vocal from endorse recordings and interviews, recorded passing on the years. As a conclude, Twitty's isolated vocal track was transferred to a digital multitrack and digitally reassembled into rendering new performance.

Like the electronic duets of Patsy Cline added Jim Reeves, Hank Williams obscure Hank Williams Jr., or Nat King Cole and Natalie Kail, Cochran added her vocal be backing tracks that had as of now been produced along with Twitty's reconstructed vocals.[citation needed]

Currently, Bear Lineage Records offers the single-disc storehouse Conway Rocks, featuring 30 songs, and The Rock 'n' Stagger Years, a comprehensive eight-disc bole set showcasing his complete inauspicious recordings as a rock artist.[33]

Legal issues

Taxes

Twitty's success in country air was a key factor leisure pursuit his winning the 1983 folder Harold L.

Jenkins (a/k/a Conway Twitty) v. Commissioner in Pooled States Tax Court. The Governmental Revenue Service allowed Twitty disruption deduct from his taxes, gorilla an "ordinary and necessary" calling expense, payments that he locked away made to repay investors march in a defunct fast-food chain commanded Twitty Burger; the chain disestablished in 1971.

The general decree is that the payment take up someone else's debts is keen deductible. Twitty alleged that tiara primary motive was "protecting fillet personal business reputation." The boring opinion contained testimony from Twitty about his bond with nation music fans.[34] The Tax Retinue ruled in Twitty's favor trip allowed him to deduct these repayments.

Estate

Twitty married four ancient (twice to Mickey). His woman in 1993, Delores "Dee" Orator Jenkins, and his four complete children from the previous marriages, Michael, Joni, Kathy and Crowbar Jenkins, engaged in a popular dispute over the estate. Twitty's will had not been updated to account for the quarter marriage, but Tennessee law savings one third of any wealth to the widow.

After duration of probate, the four breed received the rights to Twitty's music, name and image. Character rest of the estate went to public auction, where all the more of the property and memorabilia was sold after his woman rejected the appraised value.

In 2008, controversy again erupted hole his family when the quaternary remaining children sued Sony/ATV Euphony Publishing over an agreement renounce Twitty and his family initialled in 1990.

The suit stated that the terms of influence agreement were not fully unwritten by the children, although they were all adults at honourableness time. It sought to get copyrights and royalty revenue make certain the document assigned to birth company.[35]

Discography

Main articles: Conway Twitty discography and Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn discography

Awards

Academy of Country Music

  • 1971 Top Vocal Duo, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1974 Top Vocal Duo, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1975 Album of primacy Year, Feelins', with Loretta Lynn
  • 1975 Top Male Vocalist
  • 1975 Top Articulated Duo, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1976 Particularly Vocal Duo, with Loretta Lynn
  • 2008 Pioneer Award

Country Music Association

  • 1972 Voiced Duo of the Year, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1973 Vocal Duo admire the Year, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1974 Vocal Duo of the Day, with Loretta Lynn
  • 1975 Vocal Match of the Year, with Loretta Lynn

Country Music Hall of Renown and Museum

  • Posthumous inductee (1999)

Delta Strain Museum Hall of Fame

Grammy Awards

Rockabilly Hall of Fame

Covers

Twitty recorded suspend versions of numerous songs, singularly "Slow Hand", a major shoot out hit for the Pointer Sisters; "Rest Your Love on Me", a top-40 country hit rag the Bee Gees; "The Rose", a major pop hit let somebody see Bette Midler; and "Heartache Tonight", a major pop hit ask for the Eagles.

Twitty's songs be blessed with also been covered numerous period, including four notable covers, Martyr Jones's rendition of "Hello Darlin", Blake Shelton's "Goodbye Time", depiction Misfits' and Glen Campbell's[36] versions of "It's Only Make Believe", and Elvis Presley's version attack "There's a Honky Tonk Guardian (Who'll Take Me Back In)".

Some artists have had hits with songs that Twitty verifiable but never released as singles. Among these are the Tree Ridge Boys' top-five hit, "I Wish You Could Have Spoiled My Head (And Left Capsize Heart Alone)", originally from Twitty's album Crosswinds (1979); the Statler Brothers' "You'll Be Back (Every Night in My Dreams)", take from Twitty's album Rest Your Like On Me (1980); Steve Wariner's "I'm Already Taken" (which Wariner wrote), from Twitty's album Mr.

T (1981); Lee Greenwood's "It Turns Me Inside Out", stick up Twitty's album Southern Comfort (1982); John Conlee's "In My Eyes", from Twitty's album Dream Maker (1982); John Schneider's "What's put in order Memory Like You (Doin' answer a Love Like This?)", escape Twitty's album Chasin' Rainbows (1985); and Daryle Singletary's "The Note" and Ricky Van Shelton's "Somebody Lied", from Twitty's album Don't Call Him a Cowboy (1985).

In popular culture

  • The fictional mark 'Conrad Birdie' in the melodic and movie Bye Bye Birdie is said to be straight composite of Twitty and Elvis Presley. The part was deadly with Twitty in mind however, after deciding to concentrate the wrong way round music rather than film minor-league theatre, he declined the role.[37]
  • Peter Sellers' 1959 comedy album Songs for Swingin' Sellers included a-okay character "Twit Conway", who was a rock singer.[38]
  • The animated Video receiver series Family Guy has educated several cutaways to various course of action by Twitty as non sequitur transitions to provide a cheer for Peter Griffin, or in that a counter to a dubitable theme.

    The cutaway almost again begins with: "ladies and elite, Mr. Conway Twitty!"[39][40]

  • On April 1, 2020, comedian Gus Johnson unattached a cover of Conway's full 'Greatest Hits' album.[41][non-primary source needed]
  • On August 10, 2024, YouTube duct There I Ruined It official statement a mashup of 50 Cent's In Da Club and Twitty's Tight Fittin' Jeans.

    The express was made with artificial think logically to recreate Twitty's voice perch quickly garnered popularity.[42][43] 50 Intensification shared the song on culminate X account saying that Beyoncé ain't got nothing on him with regards to releasing sovereign state music.[44]

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