HAROLD JENKINS WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1933 IN
FRIARS POINT, MS. HE LEARNED TO PLAY A GUITAR WHEN
HE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, AND FORMED HIS FIRST BAND
AT THE AGE OF TEN. HAROLD WAS DRAFTED INTO THE
ARMY IN 1952. HE ALSO FORMED A BAND WHILE HE WAS
IN THE ARMY. HE WAS DISCHARGED IN 1956. SHORTLY
AFTER HIS DISCHARGE HAROLD DECIDED ON PURSUING A
MUSICAL CAREER AFTER HEARING MYSTERY TRAIN BY
ELVIS PRESLEY.
AT THE URGING OF HIS MANAGER HAROLD RELUCTANTLY
CHOSE A PROFESSIONAL NAME. LOOKING AT A MAP FOR
IDEAS, HAROLD FOUND THE CITIES OF CONWAY, AR. AND
TWITTY, TX. (F.Y.I. THERE IS A CONWAY, TX. TOO).
THE NOW CONWAY TWITTY BEGAN RECORDING IN 1956.
IN 1958 CONWAY TWITTY RELEASED "I'LL TRY". IT WASN'T
WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A BIG HIT. A D.J. IN OHIO STARTED
PLAYING THE "B" SIDE OF THE RECORD. GOOD THING HE
DID. THAT "B" SIDE WAS "IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE", AND AS
THE SAYING GOES, A STAR WAS BORN. "BELIEVE" WAS
CONWAY'S FIRST #1 HIT, IT WAS ALSO HIS BIGGEST HIT.
"BELIEVE" HAS SOLD MORE THAN EIGHT MILLION COPIES.
CONWAY TWITTY STARTED RECORDING COUNTRY IN
1965.
HE BECAME THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY ARTIST OF
20th CENTURY.
HERE ARE SOME CAREER NOTES & NUMBERS :
RECORDED
110 ALBUMS
SOLD
OVER 50 MILLION RECORDS
FIFTY-FIVE
SINGLES HIT #1
33
SUCCESSIVE #1's FROM 1968 TO 1977
"IT'S
ONLY MAKE BELIEVE" HAS SOLD OVER
8 MILLION COPIES
11
OF HIS #1's WERE SONGS THAT HE WROTE
CONWAY DOMINATED THE COUNTRY CHARTS
IN THE 70's.
HE
RECORDED 3 ALBUMS WITH LORETTA LYNN
THAT
WENT GOLD.
TOGETHER
THEY HAD STRING OF #1 HITS.
CONWAY
NEVER RECIEVED A COUNTRY MUSIC
AWARD FOR HIS SOLO WORK, BUT HE DID
WIN 4 CONSECTUTIVE C.M.A's WITH LORETTA
FOR VOCAL DUO.
ADMITTED
TO THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF
FAME IN 1999.
AFTER A PERFORMANCE IN BRANSON,MO.CONWAY
COLLAPSED AND WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL. CONWAY
TWITTY DIED JUNE 5, 1993 AT THE HOSPITAL. HE HAD
AN ABDOMINAL ANEURYSM.
Conway Twitty's House
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