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Son of a Mississippi River Pilot he was born in 1933 at Friars Point, Mississippi. He learned to play guitar at just 5 years old and formed his first band when he was 10, not long after this he had his own radio show in Helena, Arkansas, while still in high school he was offered a contract by the Phillidelphia Phillies to play baseball.

While in the army he formed a rock and roll band and recorded some rock songs for Sun records under the name of Harold jenkins and the Rockhousers. MGM spotted him and signed him to become a canadian Elvis Presley and took the name of Conway Twitty, the name comes from two towns Conway Arkansas and Twitty Texas.

Singing Match Made in Heaven

Within a year he recorded the massive hit It's Only Make Believe, he also appeared in 6 movies, writing songs not just for himself he wrote 'walk me to door' a 1960 hit for Ray Price. For a while conway was packaged as a Rockabilly Singer but returned to pure country in 1965 cutting records for Decca by this time he had his own Country TV program. among his many hits are 'next in line', 'to see an angel cry', ' I wonder what she'll think about me leaving', 'hello Darlin', 'fifteen years ago', 'linda on my mind',

1971 saw Conway pairing up with Loretta Lynn a singing match made in heaven, they had hit after hit with songs like Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man, 'as soon as I hang up the phone', 'feelins', 'can't love you enough',

Conway Twitty is still the biggest selling country music artist of all time an astute business man who owns among other things the Nashville sounds baseball team, Twitty City theme park